Maria Lax experiments with colors and foils to Bringing out “alien” motifs. (Screenshot: Apple / t3n)
Maria Lax is the name of the photographer Apple hired for a new episode of the workshop series “Today at Apple”. The Swede, who lives in London, won the Female-in-Focus Award of the British Journal of Photography in 2019 and appears in the Guardian’s “The best new Talent” list. Apple has added their “Landan”, a Creative Pro from the New York flagship store Apple Grand Central. After a short interview about Lax’s work, the two go to the respective cities and take photos. They give tips for motifs from another world and the correct use of functions and equipment. Then edit the photos.
Many classic hardware tricks
Anyone who assumes that the two pros will do a lot Using filters and effects is wrong. In the video, Maria Lax works a lot with slides, which she modifies and combines. Yes, that’s right: she holds colored foils in front of the lens to achieve certain effects. Landan is now experimenting with thin fabrics.
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Intensify colors in the editing process
Almost half of the eight-minute clip above shows Lax what settings she uses in edit mode to achieve special effects. Here, too, it is noticeable that it dispenses with prefabricated filters. She reworks colors through the saturation and experiments with the vignette. At the end of the video, Landon summarizes steps and points out free workshops in the Apple stores.
