If you have never photographed in infrared before, that is not your fault; modern cameras are designed to reject infrared light. However, with a special modification, you can open up an entirely new world that is invisible to the naked eye. This great video will show you some of unique and fascinating images that can be made with an infrared-converted camera. 

Coming to you from Thomas Heaton, this awesome video demonstrates some of the unique imagery you can make with an infrared-converted camera. Modern camera sensors can actually see infrared light, but almost all cameras have an infrared-blocking filter to keep it from contaminating visible light images. There are a few ways around this. You can buy an infrared filter. These work by blocking all visible light, allowing only infrared light through. The infrared filters over camera sensors are imperfect, and as such, by blocking the visible light, you can create an infrared image. However, because the majority of the infrared light is blocked, such exposures take a very long time. An easier route is to use a conversion service, which will allow you to use the camera normally, except as one that takes infrared images. It’s a great way to breathe new life into an old camera and invigorate your creativity. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Heaton. 

A South Africa-based photographer thought he was being pranked when he received a text from a previous client asking for a full refund – four years after he shot their wedding! In the message, the client – let’s call her Karen – explains that she and her husband are “now divorced,” so they no longer have use for the photos.

In reply to the absurd request, Lance Romeo Photography quite rightly asked the woman, “Pardon me? This has to be a joke right?” Because who on earth would seriously think a photographer would just turn around and agree? After all, he can’t take back the time he spent taking and editing the photos.

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What’s worse, Karen recognizes that he “did a wonderful job” but that the “photos went to waste as we are now divorced.” Last time I checked, divorce wasn’t the photographer’s issue, hell one lucky photographer but asking for a refund for wedding photos post-divorce is like asking for a refund from a restaurant after you’ve polished off the meal. It’s just downright cheeky. 

Since the incident occurred, Lance Romeo has shared a 2-minute long video to help answer the hundreds of requests he has received for more detail. Throughout the video, the photographer has a cheeky grin on his face as he obviously finds the whole situation rather amusing (who wouldn’t) but he explains one fascinating tale of events that makes you wonder if this marriage was doomed from the start. 

There’s a new bomb in this video too! While shooting the wedding, he says he took a photo of the groom touching one of the bridesmaid’s thighs, and apparently “not just in a friendly kinda way.” He described it as more of a “squeeze.” Later on that night, the groom asked to have a look through the images and asked for that specific image to be deleted, which Romeo agreed to (though he restored the image after he walked away).

An incident like the request call into question how some client’s minds work. As the photographer pointed out, he can’t go back and untake the images and for that reason, he would not be offering a refund. I personally can’t even begin to understand the audacity of asking for a refund, FOUR YEARS after getting married. 

I can understand if the photos were out of focus or not representative of the day then a refund might be asked for. Even if some key photos were missing perhaps a partial refund could be offered, but in both cases is a discussion that should happen at handover of the images. 

Obviously this whole situation is incredibly embarrassing for the bride – perhaps more so with the additional revelations – but I’m glad the photographer is making light of it.

If there is any good to come from it, I hope it brings Lance Romeo more engagement, more followers, and perhaps some more bookings from people who won’t be requesting a refund years later!

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The Avedon 100 exhibition, on view through the end of June, features much of Avedon’s iconic oeuvre. The black and white photographs include celebrity portraiture, scenes from the American West, snapshots from the Civil Rights movement, and fashion images of models. Celebrities photographed in the exhibit include Marilyn Monroe, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Prince, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Photographed models include Claudia Schiffer, Veruschka, Naomi Campbell, Donyale Luna, and more.

The exhibition was co-curated by Kara Vander Weg and Derek Blasberg. For Blasberg, working on Avedon 100 has been a full-circle moment. He grew up in St. Louis, admiring Avedon’s photography in magazines, a lens for him into the world of fashion and celebrity. He later moved to New York City, where he met Avedon twice. “This exhibition is full of the pictures that made me fall in love with him, to begin with,” he told Vogue.

The crowded party drew creatives from across the art and fashion worlds. Notably, many of the top global supermodels attended, including Gigi Hadid wearing Thom Browne, Iman, Liya Kebede, Precious Lee, Lauren Hutton, Pat Cleveland, and Karlie Kloss. Kloss, who wore a floor-length black dress with cutouts, told Vogue, “As a model, I studied the movement in his imagery. There’s such an awareness of both the models and Avedon. There must have been a special relationship between the two. By looking at a ton of his images, I learned a lot.”

There were also several attendees at the party who themselves were subjects of the displayed photographs, such as Patti Smith and Pat Cleveland. Cleveland shared with Vogue fond memories of working with Avedon. “I love that he could keep up with me when I was jumping across a room. When he started doing those moving jumping pictures, I was one of the first. He had a quick finger. He and his assistant would jump with me. We were all jumping like gazelles across the room.”

Fashion designers in attendance included Vera Wang, Tory Burch, Jack McCollough, Lazaro Hernandez, Wes Gordon, and Victor Glemaud. Other notable attendees included Sofia Coppola, Lauren Santo Domingo, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Eve Jobs, Kate Young, and Owen Wilson. For Wilson, the exhibition was particularly special, as his mother Laura Wilson was a photographer who worked closely with Avedon.

As the gallery party came to a close, guests wandered a few blocks south to the Top of the Standard, where Harley Viera-Newton and B.Mills DJ’d musical sets under the disco balls. Partygoers included Patti Smith, Vogue’s Grace Coddington, and Tyler Mitchell. Mitchell, who wore a black embellished Bode jacket, told Vogue, “What inspires me about Avedon’s exhibition is that he asserted himself as someone who loved fashion and people, but he also loved to present his work as art. This exhibition is really about unearthing his body of work through all of the things that he is: an amazing portraitist, an amazing lover of fashion and people, and an artist.” Gagosian’s Avedon 100 book and exhibit, along with Tyler Mitchell, who at just 28 years old is already inspiring the subsequent generation of photographers, further cements Richard Avedon’s lasting influence.