Marco Larousse
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Hamburg, HH, Germany
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Photograph what it feels like
You've heard it before — shoot what it feels like. What do you feel when you walk into a scene, do your best to capture that feeling. → Read More
Start documenting everyday life as inspiration
When I ask photographers "why only take the camera out for big occasions?" I often get the reply that everyday life is not interesting enough → Read More
Photofocus Podcast — Mirrorless with Scott Bourne & Marco Larousse
Scott and Marco discuss these new products and mirrorless topics on their final episode of the #Mirrorless Show at Photofocus: Scott and Marco host their final mirrorless show at Photofocus. They will now move on to their new Photo Podcast Network at www.PhotoPodcasts.com where the new mirrorless and inspiration podcast episodes will be produced and hosted. Scott just returned after hosting… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Ivan Rigamonti
Category: Street. Photograph: "Close Encounters" by Ivan Rigamonti (username "Ivan Rigamonti" on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: I like images that tell a story or that animate me to make up a story to it - like thinking of a movie plot from just a single frame. In this… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Dean Holland
Dean managed to find an impressive location for a street photo. The interwoven circles shaped by the cobblestones and the table tennis plates would make for a great image just by themselves. But Dean managed to get this shot with an incredible light situation that also forms light beams on the floor. He then timed his shot perfectly with a person walking by, so that the leading lines of the… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Sven Conquest
Category: Street. Photograph: “Captain Hook” by Sven Conquest (username “Sven Conquest” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: This image is called “Captain Hook” and was captured in 1980 in Leipzig, East Germany (former GDR – German Democratic Republic). This image is a documentary street portrait that gives us a little uncensored… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Andrea Fucà
Category: Street. Photograph: “IMG_0913-3” by Andrea Fucà (username “Andrea Fucà” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: I love everyday street scenes that are captured and composed well. And Andrea did a great job with the composition, B&W tonality and the depth of field in this image. But an image gains even more importance to… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Keith Hodgkinson
Category: Street. Photograph: “Manchaster, 2016” by Keith Hodgkinson (username “Keith Hodgkinson” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: Keith took this silhouette shot against a bright background that turned into a good subject separation. The man looking at his smartphone symbolizes most of us in our daily routine. Therefore I find… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Jeff Clouet
Category: Street. Photograph: “x-stairs” by Jeff Clouet (username “Jeff Clouet” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: This street photo by Jeff Clouet stands out by its symmetry. The escalators form interwoven X’s while the tiles form a mesh of squares and rectangles. The black and white processing works the symmetry and contrasts… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Dan Schneider
There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Well, almost always. And that makes a tunnel a great spot for silhouette street photography. By setting the exposure to blowing out the highlights at the end of the tunnel, you will get a clean white background. Now you have to wait for a person to walk into or out of the tunnel and align the person against the white background (the opening) of the… → Read More
Shoot what it feels like
In many places in the northern hemisphere, the fall and winter are moving in. The trees are losing their last colorful leaves and the gray and cold weather settles in. And this is also the time that I get an increasing amount of emails from photographers asking for inspiration during this often perceived as “bleak” season. Many photographers seem to put their cameras away as there appears to be… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Dirk Marwede
I did not have to think long about picking this fantastic photo by Dirk Marwede. This is a fine art street photo that has been carefully framed and composed by the rules of photography. And besides the pleasing look, spot on B&W conversion and great timing of the pedestrian captured in a stride, this image can also tell a story about lonelines in modern society or that one somethimes has to… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Dean Holland
Category: Street. Photograph: “Untitled” by Dean Holland (username “Dean Holland” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: One style of street photography incorporates a human subject that seems to interact with posters, advertisements or murals in one frame. Dean found a very nice mural in this image where he placed a pedestrian right… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Guillaume Meyer
Category: Street. Photograph: “No Humans” by Guillaume Meyer (username “Guillaume Meyer” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: Good street photographers need a good eye for the extraordinary in the ordinary. And they also need to be quick with their gear and nail the timing of the shot. This image by Guillaume does just that. And it… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Paul Munford
Category: Street. Photograph: “Breeze” by Paul Munford (username “Paul Munford” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: A street photo can capture my attention by the content, composition, color / B&W contrast and by the story that I see in the single frame. This image by Paul captured my interest by what I did not see. There are… → Read More
Live from Photokina 2016 – #3
On day 3, also my last day at Photokina 2016, I looked closer at some of the trends of nontraditional camera products that have been growing in popularity in the photography industry in the past years: 360° VR photos and videos, action cameras and drones. Many traditional camera manufacturers are either offering or are currently developing 360° VR photo and video cameras. Is this the future of… → Read More
Live from Photokina 2016 – #2
On day two at Photokina 2016, I selected some big and some of the small product news that I came across. Let me start with one of the big (not only sensor wise) new cameras again. Hasselblad is back! Well, they were not literally gone, but they had been producing pro medium format digital cameras well in the $30,000+ price range that only very few photographers had access to. And on the last… → Read More
Live from Photokina 2016 – #1
Photokina is the world’s leading trade fair for photo and video and it is held every other year in Cologne, Germany. I am here to cover the event for Photofiocus and share some of the interesting news and products for our readers who can not attend it. Fujifilm’s trade fair stand was again the most crowded throughout the day. And while it felt that 70% of the stand was presenting Fujifilm’s… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Per Pettersson
Category: Street. Photograph: “Into the shadows” by Per Pettersson (username “Per Pettersson” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: If you look closer this street photo by Per Pettersson stands out in many different aspects. First I like the composition symmetry of the straight and diagonal lines and how the image is diagonally cut… → Read More
Photographer of the day: Siegfried Hansen
Category: Street. Photograph: “Hamburg 2015” by Siegfried Hansen (username “siegfried hansen” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image: Siegfried Hansen is known for his witty street photography that often incorporates scenes on more than one layer. He has an incredible eye to show us surprising points of view in everyday life.… → Read More