Ricoh has introduced the WG-5 GPS, the latest in its line of rugged compacts. It exceeds its predecessor’s shockproof rating of 2m to 2.2m, and maintains its other rugged specs including -10C/+14F degree freezeproof rating, 14m/45 ft waterproof capability and 100kgf/220lbf crushproof rating. The WG-5 uses a 16MP BSI CMOS sensor, a 25-100mm equivalent zoom lens and as its name suggests, built-in GPS. Read more
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Olympus has refreshed its rugged compact series with the Stylus Tough TG-860. It offers a 16MP BSI-CMOS sensor and is capable of diving to greater depths than its predecessor, the TG-850 iHS, as it’s waterproof to 15m/50 ft (compared to 10m/33ft). Other new features include Wi-Fi and a pair of customizable buttons. Read more
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I almost didn’t purchase the Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens. I remember a conversation when I bought it a few years back on Google+ with my good pal Gordon Laing where I was really debating buying it. It was in pre production and I had an order in with B&H but it hadn’t shipped yet. At around $ 1,400 the lens felt expensive for what I worried might be an oddball lens, a lens useful for making a few high impact fisheye shots but not good for much else.
I’m happy to say that I did buy the EF 8-15mm fisheye lens and that I couldn’t be more happy about that decision.
My main dilemma with the EF 8-15mm fisheye was that I already owned the excellent EF 24mm f/1.4 lens and EF 14mm f/2.8 lens, and so I felt like I had the whole wide angle world covered. Now I find that I use this lens at 15mm much more than either my EF 24mm f/1.4 lens and EF 14mm f/2.8 lens and get what feels to me to be a remarkable more normal non fishy looking wide angle shot. Yes, you can tell it came from a fisheye lens at 15mm, but barely and I love the slightest degree of distortion I get there artistically speaking.
Of course I have way more fun shooting this lens at 8mm and have found that beyond traditional fisheye subjects, this lens has opened up a whole new world to me when it comes to shooting more abstractly — especially with architecture. I find these days my EF 14mm lens stays in my bag and instead I put on my EF 8-15mm fisheye lens for almost every ceiling photo I take.
I find this lens gets me my highest impact shots. Shots that make you go wow and make people notice.
On a full frame lens this lens gives you a perfect circle at 8mm. I love the square crop format and frequently shoot it at 8mm and then crop square afterwards.
The lens is super sharp and great if you want to get the entire ceiling of Chihuly’s amazing sculpture at the Bellagio like in the photo with this post.
While it’s not the best portrait lens, it can be fun to use as well with photographing people in new and creative ways (like this version of the human eye that I used it on).
As a reminder, my analysis of my Canon gear is being done in partnership with Canon and I am receiving compensation for this work with them.
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
Das Buch „The Black Series“ ist für mich ein persönliches Buch, nicht zuletzt, weil ich selbst darin abgebildet bin und die Fotografin Claudia Wycisk kenne. Es war für mich sehr spannend, die Serie von ihrer Entstehung bis hin zum fertigen Buch mitverfolgen zu können.
Ich habe großen Respekt vor Claudia, denn der Weg zu dem Buch in seiner jetzigen Form, war nicht leicht. Viel Leidenschaft und ein starker Wille stehen dahinter. Aber beginnen wir ganz von vorn. Denn da stand zunächst ein einzelnes Portrait von einer jungen Frau in antiken schwarzen Kleidern. Das Bild hatte etwas Faszinierendes, und das regte Claudia an mehr Frauen auf dieselbe Art und Weise zu fotografieren.
Die Menschen von heute zeitlos werden zu lassen, war dabei das Ziel. In klassischen Portraits setzte sie nach und nach auch Männer, Kinder und Pärchen in Szene. Auch ich durfte mit meiner jüngsten Tochter vor Claudias Kamera stehen und fühlte mich in meinem alten Kleid trotz schwarzem Hintergrund und Studiolicht auf einmal in der Zeit zurückversetzt.
Ich denke das ist die Stärke des Projektes: Man kennt diese alten Bilder der Urgroßeltern und fühlt sich ihnen auf einmal sehr nah, auch wenn man sie persönlich nicht oder kaum kannte.
Aber auch für alle, die nicht Teil des Projektes sind, ist das Buch sicher interessant, denn Claudia ist eine Schwarzweiß-Künstlerin. Jedes der über 100 Portraits ist perfekt arrangiert und eine Inspiration für jeden Portraitfotografen. Wenn man in die verschiedenen Gesichter blickt, kann man sich kaum vorstellen, wie diese Menschen wohl heute in Jeans und T-Shirt über den Markplatz laufen.
Das Buch ist als Hardcover mit 152 Seiten erschienen. Neben einem Vorwort, gibt es auch einen Bericht der Fotografin. Darin beschreibt sie sehr genau wie die Serie entstand und geht dabei sogar auf Details zur Kamera und Lichteinstellungen ein, was es meiner Meinung nach gar nicht gebraucht hätte und dem Ganzen vielleicht etwas den Zauber nimmt.
In der Mitte des Buches findet sich eine kleine Kurzgeschichte der Jounalistin Mariana Friedrich. Claudias Bilder inspirierten sie zu diesem fiktiven Text. Zwischen den einzelnen Fotos finden sich auch kleine Zitate der Portraitierten, die erzählen, wie sie das Shooting empfanden und sich in den fertigen Aufnahmen sahen.
Das Buch sollte zunächst über eine Crowdfounding-Plattform vorfinanziert werden. Leider erreichte diese ihr Ziel nicht. Claudia ließ sich davon jedoch nicht einschüchtern und arbeitete weiter an ihrem Traum, die Serie, an der sie so lange gearbeitet hatte, endlich als Buch in Händen halten zu können. Im Eigenverlag ließ sie es in einer Edition von 300 Exemplaren drucken.
