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Cementing its commitment to the CFast standard, SanDisk has introduced the Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 memory card, the first of its kind. The card boasts read speeds of up to 450MB/s and write speeds of up to 350MB/s, and will be sold with 60 or 120GB of storage. As a competitor to the Nikon-backed XQD standard, this first CFast 2.0 card is introduced alongside with an ARRI AMIRA documentary-style camera that records to internal CFast 2.0 cards. Users of some...
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Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue
By Sam Wright
September 12th, 2013
Content, Web Design
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The relationship between copy and design has been covered many times on Smashing Magazine. Working in a content-focused industry, we need to keep this issue pretty close to heart; creating great copy is pointless if it is visually uninspiring or unreadable. Likewise, if the content doesn’t deliver, then even the most attractive page won’t hold the reader’s attention. Yet much of the discussion so far has concentrated on issues such...
As a result of the post I did a couple of weeks ago where I asserted  that putting up with bad behavior is not a way to improve your customer service, I got a great question from Mike in Knoxville, TN. He said: I just read your post, and it got me thinking about how I take care of my clients. Clients, in a strange way, are somewhat like a spouse, how you treat them, or how you re-act to them can have different results. I’m always looking for someway to add extra value to my services, value for what I do for them, what kinda things I can do for them that they would like, would prove...
It’s no secret that there are many ways to enhance our photographs with Lightroom. By using just a handful of sliders we can get some great results in a matter of minutes and by learning how to use tools like the gradient filter tool we can create some more specialized effects with just a little extra effort. So with all these great tools is there still a need for the Tone Curve tool in Lightroom 4 and beyond? Or is it just another way of creating the same effects? What is Lightroom’s Tone Curve Tool? Well the answer to that question really lies in the...
This bride and groom are both serving in the army, and both are gun enthusiasts. I asked the groom if he had their guns handy, and a bullet, and came up with this shot as one of the ring shots. This shot was taken in available light, under a tent outdoors. EOS 5D Mark III with EF 100mm f/2.8L IS; ISO 2500, f/16, 1/125. In my career in photography, I’ve chosen not to focus on weddings as a business model, and shoot only a few every year. I try to avoid being “traditional†in my approach to weddings, mixing traditional shots or types of shots with my own...
“[I think] the jury made the choice to award a journalism prize more than a photographic one,” said photographer Laurent Van Der Stockt when he received the 2013 Visa d’Or News Award at the 25th Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival. “I say this because the G20 is meeting now, and I have the feeling that these country leaders don’t have real public support to force them towards action. I feel that the majority of people are against a military intervention.”
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We’re working towards completing our review of the Canon EOS 70D and have been shooting our test scene with a production camera. We’ve published the test shots, including downloadable Raw files of both the daylight and low light scene. The EOS 70D review will also be one of the few chances to see our outgoing test scene and our new, more challenging, more informative scene alongside one another. Click through to see how it performs. Now we have...
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Responsive Navigation On Complex Websites
By Jon Rundle
September 11th, 2013
CSS, Responsive Design, Techniques
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Central to a solid user experience is a well-structured, simple navigation system. Over the past few months, I’ve been involved in launching two large institutional websites with complex navigation systems. Maintaining simplicity on such large websites becomes increasingly difficult as content requirements grow and tiers of navigation are added, not to mention the extra complexity added by small screens. To illustrate the...
By Kav Dadfar Deserts can make for very dramatic and beautiful landscapes but it can also be challenging to avoid your photos appearing flat and uninteresting. Here are 6 tips to help you on your way. 1. Catch the Right Light It’s no secret that photographing in the early morning or late afternoon provides a wonderfully soft light for your images which helps you avoid making them look flat – and the desert is no exception. The soft light can give the sand a beautiful glow and in the above photo, the red late afternoon light has really brought out the colour of...
Last week we announced our new Portrait Photography eBook with a 25% discount for early birds. Readers have already shared with us some wonderful portraits they’re now capturing with the help of this eBook, and the reviews have already started to flood in. To celebrate, as we like to do with our new eBooks, we’re going to offer up a prize! Order a copy of Portraits: Lighting The Shot before the 4th of October EST and you could win a Beautiful Retrospective 7 Bag and $1000 to spend on lighting and lenses! If you’re already a proud owner of a this wonderful...
