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5 Tips for Holiday Edits

Want to relive your holiday but struggling to perfect your edits? Join us for our live session on travel photography and editing, and learn how to bring your memories to life. We’ll share some workflow tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your photos and Capture One.

Together, we’ll edit some typical holiday shots and show you how travel photography can be easy, enjoyable and successful. Want to learn how to fix an out-of-camera image, or how to edit a shot with low light? We’ll share some editing tricks to catching that fleeting moment stress free.

Bring your questions for the live Q&A – see you there!

In joining, you’ll learn about:

Import and naming tips
Selecting and rating
Editing and sharing

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Deadlines and Delivery: The Tokyo Games

Join David with Capture One Ambassador, Joe McNally. Joe recently returned from Tokyo tasked with covering the Olympics for ZUMA press agency.

In this live and interactive webinar, learn how the speed and quality of Capture One helped Joe deliver his spectacular imagery to the agency on deadline.

Learn what Joe carries in his bag, how he prepares for such trips and maybe even some tips on managing the Tokyo heat and humidity!

Don’t miss out and register for your place today.

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Blake Pope - historic diner in Charlotte, North Carolina

Spotlight On: Blake Pope

When it comes to capturing the essence of an interior space, the onus is on the photographer. Acutely aware of this fact is North Carolina-based photographer, Blake Pope.

One of Capture One’s newest brand ambassadors, Pope’s work focuses primarily on food, stills, and interiors. Having spent years working in the hospitality industry, the Charlotte-based creative, says he fell into his current discipline when he was asked to start photographing the food and the interiors of restaurants in the buzzing town of Charlotte.

I captured this candid photo at Post House Inn, in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. There was a stranger beside my wife and me in the bar room and I couldn’t help but grab a quick frame that included the stranger’s appearance as it suited the cozy historic establishment along with a sense of a traveler finding their destination.

Prior to that twist of fate, Pope was already artistically inclined, pursuing illustration in high school and later switching to music in college, where he studied jazz and classical guitar. An avid skateboarder since his teens, he later realized he was more spectator than sportsman, and decided to start filming his skateboarding cronies.

“I picked up a canon video camera when I was 19 and ended up being fascinated with how it worked,” he said. “So that is where it started. Soon, I got into stills, DSLR, and shooting video which was around the time that the Canon 5D Mark II came out. It was one of the first still cameras that could also shoot high resolution video, so I got into that – shooting video and photography.”

A nostalgic photo of a historic diner in Charlotte, North Carolina. I typically don’t lean too heavily into nostalgia but calm environments and warm colors always speak well to me. This was captured on medium format film and edited in Capture One Pro.

This was at the same time he was working in restaurants, and what he refers to his niche.

“Eventually someone asked if I could take a picture of the food or interior – and that’s kind of how I fell into it,” explains Pope.

Coming into his own

Eight years later, and Pope has built up an impressive portfolio of stills, interior, and food photography. He still works in the hospitality industry where he and his associates drive the visual identity of nationally recognized James Beard nominated restaurants Kindred and Hello, Sailor.

The entryway at Hello, Sailor, a restaurant designed by Katy Kindred (my boss!)

On the switch to professional photography, he explains that shift did not transpire until five years ago.

“Finding what I like to see has manifested in the past few years, and what I do with my personal time as far as photography goes, or even at work,” said Pope. “But there is a sense of a finally coming of age. I know what I like now and how to pursue it and find it. I feel like everything that I produce – is the most exciting thing I’ve done.”

The Creative Process

Setting up still life shoots remains one of his favorite aspects of being a still life and interior photographer, and what he refers to crafting a calming sense of simplicity – which he believes allows him to discover more texture and color, and contrast in what he’s creating – in a simple way.

Having shot numerous interiors, he admits that while the process of styling furniture—from arranging it accordingly, nailing the lighting and composition, it remains a gratifying process, both professionally and personally.

Blake Pope - vibrant and saturated restaurant interior

A vibrant and saturated restaurant interior for a recent restaurant opening. I loved the balance of warm and cool along with the hard artificial light in use. It was a brand new space but I really enjoyed a few of the imperfections in the banquette and wood so I intentionally left them in place to showcase some character.

But to capture the personality of a place lies firstly with the photographer.

