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Are you in love with a photographer?
They’re quite loveable (if we may say so ourselves).
Well, we just so happen to have made the perfect Valentine for your favorite photo snapper.
Print one of our Valentine’s for Photographers, pick up a prezzy from the Photojojo Shop and your love is sure to develop into something special.
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The full-frame Leica SL is no lightweight, and neither is its fast, normal prime. The Summilux-SL 50mm F1.4 is one of three lenses in its range, complemented by 24-90mm and 90-280mm F2.8-4 zooms. It went on sale at the end of last year and a loaner copy has found its way into our hands – take a look at what it can do.
See our Leica Summilux-SL 50mm F1.4 ASPH sample gallery
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The Sony a99 II boasts some serious sports shooting capabilities including 12 fps continuous shooting with AF-C. That coupled with its impressive AF system and 42MP full frame sensor make the a99 II essentially the only high-resolution/high speed full frame camera on the market. So to get a sense of just how powerful this beast is, we took it to a University of Washington vs University of Southern California NCAA Division 1 basketball game.
See our a99 II sample gallery update
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[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]
The Age of Pickles ended when home refrigeration arrived, souring prospects for pickling businesses and leaving abandoned pickle factories hither and yon.
Folks living in tropic and desert climes depended on preserved foods of all kinds so it’s no surprise A Pickle House (formerly the Arnold Pickle and Olive Company) managed to pump out the pickles from 1905 through 1994.
The brick factory building/warehouse at 1401 E. Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona was built in 1934 and has lately been repurposed as the CPLC Pickle House Makerspace Business Incubator. Nice that they kept the signage. Kudos to Flickr users Ira Serkes (berkeleyhomes-dot-com) and Amy Brown (amybrownphoto) for snapping the brine-infused building in its abandoned pre-CPLC state.
Is Detroit booming again? Well, yes and no… while the much-maligned Motor City continues its inexorable decline, there are a few bright spots amid the gloom. One involves an old pickle factory.
In May of 2015, Detroit Boom City temporarily transformed an abandoned pickle factory on Detroit’s rough east side into “a site-responsive, fully immersive (art) exhibition” featuring a host of Detroit-based creative artists, painters and sculptors. Good to know not all Detroit booms are gunshots.
The old abandoned Seacoast Packing Company building located at 100 Dill Drive in Beaufort, SC is better known as the “Old Pickle Factory”, though pickle-packing was merely one of its many incarnations. We wonder what came first: the pickle factory or the street being named “Dill Drive”.
Built in 1921, the factory was originally intended to be a meat-packing plant but sour economic conditions in the region put the kibosh on that plan. The completed building sat vacant for seven years before re-opening, respectively, as a grocery storage facility, a tomato-canning plant, a pickle factory, and a lumber storage warehouse.
The Old Pickle Factory’s current distressed state looks to be the result of arson and that’s sort of true: the Beaufort Fire Department used to practice there. Hopefully their real world responses turned out better.
These days, the much-deteriorated Old Pickle Factory is considered to be unrepairable but nobody’s in any hurry to tear it down. Besides, many of the locals find its presence oddly comforting. “It speaks to our hearts rather than our eyes,” states Beaufort native Ryan Copeland. These haunting images were taken by Eye and Eye Photography in June of 2010.
There’s not much left of the former Dreher Pickle Company plant in Fort Collins, CO, and there’ll be even less after the Fort Collins Community Solar Array is expanded. If you have a “pickle where the sun don’t shine” joke, here’s your cue to relate it.
At one time, the Dreher Pickle factory processed cucumbers grown for miles around in hundreds of wooden pickling vats. The clever factory owner adapted the vats from disused wooden steam-train watering tanks made redundant after the railroads moved from steam to diesel/electric power. Much of the old plant burnt down in a 1990 fire and five years later the City bulldozed everything remaining except for one small office.
