Popular Design News of the Week: August 24, 2020 – August 30, 2020
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week.
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Canon patent application details hybrid speedlight with active cooling via internal fan
The fan, labeled '155,' is located on the bottom of the flash head.
A recent patent application from Canon details the schematics for a hybrid speedlight that has built-in cooling for keeping the speedlight cool with continuous use.
Japanese patent application 2019-185021 shows various ways in which a fan underneath the flash head of the speedlight would pull in air from the ambient environment, direct it over the front of the main flash tube and cycle it out to keep temperatures at a more manageable level. Interestingly, the patent also shows a pair of LED lights above and below the main flash tube, the reason we consider this a ‘hybrid’ speedlight.
Various illustrations in the patent show how the air would be channeled through the flash head depending on where the flash tube is located inside the speedlight. This particular example shows how the air would flow in front of the flash tube (and LED lights, labeled 102 and 104) and cycle out of the speedlight via the empty space behind the flash head and LED lights.
The patent doesn’t specify whether or not the cooling mechanism is more for the main flash tube or the LED lights. But, considering fans aren’t necessarily a requirement on traditional speedlights and the incredible amount of heat LEDs can put out — especially in a confined package without much passive cooling — we believe it would make the most sense that this fan would run at times when the LED lights would be on for extended periods of time, where heat could built up without the chance to dissipate in a reasonable timeframe.
As noted by Canon News, who first broke down the patent, the detailed drawings and tech specifications for this speedlight indicate that quite a bit of work has gone into it already. As with all patents, it might never see the light of day, but it’s an interesting concept nonetheless.
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The fan, labeled '155,' is located on the bottom of the flash head.
A recent patent application from Canon details the schematics for a hybrid speedlight that has built-in cooling for keeping the speedlight cool with continuous use.
The fan, labeled '155,' is located on the bottom of the flash head.
A recent patent
Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Elephant Family” by Barbara Hinton. Location: Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya.
Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them.
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Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Elephant Family” by Barbara Hinton. Location: Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya.
Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Elephant Family” by Barbara Hinton. Location:
Artist Okuda San Miguel Brings His “Rainbow Embassy” to Arkansas
The artist atop his “Rainbow Embassy” in Fort Smith, Arkansas (all images courtesy Justkids)
Among the rolling green hills and grey-brown trees in winter, a rainbow of colors and patterns cropped up in Fort Smith, Arkansas. As part of a collaboration between Spanish street artist Okuda San Miguel, global creative house Justkids and 64.6 Downtown, a nonprofit focused on revitalizing the area, an uninhabited house received a fresh makeover into a “Rainbow Embassy,” welcoming visitors far and wide to the neighborhood.
It’s a house that looks like no other on its block. Its roof is a multi-color showcase of shapes, the walls lined with bright hues that play off each other like a study in contrasts: warm tones against blue, black opposite white. Other times, the colors seem to play against each other like wavy lines. In other spots, they are arranged in an orderly fashion from red to purple. Different angles shift the patterns and shapes, different perspectives reveal yet even more details and colors. Look closer on some of the sides of the buildings and you can spot the friendly eyes of an animal peeking out from the design.
A view of the “Rainbow Embassy”‘s rooftop
“This project gave me the possibility to expand on my previous work, adding more architectonic dimension and completing my vision of mythical animals,” San Miguel told Designboom. This latest installation is part of Unexpected, an on-going project that kicked off last year to bring immersive public art experiences to Arkansas like another recent work, Walala’s Pump & Go, which remade a closed-up gas station into an arts destination. It shares the same name with Fort Smith’s art festival that previously brought larger-than-life murals to feed mills.
This is San Miguel’s second collaboration with Justkids in the area after his 2016 work that revitalized an abandoned house into a brightly themed chapel. The Madrid-based street artist specializes in creating geometric designs with many colors, an eye-catching signature when reimagining old houses in Arkansas or a century-old church in his native Spain. Recently, he also designed almost every aspect of the latest Elrow event, calling the multi-colored extravaganza Kaos Garden. Justkids has previously collaborated with artists in other cities like New Dehli and Las Vegas. 64.6 Downtown focuses its efforts on space-making through activities and events like this creative public work.