“[I think] the jury made the choice to award a journalism prize more than a photographic one,” said photographer Laurent Van Der Stockt when he received the 2013 Visa d’Or News Award at the 25th Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival. “I say this because the G20 is meeting now, and I have the feeling that these country leaders don’t have real public support to force them towards action. I feel that the majority of people are against a military intervention.”
Van Der Stockt has been awarded the Visa d’Or, which comes with a €8000...
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Jeff Rich’s photo project started at the French Broad river outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Since then, ‘Watershed Project’ has taken him to the Tennessee River and now the Mississippi in an effort to document and raise awareness of the safekeeping of these rivers. He tells Wired’s Raw File of the project, “I’ve had to be careful about setting some boundaries,” keeping the scope of his project limited to the...
Apple revealed not one, but two iPhones today at its media event in Cupertino, California. The latest devices are aimed at two very different markets. The colorful iPhone 5C is poised to compete against cheaper smartphones while the iPhone 5S debuts Apple’s newest innovations in mobile technology, including a revamped iSight camera. However, both models are touting a fairly underwhelming spec of 8 megapixels of imaging power  — will it be enough to lure in mobile shutterbugs who may be tempted by the massively megapixel-powered 41MP Nokia Lumia 1020 or 20.7MP Sony Xperia Z1? ...
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11.15 Congrats to another round of poster giveaway winners! Image credits — eldh: Image credits — codebryo: Image credits — tinakesova: Image credits — simontheis: Image credits — pattydelgado: Source Article from...
By Oded Wagenstein Have you ever met a person, while travelling abroad or at home, who has such an interesting face that you would really like to photograph?  But, just before you press the shutter, you suddenly think, “How am I going to shoot this� Because there are so many questions to answer: How do I approach a strange person? Should I photograph from a distance, with a Tele-photo lens, or should I get closer? What if the person will get offended or angry? It depends on the situation but, in 99% of my portraits, I use what I like to call the “being...
“[I think] the jury made the choice to award a journalism prize more than a photographic one,” said photographer Laurent Van Der Stockt when he received the 2013 Visa d’Or News Award at the 25th Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival. “I say this because the G20 is meeting now, and I have the feeling that these country leaders don’t have real public support to force them towards action. I feel that the majority of people are against a military intervention.”
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Olympus has announced its new OM-D E-M1 interchangeable lens camera, which is now the flagship of its Micro Four Thirds lineup. Rather than calling it the follow-up to the E-M5, Olympus says that the E-M1 is actually the ‘successor’ to the E-5, a Four Thirds DSLR introduced back in 2010.  The E-M1’s 16.3-megapixel Live MOS sensor has on-chip phase detection, which promises to focus legacy Four Thirds lenses (using the optional MMF-3...
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Olympus has unveiled a high-end standard zoom to match the E-M1, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm 1:2.8 PRO. It offers a 24-80mm equivalent range, is dust-, splash- and freeze-proof, and uses a manual focus clutch design similar to the 12mm F2 and 17mm F1.8 primes. A minimum focus distance of 0.2m offers 0.3x magnification, and the lens has a L.Fn button whose function can be customised from the camera. The 14 element / 9 group design is packed full of...
We’ve already got our hands on Sony’s new flagship smartphone announced at the IFA expo in Berlin last week. Now we’ve had the chance to use the Xperia Z1 for a few days and have shot a gallery to show you what the device’s camera and 1/2.3 20.7MP CMOS sensor can do. We’ve shot in a mixture of light situations and switched between the Z1’s “manual” mode which lets you shoot at the 20.7MP maximum resolution setting with a 4:3 aspect ratio and the default “Superior Auto” mode which captures 8MP images with a 16:9 aspect...
In the time since Apple released the iPhone 5, mobile photography has greatly improved. Samsung, Nokia, HTC and Sony have collectively raised the bar on smartphone camera hardware, leaving iPhone photographers glancing enviously at phones with physical zoom lenses, 41-megapixel sensors, so-called ultrapixels and detachable lens hardware. While Apple’s mobile app marketplace may still be the leader in photography apps, its camera hardware has some catching up to do. What can Apple do to appease the mobile photographer who may consider switching mobile platforms for a different...