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]
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SkyPixel, DJI’s online aerial photo sharing platform, has shared the winners of its 2016 photo competition and published a gallery of 2000 standouts from more than 27,000 entries. You can see some of our favorites here and check out even more top entries at the SkyPixel website.
Fishermen close the net. Grand Prize Winner. Photo by ??
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Exploration. First Prize, Beauty category, professional. Photo by ? ??
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Spillway Selfie. Second Prize, Beauty category, professional. Photo by dixonltd
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Overbridge. First Prize, Beauty category, enthusiast. Photo by ??
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Green Waves. Second Prize, Beauty, enthusiast. Photo by Mauro Pagliai
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Arena. Photo by Bogdan Robak
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Photo by Joshua Cheston
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Shipka, Bulgaria. Photo by Vladislav Terziiski
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We’ve picked some of our favorite images from last year’s DPReview challenge winners – and now it’s your turn. Nearly 1000 images won challenges last year, so we’ve whittled it down to a manageable 25. Pick your top 5 and check back soon to see which images win the ultimate challenge! Voting is open through Friday, February 17th.
If you’re feeling inspired, take a look at challenges running now for your own shot at a little fame and glory.
Explore and vote for the best
challenge-winning images of 2016
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| Dr. Tompsett, Prof. Teranishi and Prof. Fossum at the ceremony, image: Queen Elizabeth Prize |
This year’s 1 million Pound Queen Elizabeth Prize has recognized the work of some of the key scientists in the creation of digital imaging sensors. The award is shared by British-born Dr Mike Tompsett, Professor Nobukazu Teranishi from Japan, and Professor Eric Fossum and George Smith from the US.
George Smith and Willard Boyle, who are now both deceased, first had the idea for CCD sensors at Bell Labs in 1969, but it was their colleague Dr. Tompsett, who saw the potential of the technology in imaging. The first digital color photo, of Tompsett’s wife Margaret, appeared on the cover of Electronics Magazine.
Professor Teranishi is the inventor of the pinned photodiode (PPD), which is a more efficient photodiode than previous variants. He undertook the work at NEC Corporation in Japan in 1980.
Eric Fossum worked in the 1990s at the NASA and Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Lab. His goal was to miniaturize digital cameras to reduce the payload of spacecraft. His work resulted in the development of CMOS sensors which can be found in most modern consumer digital cameras.
Digital imaging, together with other forms of digital technology, has transformed the world, and every day billions of digital images are captured by billions of devices, ranging from professional TV cameras to tiny imaging units in autonomous vehicles. At the time of their inventions the scientists might not have foreseen the scale of the impact of the technology but they are certainly more than deserving of this year’s award.
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
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Memory manufacturer Lexar has announced it will double the capacity of its 3500x CFast memory card this quarter taking the storage capability to a massive 512GB. The Lexar Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 card will offer write speeds of up to 445MB/s, but will cost an equally impressive $ 1699.99/£1732.99. The company says that the card is designed to be used by movie makers, especially those using memory-intensive techniques such as super-high frame rates for slow motion footage and those shooting in 4K resolution and in Raw formats.
The card will obviously record stills as well as video, but the attraction is the length of uninterrupted footage that can be recorded. Stills photographers are likely to be better off buying smaller versions of the card which cost less per GB. At $ 675 the 256GB version is less than half the price for half the capacity, though buying 16 32GB cards works out more expensive and the write speed is slower.
The new card has a maximum read speed of 525MB/s, so allows users to copy data from it to another drive very quickly. Lexar supplies a ‘lifetime’ copy of its Image Rescue recovery software that it claims can bring back data even from corrupted cards, as well as a limited lifetime warranty and technical support.
For more information see the Lexar website.