Another view of the “Rainbow Embassy”View of the “Rainbow Embassy”
http://weboffers.atspace.co.uk The artist atop his “Rainbow Embassy” in Fort Smith, Arkansas (all images courtesy Justkids)Among the rolling green hills and grey-brown trees in winter, a rainbow of colors and patterns cropped up in Fort Smith, Arkansas. As part of a collaboration between Spanish street artist Okuda San Miguel, global creative house Justkids and 64. The artist atop his “Rainbow Embassy” in Fort Smith, Arkansas (all images courtesy
Josef Adamu is a creative director and producer based in Toronto. Fuelled by his love of formal wear, his camera tells the story of a young man who finds strength in fashion and personal expression.
We met up with Josef to talk about the beauty of minimalism, and what to do when things get complicated.
http://weboffers.atspace.co.uk Josef Adamu is a creative director and producer based in Toronto. Fuelled by his love of formal wear, his camera tells the story of a young man who finds strength in fashion and personal expression.
We met up with Josef to talk about the beauty of minimalism, and what to do when things get complicated. Josef Adamu is a creative director and producer based in Toronto. Fuelled by his love of
Weekend hellos! It’s hard to believe it’s almost September, which is my favorite month: slightly cooler weather and the beginning of fall.
We have new routines in place with school and work. It feels different for obvious reasons this year, but I try each day to focus on the good which is really just the simple things: health, shelter, family, and friends. The latest show I’m hooked on is Endeavor on PBS. I’m already on Season 5, it’s so well done, I really like the main characters. What shows have you been enjoying lately?
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We have new routines in place with school and work. It feels different for obvious reasons this year, but I try each day to focus on the good which is really just the simple things: health, shelter, family, and friends. Weekend hellos! It’s hard to believe it’s almost September, which is my
Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them.
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Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Goldfinch in the Snowfall” by Tim Nicol. Location: Republic, Washington.
“An American goldfinch in the falling snow of Republic, Washington,” describes Nicol. “Taken with a Nikon D850 and a Tamron 150-600mm lens.”
See more of Tim Nicol’s photography at https://tjnicol.wixsite.com/photo. Photo By Tim Nicol
Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Goldfinch in the Snowfall” by Tim
A Letter to President Macron: Reparations Before Restitution
An exhibition of the collection of Helena Rubinstein at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (photo courtesy Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr)
“All of the elements for a solution to the major problems of humanity existed at one time or another in European thought. But the Europeans did not act on the mission designated them.” – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Mr. President, I ask you to repair what you and your ancestors have broken in my home, before you restore the war trophies of colonial conquest. These days, restitution of so-called “African patrimony” exhausts me, because it is yet another ruse the West has devised in order to distract Africans from the real problems facing them. Maybe for you restitution is a noble gesture that sets you apart from your predecessors. But for me, Mr. President, restitution must come after reparations for the still ongoing pillage and despoliation by Europe and other foreign powers of Africa’s material and natural resources. The neoliberalism that today gives great pleasure to inhabitants of the United States and Europeans continues to impoverish Africans, and drives them to emigration and religious fundamentalism. And no one in these strongholds of human rights raise their eyes from their coffee cups to notice and tremble along with those who shudder at the rage of the Mediterranean Sea.
Mr. President, I am writing to tell you that your apparently magnanimous gesture of returning African “art” objects to Africa somewhat resembles the daily expulsion of Africans from your country. It was Europe that first accosted Africa in search of opportunities to develop and enrich itself. In return for its “noble” civilizing mission, Europe desired ivory, coffee, oil, uranium, coltan, and other resources to which it gave and continues to give itself access as if these resources belonged to Europe. Where would French and European market competitiveness be if companies like Total, Areva, Bouygues, Bolloré, Suez, Eiffage, and others had not plundered African resources? Have Europeans forgotten the initial goal of their Christian mission in Africa in order to shut themselves off in egoistic profit, and isolate themselves like Donald Trump’s United States, without conscience or memory?