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12.03 Tim Kadlec talks about the importance of performance: Tim Kadlec über performance by design #smashingconf pic.twitter.com/EZVslL2jSy — Robert Zierhofer (@rzierhofer) September 9, 2013 He’s given some great advice on setting a performance budget. Make sure that your page doesn’t go over that budget. This gives you a framework to decide whether you include a feature in your site or not. For example, your client wants you to add a carousel – to stay within budget you can decide to either: Optimize – optimize the carousel Remove – remove something else from the website Don’t...
by Steven McConnell How do you make your photography more meaningful, moving and unique? Lately, I’ve been fascinated with the idea that our motivations significantly influence the quality of photography we create. This sentiment is expressed particularly well in The Foutainhead by Ayn Rand. The character is an architect, rather than a photographer, though his lessons apply to any artist who wants to create great work: “Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a...
By Helen Bradley If you’re moving from Photoshop CS5 or CS6 to Photoshop CC you may be tempted to clean up your computer and remove the older Photoshop version from it. After all there’s no point leaving it there if you’re not using it is there? Well I, for one, won’t be removing Photoshop CS5 anytime soon and I suggest you think twice about removing your older version too. Here are my reasons: 1. Adobe Axed Picture Package Adobe axed Picture Package quite a long time ago but it could be easily made to work with Photoshop CS5. For a time there I also had...
“[I think] the jury made the choice to award a journalism prize more than a photographic one,” said photographer Laurent Van Der Stockt when he received the 2013 Visa d’Or News Award at the 25th Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival. “I say this because the G20 is meeting now, and I have the feeling that these country leaders don’t have real public support to force them towards action. I feel that the majority of people are against a military intervention.”
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For some of us, photography is a hobby. For others, it’s a way to make a living. For Forrest Sargent, a 22-year-old with autism who is unable to speak, it’s a veritable lifeline. His communication is limited to spelling out words using a letter board, a method which allowed him a much-needed way to express himself. Beyond that, he communicates with a gift from his parents bought for his 19th birthday: a camera. His photos capture family and...
So Microsoft has bought the best bits of Nokia, and given their already cozy relationship, the two companies will likely be working as one much more quickly than, say, Google and Motorola did. What can we expect from the next couple years of this intriguing mashup? #1. Pureview rolls out en masse One of the few things Nokia is truly known for in the modern smartphone market is actually innovating in the camera space. Most skeptics of the 41-megapixel Pureview sensor have been silenced by its versatility and image quality. Sure, there’s work to be done in speeding it up and...
Billed as a way to bring back the romance of the darkroom in the smartphone era, Enfojer is an indiegogo project which promises to make your smartphone into an enlarger to create real prints. Part app and part hardware, Enfojer enlarges the image displayed on a smartphone’s LCD, projecting it onto real photo paper. Â The paper is then processed as usual in traditional black and white chemistry. The resulting black and white prints are expected to last around 70 years when processed properly. Though iPhones are shown above, the plan includes apps and cell phone templates for...
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Another day, another controversial change to Facebook’s terms of service – this time, Facebook is planning to update its (very) smallprint in a way that some commentators worry greatly increase the company’s power to exploit users’ content and identities. The American Society of Media Photographers has warned its members to ‘beware’ Facebook’s proposed new terms of service, which – it claims – would...
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Photographer Stéphanie Gonot’s food photos aren’t the stylized, sexy kind you’d see on the cover of magazines like Bon Appetit. Images in her ‘Fad Diets’ series are frightening visual documents of some of the weirder diets out there, while also being striking experiments in color and texture. They may not make your mouth water, but they are a lot of fun, and might just make you reconsider that crash diet… Here’s...
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I like these books for more than the obvious reason that they contain a wealth of help in their pages. For one thing they’re an easy read so, after a hard day behind the camera, you can relax at home and read it for pleasure, not only soaking up all the useful info but enjoying the largish pictures within its pages. Author Rob Sheppard intentionally laid out all the practical info and creative suggestions you would need to take your images to a higher level: which lenses and accessories are best for the purpose; the pluses and minuses of RAW vs JPEG; how do you...
Good photographers learn to work within the limitations of their equipment and learn to cope with scenes where the brightness range is too great for the camera’s sensor to handle. Here are some ideas for you to explore – and none of them involve HDR techniques. 1. Look at the light I suspect the reason that most photographers are attracted to HDR photography is because they like the look of the high contrast, super saturated images you often see created with this technique. It’s not really about capturing every detail of a high contrast subject. Look at the...
“[I think] the jury made the choice to award a journalism prize more than a photographic one,” said photographer Laurent Van Der Stockt when he received the 2013 Visa d’Or News Award at the 25th Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival. “I say this because the G20 is meeting now, and I have the feeling that these country leaders don’t have real public support to force them towards action. I feel that the majority of people are against a military intervention.”
