May 2013
In praise of … Man Ray
Ray’s talent was more than timing; he helped establish photography as an art The secret of great comedy, runs the old saw, lies in the timing. The same goes for photography, where split seconds make all the difference. Which must make Man Ray, one of the greatest photographers ever, supremely lucky. His career began when the popular view was, in one of his own exhibition titles,...
Guest post: Nikon D4 and D800 audio levels
Nikon says nothing about audio parameters of the D800, so I measured some of them. I have my own D800, and I was permitted to record some test signals with a D4 at a local dealer. I did not care about the built in microphone, and used only the external audio input. I also did not concern myself with auto sensitivity. Signals were generated by an Audio Precision System One audio analyzer, recorded...
Duke Gigapixel Cam Heads to Kickstarter
Help fund this incredible camera hitting the road About a year ago, we covered a project from Duke University to create 50-gigapixel camera. Dubbed AWARE-2, it shot with an array of 98 14-megapixel sensors through a single, 16mm aperture lens, which were stitched into one big gigapixel photograph. Now, that incredible camera is ready to hit the road, with some funding help from Kickstarter....
Adobe Purchases Thumb Labs to Make More Cloud Apps
Adobe has picked up the mobile app company to make apps for Behance Late last year, Adobe purchased Behance, an online portfolio site for artists which has now been tapped to power the social side of Adobe Cloud. Now, Adobe has purchased another company specifically for making apps with Behanc: the company has picked up mobile app developers Thumb Labs, who created the official mobile app for...
Leica Mini M on June 11th
The Leica Mini M camera is set to be unveiled on June 11th 2013.
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How To: Guerrilla Lighting Techniques For Location...
Photo by Sam Muller Master fast flash setups for speedy location lighting The ability to work fast is the mark of a great location lighter. And nowhere is this need for speed more acute than for shooters of skateboarding. “Skateboard photography is guerrilla-esque,” says Los Angeles-based Sam Muller, who specializes in it. “There’s almost no preproduction,” he explains. “The skater picks the...
Photographer Wayne F Miller - picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Photographer Wayne F Miller, who produced some of the most enduring combat images from World War II and created an excellent series of images chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago, died yesterday at age 94. He became a member of Magnum Photos in 1958. He aspired to ‘photograph mankind and explain man to man.’Jim...
Leica Teases A New "Mini" M-Series Camera
What do you think it will be? We don’t write about rumors on this site, but this one comes from the camera company itself. This morning, Leica posted a photo to their Facebook suggesting that they’ll soon be releasing a new camera that will fit between the Leica M and their APS-C-equipped compact camera, the X2. There’s not a lot of information on the image, but it refers to...
Oklahoma tornado: the end of a world is in Ledonna...
This picture of ordinary people surviving catastrophe calls out as a warning of strange, terrible things happening to planet Earth What makes a particular photograph “iconic”? That word is already being used of this picture of a family group stumbling away from the wreckage of Briarwood elementary school after the Oklahoma tornado struck it. The Greek word ikon means in the first...
Sport picture of the day: Mark Webber emerges from...
Dead space to the top left of the image draws our attention to the colourful detailing on the car, and the blur of the tyres provide an indication of movement
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Update An LCD Hood With An Old VHS Camcorder
Today we are taking it up a notch with a follow up pictorial on making it a fully fledged LCD Lope See it on Scoop.it, via Photography Gear News
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Long-forgotten images of Rambert and the birth of...
Fascinating archive images from the history of Britain’s oldest modern dance company – catalogued and seen here for the first time
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Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f/1.8 Photos
Ahead of our full review, here are 21 sample JPEG photos taken with the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f/1.8 lens, mounted on an OM-D E-PL5 body.
The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f/1.8 is a fast 35mm equivalent lens for the Micro Four thirds system, retailing for £449.
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Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 75mm f/1.8 Photos
Ahead of our full review, here are 24 sample JPEG photos taken with the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 75mm f/1.8 lens, mounted on an OM-D E-PL5 body.
The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 75mm f/1.8 is a fast telephoto portrait lens for the Micro Four thirds system, retailing for £799.
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GIFTY concept camera produces instant flipbooks
Animated flipbooks have been around for nearly 145 years. With just a slide of your thumb, these books allowed you to view a few seconds worth of animation. Philippe Gassmann’s insight: funny useless gadget… :D See it on Scoop.it, via Photography Gear News
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Flickr: Yahoo CEO sorry for 'no such thing as pro...
Much of the fallout surrounding Flickr’s massive updates this Monday continues to center around the legacy ‘Pro’ accounts and a contentious statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer: ‘There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because […] there’s… See it on Scoop.it, via Photography Gear News
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Canon Launches “Power to your Next Step” Campaign
Canon has launched a new “through-the-line” campaign using the creative theme ‘Power to your next step.’
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Guardian Camera Club: Becky Frances' portfolio
A review of Becky Frances’ portfolio
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GIF-TY Concept Would Turn Burst Mode Into a...
Rather than a GIF, this concept camera makes little flipbooks The GIF-TY is a concept camera by designer Jiho Jang that’s designed to capture a few seconds of images, and print them into a tiny flipbook. It’s like an animated .gif that you can hold. The concept is extremely simple: You set a timer on the top, the camera records a burst of images from 1-5s, and then those are printed...
Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013...
Having received wide acclaim at the Royal Geographical Society in London, the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition comes to Grizedale Forest in the heart of Cumbria’s Lake District.
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Corel Launches Special Pricing Programme for...
Corel today announced a special pricing programme specifically for Creative Suite users looking for an alternative to Creative Cloud.
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Getty Images Launch Portrait Prize for Emerging...
Getty Images have launched its inaugural Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize, which aims to recognise excellence in portrait photography by an emerging photographer with fewer than five years industry experience.
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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9
Xara has released version 9 of its creative design software, Xara Photo and Graphics Designer.
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ArcSoft Photo+ for Mac
ArcSoft has just released Photo+, a new photo viewer that promises “an unparalleled viewing and manipulating experience.”
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Wings over America - in pictures
With a a newly remastered version of Wings Over America being released next week, we bring you this gallery of candid shots from Paul McCartney’s jaunt round the United States in summer 1976
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Spectacular mountain running – in pictures
From the Italian Alps to the Grand Canyon, no terrain is too grueling or too treacherous for these intrepid runners, as shown in these stunning photographs by David CliffordJonny Weeks
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Construction of the Blackwall Tunnel - picture of...
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. On this day in 1897, the Blackwall Tunnel was officially opened and, at 6,200 feet, it was the longest underwater tunnel in the world. Engineered by Alexander Binnie, it was built to provide a road link under the Thames between Greenwich and PoplarJim Powell
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New Yorkers in glass houses shouldn't be surprised...
Important questions about privacy and class have come from an artist’s photos of unwitting New Yorkers in their apartments Ask five people who have been in New York City for more than a decade what makes someone a “real” New Yorker and you’ll get five different answers: if you’re born here; seven years in the city; 10 years; when you’re no longer fazed by...
Stephanie Sinclair's best photograph: child brides...
‘The girls are both eight. You can tell at once that the men are their husbands, not their fathers’ I have been to many countries to document the issue of child brides: India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Ethiopia. But it was important to cover Yemen because it is so prevalent there – in fact, it is considered normal. Some people in their communities, however, want it to stop, and this project...
Photographer Uses Old Tin Cans for Tintype Photos
Photo by David Emitt Adams What better surface for taking a tintype photo than a salvaged tin can? Photographer David Emitt Adams has taken a uniquely historical approach to photography with his “Conversations with History” series of images. He’s using an incredibly old technique (wet-plate collodion) on old objects (tin cans found in Arizon desert) as a way of commenting on the...
How To: Experiment with Subtractive Lighting Using...
Photo by Kenji Aoki With glass, focus on what not to light Glass is an intriguing subject for studio photographers because of its many visual qualities. It can be both highly transparent and highly reflective. It also can be photographed to reveal striking shape, color, and texture. In this instance, it was the repeated circular motif of the clear glassware that inspired the talented Kenji Aoki...
Samsung Releases Parts of NX300 and NX2000 Source...
If you’ve ever wanted to go code diving into what makes a Samsung camera tick, here’s your chance It’s part of the deal with using many types of open source software: if you modify the code, you have to release it out to the public, too. And that’s exactly what Samsung has done, putting up the open code for the Samsung NX2000 and NX300 on the company’s open...
Sport picture of the day: blazing a trail in the...
Dwarfed by the peaks of the Italian Alps, trail-runner Susan Sauze is scarcely noticeable at first glance as she pounds up the unforgiving terrain towards the camera in this beautiful shotJonny Weeks
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Nikon Coolpix L820 Review
The Nikon Coolpix L820 is an affordable super-zoom compact camera with a 30x zoom lens. The 16 megapixel bridge-style Nikon L820 has a 3-inch LCD screen, 1080p movies and uses AA batteries. Read our Nikon Coolpix L820 review to find out if this is the right super zoom camera for you…
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Olympus PEN E-PM2
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Adorama Flashpoint 180 Monolight and Battery Kit
Adorama has begun selling the new Flashpoint 180 Monolight Kit.
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Kingston MobileLite Wireless
Kingston Digital Europe has released MobileLite Wireless for Android and iOS devices.
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VIEW Magazine Issue 6
The sixth issue of VIEW Magazine is now available for free on Apple’s Newsstand for iPad/iPhone.
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Photographer Turns His Own Bacteria into Art with...
Photo by Erno-Erik Raitanen Is it still a self-portrait if bits of yourself are growing all over it? When is a self-portrait photograph no longer a self-portrait? Photographer Erno-Erik Raitanen has pushed the definition to its limits with a wonderful and bizarre set of images he’s called “Bacteriograms”. Rather than take photographs of himself, Raitanen took to growing his...
Alternative GPS module solution for Nikon cameras:...
The Hong Kong based company di-GPS introduced two new GPS modules for Nikon cameras - di-GPS Eco Pro-S and Pro-F: di-GPS Eco ProFessional (Pro-F) specifications Support Nikon D4, D3, D3S, D3X, D700, D800, D800E, D300, D300S, D2XS, D2X, D2HS, D200 &… See it on Scoop.it, via Photography Gear News
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