Informationen zum Buch
„The Black Series“ von Claudia Wycisk
Sprache: deutsch
Einband: Gebunden
Seiten: 152
Maße: 23 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-3-00-045443-1
Preis: 55 Euro
limitiert auf 300 Exemplare
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I almost didn’t purchase the Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens. I remember a conversation when I bought it a few years back on Google+ with my good pal Gordon Laing where I was really debating buying it. It was in pre production and I had an order in with B&H but it hadn’t shipped yet. At around $ 1,400 the lens felt expensive for what I worried might be an oddball lens, a lens useful for making a few high impact fisheye shots but not good for much else.
I’m happy to say that I did buy the EF 8-15mm fisheye lens and that I couldn’t be more happy about that decision.
My main dilemma with the EF 8-15mm fisheye was that I already owned the excellent EF 24mm f/1.4 lens and EF 14mm f/2.8 lens, and so I felt like I had the whole wide angle world covered. Now I find that I use this lens at 15mm much more than either my EF 24mm f/1.4 lens and EF 14mm f/2.8 lens and get what feels to me to be a remarkable more normal non fishy looking wide angle shot. Yes, you can tell it came from a fisheye lens at 15mm, but barely and I love the slightest degree of distortion I get there artistically speaking.
Of course I have way more fun shooting this lens at 8mm and have found that beyond traditional fisheye subjects, this lens has opened up a whole new world to me when it comes to shooting more abstractly — especially with architecture. I find these days my EF 14mm lens stays in my bag and instead I put on my EF 8-15mm fisheye lens for almost every ceiling photo I take.
I find this lens gets me my highest impact shots. Shots that make you go wow and make people notice.
On a full frame lens this lens gives you a perfect circle at 8mm. I love the square crop format and frequently shoot it at 8mm and then crop square afterwards.
The lens is super sharp and great if you want to get the entire ceiling of Chihuly’s amazing sculpture at the Bellagio like in the photo with this post.
While it’s not the best portrait lens, it can be fun to use as well with photographing people in new and creative ways (like this version of the human eye that I used it on).
As a reminder, my analysis of my Canon gear is being done in partnership with Canon and I am receiving compensation for this work with them.
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection
Sony has introduced a new line of XQD format version 2 memory cards, the G Series. As with other XQD cards, the G Series promises fast read and write speeds that are able to match the demanding needs of select cameras, such as the Nikon D4 and D4s. In turn, Nikon has announced that the D4s will support Sony’s version 2 XQD cards, with improved write speeds and burst capacities. Read more
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In a series of six superb videos, Al Jazeera explores the gritty reality of architects and urban designers as activists in destinations from Vietnam and Nigeria to Pakistan and Brazil. Five of these 25-minute episodes are embedded in full as videos below, with summaries to let you see which you may wish to view – that said, each of the six is well worth watching!
In Guerrilla Architect, Santiago Cirugeda, an architect from Seville who has dedicated his career to reclaiming urban spaces for the public, deals with difficult realities in “austerity-hit Spain, where the state has retreated and around 500,000 new buildings lie empty.”
Fortunately, he notes: “In times of crisis, people come together to find collective solutions.” One of his challenges, as covered in this mini-documentary, is converting an abandoned half-finished factory into a vibrant new cultural center.
In The Architecture of Violence, Eyal Weizman “explains architecture’s key role in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the evolution of urban warfare.” He explains that “architecture and the built environment is a kind of a slow violence. The occupation is an environment that was conceived to strangulate Palestinian communities, villages and towns, to create an environment that would be unliveable for the people there.”
In this episode, local Israelis and Palestinians explain in candid interviews “how it feels to live in a landscape where everything, from walls and roads, terraces and sewage, to settlements and surveillance are designed to ensure the separation of the two peoples, while simultaneously maintaining control.”
An architecture firm in Japan couldn’t find suitable office space – so they leased a plot of land and built a temporary structure with 7 shipping containers.
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Attached to the permanent architecture of Taipei is a network of sustainable pop-up structures in a beneficial – but illegal – symbiotic relationship.
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Futuristic utopias have long been the dream of urban planners, sociologists and science fiction writers. These 10 examples showcase some of the weird, wild, …
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GoPro’s in-house production team travel the globe with some of the world’s best athletes and produce videos like the Hero 3+ launch, with over 16 million views on YouTube. This week GoPro and its production team released a new tutorial series called the GoPro Field Guide, a set of videos designed to delve a little deeper into some of the more complex functions of their action camera lineup. Read more
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If you love outdoor photography and are hungry to learn more from seasoned professionals then there is a great eBook and video series that has just been launched: 101 Visionary Insights. 10 professional photographers, including myself, discuss inspiring and creative techniques to improve your photography and get the most out of your time in the field.
If you like what you see in the sample eBook linked above be sure to purchase the full ebook and video series for as little as $ 12. You’ll find insights from myself Jim M. Goldstein, Gary Crabbe, Ian Plant, Bob Holmes, David H. Wells, Jay & Varina Patel, Karen Hutton, Moose Peterson and Joshua Holko. A sample page from the eBook can be found below and to see more sample content grab the free 10 tip eBook linked above. I highly recommend the video course as I put together some important tips that I’ve yet to share publicly on my blog, podcast or social media updates. Enjoy and happy shooting!
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101 Landscape Visionary Insights Not To Miss – A New eBook & Video Series
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Manfrotto has announced a new line of backpacks and accessories, the Pro Light series. The new line includes backpacks designed for both still photographers and videographers, holsters and rain covers, all designed with an emphasis on portability and versatility. The five styles of backpacks for still photographers offer side access for another route to your gear and are priced from $ 220 – $ 310 USD/£199.95 – £249.95 GBP. Read more
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