“(It’s) up to you to see those elements that catch your breath,” said Pope. “When you feel that and sense that you are always trying to capture that within a single frame, that’s the biggest challenge too – to recognize what’s personally gratifying to you in the space and being able convey that through the lens.”

And while not everything may be your taste, Pope notes that everything he shoots has value, and believes it’s up to the photographer to identify the value in it.

10 photographers who create impact through photography

Explore the works of ten inspiring photographers who document—and influence—the world through photography

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

In contemporary society, there is no other form of communication that moves us to the same extent as photography. It is a universal language – shaping the way we understand people, history and the world around us.

Countless important moments – from the everyday to the awe-inspiring – have been captured by photography– often with world-altering results. Photographers have not only documented history but helped shape it as well.

To celebrate World Photography Day – and because we’re passionate about the subject – we wanted to share the work of 10 photographers who inspire us by creating impact through their visual storytelling.

Sarah Buthmann – Social impact

Collaborating with various NGO’s, including organizations for women’s rights in India and LGBTQIA+ rights in The Gambia, Sarah Buthmann harnesses the powerful visual impact of photography to illuminate social issues. In her latest campaign – Save My Sister – photography becomes a transformative and healing medium of self-expression for victims of domestic violence.

View more of Sarah’s work here: www.buthmann.dk

Brandon Laurent – Beauty Impact

With his stunning and sensuous portrayals of masculine beauty, Brandon Laurent flips the classic tropes of beauty and fashion photography, pushing us to think beyond the confines of traditional ideas of beauty and gender.

View more of Brandon’s work here: www.instagram.com/donlaurent92

Jennifer Adler – Scientific impact

A self-described “science storyteller”, Jennifer Addler, is a photojournalist and marine ecologist who has spent her career travelling the world documenting aquatic ecosystems, using photography to educate about science and conservation.

View more of Jennifer’s work here: www.jenniferadlerphotography.com

Ulf Svane – Urban Impact

Driven by a love for Copenhagen, Ulf Svane’s Copenhagen Archive seeks to preserve a lasting memory of its historic sites and the people who inhabit them. Along the way he documents a changing urban landscape where the impact of rapid development, gentrification, relocation and closure prompts us to ask ourselves which kind of city we want to live in in the future.

View more of Ulf’s work here: www.ulfsvane.com

Natasha Gerschon – Storytelling Impact

Traversing the boundaries between imagination and reality, identity and fantasy, Natasha Gerschon’s surrealist imagery opens up new avenues of visual storytelling. In her Alice in Wonderland series, she explores ideas of freedom and dreams as spaces in which to break free from the constraints of society.

View more of Natasha’s work here: www.natashagerschon.com

Federicio Ianaccone – Culture Impact

Federico Iannaccone’s depiction of ordinary life in Iran captures an intimate glimpse of people’s everyday lives beyond the geopolitical tensions dominating world news – showing a very different side of existence against the backdrop of political change.

View more of Federico’s work here: www.instagram.com/federico.iannaccone

Michelle Watt – Identity Impact

Drawing on her own experiences as a Chinese American woman, Michelle Watt’s photography addresses themes of belonging and displacement, freedom and restriction in regards to cultural and sexual identity.

View more of Michelle’s work here: www.michellewattphoto.com

Zoe Noble – Feminist Impact

For fashion and beauty photographer Zoe Noble, photography is also a powerful storytelling platform to share the experiences and stories of people embracing a life without children. What started as a potrait series has evolved into a global community – We are Childfree – committed to fighting stereotypes and strict gender roles and creating a world in which everyone is empowered to make their own choices.

Read more about We are Childfree here: wearechildfree.com

Bob Cervas – Emotional Impact

Bridging the boundary between our visual and internal selves, Bob Cervas uses photography as an outlet of self-discovery and self-expression – exploring issues of mental health and emotional wellbeing, and breaking taboos in the process.

View more of Bob’s work here: www.instagram.com/somethingreallywitty

Curtis Jones – Environmental Impact

Immersing himself in some of the most extreme environments on the planet, Curtis Jones documents the raw and dynamic beauty of nature, against the backdrop of a changing climate. From remote regions of Canada to the Gobi Desert, his work captures glimpses of the natural world we rarely get the chance to experience.

View more of Curtis’s work here: www.curtisjonesphoto.com