Selina Maitreya called me up the other day to tell me about a new mp3 series she developed for photographers called “The View From Here.” I’ve heard good things from photographers who’ve worked with Selina so I checked it out. It all sounded very well don
Selina Maitreya called me up the other day to tell me about a new mp3 series she developed for photographers called “The View From Here.” I’ve heard good things from photographers who’ve worked with Selina so I checked it out. It all sounded very well done and informative but I thought it might be better for all of you if I just asked her a few questions, so you can gauge for yourself if you like where she’s coming from
The Forum meets informally. The gatherings are a mix of activities; between visits by photo luminaries and live presentation and critique of members work in open forum. These presentations have been quite revealing, as members show new projects in various stages of completion and open themselves up for review by their peers. I have seen some really interesting work, one of the standouts for me being that of emerging photographer Pari Dukovic who has a unique approach to his work and his process. At the last salon Pari debuted prints from his fab ‘Tasting Canvas‘ project. The web doesnt really do the prints justice. So in honor of the exhibits opening and curious to know more about the how I posed Pari few questions.
Of all the behind the scenes stuff we’ve showed in recent vids, the one techie thing that far-and-away led to the most questions from readers was the part in this video where I’m photographing X Games uber-skiers Simon Dumont, Colby James West, TJ Shiller, Peter Olenick, and Nick Heine in New Zealand using strobes at 8 frames per second. That’s right. Rail slides and 100 foot airs. 8 frames per second. Strobed.
EMail Translation This issue pertains to burst mode. It is said that a part of an image, shot prior to the one after may appear as an afterimage (like it ha
“There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed,” he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. “I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys.”
But many Afghans, he wrote in his resignation letter, are fighting the United States largely because its troops are there — a growing military presence in villages and valleys where outsiders, including other Afghans, are not welcome and where the corrupt, U.S.-backed national government is rejected. While the Taliban is a malign presence, and Pakistan-based al-Qaeda needs to be confronted, he said, the United States is asking its troops to die in Afghanistan for what is essentially a far-off civil war.
The Untitled Navy SEAL movie has taken me to some of the most extreme working conditions that I have ever experienced in my career as a Director of Photography.
[slidepress gallery=’lafamiliaabrazada’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Curated Group of Photographers La Familia Abrazada play this essay La Famili…
La Familia Abrazada is a curated group dedicated to family and vernacular photography. The photographs chosen for this show are a cross section of styles and subject matter that aims to be somewhat representational of the group as a whole although with a thousand photographs in the group pool, this is an unlikely proposition.
Veteran photojournalist James Nachtwey shared the stories behind images he’s shot throughout his career at the keynote address Saturday afternoon at PDN PhotoPlus Expo.
Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them. And then everyone writes a story about how some newspapers declined some amount over the year previous. Well, that’s no way to look at data! It’s confusing—and it obscures larger trends. So we’ve taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what’s actually happened to newspaper circulation.
Liz Cockrum was born and raised in Chicago, IL. After earning her BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, Liz moved to her current home in San Diego to nurture her passion for surfing. Through photography, Liz seeks to reveal little-seen elements of environments, cultures, and people to her viewers. Her current body of work, Sirens, focuses on female surfers in Southern California.
You know there’s an iPhone app for just about everything when you stumble upon a piece of software you don’t completely understand. An app that got me scratching my head was Scanner 911, a live police radio scanner. Yes, an app that listens to police offi
You know there’s an iPhone app for just about everything when you stumble upon a piece of software you don’t completely understand. An app that got me scratching my head was Scanner 911, a live police radio scanner.
Corbis, which shuffles its executive team around every couple of years, is frequently the subject of gossip about company politics. Recently, one internal feud spilled out in public on a blog by Jon La Grace, a former editor at Corbis Outline, the stock agency’s celebrity portrait division.
I had heard about Barnstorm being a life changing experience. It would kick your butt and leave your head spinning. A kind of boot camp where the drill sergeants are the big heavy photographers and they would push you away from your comfort zone and lead you to find a much more deeper meaning to photography. So technically, I was expecting an in-your-face, demanding and tough-loving workshop, where at the end the lessons learned were invaluable and nowhere else to be found.
Since the announcement of the Leica M9, there has been much interest in the powerful but little camera. The main reason for this is the full frame sensor in such a small body. I had the pleasure an…
Since the announcement of the Leica M9, there has been much interest in the powerful but little camera. The main reason for this is the full frame sensor in such a small body. I had the pleasure and opportunity to finally fondle the Leica M9. I previously brought up the issue of really needing a rangefinder for street photography, and while I have not solved that question yet, I can tell you that the M9 has characteristics that surely can help with doing such things even at close range. However, it is not perfect.
Twenty Ten, African Media on the Road to 2010 (and beyond), is an educational project inspired by the media opportunities offered by next year’s FIFA World Cup. A joint initiative of World Press Photo, Free Voice, Africa Media Online and lokaalmondiaal, it is made possible by financial support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, which together with its participants provides annual support to World Press Photo and Free Voice.
