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Weekly Photography Challenge – Up in the Air

15 Mar

Earlier I shared some images of Identified Flying Objects. People or things that have become airborne is our theme this week for the weekly photography challenge as well.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Up in the Air

Surely you can find something in your area that gets some height, that you can go photograph. Be it:

  • airplanes (real jumbo jets, remote control, or paper ones)
  • balloons (hot air or helium)
  • people (skydivers, skateboarders, parasailers, etc.)
  • dogs, cats, or horses jumping
  • birds, bats or insects flying

Get out and photograph something in the air. How you go about it is up to you. Photograph from the ground looking up? Get up there with them (be safe). Or climb a mountain or get on a rooftop and look down. Get creative with it.

Here are a few ideas:

By Difusa

By carterse

By JD Hancock

By Ford in Europe

By Zach Stern

For some articles that might help with this challenge, see these:

  • An Introduction to Bird photography
  • 10 Bird Photography Tips for Beginners
  • 8 Tips For Photographing Birds
  • Mastering Panning – Photographing Moving Subjects

Share your Up in the Air images!

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them.

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Google’s Project Tango camera specs revealed

15 Mar

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We recently reported on Project Tango, an initiative within Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) that looks at 3D-mapping of spaces with smartphones. Today some additional detail about the phone’s camera specification was revealed on Myce.com through Google’s Chrome issue tracker. Learn more

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Olympus patent hints at selective exposure in ‘Live Time’ mode

15 Mar

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Earlier this week, Japanese patent blog Egami reported that Olympus has patented a technology that would allow the photographer to selectively adjust exposure of different scene areas during an exposure. This might allow for a more balanced exposure of scenes where cameras might normally struggle. Click through for an explanation of what we think the patent might mean for photographers. 

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14 March, 2014 – Why The Industry is in The Dumper

15 Mar


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A funny thing happened on the way to the future – the entire camera industry got blindsided. Camera and lens sales suck, have sucked for a while, and likely will continue to suck for some time to come. The question is – why?


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Blickfang: Mann mit Hut

15 Mar

Heute mache ich alles anders. Dieser Blickfang soll nicht den Fotografen und dessen Werdegang beleuchten und dann erst auf das Bild eingehen. Ganz im Gegenteil. Ich werde den Ersteller der Aufnahme außen vor lassen. Und mich nicht von technischen Details aufhalten lassen.

Ich werde das Bild dekonstruieren und ganz genau betrachten, was ich sehe: Eine Person. Beim Blättern durch den Band fallen mir zwei Portraits auf. Eines zeigt einen in sich hinein lächelnden Mann mit gegeltem Haar. Das andere Bild präsentiert einen Herrn mit Hut, der direkt in die Kamera sieht.

Ich wähle das zweite von beiden aus und stelle fest, wie wichtig der Blick in die Kamera bei einem Portrait doch sein kann.

Portrait © Sarah Stolfa

Nun beuge ich mich über den Fotoband, betrachte in aller Ruhe das Foto. Sekunden vergehen, ohne dass ich es merke. Doch eines merke ich sofort: Ich kann mich nur schwer vom festen Blick des Mannes lösen. Immer wieder kehre ich zu seinen Augen zurück und überlege.

Wer bist Du? ??Ich suche Details. Finde Behaarung auf seiner Hand, eine silberne Armbanduhr und das Glas, gefüllt mit Bier, im Vordergrund. Dann fällt mir der Ring auf. Ich überlege, ob er verheiratet ist und schweife ab.

Wohin? In die Ungewissheit, keinen Anhaltspunkt zum Aufnahmedatum zu haben. ??Das Bild ist scheinbar zeitlos. Und das ist wiederum komisch. Faszinierend. Merk-würdig. Doch im Augenwinkel des Buches erahne ich Buchstaben auf der gegenüber liegenden Seite:

David Scott Smith, 2005.

Alles ist verraten.

Wirklich? Alles?

Das Geheimnis bleibt. Die Information ist für mich nur eine Aneinanderreihung von Buchstaben. David könnte auch Michael heißen und statt 2005 könnte 2000, 1990 oder 1980 an dieser Stelle stehen.

Ich beginne, den Mann genauer zu analysieren. Wer bist Du? Du bist kein armer Mensch. Du leistest Dir Zigaretten und das belanglose Herumliegen der Geldscheine verrät, dass Dein Umgang mit ihnen weder zögerlich noch sparsam ist.

Deine silberne Uhr lässt etwas Prestige durchblitzen, der Ring an der linken Hand verrät eine Frau oder einen Mann an Deiner Seite. Sitzt sie oder er etwa direkt neben Dir?

