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  • Sony launches DSC-TX55 touch-screen CMOS compact

    Sony has announced the TX55 touch-screen card-style camera. The 16.2MP camera features a backside illuminated CMOS sensor and stabilized 5x zoom lens (which we calculate to offer a range of approximately 26-130mm equivalent). The TX55 can capture 1080i60 movies and store them on the MicroSD/SDHC or Memory Stick Micro cards it uses to keep the body size down to an impressively slim 12.2mm deep. Beyond this it has a 3.3" OLED touch screen, the now-standard Sony features such as 3D Sweep Panorama and gains the ‘Picture Effects’ image processing filters that debuted in the NEX C3. It also uses a ‘By Pixel Super Resolution’ digital zoom mode that applies image processing to try enhance the image back up to full pixel-count (more details when we get them).
    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sexy Fashion Shoot in a Field of Flowers! – Karl Taylor Photography

    Get More FREE Training Videos at my website: www.karltaylorphotography.com On this shoot I show the techniques for lighting on location for some fashion and sexy model photography! See how we set the shot up, work with the existing ambient light and add my portable studio lighting to create some stunning images. I really hope you like the results and welcome your comments on this video. If you like what you see then please recommend our channel and videos to a friend! Get More FREE Training at my website: www.karltaylorphotography.com
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Lytro plenoptic camera used for fashion shoot

    Following the extensive press coverage of Lytro’s ‘light field’ camera, the company’s Director of Photography, Eric Cheng, was invited to photograph a fashion shoot. The results, visible on Canadian model Coco Rocha’s website, show a similar level of control over the focus point as exhibited in the sample we posted previously (and, perhaps tellingly, are the same 494 x 494 pixel resolution). They are accompanied by a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot that shows Cheng using the (blurred-out) camera. Despite the blurring, it suggests the camera is around the size of a conventional compact.
    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Inspirationsquelle Wald

    Ich habe das Glück in einer Großstadt wohnen zu können, aber auch gleichzeitig sehr nahe am Wald. Nur 30 Minuten entfernt mit dem Fahrrad sind bereits ein paar meiner Lieblingsstellen, die zum Spazierengehen einladen.

    In letzter Zeit habe ich den Wald aber auch mehr und mehr fotografisch entdeckt. Alle paar Meter verändert er sein Gesicht. Es gibt Stellen, da herrschen riesige Wurzelwerke, es gibt herrliche Lichtungen mit wildem Gras und dann wieder unglaublich dichtes Nadelgehölz. Am Wegrand stehen auf einmal riesige Farnblätter, größer als ich selbst und ein wenig weiter liegt etwas versteckt ein kleines Birkenwäldchen.

    Durch seine Vielfältigkeit bietet der Wald mir unzählige Fotoideen. Nachdem ich angefangen hatte dort Fotos zu machen, sah ich auf einmal überall Bilder. Jetzt in den Ferien fahre ich fast täglich mit einem großen Rucksack voller Kleider und meiner Kamera hinein und entdecke jedes Mal etwas Neues.

    Zudem ist der Wald sehr angenehm. Man atmet frische Luft und es ist ein wenig stiller als in der Stadt. So still, wie es eben in einem deutschen Wald sein kann. Entfernt hört man leider immer Flugzeuge oder andere Wanderer.

    Auch an Abenteuern mangelt es nicht. Vor Kurzem stand auf einmal ein Wildschwein vor mir. Ich hatte gelesen, dass das sehr scheue Tiere sind, die man selten zu Gesicht bekommt, weil sie schnell Reißaus nehmen. Aber dieses Tier schien sichtlich unbeeindruckt von mir. Ich stieg auf mein Fahrrad und fuhr langsam an ihm vorbei. Es sah mir nach und verschwand dann wieder im Dickicht.

    Bisher habe ich fast ausschließlich Selbstportraits gemacht. Ich genieße die Ruhe um mich herum, vermeide den Blick auf die Uhr und fotografiere einfach. Wenn ich eine schöne Stelle entdecke, dann setze ich mich kurz, betrachte sie eine Weile und überlege, wie ich mich darin darstellen könnte.

    Dann suche ich mir passende Kleidung, stelle das Stativ auf, nehme den Selbstauslöser in die Hand und mache ein paar Aufnahmen, bis mir die Pose und der Blick gefallen. Oft entwickelt sich das Bild während des Ausprobierens. Immer wieder sehe ich auf das Display und korrigiere den Ausschnitt, die Kleidung oder die Pose.

