By Ctein The recent spate of camera announcements has brought forth many half-informed comments about sensor sizes and pixel counts. Let’s clear some stuff up. You can make great, as in fully professional quality, photographs with small sensors. I’m not..
Waiting for the iPhone 5? Then you might want to put Tuesday, October 4th in your diary. According to All Things D, this is the date Apple has scheduled for the new iPhone’s launch. The event, revealed to All Things D by “sources close to the situation,”
The film follows members of the in-public street photographers group shooting on the streets of New York, London, Melbourne and Rotterdam. Using miniature HD camera technology to place the viewer on the Hotshoe as they work. Each photographer talks about their motivation and approach.
Sample ISO 100 Nikon V1 image. Giant version here, more samples here. Surprise! Mighty giant Nikon has landed with fanfare in the mirrorless market pioneered by Olympus and Panasonic and Micro 4/3. As expected, Nikon opted to create its own…
A: “The Singled Person” is a projection showing the work of eight photographers. There is one slide projector for each photographer. The projection is more like an installation, rather than an exhibition. At any point you can always see three or four screens at once. Because the projectors are not synchronized, it’s never the same. For example, sometimes the works of three photographers synchronize and tell you a story, but then they run apart again and each one is telling its own story again. This happens because each series has a different amount of slides in the tray. One has 25 slides, another 28 and another 32. Also, the projectors’ timers all have a slightly different setting. This makes the projection very organic.
In 2004 I started the Doppelgänger project. I was interested in exploring the concept of the Doppelgänger in a broader way. Doppelgänger in German means ‘double walker’, it is a ghostly double of a living person, an omen of death and a harbinger of bad luck. The idea of the Doppelgänger also allows me look the alter ego, the conscious mind vs the unconscious mind, inner conflicts, the duality between good and evil and split personalities – the concept gives me plenty of material to think about and work with
by Jess Dudley Wonderful Machine Producer Most magazine assignments don’t have big budgets on the front end, but if you play your cards right, you can help make up for it on the back end. One way to do that is to be savvy about article reprint licensing.
“Anything we can do to help students finance their desire to learn would be in our best interest,” NPPA board member Michael P. King said. “As a student, if you got just one freelance assignment a year through ‘Find A Photographer’ your membership would pay for itself.”
Last month the New Yorker Photobooth ran a sneak preview of Michal Chelbin’s tentatively titled Locked series. At the time, I responded with some personal frustration that her portraits didn&…
Take a popular camera line, whether compact or entry-level SLR, and you can be sure that it’ll be updated every year. Whether it needs to be or not. Sometimes, though, these incremental updates hide some genuinely big changes. So it is with Canon’s new S1