When Sports Illustrated photographer Bill Frakes isn’t photographing professional athletes, he heads to the flatlands of America to document life in Nebraska. From rodeo to diner, he captures peoples everyday lives by shooting a combination of still photos and motion picture. See how he creates a multimedia slideshow in Aperture 3 to tell his story.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
This movie was recorded with the Voigtlander NOKTON 58mm f/1.4 SL II lens.
It was late on the scene but its arrival still surprised many. After all, it is four years since Panasonic appeared with the first model in this guise.
Canon’s first MILC (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera) or CSC (Compact System Camera) magnesium alloy body model followed many other marques’ entries but differed to some by immediately offering an adaptor that accepted the mainstream Canon EF lens range. Using 35 SLR lenses the magnification factor is 1.6x, surely not a deterrent factor.
At first glance, it’s a strange beast. The review camera was stark black in colour, with only the control labels picked out in off white — and few they are! It was tested with the f3.5/18-55mm lens.
I immediately looked for the exposure modes and quickly found only three on the top mode dial: intelligent auto, still photos and video. Where’s Program, aperture and shutter priority I queried?
Where? They’re accessible via a touch screen system that at first I found foreign, then quickly settled into its style.
Tap the upper left corner of the LCD screen and you’re presented with an array of M, Av, Tv, P: manual, aperture and shutter priority and Program. Easy!
Next to the mode dial is the on/off button — and tass all!
At the rear there is nowt else but menu and info buttons plus replay and the main dial with options for single/continuous shooting, a central Q-set button, erase and exposure lock (if your focus area differs from the main metering area).
As I mentioned, the text labels are in off white … and they are sure hard to see in dim light!
The 18 megapixel CMOS can capture a maximum 5184×3456 pixel image, enough to make a 44x29cm image.
Movies? Full HGD MPEG4 video at 1920×1080 pixel resolution is within its capabilities and can be happily recorded to SD cards rated as Class 6. You can shoot stills mid-video but the latter is interrupted.
Interestingly, the EOS-M kit is supplied with the new Speedlite 90EX flash unit as standard. A wireless master function allows the control of multiple flash guns wirelessly.
There some factors which seem to indicate that the EOS-M is not designed to attract the pros out there: the screen-driven control is one of them; another is the provision of a range of creative filters that includes toy camera, grainy B&W, fish eye distortion etc.
Overall, the camera appeals due to its compact dimensions, light weight and (once you get used to it), simple touch screen operation.
Clean performance al the way to ISO 3200. BY ISO 6400 noise is starting to appear but not badly so. At ISO 12800 noise is obvious but certain shots will accept it.
Quality: above average.
Why you’d buy the Canon EOS-M: compact camera with access to Canon’s full frame lens range.
Why you wouldn’t: touch screen operation deters you; a long tele, full size lens would look silly on the EOS-M; no vari angle screen.
The Canon EOS M is available in black, silver, white, red.
Welcome to another MILC! A lightweight, compact camera. Maybe the more ambitious out there should await for the next, higher specced model to arrive.
Image Sensor: 18 million effective pixels.
Metering: Multi pattern, centre-weighted averaging, spot, partial.
Exposure Modes: Auto, Program AE, shutter and aperture priority, manual.
Sensor: 22.3×14.9mm CMOS.
Lens Mount: Canon EF-M, EF (with adaptor).
35 SLR Lens Factor: 1.6x.
Shutter Speed: 60 to 1/4000 second. Flashy sync: 1/200 sec.
Memory: SD/SDHC/SDXC.
Image Sizes (pixels): 3456×2304 to 720×480. Movies: 1920×1080 (30, 25, 24 fps), 1280×720 (60, 50 fps), 640×480 60/50 fps.
LCD Screen: 7.7cm LCD (1,040,000 pixels).
File Formats: JPEG, RAW (14-bit), JPEG+RAW, MPEG4.
Continuous Shooting: up to 4.3 fps.
Colour Space: sRGB, Adobe RGB.
ISO Sensitivity: Auto, 100 to 12800; 25600 (with expansion).
Interface: USB 2.0, HDMI mini, AV output, mic input, Eye-Fi.
Power: Rechargeable lithium ion battery, DC input.
Dimensions: 109x66x32 WHDmm.
Weight: 298 g (inc battery).
Prices: Get a price on the Canon EOS M with EF-M18-55mm IS STM Lens or the Canon EOS Mwith a EF-M 22mm STM Lensat Amazon.
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Canon EOS M Review
Whatever one might think about Canon’s product strategy, they never let us down when it comes to innovative, interesting and hughly useful new lenses.
One such is the still-to-be released Canon 200-400mm f/4 IS, a critical focal length range that has been a Nikon exclusive for some time now. But Canon has upped the ante this time with a built-in 1.4X teleconverter.
Find out about this exciting new lens with an exclusive video review by Joshua Holko, being published today for the first time.