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Another day, another controversial change to Facebook’s terms of service – this time, Facebook is planning to update its (very) smallprint in a way that some commentators worry greatly increase the company’s power to exploit users’ content and identities. The American Association of Media Photographers has warned its members to ‘beware’ Facebook’s proposed new terms of service, which – it claims – would...
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Photographer Stéphanie Godot’s food photos aren’t the stylized, sexy kind you’d see on the cover of magazines like Bon Appetit. Images in her ‘Fad Diets’ series are frightening visual documents of some of the weirder diets out there, while also being striking experiments in color and texture. They may not make your mouth water, but they are a lot of fun, and might just make you reconsider that crash diet… Here’s...
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This week we are celebrating the launch of our brand new Portrait Lighting eBook so I thought it might be fun to have a portraiture themed weekly challenge. Your challenge is to take and share a portrait image that only uses the available light in the setting where you’re shooting. So if you’re outside during the day – shoot only using natural light. If you’re inside, only use the light in the room (window light, the normal artificial lights in the room etc). So – you can use artificial light but no your speed light or any studio lights – just what is...
In a previous article I explored ways of taking photos in soft light. Today, I’d like to look at the opposite of that, and discuss the idea of taking photos in hard light. In the earlier piece I wrote about matching the light to the subject. That’s an important concept to understand – especially when it comes to hard light, a type of lighting considered by many photographers to be unsuitable for most types of photography. I’m not saying those photographers are incorrect. Hard light doesn’t suit every type of subject, and if you’re trying to take a...
At a time when established photo agencies are struggling to keep their heads above water, the decision to create a new one can seem reckless, and Christian Sauvan-Magnet, one of the founders of Haytham Pictures, knows this. “You’ve come to ask why we’re such fools?†he asks, amused, as a greeting. The answer could be “because we’re hopeless romantics, in love with photojournalismâ€.
Before launching Haytham Pictures, Sauvan-Magnet spent years developing and installing image management software for photo agencies. In 2007, he launched his own company, FreeForPress, which...
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WTD #1434 Check out ‘What the Duck’ in our Link Directory What the Duck is a comic strip by Aaron Johnson. It started as a webcomic, with the first strip posted in July 2006. The strip has appeared as print in numerous photography magazines including Amateur Photographer in the UK. It was picked up for syndication in 2008 by Universal Press Syndicate under the name W. T. Duck.  What The Duck is published here every week, and also runs in...
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The Fujinon XF 55-200mm F3.5-4.8 R LM OIS is the first telephoto zoom for Fujifilm’s X system cameras, and offers an 83-300mm equivalent angle of view. It has built-in optical image stabilization with 4.5 stops claimed benefit, and uses linear stepper motors for silent autofocus. The lens features an (unmarked) aperture control ring, and offers high quality all-metal barrel construction. We’re working on expanding our previously-published...
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Cokin has announced a complete overhaul of the branding and packaging of its square filters. The existing different-sized ranges ( ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘Z-Pro’ and ‘X-Pro’) have been rebranded into a single ‘Creative Filter System’, with the four sizes relabelled ‘S’, ‘M’, ‘L’ and ‘XL’. Gone are the old bulky plastic storage boxes too, replaced by a slimmer...
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All in all, this was a pretty good summer– except, of course, for the trip that didn’t happen. I was supposed to hit the road with some friends last month, but events beyond our control pulled the rug out from under us at the last minute. My bags were packed. I was ready to go. The taxi was waiting outside my door. OK– not really, but my Think Tank City Walker 30 really was packed and I am all out of cheesy musical metaphors. I took a few shots of this pretty amazing bag before I unpacked it and thought I’d share a few impressions. I see so...
By Gina Milicia – author of our brand new Portrait Lighting eBook. Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.†-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club Australian actor Firass Dirani in my Fight Club inspired shoot @firassd (twitter) @firazzle (Instagram). Most of my inspiration for photo shoots comes from Movies, art and popular culture. Ever since I saw the movie Fight Club I’ve always wanted to do a fight Club inspired shoot. My aim was to create a really cool, gritty, edgy looking shot. I could have achieved this look...
BJP: What motivated you to document life in the Niger Delta and Nigeria’s clandestine oil trade?
Samuel James: Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, accounting for approximately half of sub-Saharan output, and the fifth largest supplier to the United States. As Africa’s second largest economy, oil accounts for almost 80 percent of the government’s revenue, yet very little trickles down to the people. In the Niger Delta, at the source of production, the vast majority of the population exists on less than a $1 a day in an increasingly ravaged environment...