Dein Hut sitzt stilvoll, ist das i-Tüpfelchen Deiner Bekleidung und reiht sich wunderbar in das schwarze Hemd und die ebenso schwarze Jacke ein. Deine Kleidung sieht nicht zufällig oder planlos ausgewählt aus. Die Brille sitzt perfekt und die Brillengläser glänzen.

Ordnung scheint Dir wichtig zu sein. Denn Dein Bart ist fein säuberlich ausrasiert und kein einziges Härchen hast Du übersehen. Du stützt Dein Kinn seitlich ab. Doch es ist kein gelangweiltes Abstützen, Deine Haltung ist direkt, interessiert, aufmerksam.

Nun weiß ich eine Menge über Dich, aber ich kann in vielen Annahmen falsch liegen. Die Frage, wer Du bist, wird mir nur teilweise beantwortet. Doch das ist genug für den Moment. Das Foto stellt Dich vor, ohne dass ich irgendwas sagen muss. Nicht irgendwelche Floskeln dahinsagen, lächeln und mich auf ein Gespräch einstellen muss.

Es ist gut so, wie es ist.

David Scott Smith wurde 2005 im Rahmen des Buches „The Regulars“* von Sarah Stolfa fotografiert.

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End of the World Cinema Abandoned in the Egyptian Desert

15 Mar

[ By Steph in Destinations & Places & Travel. ]

Abandoned Theater Egypt Desert 1

In the middle of Egypt’s inhospitable Sinai Desert, stacked on a rocky hillside overlooking a pile of sticks, row after row of worn wooden movie theater seats sit eerily empty. Why would anyone have built a cinema out here, especially when Egyptian authorities forbid desert visits that aren’t part of an officially sanctioned tour? According to Estonian photographer Kaupo Kikkas, who captured these images, the answer involves a wealthy Frenchman and “some puffs of a magic smoke.”

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On a trip to this remote desert location circa the year 2000, the visiting Frenchman looked around at the unlikely setting and somehow thought to himself, “Why aren’t there any movie theaters in the desert?” So he went back to Cairo, bought original seats and projection equipment from an old cinema, and lugged it back out to create the End of the World Cinema.

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Never mind the fact that there aren’t exactly hordes of tourists and locals waiting to descend upon this sandy spot to view a film under the hot desert sun – the project was bound to fail anyway, because Egyptian authorities don’t take kindly to this sort of ‘enterprising spirit.’  A number of things ‘accidentally’ went wrong at the premiere, and not a single movie was ever shown.

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The theater was quickly abandoned and has sat like this ever since, the building created to house the generator already crumbling. These modern ruins are far from the only ones of their kind in Africa – the remains of the Tattooine set from Star Wars Episode IV can still be found in Tunisia, among many other fascinating abandonments. 

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Apple is on camera-engineer hiring spree

14 Mar

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There was one large manufacturer who remained relatively quiet among the flood of smartphone imaging innovations in 2013: Apple. Now the technology giant is looking to hire a range of camera engineers, covering all sections of the imaging pipeline. So by the looks of it, Apple has plans for new camera technology in its future devices. Learn more

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14. März 2014

14 Mar

Ein Beitrag von: Vivien J-Dora

Frankfurt, Nacht, Nachaufnahme, Tiltshift, Tilten, Langzeigbelichtung


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In Flight – 36 Images of Identified Flying Objects

14 Mar

Last week was cars, the previous week – boats. So this week I’ve found 36 fabulous images of all sorts of objects in flight: airplanes, kits, birds, people?

Look up – look way up. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a kite, or person?

By Kuster & Wildhaber Photography

By Geoff Collins

By Andreas.

By Linh Nguyen

By Geoff Collins

By Kim Seng

By Eddy Van 3000

By Neil Howard

By Peter Roome

By ecatoncheires

By Doug

By Cornelia Kopp

By Clark & Kim Kays

By Ali Arsh

By Nick Kenrick

By Datmater

By Niels Linneberg

By Brett Davies

By Lotus Carroll

By Hartwig HKD

By Andreas Levers

By Bill Gracey

By blinking idiot

By Brian Wilson

By Tal777

By Dave Scriven

By Official U.S. Navy Page

By Michael Napoleon

By nigel

By mommamia

By Chris Smith

By TexasEagle

By Phil

By RayMorris1

By Joel Olives

By Lisa

 

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Judge strikes down fine against drone photographer

14 Mar

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In a court case bound to have far-reaching implications for U.S.-based photographers looking to use drones or other model aircraft for commercial shoots, National Transportation Safety Board Judge Patrick G. Geraghty has stuck down an FAA suit against a photographer for his ‘reckless’ use of a drone. Model aircraft aficionados and photographers alike have reason to celebrate this ruling, though naturally the FAA has announced a decision to appeal. Learn more

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