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14, September, 2014 – Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep

15 Sep

We have published a few articles on medium format lately. So, today we take it down a notch and share an article by Olaf Willoughby. He re-visits the Leica T and his experiences as a user. You can read test reports and reviews but using a camera is the bottom line. Olaf digs right down to the heart of it in “Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep – Thoughts On The Leica T”.

It’s Photokina time and I am publishing this article from the Delta Lounge at the Atlanta Airport. The show opens Tuesday and Michael and I will be there covering all the new announcements and possibly a few new surprises. We’ll be providing daily updates on what we see. We also have some appointments for interviews and these should be interesting. So, check back on a regular basis as we bring you the 2014 Photokina Report.

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6 Signs That You May be a Lazy Photographer

15 Sep

Photographers who are consistently producing stunning photographs don’t do so because they are lucky, observant, or even more skilled than the average photographer – they do so because they are not being lazy. Are you a lazy photographer?

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6 signs you may be a lazy photographer

#1 – You’re lazy about composing your shots

You already know the basic rules of successful composition and you even know the rules for breaking those rules, but if you fail to put these rules into practice with every shot you take, then you’re being a lazy photographer.

Composition is potentially the most important tool you have within your arsenal for creating a powerful image. So it’s vital that when you compose your shots you aren’t being lazy about it, and instead compose with purpose.

To give you an idea of how I go about composing a scene I put together a short video that takes you through some iterations of a recent waterfall shoot. I hope this helps you see how composition is more than just knowing the rules, but it’s about putting them into action in the field, and thinking about the scene as a whole, over the course of a shoot.

#2 – You’ve uttered the words “I’ll fix that in post” as you begin to get frustrated about a scene or subject

Post production is always going to be there for you to use, but when you’re telling yourself that you’ll fix something in post when it could be fixed with another shot in less than ten minutes, then you’re being lazy. Whenever you have the time and ability to change, tweak, or otherwise improve a shot with a little effort you should take it. Otherwise you’ll spend more time fixing mistakes than making your images more powerful.

#3 – You’re full of excuses

Everything from sunrise being too early, to the weather being too cold, to your tripod being too heavy sets you back from someone who’s willing to go the extra mile to make the shot. Stop making excuses and get out and make photos instead.

#4 – You don’t do a proper assessment of the scene you’re photographing

It’s important to spend time to assess how the light is moving through your scene, and what kinds of perspectives and angles will suite your subject best. Rarely is the first idea that pops into your head going to be the best way to photograph a scene, so arrive early, scout out the various subjects and angles, then capture.

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#5 – You don’t venture more than a few steps from the parking lot

Simply put – get off the beaten path and discover something that someone else hasn’t.

#6 – You’ve had the thought, “If only I had this camera, or that lens I’d take better photos”

This kind of thinking will put you in debt faster than a gambling addition. Yes upgrading your gear will improve the quality of your images, but they won’t help you take better photographs, only you can do that.

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What else?

We’ve all been lazy from time to time and there’s nothing wrong with that, but it is important to know when we’ve been lazy in order to help prevent it from happening in the future. What other lazy photographer traits can you come up with? Comment below!

Please share any experiences where you weren’t lazy and you did get the shot too, give us a little inspiration and reason to get out of our chairs and go shoot.

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Riding the waves to smooth water images

15 Sep

Photos that feature milky-smooth flowing water seem to have a Marmite effect on people: they’re either loved or hated. I’m often rather ambivalent towards them, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t a useful technique to have up your sleeve if you’re faced with a weir or waterfall and you want to capture an image with smooth-looking water that has a sense of flow to it.

Image thanks to Tom at Triggertrap

There’s no great secret to shooting a photo that has water flowing through it that looks smooth: it’s done using a long exposure. The slow shutter speed captures the the water as it moves, making it blurred. The blur, in this instance, gives the water a smooth appearance.

Shooting long exposures in daylight hours comes with an inherent problem, however. Over-exposure. Our cameras’ sensors are capable of detecting far more light than we think they are, and even using the lowest possible ISO and smallest available aperture, a long exposure can result in an over-exposed photo when taking during the day. To get around this irritation, you might want to try a neutral density (ND) filter over your lens.

