Anything worth accomplishing is going to include hurdles and barriers to overcome. You can treat them as the reasons you can't do something, or you can simply refuse to acknowledge that the barriers exist and plow through them.
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International superstar and iconic tough guy Charles Bronson stars in this gritty, action-packed TV series. Bronson portrays Mike Kovac, a New York City freelance photographer who specializes in getting difficult shots other lensmen cannot. Assisting law enforcement and insurance agencies, he invariable winds up acting as a private eye and gets himself into plenty of trouble!
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International superstar and iconic tough guy Charles Bronson stars in this gritty, action-packed TV series. Bronson portrays Mike Kovac, a New York City freelance photographer who specializes in getting difficult shots other lensmen cannot. Assisting law enforcement and insurance agencies, he invariable winds up acting as a private eye and gets himself into plenty of trouble!
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Aphids reproducing. Filmed over a period of 24 hours Filmed by Neil Bromhall for www.rightplants4me.co.uk my free to browse website plant finder, plant identification and pruning advice online resource. Filmed on Nikon D300. 55mm macro nikkor lens, macro ring and studio flash. Exposure interval 1 frame every 1-3 minutes, filmed over a period of 24hrs. You can see this garden pest aphid giving birth to live young and some aphids shedding their skin as they grow and mature. Aphids suck the sap from plants. Music ‘Pendulum’ by Oliver Ledbury
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Photos and videos shot on the new Canon 1DX. THIS WAS A PRE-PRODUCTION MODEL. Lucky enough to have a brother who works for Canon in Hong Kong.
Video Rating: 3 / 5
In this episode, I share a very simple and easy way to achieve facial symmetry by cutting and pasting within the image. A lot of the times, the solutions for retouching are already in front of you. I will be offering a retouching workshop for photographers on June 25th. For more info and to register, visit www.preptopost.com Find me on Facebook – www.facebook.com/armenta.photo Follow me on Twitter – @armenta_photo
Video Rating: 4 / 5
The on your camera allows you to take control of exactly how much depth of field your camera has. What does that mean? Professional Photographer and digital expert Gavin Hoey www.gavtrain.com will explain how to achieve professional looking images with blurred backgrounds the set a small aperture. If you need a photo where as much as possible is in focus from front to back then set a large aperture.
Photo from Nicole S. Young’s G+ stream.
One way you can judge the health of a social network is by the relationships that come out of it. There has probably been no more vibrant social network for photographers this past year than Google+. Google+ attracted the most social of photographers early on last year when they launched and they’ve succeed in capturing the soul of social networking for photographers since. There are many sites where you can post photos, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, 500px, but none have quite the social magic that Google+ has in quite the same way right now.
I remember when Flickr first launched back in the day, back when they seemed to have a simliar magic. One of the first things you saw coming out of Flickr were romantic relationships — many people were meeting on Flickr, getting involved and in some cases even getting married. Google+ is only a year and a half old at this point, but today I saw the first photographer marriage coming out of the network that I’ve noticed so far, photographers Nicole S. Young and Brian Matiash announced that they tied the knot.
For those of you who don’t know Nicole and Brian, they are wonderful photographers and contributors to G+. Nicole is a photographer and author who specializes in stock and food photography and Brian works for photo processing company onOne Software and like me loves to shoot abandoned and urbex type photography.
From Nicole:
“Every once in a while something that is seemingly small comes along that makes a difference in your life, and other times it changes your life completely. In the summer of 2011 Google+ was brought to life, and with that the beginning of Hangouts and a swarm of amazing people from all over the world. This community here on Google+ has impacted my life so wonderfully and drastically, and in the process I’ve made many life-long friends and connected with people I barely knew before, but through the popularity of Hangouts I was able to actually interact with.
One of those people was +Brian Matiash, and just a few months ago we officially tied the knot!
Yes, it’s true. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, and I said YES!!! We had a simple ceremony on what we call “Marriage Day”
My good Pal Trey Ratcliff got the assist for helping to introduce them to each other on, yep, you guessed it, a Google+ hangout.
Congratulations to Brian and Nicole both on this excellent news! I’m curious as to whether or not they’ll be registering at B&H or Adorama.
