A few nice visual art images I found:
Visual Journaling Workshop
Image by Asheboro Public Library
Visual Journaling Workshop
Image by Asheboro Public Library
Visual Journaling Workshop
Image by Asheboro Public Library
Archive for December, 2012
Visual Journaling Workshop
06
Dec
The beat of fingerboarding
06
Dec
Filmed 10minutes today testing my new 50mm lens and decided to do a quit edit 🙂 THE USE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF “FAIR USE” IN TITLE 17 § 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED.
Just Posted: AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm F4 ED VR Samples Gallery
06
Dec
The AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm F4 ED VR arrived in our Seattle office a few days ago and since then we’ve been shooting with it as much as possible. We’ve put together a gallery of 34 images, shot with the new lens mounted on the 36MP Nikon D800. As well as straight-from-the-camera JPEGs, we’ve also converted several Raw files, and have made ‘to taste’ adjustments for best results. Click through for a link to the gallery.
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Photo Shoot
06
Dec
Recent photo shoot
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This six part series explores photography, and demonstrates ways in which you can improve on your skills. This show highlights the best bits from the series.
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Nikon D600 vs D7000 – Should You Upgrade to FX?
06
Dec
With the recent release of the “cheaper” full frame D600 from Nikon, one has to wonder whether the D7000 is still a good choice as a DSLR when it doesn’t have the full frame sensor that the D600 does. Kai and Lok take a look at the two Nikon DSLRs in this video.
20 Digital Cameras for a Kid or How to Become a Photographer from an Early Age
06
Dec
In this article I talk about why you should stay away from “made for kids” cameras and get a “real” camera instead. It’s easy to find a great camera that your kids and your wallet can be happy with. And by getting an actual camera instead of a toy, you’ll be buying a product that will last longer than a week and that has capabilities that your child can grow into over time.
The post 20 Digital Cameras for a Kid or How to Become a Photographer from an Early Age appeared first on Photodoto.
Epson SureLab SL-D3000 at Drupa 2012
06
Dec
The Epson SureLab SL-D3000, is a compact 6-colour digital dry lab for high-quality photo print production. The SureLab SL-D3000 can print on glossy, matte, and lustre finish paper and prints from 10×15 cm up to 1.2m producing high quality panoramics.
Could On Air Hangouts Be Coming to Flickr?
06
Dec
An interesting article over on TechCrunch about Yahoo buying a company called OnTheAir. The company makes a hangout app similar to Google+’s hangouts that lets people interact via video voice and chat. The OntheAir team is coming to work on mobile at Yahoo under Adam Cahan — the same Adam Cahan who is also the Yahoo exec in charge of Flickr (and who just went public with his own personal Flickr account this weekend — welcome to Flickr Adam!).
Google Hangouts have been one of the killer features for community as far as photographers go on Google+. Many photographers have produced hangout based shows — but more than anything they are a place where photographers who kinda/sorta get to know each other on the web and through commenting on each other’s photos, can get to know each other much better live. Earlier this week I wrote an article about photographers Brian Matiash and Nicole S. Young who actually met on a Google+ Hangout and ended up married.
Google+ Hangouts are powerful tools for community building most of all. There’s something about spending time with someone in video/voice that strengthens the resulting online bonds around a website after the fact. While community has been growing at Google+, community has been slipping at Flickr. The real hardcore community on Flickr mostly takes place in Flickr groups which feel like they are dying. Most groups on Flickr are far less active than they were two years ago.
Flickr would seem to me like an ideal place for Yahoo to build out hangouts. They tried a horrible feature called Photo Session where two people could go into a chat room and doodle on photos while they chatted together last year that they subsequently cancelled, but that feature was nowhere near the experience that a Google Hangout is. It makes me wonder if Yahoo couldn’t seed some of the initial push towards a hangout product through some of the key remaining groups on Flickr to see if they couldn’t get some traction with this product there.
Getting people more connected around a website is a powerful tool to making them stickier more impassioned users. The other thing that video chat does is it causes people to be nicer to each other. One of Flickr’s current problems with their groups is that there are a lot of jerks in them. People in Flickr groups seem to pride themselves on being mean, or snide or snarky. This drives people away. Allowing people in groups to block each other would help a ton with this problem, but getting people to see each other as real human beings through video chat sessions is also helpful. I’m always amazed at how much nicer people are to each other on Flickr once they’ve actually met in real life.
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
Regina Spektor – “Patron Saint” captured in The Live Room
05
Dec
Regina Spektor performs her song “Patron Saint” in an exclusive recording session live at Electric Lady Studios in New York, NY for The Live Room on The Warner Sound. Executive Producer Phil Botti Director Michael Thelin Director of Photography Mikko Timonen Mixed by Brett Eliason Editor Steven Pierce Recording Engineer Phil Joly Captured live at Electric Lady Studios New York, NY Order Regina’s album, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats: smarturl.it reginaspektor.com http twitter.com youtube.com The Live Room with Regina Spektor was captured exclusively with Nikon D4 HD-SLRs camera and NIKKOR lenses. The Live Room is an exclusive Warner Sound original series that captures today’s most innovative artists performing live recording sessions in the most iconic recording studios across America. Subscribe to The Warner Sound: goo.gl The Warner Sound on the Web: youtube.com thewarnersound.com http twitter.com
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Henri Cartier-Bresson L’amour tout court Part1
05
Dec
Henri Cartier-Bresson “L’amour tout court” (“Just Plain Love” 2001) Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the “street photography” style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Trained as a painter, he began his career in photography in 1931 on a trip to the Ivory Coast. He was one of the first photographers to shoot in the 35mm format with a Leica camera, and helped to develop the photojournalistic “street photography” style that influenced generations of photographers to come. It was there on the Côte d’Ivoire that he contracted blackwater fever, which nearly killed him. Returning to France, Cartier-Bresson recuperated in Marseille in 1931 and deepened his relationship with the Surrealists. He became inspired by a photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi artneutre.bitacoras.com Cartier-Bresson said: “The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn’t believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street.” The photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, “I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an …
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