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29. Januar 2014

30 Jan

Ein Beitrag von: Leon Beu

Lodge, HDR, Raum


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Altered Architecture: 12 More Abandoned Buildings as Art

30 Jan

[ By Steph in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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Abandoned places are brightened up, made even creepier and more atmospheric, or otherwise transformed into massive works of art with installations that use entire buildings as creative tools. Whether calling attention to blight in urban areas or making use of a structure before it’s demolished, these 12 (more!) abandoned building art projects make already-fascinating spaces even more of a visual delight.

Melting Facade

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A curving brick facade gives an abandoned eyesore of a building a bit of a backwards facelift. With the new addition by artist Alex Chinneck, the abandoned building almost fits in with its neighbors – but not quite. As it slides down toward the street, it reveals the mess that remains on the top floor. The temporary installation turned an ugly building into a tourist attraction, calling attention to the need for restoration.

Deep North: Abandoned Cottage Frozen

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A sad little shotgun cottage, filled with the former owner’s personal possessions, was left to rot, gaping holes in the walls letting in the elements. Artist Chris Larson spent a winter in sub zero temperatures pouring thousands of gallons of water onto the home to let the ice build up, and then created sculptures that are casts of actual shotgun blasts to honor the ‘shotgun house’ design of the cottage, in which all doorways and hallways are in one straight line.

Spider Web in Abandoned Stock Exchange Building

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A spider worthy of J.R.R. Tolkein’s imagination seems to have taken up residence in an abandoned stock exchange building. This stunning project by Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen is made of nearly 100 pounds of packing tape and includes a tunnel that’s strong enough for people to crawl through.

Perspective Illusions by Georges Rousse

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Master of perspective Georges Rousse creates incredible illusions in abandoned places that seem to cut out a geometric shape of the building and utterly transform it. Painted across various surfaces and angles, they look like random markings from most viewpoints, but stand in just the right spot and it all comes together.

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How to Pose Portraits: Our Brand New eBook Launches Today

30 Jan

NewImageToday I’m excited to announce a brand new dPS eBook – Portraits: Striking the Pose – an eBook created with the sole purpose of helping you pose amazing portraits.

Posing is something that can make or break a portrait.

  • Do it badly and your subject looks awkward and the resulting image is spoiled.
  • Do it well and your subject will be at ease and their true character will shine through.

That is what this eBook is all about.

Inside this beautifully designed and illustrated eBook world class photographer (and author) – Gina Milicia – walks you through how she connect with and directs her subjects to take stunning portraits that show their true character.

Gina has photographed thousands of subjects over her 25 years as a professional photographer and in this eBook draws on this experience to give you a great mix of inspiration but also actionable tips that you can start practicing on those you photograph immediately.

Here is a quick peek inside.

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Portraits: Striking the Pose is broken down into three sections:

  • The Rules: The golden rules of great poses. Using visual queues, praise, energy and authenticity and much more.
  • The Gear: Whilst covered more comprehensively in Gina’s previous book ‘Making The Shot‘, Gina will remind you what sort of gear you should be looking for to capture great portraits
  • The Way: The most chunky part of the book. Gina will show you how to connect with people, organise and direct like a pro. She then dives into specific details of different posing scenarios (men, women, children, couples, groups and more) with loads of examples for you to refer bad to again and again.

FREE Launch Bonus: Portrait Posing Printables

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Pick your copy of Portraits: Striking the Pose today and you’ll also get a bonus 7 Posting Printable Guides worth $ 9.95 for FREE!

These handy ‘printables’ fold up beautifully to pop in your camera bag and pull out whenever you need them. There’s 7 sets of poses that include:

  • Women Posing Printable
  • Men Posing Printable
  • Kids Posing Printable
  • Group Posing Printable
  • Couples Posting Printable
  • Corporate Posing Printable
  • Lifestyle Posting

In total you’ll have 67 sample poses to give you some great starting points when you next do a portrait shoot.

To buy these on their own would cost you $ 9.95. To celebrate the launch of Portraits: Striking The Pose for a limited time we’re including them for FREE!

This bonus is just for a few weeks so don’t delay.

Perhaps our Best Value eBook Ever

We’re particularly proud of this eBook for a number of reasons. It’s beautiful, it’s useful, it’s inspiring and it is great value for money.

For just $ 19.99 you’ll pick up this comprehensive new Portraits: Striking the Pose eBook and 7 printables with 67 posing suggestions.

