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Weekly Photography Challenge – Snow White

Check out these images of snow I rounded up earlier today.

By Thomas Hawk

Weekly Photography Challenge – Snow White

This week your challenge is to go photograph something snow white – so what that means is that if you do not live in a place where it snows you can still shoot based on the theme white. Try doing a white subject on a white background, something high-key.

By Howard Ignatius

By Howard Ignatius

By Sheree Zielke

By Thomas Hawk

By rene de paula jr

By Will Montague

By Ben Raynal

Share your images below:

Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section) 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. Show me your best images in this week’s challenge. Sometimes it takes a while for an image to appear so be patient and try not to post the same image twice.

By Francisco Gonzalez

By Randi Hausken

By Jérémy Lelièvre

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December 12, 2015
Form Follows Treehouse: Tiny Green Canopy Home Tops Wood Trunk

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Wrapped in living greenery, the upper story of this solar-powered, tree-shaped dwelling branches outward, set upon a wooden framework supporting it from below.

Designed by Elevate Structure Inc. in Hawaii (photos by Corey Lum for Civil Beat), the 40-square-foot-base expands upward to a 400-square-foot second floor above, overhanging to provide shade for outdoor uses (patios or parking) underneath.

Eco-friendly features include living and breathing exterior walls that can also be used to grow edible produce, self-sufficient solar power generation via side and top panels and rainwater storage and collection (up to 1,500 gallons).

The modular structure was originally designed as an easy-to-ship, simple-to-build and off-the-grid solution for remote parts of Oahu, but the target has since been expanded due to broader public interest.

While they work wonderfully as elevated homes, the units can also be used for other purposes, including small stores, cafes, offices, gyms and/or storage spaces.

From its creators: “Inspired by Hawaii’s natural beauty, Elevate founders Tiffany and Nathan set out to create these innovative structures to help care for the environment and help people. The pressure of existing global issues – insufficient water availability in areas, poor air and water quality in others, and high energy consumption are exacerbated by the increasing population density and demands of urban environments – combined with their streak of entrepreneurship brought the Elevate unit to life.”

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December 12, 2015
RED Scarlet-W and Scarlet-W Monochrome unveiled: shipping starts in February

RED has introduced its new Scarlet-W and Scarlet-W Monochrome pro-grade cameras. Both models feature RED’s Dragon sensor with recording options that include 5K/60fps, 4K/150fps, and 2K/300fps. Additionally, the Scarlet-W Monochrome makes it possible to capture black and white footage with enhanced resolution and improved light sensitivity. Thanks to a durable and lightweight design, Scarlet-W is suitable for on-the-go projects.

RED says its new offering makes ‘obsolescence obsolete’ by using the DSMC2 accessories line, which is also compatible with RED’s Red Raven and Weapon cameras. The same modular design found on RED’s other cameras comes with Scarlet-W and is joined by an interchangeable lens mount.

Scarlet-W (body-only) is priced at $ 9,950 USD/€10,040 EUR/£7,175 GBP with shipping set for February 2016. Deposits are now being accepted at $ 1,000 USD. Packages are also available starting at $ 14,500 USD.

Press release:

ANNOUNCING THE INDUSTRY-CHANGING SCARLET-W CAMERA

Today RED introduced the newest addition to the RED DRAGON® family, SCARLET-W. Bringing an unparalleled level of accessibility to content creators everywhere, SCARLET-W combines RED’s intuitive camera design—including integrated mounting points, interchangeable lens mounts, simultaneous REDCODE® RAW and Apple ProRes recording formats, intelligent OLPF system, and in-camera 3D LUT outputs—with a RED DRAGON sensor to provide a solution that blends flexibility and accessibility with high-end performance.

Coupling RED’s wide dynamic range and renowned color science with simultaneously recording capabilities in REDCODE RAW and Apple ProRes, SCARLET-W provides shooters with the best image quality possible in any format. Professionals are empowered to capture their vision exactly as they see it with recording frame rates of 5K at 60 frames per second (fps), 4K at 150 fps, or 2K at 300 fps when shooting REDCODE RAW.

SCARLET-W is estimated to begin shipping in February 2016, with deposits now being accepted through the RED website or with a RED Authorized Dealer. Customers have the choice to purchase the camera BRAIN® only—with either a color or black and white monochrome sensor—or the SCARLET-W Base I/O V-Lock Package, which provides the key components necessary to get out and start shooting. Additionally, current SCARLET DRAGON® owners are eligible to receive a $ 2,500 discount on the SCARLET-W Base I/O V-Lock Package price (Only available through RED.COM).

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December 12, 2015
11. Dezember 2015

Das Bild des Tages von: Jens

Im Ausblick: Kritik am Pirelli-Kalender, Dronen fotografieren Flüchtlinge und eine TV-Show.
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December 11, 2015
28 Wintery White Snowy Images

For those of us who live in the northern hemisphere, the ground is probably covered in snow for many of us by this time of the season. So what better reason is there to get out and photograph all that white fluffy stuff?

