Bruce Kellman, who spent 42 years as a staff photographer for The News Tribune, died Monday. He was 66. Kellman shot photos of everything from soldiers shipping out to Vietnam, to the construction of the Tacoma Dome, to the Puyallup Tribe storming the Cushman Hospital building. He also shot the small moments of life that build a community’s visual history.
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In Poland, an Architect’s-Eye View
For the Polish photographer Kacper Kowalski, who is also an architect and a paraglider, a hard winter storm is a blessing in disguise.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/up-in-the-air-in-poland-its-cold/
It’s probably safe to say that Kacper Kowalski is one of few people in Poland — or anywhere — hoping for a bitterly cold and snowy winter. He’s an aerial photographer who floats over the landscape in paragliders and geoplanes, as he did last year when an wicked winter freeze wreaked havoc on roads, airports railways and ports.
The results were breathtaking.
At least from the sky.
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With src-img, a javascript bookmarklet that you drag to your browser’s bookmarks bar, all images on a page are overlaid with a ?¿ link, as in the screenshot at the top of this post. Clicking the ?¿ opens up a Google Image Search on the image (here’s an example from the image above, with a copyright violation I’ve just now found…). It streamlines the whole process.
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Frankencamera: The Home-Made DigiLomo
Most photography nerds have dreamed of putting a digital sensor into the guts of their favorite 35mm film body but–unlike us lazy dreamers–designer Joel Pirela actually went and did it. The body of his “DigiLomo” is hand-built from aluminum and wood, the
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/frankencamera-the-home-made-digilomo/
Most photography nerds have dreamed of putting a digital sensor into the guts of their favorite 35mm film body but–unlike us lazy dreamers–designer Joel Pirela actually went and did it.
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Patent Strapcutters
After my first child was born, I found that taking pictures was a problem. The Canon S1 IS I’d purchased was a terrific model, but unwieldy when holding a baby. With kid number 2, the problem…
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Luma Loop had another product under development for the last few months that doesn’t overlap with the claims granted in Black Rapid’s patent, and which James and Greg are accelerating development of, hoping for a December release. With this new product, which James said has a number of innovative elements, he is considering filing for patents. He said, “I don’t want to do it because I don’t want to perpetuate the system. But, on the other hand, I have a business to run and defend, and I totally get the idea of a defensive standpoint now.”
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The Leica M9: The Ultimate Street Photography Camera or Just Hype? My Practical Review
My Leica M9P* (gaffer tape upgrade) and 35mm Summilux 1.4. Background About a few months ago, I finally achieved one of my lifetime goals: purchasing a digital Leica (the Leica M9 to be specific).…
For this review I am going to give you my honest review of the camera, not focusing much on the technical aspects (other sites have already done this to death) but how it actually performs when it comes to shooting street photography. Considering that I have only been shooting with the camera around 3 months—I am not an expert with the Leica M9. However having shot with it enough when it comes to street photography, I am very confortable discussing how it performs when shooting on the streets.
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Leica to increase M lens prices on January 1st, 2012 – Leica Rumors
I already mentioned that back in August: Leica Camera will increase their prices on M lenses in the US starting January 1st, 2012. For example, the 50mm f/1.4 Summilux will go up from $3695.00 to $3995.00, the 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux will go from $10495.00 t
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2011/11/16/leica-to-increase-m-lens-prices-on-january-1st-2012.aspx/
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Shooting for Global Change
Antonio Amendola has harnessed the fervor of socially concerned amateur photographers to create Shoot 4 Change, a nonprofit that digs into social issues through photography.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/shoot-local-think-global/
Some serious photographers might cringe at being called amateurs. Not Antonio Amendola — he wears the badge proudly.
A lawyer by trade and a photographer by choice, he once organized a workshop in his hometown of Bari, Italy, entitled “On the Seriousness of Amateur Photography.”
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/16/christopher-churchill-on-american-faith/#1
In 2004, Christopher Churchill began a personal journey with his vintage Deardorff 8×10 camera, driving thousands of miles across the country to photograph what he describes as “an America that felt divided” and “caught in the middle of a cultural tension.”
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EF 500 f/4L IS II & EF 600 f/4L IS II Shipping Delayed Into 2012
Bummer Canon has sent out notice that the new EF 500 f/4L IS II and EF 600 f/4L IS II have been delayed beyond the previous December 2011 ship date. Expect the
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/11/16/the-singular-approach-chien-chi-changs-contact-sheets/#1
In 2006, Chien-Chi Chang—who throughout his career had exclusively shot 35mm format film—embraced a new photographic pursuit, to work with a medium format 6×7 rangefinder and began his ongoing project, Home. For the series, Chang purposefully shoots a single frame of his subject to build 9 frame contact sheets—chronologies that record his personal life as a travelogue and visual diary. Chang describes the series as “a documentation of my life with an effort to make every frame count.”
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Critical Mass: Sebastian Liste
Looking at portfolios from Critical Mass 2011…Sebastian Liste was born in Spain, raised in Barcelona and is now based in Brazil. He received a Bachelors degree in Sociology at the UNED, and a Masters in the Arts in Photojournalism at the Autonomous Univ
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/11/critical-mass-sebastian-liste.html
Sebastian won the Ian Parry Scholarship for his long term project “Urban Quilombo” about the extreme living conditions that dozens of families face who have set up home in an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
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Genius: Holga Lens Filter iPhone Case
If you have any interest in lo-fi Instagramography, then you’re going to love this iPhone case. It comes from Holga, the company normally seen making plastic-lensed, light-leaking film cameras, and it makes your wonderful 8MP iPhone 4S’s camera work just
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/genius-holga-lens-filter-iphone-case/
There are red and green filters, plus yellow and blue filters with clear centers, a red filter with a heart-shaped cut-out, a macro lens and dual, triple and quadruple image lenses, which replicate the scene before you up to four times (the dual split is seen above right).
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Mosaics of Movie Poster Clichés
French film distributor Christophe Courtois has evidently seen thousands of film posters in his life: witness his spot on and often hilarious film posters
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Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site
Members of the news media say police blocked them from observing the removal of Occupy Wall Street protesters. Mayor Bloomberg said the police acted to “protect members of the press.”
via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/reporters-say-police-denied-access-to-protest-site/?partner=rss&emc=rss
The city blog Gothamist put it this way: “The NYPD Didn’t Want You To See Occupy Wall Street Get Evicted.”
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The 2011 Short Grants winners are Victor J. Blue, Gabriela Bulisova, Mary F. Calvert, Matt Eich, and Mark Ovaska.
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The upcoming Fuji mirrorless camera resembles Leica M9 – Leica Rumors
Based on the freshly leaked images, the upcoming Fuji mirrorless camera looks like a M9 rangefinder. The camera body and lens mount appear to be big enough to be full frame. The camera will be officially shown during the CES show in January 2012. Check Ph
The camera will be officially shown during the CES show in January
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DxO Labs introduced DxO Filmpack 3.1. This slightly updated version has 25 new creative looks and several UI enhancements. The new looks are under a separate tab from the color and B&W film looks and include several vintage effects and film-inspired filters that expand on FilmPack’s library of film emulations. The UI enhancements include screen views, hot key undo and redo, and variable sizing for the “film strip” of thumbnails showing the looks available.
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She has carefully rendered her adopted borough in a series of softly lighted portraits with warm, rich tones. The paint-encrusted walls and plastic-covered furniture are familiar to anyone who has spent time in the area where she began her portrait series, which is known as University Heights, just south of Fordham Road. So, too, are the faces — alternately weary, serene or happy.