Press release
Doubled Capacity Allows Cinematographers, Filmmakers, and Content Creators to Capture Highest-Quality 4K Video and Beyond
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Lexar, a leading global brand of flash memory products, today announced doubled capacity for the Lexar® Professional 3500x CFast™ 2.0 memory card, providing the capacity and speed thresholds needed for cinematographers, filmmakers, and content creators to capture the highest-quality 4K and ProRes video and RAW photos. The new 512GB capacity card is designed to address the exacting demands of today’s top content innovators. The Lexar Professional 3600x CFast 2.0 card line, specifically optimised for ARRI® cameras2, will also double in capacity to 512GB in the first half of 2017.
“As professional imaging technology continues to advance, it’s crucial that memory storage formats keep pace with ever-evolving data needs,” said Jennifer Lee, senior director of product marketing, Lexar. “When shooting 200 FPS on a high-end, production-level camera, it’s easy to fill up an entire 256GB card with content in just 17 minutes.*3 Comparatively, the new Professional 512GB 3500x CFast 2.0 card can capture up to more than twice that time. It’s essential that professional content creators shooting in bandwidth-heavy applications such as RAW, 4K, burst-mode, time-lapse, and beyond have access to increasingly higher capacities and faster transfer speeds like those offered by the new 512GB Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 card.”
The 512GB Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 card provides write speeds up to 445MB/s, for professionals to capture lots of footage and keep shooting. From the first take through to post-production, content innovators will have the speed and space needed to capture the highest cinema-quality video for their next masterpiece and quickly power through post-production with read transfer speeds up to 525MB/s.*1
The Lexar Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 card includes a lifetime copy of Image Rescue® software to recover most photo and select video files, even if they’ve been erased or the card has been corrupted.*4 The card is also backed by expert technical support and a limited lifetime warranty. The new card capacity will be available in Q1 of 2017 with an MSRP of £1,732.99. The Lexar Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 card line is also available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities. In addition, the Professional 3600x CFast 2.0 card line is available in 128GB and 256GB capacities. All Lexar products undergo extensive testing in the Lexar Quality Labs to validate performance, quality, compatibility, and reliability with more than 1,200 digital devices. To determine which CFast card is compatible with your preferred camera, please visit www.lexar.com/cfastcompatibility. For more information about Lexar products, visit www.lexar.com.
*1 Up to 525MB/s read transfer, write speeds lower. Speeds based on internal testing. Actual performance may vary. x=150KB/s.
*2 For a complete list of compatible cameras, go to www.lexar.com/cfastcompatibility
*3 Based on 256GB capacity shooting 2K @200fps. Actual minutes will vary depending on camera/device model, format resolution and compression, usable capacity, and bundled software.
*4 Image or other data recovery is not 100% guaranteed
Actual usable memory capacity may vary. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes.
Limited lifetime warranty is limited to 10 years from purchase in Germany.
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
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Phase One has released an update for its Capture One Pro software, taking it up to version 10.0.2. The update implements various bug fixes for both the Windows and macOS versions of the software, and adds new support for Fujifilm, Panasonic, Nikon, Olympus, and Canon cameras and Tamron, Panasonic and Sony lenses.
In addition to adding support for the new cameras and lenses, Capture One Pro 10.0.2 now fixes a pair of issues in Windows, one involving the Skin Tone white balance picker not working and another bug that affected the Lens Correction Shift feature.
For the macOS version, Phase One has fixed four issues: the same Lens Correction Shift problem found in the Windows application, as well as Open CL errors, an Error Code 19 issue during batch processing, and a bug affecting the Find and Replace Batch Rename feature.
Capture One Pro 10.0.2 now supports the following cameras and lenses:
10.0.2 Camera Support
10.0.2 Lens Support
Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
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Utah Badlands, Utah
Emily Dickey and Dustin LeFevre are landscape photographers who seek out remote locations. A couple of years ago, they started to complement their standard landscape images with something a little different – portraits of themselves in formalwear, adding a human element and a dramatic sense of scale to their work. And it’s no coincidence that Dickey wears a wedding dress in some of their images: the couple got married last summer.
Putting images of this nature together is no easy task, and a great deal of work goes into each image presented here. Find out how they do it by clicking through the Q&A above.