    Dieses Arbeiten ist unglaublich entspannend. Bin ich im Wald, ist mir die Zeit egal. Ich suche mir auch immer Tage, an denen es nicht wichtig ist, wann ich wieder nach Hause komme. Meist vergeht die Zeit auch angenehm langsam. Es ist wie ein Zauber.

    Mehr Waldbilder gibt es hier und es werden sicher noch einige folgen.


    KWERFELDEIN | Fotografie Magazin

  • Just posted: Printer Primer Part 1: Choosing a new printer

    Just Posted: Printer Primer Part 1: Choosing a new printer. Over the coming months we will be expanding our printing content to include reviews and technique articles. As part of that process we’re also taking the opportunity to update some of our existing content. Part one of our updated printer primer replaces an earlier guide to photo printers and explains the different types of models available, the technologies they use, and how you should determine which is right for you.
    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Olympus quietly unveils SZ-11 and VG-145 compact cameras

    Olympus has announced the SZ-11 and VG-15 14MP compact cameras. The SZ-11 is a compact superzoom that manages to squeeze a 20X wide-angle zoom (25-500mm equiv.) into a relatively compact body. Despite the numbering, it appears to have more in common with the SZ-30H than the SZ-10, seemingly using a shorter version of the SZ-30’s lens. This means a maximum aperture of F3.0-6.9, rather than the SZ-10’s rather more impressive F3.3-4.4. The SZ-11 also has 10 Art Filters, rather than the eight offered by existing SZ models. Meanwhile the VG-15 is a budget compact with a 26-130mm equiv. unstabilized zoom lens. It has the same 14MP sensor as the SZ-11 and includes a 3.0" 230k dot LCD, rather than the SZ-11’s 460k dot panel.
    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • COLORES | Eliot Porter | KNME

    www.knme.org – Celebrate the life and work of Santa Fe photographer Eliot Porter. For more than a half of a century Porter pursued the natural world with his view through a camera. He had numerous publications, most notably with the Sierra Club. “In wilderness is the preservation of the world,” Porter wrote. He combined his photographs with selections of Henry David Thoreau’s writings. The Place No One Knew features Porter’s photographs of Glen Canyon before it vanished under the waters of the Colorado River Project. Featured in this look back at Porter’s work is the photographer’s son Jonathan, who reads selections from his father’s writings. Poet VB Price reads the Thoreau selections, and is joined by artists, photographers and friends of Eliot Porter to speak of Eliot and the impact of his work. For more New Mexico PBS content visit http
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

    Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the “street photography” style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Trained as a painter, he began his career in photography in 1931 on a trip to the Ivory Coast. He was one of the first photographers to shoot in the 35mm format with a Leica camera, and helped to develop the photojournalistic “street photography” style that influenced generations of photographers to come. It was there on the Côte d’Ivoire that he contracted blackwater fever, which nearly killed him. Returning to France, Cartier-Bresson recuperated in Marseille in 1931 and deepened his relationship with the Surrealists. He became inspired by a photograph by Hungarian photojournalist Martin Munkacsi artneutre.bitacoras.com Cartier-Bresson said: “The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn’t believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street.” The photograph inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, “I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.”. He acquired the Leica camera with

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  • Olympus announces SP-810UZ with the world’s longest zoom lens

    Olympus has announced the SP-810UZ superzoom with a 36x (24-864mm equiv.) zoom lens – the world’s longest optical zoom in a compact camera. Successor to the SP-800UZ, the SP-810UZ also boasts a 14MP CCD sensor, 3.0" LCD and 720p HD video recording. Also included are a 3D capture mode, AF Tracking and Magic Filters including a new ‘reflection’ effect. Priced at $ 329.99, the camera will start shipping from September 2011.
    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Lightroom Presets

    Lightroom presets enhance or simplify your develop time with your photographs. Here are a few websites for Lightroom presets that (mostly) offer free presets to be used in Lightroom. If you know of any other sites that I have not listed please comment below and I will add the sites you suggest.

    Presetsheaven
    Pretty Presets for Lightroom
    onOne Software
    Lightroom Killer Tips
    Ultimate Collection of The Best Adobe Lightroom Presets
    Presetpond
    Adobe Exchange
    Inside Lightroom
    Wonderlandpresets
    get totally rad
    speckyboy
    Presetopia
    Rule of Thirds Photography
    Flickr Discussing Presets
    Kubota Image Tools
    Camera Dojo
    Prophotoshow
    Mcg Studios
    Rebecca Lily
    Gantico

    Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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