Irish photographer and teacher Peter Cox together with our friend Icelandic photographer Daniel Bergman, and Chas Glatzer are leading a workshop to the high Arctic and Svalbard island in August to photograph landscape and wildlife.
As a bonus, Phase One’s Kevin Raber will also joining-up, bringing a range of Phase One cameras, lenses, and backs for participants to use.
There are still a few spots left on this teriffic workshop.
Find out more.
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Chris Adler Clinic at The Bienes Center for the Arts with Resurrection Drums, Mapex Drums, Aquarian Drumheads, ProMark, Zoom, Meinl, and Gibraltar. March 16, 2011. Filmed with Nikon Coolpix S80.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Your Questions Answered. A first of several webisodes geared toward answering beginner strobist and off camera lighting questions. In this first episode, we dicuss what kind of lights / flashes to buy and where to get them as well as how to mount them on a light stand
Video Rating: 4 / 5
“Casino Soul”(Premier remix) was printed on Vinyl and the music in the video is the original recording. This was Recorded one the first series of remixes released on vinyl at that early stages of The Nortec Collective. The record is from the summer of 2000 and only one thousand copies were ever printed and presented at the NORTEC 2000 party in Tijuana were Kid 606, Terrestre(murcof),Plankton man, Dj Tolo and Bostich+Fussible played at the Cecut on July 29th 2000. Music by Fussble(Pepe Mogt, melo Ruiz) milrecords, 2000. synths used: Oberheim Four Voice, Sequential Prophet 5, Roland Tr-707, Roland Tr-909, Waldorf XT, Wrlitzer Electric Piano and MPC 2000(straight from a soundcraft folioSX mixer, no computer were use, only for mastering). www.myspace.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Aphid live birth and hoverfly larva are a natural pest control Filmed by Neil Bromhall for www.rightplants4me.co.uk my free to browse website plant finder, plant identification, pest and pruning advice online resource. Filmed on Nikon D300. 55mm macro nikkor lens with o rings and studio flash. Musin ‘Pendulum’ by Oliver Ledbury
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Wenn wir die Links für die browserFruits zusammensuchen, merken wir immer wieder, wie wahnsinnig viel es noch zu entdecken gibt. Ein Artikel am Tag auf kwerfeldein reicht nicht aus, die unglaubliche fotografische Vielfalt und Entwicklung aufzuzeigen. Gut, dass es so viele andere tolle Seiten gibt, die großartige Beiträge bringen. Hier kommt, wie jeden Sonntag, eine immer noch viel zu kleine Liste dieser Artikel.
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Deutschsprachig
• Aus Eis am Stiel eine Polaroidkamera machen? Geht. Maxim Grew hat’s gemacht und bei der Gelegenheit auch direkt ein hübsches Video gezaubert.
• Ein schönes Interview mit dem Portraitfotografen Sven Jacobsen haben wir hier gefunden.
• Der Fotograf Gregor Sailer fotografierte auf drei Kontinenten Städte und Siedlungen, von denen bis dato keine Bilder existierten.
• Bei der deutschen Vogue fanden wir einige Bilder aus dem Bildband mit Kate Moss.
• Bruno Itans ist Fotograf in Rio de Janeiro. „Für seine erste Kompaktkamera musste er jahrelang Autos schrubben, jetzt bittet ihn sogar die brasilianische Präsidentin um Fotos.“
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International
• Atemberaubend: Die Firma GigaPan hat das bisher größte digital erzeugte Bild aufgenommen – Ein Panoramafoto von Dubai mit 45 Gigapixeln.
• Der griechische Künstler Hellopanos hat mit dem Smartphone urbane Fragmente fotografiert und durch Spiegelsymmetrie faszinierend verändert.
• Bilder von Touristenattraktionen mal anders: Die „Kontaktbogenbilder“ von Thomas Kellner.
• Falls Ihr zufällig nach einem bloggenden Landschaftsfotografen sucht, schaut mal bei Richard Bernabe vorbei.
• Ceslovas Cesnakevicius macht Bildmanipulationen. Diese sind kaum noch als Fotografien erkennbar, aber wunderschön und einzigartig.
• Die türkische Fotografin Aylin Argun macht bemerkenswerte Selbstportrais. Und mit was? Mit dem iPhone 4.
• Müsst Ihr gesehen haben: Christian Åslund zollt 2D-Videspielen mit aufwändigen Straßenportraits Tribut.
• Diese Tier-„Photobombs“ sind in der Tat zum Lachen.
• Mutig – und eigentlich ein unmögliches Vorhaben: The Independent macht einen Vorschlag, welche die 10 besten Fotoseiten im Netz sind.
• Die Grey Art Gallery der New York University zeigt aktuell unter dem Titel „Beat Memories“ die Fotografien von Allen Ginsberg – auch online.
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Neuerscheinungen und Tipps vom Foto-Büchermarkt
• Wer historische Bilder und die Stadt Leipzig liebt, kann sich jetzt doppelt freuen. Der Bildband „Leipzig: Fotografien 1956-1959“ erscheint Anfang Februar und wird 12,95 € kosten.