Search around the web for other posing guides and you’ll soon see just what great value this is as others sell their guides for hundreds of dollars.

Guaranteed to Satisfy: We’re super confident that this eBook will help you improve your portraits but if you don’t find it suits your needs just let us know within 60 days and we’ll refund your money for in full.

Grab Your Copy Today

If you’re looking to improve your portrait photography grab your copy directly with this link or if you want more information or are looking to bundle this eBook with Gina’s other eBooks for just $ 10 more check out the Portraits: Striking the Pose page.

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Olympus launches Stylus Tough TG-850 iHS underwater camera

29 Jan

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Olympus has announced the Stylus Tough TG-850 iHS, the next generation of the company’s mid-range waterproof camera. The TG-850 has a super wide-angle 21-105mm 5x optical zoom lens and now includes a LCD screen that flips upward 180°. It’s waterproof down to 33 feet (10m) and the 16-megapixel back-lit CMOS sensor can shoot 1080/60p HD video. Learn more 

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Olympus announces Stylus SP-100 superzoom with dot-sight

29 Jan

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Olympus has introduced the Stylus SP-100 superzoom, a camera with built-in dot-sight technology that enables you to easily track moving subjects while the lens is zoomed in. The dot-sight pops up just above the high-resolution electronic viewfinder.  Users can also choose the focus range used by the camera via a focus limit function. The SP-100 combines a 16MP BSI CMOS sensor with a 24-1200mm 50x optical zoom that captures 1080/60p HD video. Learn more

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Olympus reveals 25mm F1.8, compact 14-42mm, and 9mm F8 Fish-Eye

29 Jan

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Alongside the OM-D E-M10, Olympus has also announced three lenses. First up is the M.Zuiko Digital 25mm F1.8, a relatively inexpensive fast normal prime, that looks specifically designed to complement the much-loved 45mm F1.8. Second is the 9mm F8 Fish-Eye Body Cap Lens (which Olympus technically considers an ‘accessory’); this offers a 140° angle of view in a tiny plastic body. Finally there’s a new ‘pancake’ kit zoom for the E-M10, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ, which features an electronic zoom. Learn more

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Urban Exploration Photography 101 With Miki Lansdowne

29 Jan

Urban exploration is one’s exploration of man-made structures that are typically abandoned ruins or elements of the man-made environment that are not readily seen by most people. You may have seen TV shows documenting urban exploration, but it’s not a subject we’ve really tackled in-depth at Photodoto…until now, that is. Recently, I was contacted by Miki Lansdowne, an urban exploration Continue Reading

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Olympus OM-D E-M10 brings E-M5 down to size

29 Jan

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Olympus unveils the OM-D E-M10, a smaller and budget-friendly Micro Four Thirds ‘Digital OM’ with many parts borrowed from the E-M5 – including its 16 megapixel sensor. It also manages to snag a few features from the flagship E-M1, like a TruePic VII processor and built-in Wi-Fi for image transfer and remote control. It falls short of its siblings with ‘3-axis’ image stabilization rather than the ‘5-axis’ system in the E-M5 and E-M1, and doesn’t provide an accessory port, but these concessions help nudge the E-M10 to its attractive $ 699/£529 body-only price point.

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OM-D on a budget: Olympus E-M10 First Impressions Review

29 Jan

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The Olympus E-M10 wraps much of the E-M5’s feature set into a smaller, more compact body. It retains core OM-D features like twin dials, a built-in EVF and a 16 megapixel Four Thirds sensor, but manages to fit them into a body that’s more Stylus 1 than ILC. It sits below its E-M5 and E-M1 siblings in terms of both price and specifications, but with features borrowed from two very strong predecessors it’s potentially a very impressive camera in its own right. Take a look at our first impressions and sample gallery.

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Wieso Zoom? Ich kann doch laufen.

29 Jan

Ein Beitrag von: Peter Breuer

Die Straße ist das mobilste Bühnenbild der Welt. Ein paar Schritte vorwärts und im Sucher der Kamera verschieben sich der Hintergrund und das komplette Mobiliar der Szene gegeneinander – die Laterne, die eben noch das Bild am Rand begrenzte, zerschneidet plötzlich die Szenerie in zwei Hälften. Lässt sich das für die Dramaturgie nicht nutzen oder ist sogar kontraproduktiv? Dann lauf weiter.

