David J. Fulde
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Why a Pivot Can Be Just What Your Photography Needs
When it comes to photography, or any business really, sometimes you need to pivot in order to succeed. What Is a Pivot? A pivot, in a business sense, is when you make a shift from one sector to another. It could be from being business to business and shifting to business to consumer, or in the case of twitch.tv, going from life live-streaming to (predominantly) videogame → Read More
How I Got the Shot: 2021 Personal Branding Photos
Branding is important for any photographer, and with 2020 behind us, I thought it best to update my own personal branding with some new profile photos across all of my socials. This is how I got the shots. I like to take a new self-portrait now and again, just to try out lighting setups and such without the pressure of a model/client/what have you. They usually don't see the → Read More
What Are the Specs of the Human Eye?
There is a lot of conflicting information about how humans perceive the world. Some people say that the human eye cannot perceive more than 60 frames per second, while the abundance of high refresh rate monitors and phones seems to contradict that. So, just how high resolution and how fast is the human eye? Coming to us from Corridor Crew, a channel known mostly for their "VFX → Read More
Fstoppers Reviews The Fujifilm GFX 30mm f/3.5
The Fujifilm 30mm f/3.5 is the latest lens in their lineup for the GFX series of cameras. But does it stand up to the test? The Fujifilm 30mm f/3.5 is a versatile lens, perfect for fashion work, environmental portraiture, and even street. The lens is equivalent to a 24mm lens on a full-frame camera. Thanks to the larger sensor, the depth of field equivalence is akin to an → Read More
How I Got The Shot: Tafari Anthony Album Cover
I love doing photoshoots for musicians. I get to be creative, think outside the box, and make something that will be seen by an audience outside of my bubble. So, when Toronto singer Tafari Anthony approached me to shoot his EP cover, I was all in. The Concept As soon as I heard the title of the EP "The Way You See Me," my gears immediately started turning. I thought of doing → Read More
Can You Tell the Difference Between a Medium Format Camera and a Cellphone?
The cameras in phones have come a long way, but can they stack up against the best of the best? When they both have over 100 megapixels, do they compare? Cellphone cameras have come a long way since the Kyocera VP-210 (The first commercially availible cellphone with a camera), and with the help of computational photography making them reach even greater heights thanks to HDR, → Read More
A Dog Photobooth Made Out of Lego
A cute dog, some Lego, and a camera... I can't think of anything more perfectly made for the internet than this. Swedish born inventor, Simone Giertz, usually is known for building things out of wood, metal, Arduinos, and such. However, in her latest video, she decided to build her a dog a photo booth using nothing more than a lot of Lego and a GoPro. Usually her inventions → Read More
Portrait Photography With the Fujifilm 50mm f/1.0
The newest addition to the Fujifilm lens lineup is an interesting, though expensive lens. Coming in at just under $1,500, does its image quality hold up to such a premium price? The Fujifilm 50mm f/1.0 is Fuji's first f/1.0 lens, and it has autofocus, unlike the Nikon Noct lens. This video from The Camera Store TV gives a fantastic rundown of how the lens performs for → Read More
Fujifilm releases FUJIFILM X Webcam Version 2.0
FUJIFILM X Webcam is a free utility allowing Fujifilm users to use their cameras as a webcam and, now with version 2.0, it is much more useful than ever before! Users asked, and Fujifilm listened. The original Fujifilm X Webcam did not allow you to change your settings on the fly, nor did it allow you to change film simulations easily. Now, version 2.0 allows you to do all of that and more. → Read More
How to Make an Editing Time-lapse and Increase Engagement
An editing time-lapse is a great way to give viewers a peek behind the scenes of how you edit your photos, is a quick watch, and a fantastic way to get people engaged in your content. So, how do you make them? Before we get into how, let's talk about the what and the why. An editing time-lapse is a video of your editing process. It's slow enough to show what you did but quick → Read More
5 Tips to Make Your Photo Edits Stronger
Editing can be tough, but these five simple tips will help you make your photo edits stronger. Coming to us from James Popsys, he has brought us five fantastic tips to make your edits better! I definitely have my favorite tip, however, and that is actually the first tip, which essentially says that you should really separate editing photos from assessing photos, which is → Read More
Fujifilm Announces new EF-60 Shoe Mount Flash and EF-W1 Commander
Fujifilm finally adds to its flash roster, giving photographers true wireless control. Speedlights, a key feature of most photographers' kits, but us Fujifilm shooters were locked into the small one that came with our camera or third party flashes, until now. With the announcement of the EF-60 and EF-W1 combo, Fujifilm photographers can finally keep it all in the family. The → Read More
How I Got the Shot: Teal and Orange
Playing with gels is always a fun time, join me as I break down how I got this photo of Toronto model and photographer Sam Yang. I love working with gels, but it's been a long time since I've gotten to play with them, so I recently hit up Toronto model and photographer Sam Yang, who I've been wanting to work with for a while, and more or less asked him if he wanted to come → Read More
AI-Powered Retouching With Portrait Pro 19
Retouching can take a long time, especially cleaning up skin. But Anthropics aims to fix that with their new version of Portrait Pro, with AI-powered skin retouching. Does it live up to the hype? Let's find out. Retouching can be extremely difficult and time-consuming. Dodging and burning, frequency separation, cloning, healing... it can get overwhelming and time-consuming. → Read More
Photo Walkthrough: White and Orange
Shooting in hard natural light can be extremely difficult, especially when you're photographing bright, white clothing. Join me in breaking down how I got the shot, and pick up some tips for shooting a similar image! This video serves as the launch of my new YouTube channel, DaveOverThere, In this video, I do a brief rundown of how I got the shot, and I breakdown my thoughts → Read More
Would You Rather Have a House? Or a RED Camera?
When it comes to making investments, there are lots of routes you can go. In this case, the choice is between either a house, a low-risk investment for stability, or a RED Camera, a high-risk investment in yourself and your career. Which would you choose? This isn't purely a hypothetical question. Not long ago, YouTuber Matthew Paquette was faced with this very decision. He → Read More
10,000 Headshots: One Day.
Renowned photographers Peter Hurley and Tony Taafe are organizing an initiative to photograph 10,000 people in a single day across all 50 states. For free. With the coronavirus pandemic putting millions of people out of work, it's hard to pull up the income for a new headshot in order to get a new job now that things are starting to open up. Studies show that having a → Read More
The Fujifilm GFX 100 Gets Its Biggest Firmware Update Yet
Filmmakers with the GFX 100 are about to have a whole new world open to them. The Fujifilm GFX100 is a beast of a camera: with over 100 megapixels of still image capability and the ability to capture 4K video, but with this latest update, it has become an even more capable video camera! Paired with the Atomos Ninja V, the GFX100 can now do 4K UHD raw over HDMI at up to 29.97 → Read More
One Trick for Easy, Beautiful, Family Portraits
Now that things are opening up again around the world, we can start doing outdoor photo sessions again, and this one trick will help you stand out in your community. Due to the pandemic, I've decided to start offering family shoots to people within my community in order to get business going again. → Read More
My Most Terrifying, And Rewarding, Shoot: How I Shot My First Natonal Campaign
Last year I got to shoot my first national campaign for Absolut Vodka, it was an incredible, life-changing, experience. Late last year I received an email that, at first, I thought was spam. It was from someone I had never met before asking me to shoot a campaign. This was not a contact, this was not a colleague, not even a friend-of-a-friend, but rather a total stranger. Now → Read More