Image thanks to Tom at Triggertrap

ND filters are grey filters that cut down the amount of light that enters your lens without affecting the colour of your images. They come in different grades, or densities, blocking out between one stop and 12 stops of light. Screw one over your lens and you’ll give yourself a great deal more flexibility when it comes to shooting daytime long exposures.

Then of course you’ll need a tripod. You might want to capture the motion blur of the water, but you’ll want to avoid camera-shake and the rest of the scene getting the wobbles. Even though you’ll be using a very small aperture with an enormous depth-of-field, still think carefully about your framing of the shot and its point-of-focus. Make sure it’s telling a story.

Image thanks to Tom at Triggertrap

Obviously you’ll need to have your camera in manual mode to ensure that you can adjust the shutter speed, ISO, and aperture to get the photo that you want. Almost certainly you will need to use the lowest ISO and smallest aperture avalable. When it comes to shutter speed, you might find that you need to venture into bulb mode to get the shutter speed you need. And we recommend that you use a remote shutter release to prevent jolting your camera on its tripod and shifting its focus, too.

Then it’s a case of hitting the cable release and leaving the camera to do its thing.

All images are courtesy of Triggertrap. You can learn more about using remote releases on the awesome Triggertrap How-to site!

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All Washed Up: 11 Abandoned Coin Laundries & Laundromats

14 Sep

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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Abandoned coin laundries, laundromats and washaterias (for you Texans) have proliferated as utility costs rise and prices for domestic machines fall.

We’ve chosen artist Lori Nix’s spellbinding “Laundromat at Night, 2008″, part of her eerie THE CITY series of post-apocalyptic images, to lead off this collection of abandonments. Nix’s theme for the series revolves around an unnamed global catastrophe that suddenly and effectively removed humanity from the equation. “All that’s left of mankind is the cultural and economic spaces we once inhabited. Now these are falling into disrepair,” explains Nix, as Mother Nature inexorably reclaims her rightful domains.

Radiantly Clean

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Photographer David Guttenfelder (on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) explored some of the abandoned towns located within a 6-mile radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the months following the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami. One of these towns is Namie, now officially inside the government-declared, radiation-contaminated Exclusion Zone surrounding the troubled power plant, where the above abandoned coin laundry offers precarious shelter for a lost pet cat.

Clothesed Lately

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Credit LMK Photography for the above images of a recently abandoned laundromat in Provo, Utah, that according to the photographer “has a nice charm”. We have to agree… and at least stray animals haven’t begun hogging the dryers. Gotta love those classic mid-century “bowling alley” style plastic chairs, by the way – talk about discouraging loitering.

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14. September 2014

14 Sep

Ein Beitrag von: Florian Leist

Wasserfall Golling

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Poll: What Kind of Photography do You do?

14 Sep

It’s been a while since we asked your opinion on something or had a poll so I thought I’d bring this one back again to see if there’s any change from last time we asked this question.

So tell us what kind of photography do you do most often? I’ve set it up so you can pick up to two options from the list so pick the two that you do the most frequently. If you do another kind of photography that isn’t listed select Other and tell us in the comments section.

By participating in polls like this it helps us understand the kinds of articles that you would most like to see on dPS. So please take a moment to fill it in and tell us more about you.

In July 2013 we asked the same question and we’ve had over 55,000 responses since then. These are the results from 2013, let’s see how it compares to now:

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12. September 2014

14 Sep

Ein Beitrag von: Bernd

Blick in einen moosigen Wald.

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browserFruits September, Ausgabe 2

14 Sep

Der Herbst wird hier und da noch einmal von kurzen sonnigen Tagen unterbrochen, aber oft regnet es und es ist schon spürbar kälter geworden. Eine gute Jahreszeit, um wieder bei einer Tasse Tee in Büchern zu blättern und dem etwas unberechenbaren Wetter zu trotzen. Inspiration findet Ihr sicher in all unseren Fotobuch-Rezensionen. Aber nun erst einmal viel Spaß mit den browserFruits. Auch hier findet Ihr immer zwei Buchtipps.