The photographer describes this is a “room of masterpieces acquired over 20 years” displayed at the Quai Branly Museum (photo courtesy Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr)
Mr. President, it’s a good thing that you are not known to be implicated in the shady maneuvers of France-Afrique as were your predecessors, Presidents Mitterand and Chirac. You also have the reputation of being more pragmatic, more focused on economic problems and their political consequences than on cultural and artistic matters. This reputation leads me to carefully consider your recent decision to return “art” objects of African origin to Africa.
Could it be, Mr. President, this strategic, problem-solving mindset has led you to select a committee of experts in everything other than African art in order to make a hasty decision to restore these objects to an uncertain future? In any case, your political calculation immediately caught on. Doubtless there are those who appreciate your gesture as a sign of magnanimity and reconcilation. African politicians, nimble critics of the France-Afrique that keeps them fed, won’t forget you either for giving them a leg up for their victory over colonialism. And there are also intellectuals who already see in this a rectification of history, even a decolonial victory.
But as for me, I accuse! Following Walter Benjamin in his Theses on the Philosophy of History, let us recall that all war trophies belong to the conquerors. Thus, these once sacred objects known today as “traditional African Arts” are quite simply trophies of the conquests and colonizations of Africa by Europe. Indeed, it was Europeans who were first responsible for defining them as art works worthy of being displayed in museums; it was Europeans who first bestowed on them, as Pierre Bourdieu would say, a market value and value as symbolic capital within Western museums.
On the other hand, Africans feared the secret power of these objects which were desacralized and blasphemed when exhibited in public to people who were not initiated in the rituals and rites that gave them their original meaning. I still remember what my aunt said when I was a boy in my uncles’ village in the Kharta (Republic of Mali): “Come back quickly and go to bed, before they take the Komo out. If not, if you see it, you’ll get so fat that you won’t be able to fit in the doorway so you can hide.”
The philosophical, artistic, and practical questions posed today by specialists from every continent concern where these objects will go and under what conditions. Will they be restored to the Dogon, the Bambara, or the Baoulés as sacred objects, to be protected against vandalism, profanation, and the intolerance of monotheistic fundamentalists? Or, Mr. President, will you build museums to shelter them in Africa? Might you also have thought of a partnership through which the works would be the common property of the Parisian Quai Branly Museum and African museums? Here we are, firmly ensconced in France-Afrique!
Unidentified object, likely of African origin, displayed at the British Museum in London (photo by Paul Hudson via Flickr)
But, Mr. President, as Sembene Ousmane said about Négritude, restitution does not feed anyone in deep Africa, nor does it reconcile continents and races, nor does it put an end to the emigration of Africans to the West (which is in part generated by the theft of Africa’s natural resources over the past four centuries) How much of Africa is there in Europeans’ and Americans’ daily consumption?
It is in this sense, I think, Mr. President, that these objects of the traditional arts of Africa are as European as they are African — I emphasize this only to remind visitors to Western museums what Europe stole from Africa.
We prefer reparations to restitution now.
Mr. President, we cannot continue to shut our eyes, minds, hearts to the disgusting poverty in Africa. No longer can we ignore the link between the miseries of some and the well-being of others, Africans on one side and Europeans on the other, natural resources looted from here and transformed there and then sold back in the form of fetishes to their true owners.
If you permit me, Mr. President, a crude metaphor, I would tell you that Africa has had its legs amputated by many factors for which Europe is chiefly responsible: the long transatlantic slave trade; colonial conquest followed by the infamous Berlin Conference which ripped Africa apart in order to give Europeans pieces of the continent; both world wars; the imposition of stillborn nation-states, and, finally, terrorism, which has now transformed Africa into a proxy battleground between the West and its enemies.
Unidentified object, likely of African origin, displayed at the Quai Branly museum in Paris (photo by Monika via Flickr)
It is said in the West that Africa must be helped, that there must be solidarity with Africa, that there must be love for Africa. All technologically advanced countries, including Russia and China, have plans to help train Africans, plans to help develop Africa. The World Bank along with the International Monetary Fund never stop coming to the aid of African states with loans they will never be able to repay. Bill Gates and many other philanthropists and non-governmental organizations hitch themselves to dubious humanitarian projects, allegedly to help Africa. One could even win the Nobel Prize by getting attention in studies of development or health in Africa. It makes one wonder what these enterprises would do without African poverty?