And for the rest of you, before you pony up for that match.com or eHarmony account next month, you just might want to reconsider and head on over and check out Google+ instead. My money’s on Scott Jarvie being next, btw. 
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A few nice visual art images I found:
Coke Side of Life: Coca-Cola Art Remix
Image by Coca-Cola Art Gallery
COCA-COLA ART GALLERY
In 1906, the ‘Coca-Cola’ company hired William D’Arcy, who set the tone of Coke’s advertising for the coming decades. He held the view that "‘Coca-Cola’ advertising should create scenes that drew people in and made them part of the pleasant interludes of everyday life". D’Arcy showed pleasant people drinking ‘Coca-Cola’ while doing sociable activities such as shopping and playing games.
In the 1920s, ‘Coca-Cola’’s advertising began to reflect the prosperity of the times. Advertisements depicted the rising middle class participating in activities once reserved for the elite in society. An advertising poster shows a couple of friends, chillin’ outside at a party. An other cardboard shows a young girl being pulled on a board behind a boat. The advertisements created images that people aspired to emulate. And with the growing prosperity, such a dream was within everyone’s reach.
ROCKANDROLL AGENCY is a full-cycle communication agency offering marketing services, strategic development and art direction. RockAndRoll Agency was founded in 2003 by Jean-Philippe Noterman and Wouter De Coster. Jean-Philippe studied philosophy/anthropology, Wouter has a background as fashion designer. Before starting RockAndRoll Agency, they worked already together for 5 years in the publishing and communication business.
RockAndRoll Agency is dedicated to the production of visual identity design, graphic animation and websites. As art buyers and curators, RRA is always looking for artists with strong ideas and an individual voice. Contact: wdc@rockandrollagency.com
Blog: www.coca-cola-art.com
Official Website: www.coke-art.com
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/cocacola86artgallery
Coke Side of Life: Coca-Cola Art Remix
Image by Coca-Cola Art Gallery
COCA-COLA ART GALLERY
In 1906, the ‘Coca-Cola’ company hired William D’Arcy, who set the tone of Coke’s advertising for the coming decades. He held the view that "‘Coca-Cola’ advertising should create scenes that drew people in and made them part of the pleasant interludes of everyday life". D’Arcy showed pleasant people drinking ‘Coca-Cola’ while doing sociable activities such as shopping and playing games.
In the 1920s, ‘Coca-Cola’’s advertising began to reflect the prosperity of the times. Advertisements depicted the rising middle class participating in activities once reserved for the elite in society. An advertising poster shows a couple of friends, chillin’ outside at a party. An other cardboard shows a young girl being pulled on a board behind a boat. The advertisements created images that people aspired to emulate. And with the growing prosperity, such a dream was within everyone’s reach.
ROCKANDROLL AGENCY is a full-cycle communication agency offering marketing services, strategic development and art direction. RockAndRoll Agency was founded in 2003 by Jean-Philippe Noterman and Wouter De Coster. Jean-Philippe studied philosophy/anthropology, Wouter has a background as fashion designer. Before starting RockAndRoll Agency, they worked already together for 5 years in the publishing and communication business.
RockAndRoll Agency is dedicated to the production of visual identity design, graphic animation and websites. As art buyers and curators, RRA is always looking for artists with strong ideas and an individual voice. Contact: wdc@rockandrollagency.com
Blog: www.coca-cola-art.com
Official Website: www.coke-art.com
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/cocacola86artgallery
“Happy Elephant”
Image by Original Bliss
Moleskine Soul Journal Entry for Un-Blank the Page Project
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This is a selection of pics taken by me over the last year. Some are from Cadwell park others are from silverstone mablethorpe beach and thoresway motoparc. To see more of my pics please visit my website. www.pinkelephatphotography.co.uk You can also see more pics on my flickr account http
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I remember some years ago lusting after a (then) new Kodak (remember them?) digicam that had a 10x zoom. Wow! I thought what photographic horizons it would conquer.
Now, you can put your mitts on a 50x zoom digicam (thanks to Canon) but, as you will quickly find out, it’s not a dream holiday with such a powerful lens, with handholding at extreme tele settings a no-no.
IMHO the 24x zoom on the FZ60 is arguably a better length for average shooting in the hands of the average and lesser-skilled photographer.
