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Today I will talk about reality and how we perceive it. In this episode we will cover Cervante’s Don Quijote, Cindy Crawford’s leaked image and the history of Photoshop. Links: (with thanks for the support)

The best and perfect camera…does not exist. This is a fact. Technology changes – but more importantly – you change, too. The old battle between nerds and artists, between photographers saying „its the gear!“ and photographers saying „its the photographer!“. Probably due to the announcement of a new 50MP DSLR Camera by Canon the old…

Userinterfaces The year 2015 started stressful for me, so I had way less time than I planned and hoped to prepare and research as much as I wanted to for this podcast. But, I still thought a lot about photography – and I hope that this comes across in this episode. Today I would…

Magic Leap In this episode we will talk about some hot news from the tech ‚verse. The company Magic Leap is developing a type of google glass that could give us „real“ virtual reality using light field technology. But what is light field technology? Isn’t there a light field camera out there called Lytro?…

Part 1 In this episode we will cover fascinating capabilities of our brain which are certainly relevant for photography. The first one is called Multimodality.   Part 2 Claude Michael F. Marmor, MD: Ophthalmology and Art: Simulation of Monet’s Cataracts and Degas’ Retinal Disease Article from Stanford University about famous artists and their eye diseases…

Part 1: A history of color theory In this episode we will cover the development of color theory. The fathers of color theory: Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) Thomas Young (1773-1829), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) Developed a new theory of colors based on the thesis that there are three „sense organs“ in the eye. One…

Part 1:  Excerpt from Goethes transcript about the effect of simultaneous contrast (in german): http://www.textlog.de/6913.html   Part 2: Picture-URL: Wikipedia The Paget Color Process: Wikipedia Collection of pictures of the Great War by Frank Hurley: The Australian War Memorial

Part 1: Part 2: A story of William Turner