On the other hand, after raping, humiliating, and belittling Africa for centuries, the West has found specialists to say that nothing more can be done for it, because their peoples are corrupt, or as those Africans who have ended up internalizing the racist stereotype of their inferiority say: development and progress are “white people’s things.”
Unidentified object, likely of African origin, displayed at the British Museum in London (photo by Paul Hudson via Flickr)
Africa is being robbed in plain sight of the entire world, and every day it is continually told, even by African intellectuals, that everything has been done for it and that the world is tired of supporting it like a child who refuses to grow up and take on responsibilities. But, Mr. President, all honest people know that the capitalist countries cannot just turn off the tap and leave Africa to itself! They cannot stop “aiding” (or rather burdening) Africa with debt; otherwise, Africans would awaken and say they are fed up with feeding a one-sided, capitalist system with their sweat and their natural resources!
Mr. President, we also prefer reparations before any restitution, just as France, Germany, Japan, and Israel, have all benefited from reparations before considering the restitution of their patrimonial objects. Recall that following World War II, the United States with its Marshall Plan poured billions of dollars into several European and Asian countries in order to enable them to get back on their feet, after the destruction of their economies and democracies?
As you know, Mr. President, the US was afraid that European (and other) nations decimated by war would become the easy prey of Communist ideology. This makes it clear that the Marshall Plan, and the reparations it included, far from constituting charity, was installed in the interests of an America which had proclaimed itself the defender of democracy and the sworn enemy of Communism.
The amputations of African agency committed by Europe in the name of so-called civilization must also be repaired. We propose, without any irony, to christen these reparations the Macron Plan.
But, Mr. President, unlike the American Marshall Plan, this will not be a matter of paying according to the number of inhabitants on the continent, nor of swelling the coffers of every African nation state without exception. In the absence of a global African project, such programs would only get mixed up in transcontinental corruption and prolong Africans’ indebtedness and infantilization. We demand a proper and comprehensive reparations plan to put an end to anemic and anachronistic nation-states in this modern world. It is evident that up until now these nation-states have only profited foreign entrepreneurs and the African leaders who have chosen to serve them. We also demand these reparations be regarded as the responsibility of Western taxpayers, in whose name we are continually annihilated by the existing economic system and its institutions blocking our entry into modern history.
Under the auspices of the Macron Plan, Africa demands neither charity, paternalism, nor band-aids. In order to revive Africa, Mr. President, what is needed is a real program of economic development, accompanied by the installation of democratic institutions supervised by a committee made up of Africans and Westerners for a specific length of time.
We are convinced that this plan, instead of encouraging the separation of different African ethnic groups by machete blows, will bring us together to free up creative energies wherever they may be found. Instead of sending us soldiers to fight terrorists and fundamentalists who, as we have seen with the downfall of Muammar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein, are the results of your wars for oil and uranium, the Macron Plan for Reparations alone, Mr. President, is able to reconcile Africa with itself, but also with the West.
As Édouard Glissant said, terrorism cannot be fought with terrorism without risking the annihilation of human culture and society. Terrorism cannot be brought to an end without reparations, the imaginary, and poetry. Instead of hurling Africans daily into the Mediterranean Sea, pay us with reparations, for the majority of African emigrants to the West would go back to African countries if they had the same work opportunities, cross-border mobility, and human rights that Europe theoretically offers today.
We prefer reparations to restitution so that bridges can be built between nations and cultures, in order to liberate creative energies. We demand reparations in order to remove the suffocating barriers that Europe has constructed between Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Guinea. We also want material goods and knowledge to travel freely from country to country. Too long has the West ignored its debt to Africa, because the problem has always been discussed with nation-states — which are endowed with a sovereignty that ultimately divides and weakens them and which profits Western entrepreneurs more than African peoples — rather than with regions or the entire continent speaking with a single voice.
