Tale of my five Leica cameras
I own five Leica M cameras, from M3 to M9.
Link: Blog
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Camera With 158 Lenses Sets a World Record
Along with the world’s longest dreadlock (8 feet and 6 inches) and the tallest cellphone (15 feet), a camera with 158-lenses has found a place in the Guinness World Records. A professor at Japan’s Nagoya Institute of Technology developed the camera to cap
Ishino Yojiro, an associate professor at the Nagoya Institute, along with his students, took about six months to put together the project that won the record for having the largest number of lenses in a camera.
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Jehad Nga: Turkana
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/12/jehad-nga-turkana.html
I’ve described Jehad Nga as being a master of chiaroscuro and his new work Turkana just reaffirms and even compounds this well-deserved appellation. His new work is just beautiful and details of each photograph must be slowly absorbed. In Jehad’s photography, I guess less is more…and his play of light against the colorful garments is just exquisite.
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Sebastian Denz studied Architecture at the University of Hanover, Photography and Fine Arts at the University of Applied Sciences, Arts in Hanover, and Photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld. Denz was a visiting artist at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 and his works are in numerous collections. These images are from his recent book, Skateboarding. 3D, published by Prestel.
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2009 in photos (part 1 of 3)
The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it’s time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html
The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it’s time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the Berlin Wall was remembered 20 years after it came down. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2009
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The tale of Lucasfilm, Skywalker Ranch, Star Wars and Canon DSLRs on a 40 foot screen! | Philip Bloom- Blog
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via Philip Bloom- Blog: http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/12/12/the-tale-of-lucasfilm-skywalker-ranch-red-tails-star-wars-and-canon-dslrs/
Of course I phoned Mike back said yes please! 5 days staying at Skywalker Ranch as their guest and showing them how to get the best out of the Canon 5DmkII and the Canon 7D. They also wanted to be shown how to use the EX3, Letus Ultimate and Nanoflash.
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Christmas roundup: photography books | Books review
Prudence Hone’s roundup of photography books
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/12/photography-books-christmas-roundup-review
Massimo Vitali comments in Photo-wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art edited by Lewis Blackwell (Chronicle, £35): “The fact that everybody is taking pictures today is interesting and not a problem for me. People can take their pictures, but when they see one of mine they realise it is different to theirs – and they are not going to take a picture like it easily.” This is an outstanding collection, with illuminating commentaries by the photographers, who range from grand old men of photojournalism such as Elliott Erwitt to celebrity-snappers Platon and David LaChapelle.
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Open door: The readers’ editor on… death and sorrow in pictures
Siobhain Butterworth: The readers’ editor on… death and sorrow in pictures
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/14/open-door-photography-grief-afghanistan
A picture can raise as many ethical questions as a thousand words, as two recent images show. The first, a photograph of a murdered young woman lying on a street in El Salvador – eyes open, mouth slack, legs and arms outstretched; the second, an image of a child crying at her father’s funeral.
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I was presented with my first opportunity to try the Redrock out when I received a call from the Guardian newspaper and asked to shoot an aerial video the following day of the latest developments at the Olympic site over in east London.
Link: Guardian photographer Felix Clay flys high with a 5DmkII and Zacuto rig « DSLR News Shooter
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We’re photographers, not terrorists | Marc Vallée
Marc Vallée: Society’s visual history is under threat of extinction. The government must scrap section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/dec/11/photographers-section-44-terrorism-act
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the master of street photography, once said: “To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.” This way of life is under threat in modern Britain. Across the country, anyone with a camera in a public place is at risk of being targeted as a potential terrorist by the state.
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Will The iPad Destroy Us?
So as technology rolls mightily along, perhaps some of you who are in the know have heard about Apple’s latest invention, the iPad. From…
Link: http://willsteacy.blogspot.com/2009/12/will-itablet-destroy-us.html
Quite literally, I fear, journalism (or whatever is left of it) will become just another movie. And so I ask what will become of the still image? What will become of us photographers? Will we all have to adapt to this new RED RAW video footage, will be become film makers or multimedia makers instead of photographers?
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Nikon D3s with manual video control – Nikon Rumors
Update #3: another post from a reader on this topic from 3 weeks ago. Update #2: Another reader reported that slashcam.com got an official confirmation from Nikon Professional Services on the D3s manual video control: “As soon as the live-view mode in the
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Eddie Would Go
December 8, 2009 – Eddie’s a Go! After waiting years for the perfect surfing conditions to run the prestigious big wave contest, the Eddie …
Link: http://elysebutler.blogspot.com/2009/12/eddie-would-go.html
Eddie’s a Go! After waiting years for the perfect surfing conditions to run the prestigious big wave contest, the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational was finally on at gorgeous Waimea Bay on the North Shore. The contest has only happened 8 times in its 25 years of running because of their strict standard for huge, beautiful, bone-crushing waves.
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A couple of months ago my friend Darko Stanimirović in Belgrade mentioned that he was hoping to organize some of his friends in town to create a Serbian street photography collective of sorts. Over the following weeks the groundwork for Belgrade Raw was developed through memorable nights full of Montenegrin wine and impassioned debates. I’m proud to present my friends’ efforts here and invite you to see some awesome work by six Belgrade photographers. I invited Darko to answer a few questions about the project:
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BelgradeRaw is a collective of six photographers showing a different Belgrade. We don’t care about common touristic & glam stuff, instead we focus on real people and places.
Link: Belgrade Raw: showcasing street and alternative photography of Belgrade, Serbia
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If Matt Logue could make his photographs a reality, he would make many an Angeleno very happy. His series, Empty LA, has just been published
Link: lenscratch: Matt Logue
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sportfolio
I am a photojournalist because of my love of sports and sports photography. As a teen, my bedroom wall was a shrine to two people Farrah Fawcett and Walter Iooss, Jr.. Each week when Sports Illustr…
via shooting from the hip: http://strazz.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/sportfolio/
I am a photojournalist because of my love of sports and sports photography.
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Link: The Year in Pictures 2009 – Photo Essays – TIME
via: Rob Galbraith DPI: TIME slideshow features the best of ’09
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Annie Leibovitz Tries to Regain Financial Footing
Annie Leibovitz is selling limited editions and weighing book deals in an effort to regain control of her homes and the copyrights to her work.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/design/11leibovitz.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Three months after averting, at least temporarily, a foreclosure that could have cost her the rights to her photographs and her homes, Annie Leibovitz is assembling an array of deals in an effort to regain her financial footing.
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