“There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I went a little crazy this week and went on a personal mission to research the lighting …
In this blog entry I’ll take you through and compare various lighting techniques of Annie Leibovitz, Patrick Ecclesine, Jill Greenberg, Dave Hill and Martin Schoeller. Strap on your seatbelts boys and girls, it’s gonna be a long but thrilling ride. So without further ado, let’s dive right in shall we?
In a long awaited ruling, the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday held that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) was within its rights to grant exclusive broadcast rights to a private commercial vendor and to charge news organizations a fee
In a long awaited ruling, the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday held that the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) was within its rights to grant exclusive broadcast rights to a private commercial vendor and to charge news organizations a fee for the right to broadcast games. The court held that such arrangements do not run afoul of the First Amendment.
A recent profile in The New Yorker included a scene aboard a campaign plane in which an aide warned journalists not to photograph Mrs. Bachmann in cargo pants.
But the Bachmann campaign’s controlling instincts go beyond the candidate’s makeup and wardrobe.
Photographer Jörg Brüggemann joined the backpacker trail in South and Southeast Asia: a stretch of turf that has been densely charted already by Lonely Planet, that is lined with tours and scams ready to swallow up the unsuspecting, and that is trod over by millions each year
John Heller, a working photographer, was on assignment for Getty Images when his Nikon D3 camera and lenses were stolen from him at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. He’d all but written off…
He’d all but written off the $9,000 in ripped-off-gear, when he searched for his camera using a serial number search tool offered by theft recovery service GadgetTrak. According to the company, “He found an exact match with several images that were recently posted to Flickr.”
Yet another new camera announcement for today. This time it’s Sony’s SLT-A77, the SLR equivalent of the NEX7 mirrorless compact, also announced today. The A77 has two very cool new features. First is Sony’s new translucent mirror tech. This uses a pellicl
Oh, Sony, what are you doing? Didn’t you get the memo that the megapixel race is over? What? We should have sent it on a MemoryStick? Whatever. The NEX-series of camera is Sony’s equivalent of Micro Four Thirds — large sensor (in this case APS-C sized) in
there’s rather excellent news for anyone who hates shutter lag. Sony has put in an electronic “first curtain” shutter. Normally on a live-view camera, the shutter needs to be closed before it can fire and take the picture. No longer. Sony says that this cuts the shutter lag from 100ms to a startlingly good 20ms.
THE BLOG GROWS LEGS It’s with excited anticipation and a good amount of nerves that I announce the launch of my Kickstarter project Prison Photography on the Road: Stories Behind the Photos. …
It’s with excited anticipation and a good amount of nerves that I announce the launch of my Kickstarter project Prison Photography on the Road: Stories Behind the Photos.
If you’ve been reading the photo rumour sites during July and the first few weeks of August you know that the three new 24 Megapixel cameras are the Sony A77, A65 and NEX-7. I have no interest in publishing a laundry list of specs and features (the usual camera review sites do this very comprehensively), so rather I will focus on the things that strike me as being most interesting and important for photographers.
Nikon’s new Coolpix P7100 is an update to, you guessed it, the P7100. It’s not a big update, feature-wise, but the bits that Nikon has added are essential. If the P7000 was Nikon’s beta attempt to copy the Canon G-series cameras, the P7100 is the proper v
When I talked to Mitchell Feinberg recently he mentioned that he owned the world’s largest non-scanning color sensor array, something he created so that he could continue to shoot 8×10 film without Polaroid. Normally I avoid anything to do with equipment
When I talked to Mitchell Feinberg recently he mentioned that he owned the world’s largest non-scanning color sensor array, something he created so that he could continue to shoot 8×10 film without Polaroid. Normally I avoid anything to do with equipment but this sounded interesting.
Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 are now available as Release Candidates on Adobe Labs. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers
Earlier today, rebel Libyan forces stormed into Bab al-Aziziya, the fortified compound of Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli, Libya. Qaddafi loyalists put up a fierce firefight for a time, but rebels were able to take control of the compound by this afternoon. Qaddafi himself and his sons (who apparently have escaped captivity) remain at large, and gunfire and explosions continued to erupt sporadically across the capital city as night fell. Collected below are some of the scenes from the fall of Qaddafi’s compound today
I came across the work of Jerry Downs when he submitted to the LENSCRATCH Pranks and Puns Exhibition . His site reflected a number of terrific images with humorous juxtaspostions and I thought I’d share more of his work. When I thanked him for sending me
Jerry was born in Wheat Ridge, Colorado and made his home in Boulder, Colorado for 30 years before moving to California. He currently lives and works as a photographer in San Rafael, California. His work has appeared in books, magazines, galleries and museums around the world and he gives talks and writes about creativity, photography and optical illusions. Jerry is about to publish an ebook about using photography as a medium of self-discovery.
Fujifilm is planning on making a cut-down version of its hot retro-style X100 to go up against cameras like the Panasonic LX5 and the Canon G12. Rumors spilling out from a couple of different sources say that the new camera, to be called the X10, will be
A federal district court judge has dismissed photographer Janine Gordon’s suit against photographer Ryan McGinley, and also offered a useful refresher course on the basics of copyright law. In June, Gordon sued McGinley and his galleries, alleging that th
Gordon’s “apparent theory of infringement would assert copyright interests in virtually any figure with outstretched arms, any interracial kiss, or any nude torso,” the judge wrote. “Such a conception of copyright law has no basis in statute, case law, or common sense.”
The relationship between photographic authorship and Google Street View authorship could probably be compared to the relationship between musicians who compose and record music and artists who remix already recorded music.