Unidentified object, likely of African origin, displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (photo by Monika via Flickr)
What we understand by reparations begins with the demand for economic, moral, and democratic justice, for an Africa oriented toward the future instead of a perpetual quest for an inaccessible past. To begin with, we demand the establishment of a committee of African and Western experts in economics, political science, and sociology, which would estimate the monetary value of at least three regions of the African continent: West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa. (These experts would also decide on the way in which the Maghreb, Egypt, and South Africa should be repaired.)
The Macron Plan will be financed by European and American taxpayers, who are the first to benefit from Africa’s natural resources, but also the first to vote against the immigration of Black people to their countries. If it is true that France annually spends nearly 500 billion euros for the maintenance of French people’s social security, why not contribute in one payment 500 billion euros, in the form of reparations, towards the development of democratic and economic institutions from Senegal to the Ivory Coast. And, Mr. President, we say that what goes for the Macron Plan applies equally to the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and other countries who have deliberately enriched themselves at the expense of our underdeveloped countries.
Mr. President, permit me to conclude by saying that only reparations will enable the beginning of a reconciliation between continents, races, and cultures, which restitution cannot accomplish. The effects would also be automatic in the West, where a decline in immigration and terrorism would take place. We will also see the emergence of a new creativity because the differences of ethnicity and nationality will be reassembled for the creation of a new Africa. Such could be the Macron Plan’s initiative, more promising than restitution, and the bearer of liberatory energies and honest human relations between Africa and the West.
Editor’s Note: This piece was translated by Christopher Winks and originally published in French on the Mediapart website, December 16, 2019.
http://weboffers.atspace.co.uk An exhibition of the collection of Helena Rubinstein at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris (photo courtesy Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr)“All of the elements for a solution to the major problems of humanity existed at one time or another in European thought. But the Europeans did not act on the mission designated them.” – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Mr. An exhibition of the collection of Helena Rubinstein at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
25 Top Business Opener Templates for After Effects (Motion Graphics Intros)
It can be hard to make a good first impression and keep your audience engaged.
Luckily, you don't have to create and animate every aspect of a video yourself. The professionally-designed After Effect templates in this article are thoughtfully made, easy to modify and can help you achieve an appealing outcome in a fraction of the time and budget. Simply download the files, add your own specifics, and export a professional finished video.
Intro Templates for Business from Envato Elements (Unlimited Downloads)
If you frequently find yourself making videos, then Envato Elementsis
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We're starting off our list with a burst of energy with this opener. With more than 50 text and media placeholders, quickly create an engaging opener with this intro template.
Plexus is an After Effects intro template that fits perfectly in the business world. You can edit the text and images to add your logo with this choice. Try it for your next corporate presentation.
Here's another option if you need corporate video introduction templates. Abstract 3D is full HD and renders quickly. Edit everything from the colors to the music. If you're stuck, there's a handy video tutorial to help you out.
A
template like this is ideal as a pre-roll for a speaking engagement.
Combine and mix your photos and graphics with text in a template like
this to set the tone for a strong speech.
This
easy-to-use After Effects template is perfect for focusing on stock
photography. Add your images on the easy-to-customize placeholders and
watch then animate to life in less time than ever before.
A
clean and fast opener like this aptly-named template cuts straight to
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This
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Use a team showcase, for example, to show the key members of your team.
It's an upbeat slideshow that is flexible for many purposes.
Companies
host many events, like town halls, all-hands meetings, and monthly
updates. Use a high energy video like this to introduce the key speaker.
You can use it to show key details before starting.
Looking for something a little more techy? Try out the Cyber Security opener template. Its visuals are engaging and will draw in your audience. Its sci-fi vibe is great for a startup or online-based service company.
Keep it simple and modern with this fashion intro video template. This trendy opener can help get your brand out there, and it comes with more than 20 text and media placeholders. Try it out!
Top Intro Templates for Business from Envato Market (Pay Per Item)
If video is an infrequent thing, you might be better served buying templates one-by-one. Here's our selection of business-ready intro templates for After Effects from Envato Market.
