Dr. Carl Koch was sick of fiddling with his tripod to get his camera level, so he spent the next four years inventing and designing the Acadalus, a self-leveling tripod head. Instead of adjusting knobs and levers until the little spirit-level bubble sits
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/acadalus-the-5000-self-leveling-tripod-head/
you just pop the camera onto the Acadalus and wait a couple seconds.
After almost a year of being gone I was recently able to return to Southeastern Ohio. While it is no longer my back yard, there are few places that feel more like home. After we moved to Virginia the Sellers family left Chauncey and moved to the larger city of Columbus, an hour and a half north where the twins, Kacey and Lacey (now almost 9 years old) enrolled in the deaf school
Link: In My Back Yard: Carry Me Ohio, Part I (The Sellers) | Luceo Images
For the last two years I’ve written blog posts detailing my own personal photography workflow that I use. As the tools to process photos change and as I learn more about processing photos, so does my workflow.
I probably get more questions about my workflow (or what camera to buy) than any other sorts of questions. So since it’s been a year now, I thought I’d update my own personal photography workflow.
Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » My Photography Workflow 2010
Every day at 10 am EST (2 pm GMT) a new photo assignment is posted to the @dailyshoot Twitter account. The assignment is tweeted again at 8 pm EST (12 am GMT) as a reminder. Some assignments are simple to help you keep the momentum, and others are more challenging to push you to learn something new.
Link: The Daily Shoot
We’re here in Seattle setting up gear and working out last minute details. In case you missed it – I’m doing a 3-day live workshop on HDDSLR Cinema in Seattle that starts Friday – it will be streamed out over the internet for free. Exciting to say the least! Below is the schedule (subject to change) as we have it now! All times are P.S.T. For more information and to sign up pls go to creativeLIVE. If you can’t make if during these times – the course will be downloadable after the live stream for a relatively small fee.
Link: Schedule for upcoming CreativeLIVE HDDSLR Workshop « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
The grant is open to students and emerging or early career photographers. There’s no age restriction, but the rules bar applicants whose primary income is from working as a photographer (in other words, established pros need not apply.)
Link: PDNPulse: POYi Announces New 10K ‘Incentive’ for Emerging Photographers
Photo by Elsaa Rensaa (via Gerry Visco) For 30 years, Clayton Patterson has doggedly documented the streets and culture of the Lower East Side, compiling a massive archive of the neighborhood and i…
Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/talking-to-photographer-clayton-patterson/
We posted on Clayton Patterson’s most recent brush with the law at a crime scene last month and thought it would be interesting to talk to this photographer/artist/activist about his experiences with the police and being arrested a whopping 14 times. We were right.
Forty years ago, Ken Light was introduced to the power of photojournalism. His journey has taken him to Appalachia and other places.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/showcase-154/
Ken Light arrived in an Appalachia whose impoverished areas had shrunk but where poverty was still deeply rooted. The people he met wanted to work but found none available.
Sean O’Hagan: Those who accuse Hopper of being an amateur snapper miss the point: the photographs that will go on show at LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art are an inspired blend of Hollywood gloss and the miraculous everyday
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/26/dennis-hopper-photograph-moca
Those who accuse Hopper of being an amateur snapper miss the point: the photographs that will go on show at LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art are an inspired blend of Hollywood gloss and the miraculous everyday
The Tate hosts the biggest ever exhibition of the photography pioneer, whose life was as intriguing as his moving images
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/27/eadweard-muybridge-tate-britain-motion-studies
Less well known are details of his colourful life – including that he shot dead his wife’s lover and abandoned his child to an orphanage – and his artistic career, which encompassed spectacular landscape photography using pioneering techniques.
President Obama and the media have a surprisingly hostile relationship.
via POLITICO: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36454.html
Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile relationship — as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between press and president in the past decade, reporters who cover the White House say.
For those of you that don’t know, Eleven Weddings Photography is run by Chip Litherland
Link: Eleven Weddings
“A Moment In Time” has as its goal the hope of capturing, around the world, people in their lives at nearly the same moment, 15:00:00 GMT on Sunday, May 2, 2010.
Link: New York Times’ LENS To Launch Global “Moment In Time” On Sunday
The above image is one of 12 that are part of a new show that opens Saturday 1st May at Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK. The show is titled Extraordinary Measures and features work by Ron Mueck, Tessa Farmer, Mat Collishaw and many others – all scattered around the gardens and buildings of Belsay, an English Heritage property.
“I lived with my black friends all those years,” said Holdt. “I saw the pain and the suffering and I felt, when I showed the pictures to people, they didn’t even know the suffering that was going on in the midst of their own cities.”
By Ronald Netsky
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/04/interview-jacob-holdt-1993.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
Holdt approached the United States as a citizen of the world who would not accept the limitations society usually imposes. He lived with the underclass in the one-room shacks of the rural South and the urban slums of the North, but he has also slept in the homes of Rockefellers and other wealthy families. He photographed the protests at Wounded Knee by Native Americans in the early 1970s and secretly photographed and recorded Ku Klux Klan rallies.
That, of course, raises the question: what is copyright really worth anymore if technology has turned it into something that benefits only those with the resources to enforce and defend it at every turn?
Link: PDNPulse: Insult to Injury: AFP Suing Photographer It Stole Photos From
For panorama-obsessed French photographer Steven Monteau, every photo is better if lengthened or widened with others. For him, even exposing a single, elongated image spanning a good six inches of 35mm film and spilling out across the sprocket holes is no
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/the-battlefield-diy-three-hole-pinhole-camera/
For panorama-obsessed French photographer Steven Monteau, every photo is better if lengthened or widened with others. For him, even exposing a single, elongated image spanning a good six inches of 35mm film and spilling out across the sprocket holes is not enough. No, Steven would only be happy stretching three lengths of film out in parallel, and shooting onto all of them simultaneously. Still not crazy enough for you? Then why not make it a pinhole camera?
Ok, this one is strange but follow me for a moment because this could be a big case for photographers. Haitian Photographer Daniel Morel was in Port au Prince when the earthquake struck and captured some of the first images of the destruction that he then
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/04/27/afp-steals-photographers-haiti-images-then-sues-him/
Haitian Photographer Daniel Morel was in Port au Prince when the earthquake struck and captured some of the first images of the destruction that he then transmitted out. An amazing effort was made by Daniel to get the images out under the circumstances and he used Twitter to do it.
APF (Agence France Presse) found the images after another twitter user stole them from Daniel’s account. APF download the images and distributed them with that other users name in the credit. The images appeared on newspapers world-wide.
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