• Und wer Fan von Berlin ist, der schaut sich diesen Bildband mal an: Entschwundene Stadt: Berlin 1980-1989 erscheint ebenfalls Anfang Februar, kostet allerdings 24,95 €, ist dafür aber auch doppelt so dick.
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Videos
Insektenmakro-Fotograf Thomas Shahan stellt seine Herangehensweise, Ausrüstung und viele seiner Fotos vor. Kleine Tierchen richtig, richtig groß!
Architekturdarstellung vom feinsten. Und, auch wenn es verdammt danach aussieht – das wenigste in diesem Video ist fotografiert, sondern rechnergeneriert.
Mannomann, wer hätte gedacht, dass in San Diego immer gleich soviel auf einmal runterkommt?
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Ausstellungen
„Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt“ – Bilder globaler Räume
Zeit: 22. September 2012 – 17. Februar 2013
Ort: Ludwig Forum, Aachen
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„everywhere but home“ – Calin Kruse
Zeit: 2. Februar – 1. April 2013
Ort: Museum Schloss Fellenberg, Merzig
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Ausstellung: Erik Chmil – LUMAS Ausstellung im BMW Museum
Zeit: 2. Februar bis 31. März 2013
Ort: BMW Museum, Am Olympiapark 2, München
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seaside moods. Impressionen von Frankreichs Nordküste – Jörg Karrenbauer
Zeit: 17. Februar – 27. April 2013
Ort: Robert Schuman Haus, Trier
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kwerfeldein – Fotografie Magazin
By Annie Tao
Want to take portraits that have nice bokeh? First, what is it?
BOKEH = noun. a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image.
Below is a photo I took just the other day. It is an example of an image with nice bokeh and how to use it effectively.
By blurring out the background, the entire image looks visually pleasing. You can’t even see she is standing on a sidewalk next to a parking lot!
All lenses can create some kind of bokeh, but the REALLY nice, drool-worthy bokeh is from prime lenses with large apertures, like f/1.4 and f/1.8.
The larger the aperture (the smaller the aperture number) = a narrower depth of field and more bokeh! Usually f/2.8, 1.8 and 1.4 create the best results.
I know, I know…. duh. But there may be someone out there who isn’t sure!
In the image above, there is beautiful green bokeh because there were bushes on the far side of the parking lot. I took the shot from a lower angle (shooting upwards) to intentionally miss the cars in the parking lot, which were directly behind her.
The result is a deliciously smooth wash of color in the background, which made it look more like the little girl was standing in a meadow than a parking lot.
Sometimes I create bokeh in the FOREGROUND because it tells a different story…
And sometimes I don’t want any bokeh at all. I want to see all the details, like the textures of these walls, so I place my subjects close to the background and have my camera set at a smaller aperture.
Annie Tao is a lifestyle, commercial and event photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can get more tips or inspiration at www.annietaophotography.com and stay connected with Annie at https://www.facebook.com/annietaophotography
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How To Achieve Nice Bokeh [In Plain English]
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This is the unboxing video for the RainbowImaging 100 Meter 2.4 GHZ Wireless Shutter Release for cameras and DSLRs. The kit comes with the transmitter, receiver, batteries, a certification, and a badly translated instruction manual. XD The product unboxed was the shutter release for the “3 pin” Canon EOS cameras. The same company also makes other shutter released for other brand cameras like Canon (other type of connector), Pentax, Panasonic, Nikon, Sony, FujiFilm, and Samsung. Product Review: youtu.be Product Links: Canon (3 pin connector)(Product Unboxed): goo.gl Canon (Headphone Jack Type Connector): goo.gl FujiFilm: goo.gl Nikon: goo.gl Panasonic: goo.gl Pantex: goo.gl Samsung: goo.gl Sony: goo.gl Love photography? Please visit my photography blog: photographereric.blogspot.com Find me on Twitter: twitter.com Google+: plus.google.com Facebook: www.facebook.com My blog on technology news: darkside098.blogspot.com My blog on interesting gadgets/products: interestingproduct5.blogspot.com My main website: ericwu123456.webs.com
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Halo 2: Walkthrough – Part 2 [Mission 3] Cairo Station (Gameplay & Commentary) Xbox 360
Halo 2 Walkthrough: Cairo Station [Mission 3] Part 2 of my Let’s Play series from Halo 2. This happens to be my favorite Mission in all of the Halo series mainly due to the awesome Cut Scene at the end of the Level. I am playing this series on the Xbox 360 hence why it seems it is upscaled into HD. Playlist – www.youtube.com Follow me on Twitter – www.twitter.com Extra Tags Paul B Halo Paul B Halo 2 Heroic Halo 2 Walkthrough Halo 2 Gameplay Halo 2 Mission 1 Halo 2 Story Halo 2 Master Chief The Covenant
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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