Panasonic quaintly describes the camera as one that ‘caters to the camera buyer who wants that zoom reach, but doesn’t need the bright constant aperture, and the drawbacks it brings. If you’re willing to forgo the extra light capture, it could provide a compelling option.’
Eh?
It seems the company is comparing the FZ60 with another model which had an aperture of f4.5 as opposed to the FZ60′s smaller f5.2 at the tele end. For me, there’s little sense in the comparison.
The big plus is that the 24x zoom ranges from a 35 SLR wide equivalent of 25mm to a tele equivalent of 600mm. As I’ve mentioned many times before, try and get, use and lug a 35 DSLR lens of that focal length!
And it’s a Leica-designed optic.
The camera is set in the by now established bridge camera format: looks like an interchangeable DSLR, works like one but doesn’t allow lens switching and cannot take pictures equal in quality to a DSLR. So there!
But for many people, especially those on a foreign (or even domestic!) holiday this is the ideal single camera for the purpose: it’s relatively compact, won’t stow in your pocket but will hang quite happily on from your neck regions on a shoulder strap and few subjects, however distant, will be beyond your reach.
The mode dial carries well-identified settings for intelligent Auto, PASM, creative movie, two custom settings, scene modes (soft focus, dynamic monochrome, cross processing etc) and creative control setting.
Creative movie allows you use Program AE, aperture and shutter priority settings plus manual when shooting video.
Creative control lets you select a variety of image effects in stills shooting, along with examples of how they look.
Topside carries a selection of buttons to shoot a burst of shots, a Function button, movie record and the zoom lever.
Move to the rear side and we see the four way jog dial, with the menu button set into its centre, along with another Function button, trash plus AF options.
The 16.1 million pixel CMOS captures a relatively largish maximum image size of 4608×2592 pixels or, in print terms, an output of 39x22cm output.
Movies in Full HD 1920×1080 can be recorded to a Class 4 SD card in the AVCHD format or MPEG4 at a lower resolution. This clip was shot with a stills pan head, which accounts for the jerky panning!
Overall, the camera offers a surprising level of manual and over-riding control as well as the useful ability to capture on RAW and JPEG.
A special note: I had a great time shooting some beach action in movie mode. The zoom’s full tele setting is perfect for such a subject.
I could shoot the first shots about two seconds after powering up, while follow on shots came in at about a second apart, until the buffer memory filled.
No sign of any distortion at the wide or tele ends of the zoom.
At ISO 1600 some artefacts were beginning to appear and by ISO 3200 these made picture taking a tricky chore.
(insert Full wide 2 and Full tele 2
Quality: excellent.
Why you’d buy the Panasonic Lumix FZ60: above average as a stills camera; perfect for video.
Why you wouldn’t: a vari-angle screen could have made a difference.
Great camera, excellent zoom reach.
Image Sensor: 16.1 million effective pixels.
Sensor: 11mm CMOS.
Metering: Multi, centre-weighted, spot.
Lens: Leica DC Vario-Elmarit f2.8-5.2/4.5-108mm (25-600mm as 35 SLR equivalent)
Exposure Modes: Auto, Program AE, shutter and aperture priority, manual.
Shutter Speed: 4-1/2000 second.
Memory: SD/SDHC/SDXC plus 70 MB internal.
Image Sizes (pixels): Stills: 4608×2592 to 480×480.
Movies: 1920×1080, 1280×720, 640×480.
Viewfinder: Turret (202,000) and 7.6cm LCD screen (460,000).
File Formats: JPEG, MPO 3D, MPEG4, AVCHD.
Colour Space: sRGB.
ISO Sensitivity: Auto, 100 to 6400.
Interface: USB 2.0, HDMI mini, remote control, DC input.
Power: Rechargeable lithium ion battery.
Dimensions: 120.3×80.8×91.9 WHDmm.
Weight: 493 g (with battery and card).
Price: Get a price on the Panasonic Lumix FZ60 at Amazon.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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Panasonic Lumix FZ60 Review
In this video, we take a look at this manual focus lens from Zeiss. Without autofocus, can the performance of this lens compete with the likes of the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 G and Canon 50mm f/1.4? Available in: Nikon F-mount: www.digitalrev.com Canon EOS mount: www.digitalrev.com Pentax K mount: www.digitalrev.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