Street I © Peter Breuer

Straßenfotografie kann das antizipierende Flanieren eines Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, Alfred Eisenstaedt oder Robert Doisneau sein, die ihre bildnerischen Zufälle nicht bloß fanden, sondern sie sogar provozierten: Indem sie warteten, bis die Situation, deren Geschehen sie nur vermuteten, sich tatsächlich in dem Bildausschnitt ereignete, den sie als Bühne für ideal hielten.

Oder extremer noch – wie Lee Friedlander – der Schicht um Schicht überlagerte: Spiegelungen von Glas, Himmel und Chrom oder gestaffelte urbane Landschaften, die durch die Personen, die ins Bild traten, zur Erzählung wurden. Kontaktabzüge von Cartier-Bresson belegen, dass vor dem auf den Punkt genauen „decisive moment“, für den er bekannt wurde, auch etliche weniger entscheidende Augenblicke lagen.

Street II © Peter Breuer

Mit dem Erscheinen von Robert Franks Bildband „The Americans“ in 1958 änderte sich der Fokus der Straßenfotografie erstmals – vom genialen Einzelbild zum Denken in filmischen Serien, die sich von der Totalen in die Halbnahe bewegen und auch mit unterstützenden Bildern und Bildpaaren arbeiteten.

Street IV © Peter Breuer

Einer der konzeptionellsten Straßenfotografen der Fotografiegeschichte ist lediglich eine literarische Figur: Der von Paul Auster erdachte Auggie Wren ist der Besitzer eines Tabakladens in Brooklyn. Im von Paul Auster und Wayne Wang inszenierten Film „Smoke“ spielt Harvey Keitel jenen Auggie, der jeden Morgen die gleiche Kreuzung vor seinem Geschäft dokumentiert.

Ohne Rücksicht auf Komposition und Licht lässt er seine Fotografien der Kreuzung Atlantic Avenue und Clinton Street einfach „passieren“ und baut aus der schieren Monumentalität von 4000 Fotografien ein Zeitdokument, in dem Menschen sich auf dem Weg zur Arbeit begegnen, laufen, stolpern und zwangsläufig auch altern.

Street III © Peter Breuer

Was einen Straßenfotografen auszeichnet, ist seine eigene Unsichtbarkeit. In dieser Disziplin ohne Regieanweisungen ist es kein Nachteil, eine unscheinbare Erscheinung zu sein. Auffällig lange Teleobjektive verbieten sich ohnehin von selbst: Ein Straßenfotograf ist weder ein Sniper, noch ein Paparazzo, sondern lediglich ein Passant, der seine Augen durch eine Kamera ersetzt.

Es ist kein Zufall, dass die ideale Brennweite für viele Straßenfotografen zwischen 28 und 50 Millimetern liegt und nicht nur dem Vergrößerungsfaktor des menschlichen Auges, sondern auch dessen Fähigkeit zur Tiefenschärfe ähnelt. Mal ganz abgesehen von den Vorteilen verwacklungsfreier Aufnahme durch kürzere Objektivbauweise und höhere Lichtstärke.

Street V © Peter Breuer

Die gezeigten Fotografien entstanden 1987 mit einer zweiäugigen Rolleiflex auf Tri-X 400 Film von Kodak. Der Vorteil der zweiäugigen Kamera liegt in der Konzentration auf das leuchtende Bild der Fresnel-Mattscheibe, die man vor seinem Oberkörper trägt – die seitenverkehrte Abbildung entkoppelt dieses Bild noch weiter vom Augenblick und lenkt den Blick nur noch auf die Komposition.

Mit dieser Kamera ist es leicht, unsichtbar zu bleiben, ohne zum Voyeur zu werden. Für mich selbst habe ich einen ähnlich diskreten Charme von Technik erst viele Jahre später wieder mit einer Sony RX100 erlebt, die ich als stabiles, sucherloses Teil schätze, das in jede Hosentasche passt. Mit einer Chipgröße, die auch höhere ASA-Zahlen erlaubt.

Dass Bilder nicht nur nicht „gestohlen“ werden, sondern den Abgebildeten auch gezeigt werden können, ist natürlich im Digitalzeitalter ein Vorteil. Kein Fehler, wenn man zwar bei der Aufnahme unsichtbar war, während des Fragens aber so charmant wie möglich ist.


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