To see more of their work check out Emily’s Instagram, Dustin’s Instagram and their website.
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Vestrahorn, Iceland
We were planning a trip to Iceland and saw elopement photos that had been taken there and thought they were stunning. After seeing them, we decided that we wanted a good picture or two of us dressed up while we were visiting. Since we weren’t bringing a portrait photographer along with us, we thought we could try to do it ourselves.
We found a location, set up the camera and took a few shots. We managed to get a decent photo and now whenever we go on a photo trip, we tend to pack some formals so we can get unique portrait shots in some beautiful locations.
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Factory Butte, Utah
We usually will have visited a location a few times before deciding that we want to bring our formals along with us. If it’s a new location, we will research whether it’s a sunrise or sunset location and try to show up early enough to find a good composition. Some locations require us to pack our clothing with us and hike in a few miles. We usually have to find a spot to change, to fix our hair after hiking, etc. Wearing a dress is a challenge in most of the places we shoot in. It can be tricky to walk around in and it can be cold and uncomfortable.
Posing is the most difficult challenge because there isn’t anyone there to direct us and sometimes (most of the time) we don’t nail it and have to try again. It can be frustrating running back and forth to the camera to see if we got a decent shot. It’s also difficult giving up the good light to portraits rather than landscape photography. Since our passion is landscape photography, we usually hurry through our portrait shots, grab our cameras and tripods and frantically run around in our formal wear trying to get a landscape shot as well.
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The Wave, Arizona
We use a Nikon D810 for most of our shots and a Gitzo GT1541 tripod with Really Right Stuff BH-40 Ball head. We use a RFN-4s Wireless Remote Shutter Release when we can but the range can be a limiting factor.
If we are too far away from the camera, we have to set the in-camera intervalometer to take a photo every few seconds.
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Rock Tsunami, Utah
We are both big believers in natural light and all our selfies were done without additional lighting equipment. Shooting with a D810 allows us to use the incredible DR that the camera offers to emphasize the natural light present in the scene through post processing.
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The Wave, Arizona
Our favorite portrait of us was taken at The Wave, Arizona. Conditions couldn’t have been better. The temperature was just right, the sky had dark, dramatic clouds all morning and there was a slight breeze. We hiked up to the top of a butte right above the famous Wave formation. Dustin told me to lean back as he held my arm and the wind caught my dress. The pose ended up looking like figurines on top of a wedding cake, so we like to call the photo ‘Cake Toppers.’
It was very hard to try and look relaxed as I was leaning backwards over what would be a very steep fall. Another random visitor there was videoing us, just waiting to catch the moment.
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Grand County, Utah. After a trying hike and challenging shoot the previous day, Dustin set up his camera and surprised Emily by asking her to marry him.
We decided to hike up on a butte in the desert and planned to spend the night there, so we had our backpacking gear and our formal clothing with us. We hiked up late in the afternoon on Memorial Day so it was quite hot and there was no shade. Even though it’s a fairly short hike, it was a very long hour to make it to the top. We finally made it to our location and a few minutes later, the wind started howling. There wasn’t a place for us to pitch our tent with the wind. Finally, the wind died down and we took some formals.
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Avenue of the Giants, CA
We haven’t planned anything specifically, but we are planning a trip to Oregon later this year and we will be bringing our formals along with us. The wedding dress is still in good condition, so I’m thinking we might have to find a fun way to destroy it.
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White Pocket, Arizona
Instagram is a great community where we are constantly finding inspiration from fellow photographers. We have met so many good friends and talented photographers online, too.
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Vestrahorn, Iceland
Inspiration can come from anywhere and strike at any time. Don’t get hung up on what other photographers/artists have or have not done. Almost all of us have started out by trying to emulate photographers that we admire and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s a great way to learn.
If you limit yourself to what has not already been done, you are allowing yourself to be influenced by others, almost as much as copying them. You will develop your own ‘voice’ over time, through practice. Lots of practice.
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