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Deutschsprachig

• Einer, der mit dem Herzen sieht, ist der isländische Fotograf Ragnar Axelsson. ARTE hat ihn begleitet und zeigt, wie er mit seinen Bildern die Geschichten der Menschen aus Island und Grönland erzählt.

• Ein absolutes Muss für alle Straßenfotografen und Interessierten der Fotogeschichte: Die Galerie Springer Berlin zeigt bis zum 11. Oktober 2014 frühe Farbfotografien von Joel Meyerowitz.

• Richard Drew fotografierte am 11. September 2001 den „Falling Man“. Das Bild des Mannes, der aus dem World Trade Center springt, wurde zum umstrittensten Dokument der Anschläge.

• Architekturfotograf Adrian Schulz macht Aufnahmen von Krankenhäusern, Kundencentern und Edel-Appartements. Das Ergebnis sind Bilder mit einer verstörend schönen aseptischen Anmutung. Ein Interview auf Seen.by.

• Und noch ein Interview. Dieses Mal mit der Sammlungskuratorin Sabine Schnakenberg.

International

• „Niemand von diesen Herren hat das Urheberrecht. Was sie tun, ist ein Bruch des Gesetzes.“ So spricht Rechtsanwalt Deal über John Maloof und Jeffrey Goldstein, die beide an den Werken Vivian Maiers verdient haben. Anwalt Deal soll einen Erben Maiers in Frankreich gefunden haben, der nun sein Recht einklagen wird.

• Wir verlinken hier eher selten Bildreihen aus der Makrofotografie, aber wir geben zu: Die Libellen-Portraits, die der Guardian vorgestellt hat, sind tatsächlich süß.

• Kevin Weir hat aus alten Archivbildern tolle Geister-Gifs gezaubert.

• Die niederländische Studentin Zilla van den Born spielte ihren Eltern mit Hilfe von gefälschten Fotos eine Reise nach Südost-Asien vor.

• Yellfie ist eine App, die ein Selfie macht, vorausgesetzt, man brüllt sein Smartphone laut genug an. Eine vielleicht fragwürdige neue Kulturtechnik, aber wohl verbunden mit einer Menge Spaß.

• Hier werden die wundervollen surrealistischen Fotos von Helen Warner vorgestellt.

• Sehr schöne Hochzeitsportraits von „Heart and Colour“.

• Für das Abschlussprojekt seines Studiums hat Tomas Januska großartige Leviationsaufnahmen gemacht, die voller Energie sind.

• Vladimir Antaki hat Besitzer kleiner Läden und Werkstätten portraitiert. Allen gemeinsam: Wenig Platz macht erfinderisch und übervoll gibt es nicht.

Neuerscheinungen und Tipps vom Foto-Büchermarkt

Buchtipps

• „Reading the Landscape“* von Olaf Otto Becker ist bei Hatje Cantz erschienen und zeigt unberührte tropische Regenwälder in Malaysia oder Indonesien und den gemäßigten Regenwald des Redwood National Parks in Kalifornien. Im letzten Teil seiner Serie führt uns Becker dagegen schmerzhaft vor Augen, was geschieht, wenn international agierende Konzerne weltweit ganze Landstriche abholzen lassen und baumlose Brachflächen von riesigen Ausmaßen entstehen.

• Im Laufe seiner erfolgreichen Karriere als Hollywood-Fotograf machte Bob Willoughby ikonische Aufnahmen von Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor und Jane Fonda. Doch sein absolutes Lieblingsmotiv war Audrey Hepburn. „Bob Willoughby. Audrey Hepburn. Photographs 1953-1966“* ist im Verlag Taschen erschienen.

Zitat der Woche

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

Emmet Gowin –

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20 Reasons Why I Won’t Cover Fashion Week For Free (But I Would For Expenses)

14 Sep

London Fashion Week is underway, and a lot of the people I follow on social media are there, taking over brands’ social media accounts, taking pictures, looking good. I’m currently sitting on a comfy chair in my bedroom with absolutely no plans to go anywhere this weekend, and I think if you touched me my relief would actually rub off Continue Reading

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14, September, 2014 – Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep

6 Signs That You May be a Lazy Photographer

6 signs you may be a lazy photographer

#1 – You’re lazy about composing your shots