Month: April 2009
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Gay Weddings: Growing Opportunity?
From Gay Weddings: Growing Opportunity?:
To a growing number of wedding photographers, same‑sex weddings are a matter of good politics. And good business.
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DOUBLE CROSS: Pat Longrie part II
From DOUBLE CROSS: Pat Longrie part II:
The Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, MDC and the Zero Boys played a show at “Old Town” in Westminster, California in 1983…the most powerful, electric, eclectic bill I ever saw. Old Town was where the Oktoberfest festival occurred each year so it was, to say the least, an odd partnership to begin with. The Zero Boys from Indiana were smoking. I had never heard of them before but they ripped. MDC was fantastic. Minor Threat was it.
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Street photography and the law :: Photocritic photography blog
From Street photography and the law :: Photocritic photography blog:
The law can essentially be summed up like this:
1. You can take a picture of anything you see – especially when you are in public. -
Terror blunder: photographer who snapped Bob Quick has embarrassed the Government before – Telegraph
From the Telegraph:
Steve Back, the photographer who took the picture of Bob Quick’s briefing note on the terror raids in the north west of England, has embarrassed the Government before.
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lens culture: Obama's People by Nadav Kander
From lens culture: Obama’s People by Nadav Kander:
Shortly after the 2008 election of Barack Obama — but prior to his inauguration — The New York Times Magazine commissioned a series of 52 portraits of the advisers, aides, cabinet secretaries-designate, and other key people who were being assembled to become members of Obama’s incoming administration. UK-based photographer Nadav Kander was chosen for this daunting project.
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dispatches: Sound control for 5D video–almost here
From dispatches: Sound control for 5D video–almost here:
BeachTek is happy to announce their new DXA-5D XLR adapter that has been highly anticipated for the Canon 5D Mark II camera.
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The Doctor is In – A Photography Blog.
From The Doctor is In – A Photography Blog.:
The rapatronic camera is a high-speed camera capable of recording a still image with an exposure time as brief as 10 nanoseconds (billionths of a second).
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Cameras With Time-Machine Powers – Pogue’s Posts
From Cameras With Time-Machine Powers – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com:
You can snap a still while filming video, and you can also change slow-mo speeds while filming, flipping between 30 and 210 frames per second with the touch of a button. Very, very cool.
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The dark side of Dubai – The Independent
From The dark side of Dubai – The Independent:
Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports
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Is Your Web Designer Full of Crap? – A Picture's Worth
From Is Your Web Designer Full of Crap? – A Picture’s Worth:
Your website design isn’t just for people who visit it. The fundamental construction of the website can help attract visitors even if they don’t know who you are.
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Early Bird Workshop Kicks Off At SSA VI
From Early Bird Workshop Kicks Off At SSA VI:
“You folks (sports photographers) out of any workshop I go to, should understand this. It’s competition. If I was talking to studio portrait photographers, they wouldn’t know what I was talking about. You gotta beat them,” speaker Dave Black said, referring to capturing better action and trying innovative techniques to create images that other people don’t have.
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Boston Globe Surprised by Size of Demand for Cuts – NYTimes.com
From Boston Globe Surprised by Size of Demand for Cuts – NYTimes.com:
“Now, nobody thinks that if we make these concessions, there won’t be more cuts in a few months,” he said.
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Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind
From Los Angeles Film+TV – Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind – page 1:
For 90 uninterrupted minutes, there is only one talking head in Tyson, and it is one that speaks with startling alacrity and candor about the humiliating taunts he suffered as a chunky, high-voiced mama’s boy; the petty criminality that earned him street respect and, ultimately, time served in a youth correctional facility; the confidence and sense of purpose he gained from boxing; the sharply honed physical and psychological manipulation he deployed in the ring; the qualities he seeks in a woman; his inability to manage money. Above all, Tyson speaks of the consuming desire to truly know thyself.
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Canadian Metal Band's Great Feature-Length Doc
From Los Angeles Music – Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Canadian Metal Band’s Great Feature-Length Doc – page 1:
A funny documentary has endlessly quotable lines. An even funnier documentary has endlessly quotable lines delivered in a Canadian accent. Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! The Story of Anvil, a chronicle of the forgotten Maple Leaf metalers and their last-ditch effort for commercial and creative success, has given the band its second wind twice: first, as a sleeper hit that made the film-festival rounds, including Sundance, last year, and now as a nationwide release. So don’t feel too bad if you don’t know much aboot Anvil just yet.
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Searching for Sonny — First Feature Shot on DSLR | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
From Searching for Sonny — First Feature Shot on DSLR | Gadget Lab from Wired.com:
The team used a Canon 5D MkII for the shoot, although oddly paired with Nikon lenses — the director of photography Jeffrey Waldron has a collection of old manual glass and it was cheaper to just grab a converter than load up with new Canon optics. It also meant that the apertures could be controlled. Apparently, when the 5DMkII is is shooting video in Live View mode, the aperture goes auto, meaning no control of depth of field.