Here is that wintery white stuff in some snowy day images:

By Adam Foster

By jenny downing

By Tim Donnelly

By maf04

By Visit Finland

By Shigemi.J

By Mika_Oulu

By Adam Vradenburg

By Andrew Smith

By Gerry Balding

By Rodney Campbell

By maziar hooshmand

By Russ Seidel

By Julie Falk

By Shawn Harquail

By Pascal Bovet

By Alexey Kljatov

By Kamyar Adl

By Several seconds

By Mike Norkum

By Rishi Bandopadhay

By Ishrona

By Roman Boed

By Javier

By Flood G.

By Vida Dimovska

By brian colson

By Roman Schmitz

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December 11, 2015
California dreaming: The zen of photography with Rinzi Ruiz and Jonathan Alcorn

Street photographer Rinzi Ruiz and photojournalist Jonathan Alcorn are both based in the Los Angeles area, but their personal photography takes them to very different places. Ruiz thrives in the bustle of downtown L.A., while Alcorn loses himself photographing skateboarders and surfer-types at Venice Beach. They each find their zen in these environments, shooting until the sun is low in the sky, letting everything slip away except for the shot. Take a look at what zen means to these photographers, and let us know in the comments where you find yours.

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December 11, 2015
Michael Kenna: Japan

Michael Kenna gehört zu den renommiertesten Landschaftsfotografen und hat sich mit seinem stillen, zurückgenommenen Stil weltweit einen Namen gemacht. Beim Verlag Prestel hat Kenna vor Kurzem einen prächtigen Bildband mit dem Namen „Forms Of Japan“ publiziert, den wir Euch in der letzten Ausgabe der 5 Fotobücher des Monats bereits kurz vorgestellt haben.
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December 11, 2015
Sculptural Skyscraper: Ornate NYC Design Redefines Tower Decor

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Architect Mark Foster Gage has unveiled stunning plans for this 100-story, skyline-defining structure for Midtown Manhattan with views of Central Park. Commissioned by a developer to explore a statement-making skyscraper, the work includes carved figures and ornate balconies.

No expense was spared, at least in this conceptual stage: limestone-tinted concrete cladding and hydroformed sheet-bronze details are accompanied by brass-tinted alloy wrapping structural extrusions and enclosures. The program features ballrooms and restaurants at various heights as well as a mid-structure retail ‘sky lobby’.

Early skyscrapers puzzled architects initially, and many were envisaged as lower-height buildings (featuring a plinth at the base and crowned with decorative roofs) with the central portion stretched vertically. Then Modernists came along, smoothing out lines and discarding sculptural effects for glass and steel. This design goes a step behind recalling early towers, including iterative and undulating embellishments from top to bottom.

Of course, there was a logic to architectural predecessors with elongated central zones – they were street-friendly at the bottom, and sky-friendly at the top, saving cost and complexity in the middle.

Whether such an extravegant reinterpretation of skyscrapers as this represents is indeed desirable or even feasible remains an open question. Still, there is something to be said for attempting to bring non-minimalist beauty back to tall buildings.

In many ways, this approach represents a hybrid of old skyscrapers and new city-in-the-sky attitudes championed by contemporary architects, mixing programs at various levels to create a sort of self-contained structure for living, working and recreating.

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December 11, 2015
Apple iOS 9.2 adds iPhone support for USB camera adapter for direct photo transfer

Apple released a number of software updates yesterday including iOS 9.2. In addition to a large number of bug fixes, the update adds iPhone support for the company’s Lightning to USB Camera Adapter, making it possible now to transfer images directly from a camera to your iPhone. Previously, only iPads were supported. Read more

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December 11, 2015
Epson announces mass production of 4.41m dot LCD likely used in Leica SL

Epson has announced its latest electronic viewfinder panel: a 4.41m dot SXGA+ display, a spec that may sound familiar to anyone who’s been reading about Leica’s SL full-frame mirrorless camera. Epson had shown a mockup of the panel at CP+ back in February 2015, and says the unit is now in mass production.

The 4.41m dot unit offers an SXGA+ display: 1,400 x 1,050 pixels. This equates to 1.87x as many pixels as the existing XGA viewfinders used in most high-end mirrorless cameras: a 36% increase in linear resolution. Everyone who’s used it at DPReview has been very impressed by the level of detail shown by the SL’s 4.41m dot viewfinder.

Leica has previously offered Epson-based EVFs as accessory finders for its X1 and X2 models, but these were likely to have been brought in from Olympus, given the similar styling and cross-compatibility with Olympus units. Considering the dot count and panel size (0.66″), it seems very probable that this is the LCD panel in the SL.

The Leica SL, as seen from behind

At present, most high-end EVFs we’ve seen are XGA 2.36m dot displays, using either LCD or OLED technologies. Olympus used LCD panels in its earlier OM-D cameras but has shifted towards OLED in its latest generation. Likewise, Fujfilm used LCDs in its X-Pro1 and X100 series models, only to embrace OLED across the rest of its range. Despite this shift, we’d be surprised if we didn’t start seeing this LCD panel in some of the higher-end mirrorless cameras over the coming year or so, especially given the greater longevity of LCD panels that Leica mentioned as its reason for choosing the technology.

That said, the 0.66″ panel size could limit its usage, since this is considerably larger than the 0.48″ LCD and 0.5″ OLEDs currently in use.

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December 11, 2015