This intro would feel right at home as the opener for a network television show. The fancy wipe effects are ready to help you start your video with a look at your favorite images. Just drop in your own images and use this as the perfect intro to your video.
For sci-fi and futuristic fans, this glitch project couldn't be a better fit. That glitch effect is going to grab attention, and all you need to do is add your own footage and text choices.
I love typographic videos because they're a breeze to update with your own choice of text. This intro makes it easy to swap in your own text and lead with strong, bold text animations that are sure to grab attention.
With no plugins required, this After Effects video intro is the great way to kick off an action packed video. With splashy text boxes and dynamic transitions, this will set the tone for an upbeat video.
When you want to showcase your app, you might not have time to produce a video to promote it. That's no problem, thanks to this easy-to-use After Effects project that can help you drop in your own app footage to bring it to life.
You can produce a silver screen quality introduction thanks to this easy-to-use After Effects intro. The bold serif fonts and zoom animations will feel right at home for your next film festival entry.
This explosive intro has pre-built animations that burst onto the canvas. Just add your own text, logo, and customize the background to build a Hollywood-quality animation featuring your details.
Lead strong with your own branding by using this Logo Intro project. Just drag and drop your own logo file into this project to kickoff the video project by showcasing your logo with animations built into the After Effects project.
The quality of this project makes it an equally good fit as an intro for your video, or as a standalone project of its own. With glitchy text and parallax cuts between scenes to show off your video footage, make sure to play the preview below. Then, imagine it with your own assets!
I love the flexibility of the Elegant Intro Opener. It's simple and clean enough that you could easily use it for a corporate pre-roll, but the textures and animations could just as easily find their way into a fashion slideshow, for example.
Here's another great selection for leading with your logo. You don't have to be an animator to bring your logo onto the canvas with style, and this project helps you do just that in minutes.
Cut straight to the chase thanks to the Fast Opener project. All you have to do is drop in your own images and customize the text to create a slideshow that will garner attention. Ideal for YouTubers.
Far from the ordinary, the 3D Space Logo project will help blast your branding into orbit. This pack isn't ideal for every situation, but it's a stunning animation for an opener that aims to feature something futuristic.
Rounding out the selection, this slideshow opener is can help bring your still images to life. A multi-purpose template with elegant design, minimal titles, parallax effect and modern geometric transitions. Create elegant slideshow with your photos or video clips. Possibilities of this template are unlimited
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Create More After Effects Projects for Business Video
Envato Market's selection of After Effects projects is nearly at 50,000 unique pieces. There are so many great projects that we regularly feature the best of the best in the category in roundups like these.
Check out these other pieces that feature the best that Envato Market has to offer:
http://weboffers.atspace.co.uk It can be hard to make a good first impression and keep your audience engaged. Luckily, you don't have to create and animate every aspect of a video yourself. The professionally-designed After Effect templates in this article are thoughtfully made, easy to modify and can help you achieve an appealing outcome in a fraction of the time and budget. It can be hard to make a good first impression and keep your audience engaged. Luckily,
Video: What it's like to photograph Formula 1 in 60 seconds
It’s not just hockey that’s seeing sports photographers change the way they have to operate during events. Like many other sports during this global pandemic, the Formula 1 season is quite different than usual, with an altered schedule and different race tracks than expected, but as with all sports, there are still photos that need to be taken.
As part of its ‘My Job in 60 Seconds’ series the team hosts on Instagram, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team photographer Steve Etherington shares what it’s like to photograph the pinnacle of motorsports at a time when team personnel and fans are limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout the video, Etherington shares what it is he does on a race weekend, how the social ‘bubbles’ put in place have changed how he shoots and more. It’s a great, albeit quick look into shooting Formula 1 — something Etherington has been doing every race weekend for 28 years.
You can find more of Etherington’s work on his website.
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It’s not just hockey that’s seeing sports photographers change the way they have to operate during events. Like many other sports during this global pandemic, the Formula 1 season is quite different than usual, with an altered schedule and different race tracks than expected, but as with all sports, there are still photos that need to be taken.
It’s not just hockey that’s seeing sports photographers change the way they