BJP: Before starting this project, you’ve worked in Kivu in 2009. What made you return to document the situation there in 2012?
Marco Gualazzini: I decided to go back because I have strong ties there, missionaries to whom I feel especially close. The Congo has also always fascinated me. It’s a vast land with an extremely tragic history of unresolved conflict, which has burst out over and over again with almost predictable timing for half a century, since the first massacres between Hutu and Tutsi in the sixties in Rwanda.
When I started out in photojournalism, those...
BJP: Why did you decide to photograph Iraq war veterans for War is Personal in the first place?
Eugene Richards: At the time, most of us who were questioning people didn’t buy [what we were being told] about weapons of mass destruction. It got to be crazy frustrating. I felt like that even before: after 9/11 I knew we were about to enter into 50 or 100 years of war, that this was going to be a pivotal point in changing all our lives – and it depressed me to death. I never went to Iraq and always felt I should have. Then the guys and women started coming home and I felt,...
BJP: Why did you decide to do a project on drones?
Tomas van Houtryve: The drone war has been going on for about 10 years now and I feel like there isn’t any good visual translation of it. This is somewhere photojournalism has failed because we can’t get to sites where drone strikes are happening. Drone technology is developing quickly; it’s being relied on more and more by politicians in America and photojournalists aren’t participating in the debate.
Because I couldn’t go to these Pakistani tribal zones or difficult areas of Somalia and wait for...
BJP: You went to Greenwood on an editorial assignment. How did that develop into Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town?
Matt Eich: I was sent there in early 2010 by a publication called the AARP Bulletin. They were doing a piece on an Iranian healthcare system that they were trying to implement in the Mississippi Delta. I went to Baptist Town for three hours at the end of this assignment and it was like a completely different world. When we’d rolled into town, it looked beautiful, very quaint, lots of southern charm, and then suddenly we were in this place that looked like it was...
Ricoh has unveiled their new Theta digital camera, which can take 360-degree panoramas with its two ultra-wide-angle lenses. The stylish and thin Theta can be controlled via your iOS device after you’ve downloaded the appropriate app. There’s no live preview of the photo you’re about to take, so you have to cross your fingers and hope for the best. If you’re using your smartphone to capture the image, the photo will be automatically downloaded to your mobile device. You can also use the Theta independently and transfer the photos to your phone or computer at a...
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The Seven Years That Changed Everything
By Vitaly Friedman
September 5th, 2013
Events
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Today is the day when it all started — the day when this little website launched back in 2006. Today, we celebrate our seventh anniversary, and you, dear readers, are the ones who have made it possible and kept us going. Sorry about that heavy 0.5Mb GIF, but after all it’s our little birthday today and this GIF has been circling around the office for ages now. Time For A Little Story A couple of months ago, I was on a night train on my way to one of those...
How To Create A Water Lily In Illustrator
By Veerle Pieters
September 4th, 2013
Illustrator, Tutorials
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Water lilies are beautiful flowers and ideal tutorial material. To get to our result, we’ll be doing a lot of clever actions, mostly rotating and duplicating, and we’ll have a lot of room for experimentation as well. For instance, we can try out different ways to build the layers of petals, and we can play with different shades of pink gradients. This tutorial shows the basic steps I followed; but in creating this flower, I did way...
A recent question from Phil in Texas made me realize it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about photo delivery. Phil says, “I have been delivering a disk to the agents but am looking at doing the upload (to the MLS) myself to save time and aggravation with realtors who can’t figure it out.†Yes, you need to be sensitive to your clients needs an abilities but I don’t recommend uploading your clients photos to their MLS because this violates most MLS password sharing rules. Let the client, or someone in the clients office setup their listings. Photographers shouldn’t be doing...
Notice something about the title of the article? It doesn’t say how to take “portraits†of kids! Kids, especially those five and under, pretty much dictate how the photography session is going to unfold, and it usually involves moving. Fast! Over the years my style has evolved from format portraiture with medium format film camera (which is NOT conducive to movement) to 35mm, and finally to digital. Digital allows much more freedom of motion and with a few tips you should be on your way to some great photos of kids. THE SEVEN TIPS : have patience be ready...
The Olympus PEN E-P5 sure took some getting. Following a briefing by Olympus it was two months before I actually got my sticky fingers on one in the review-atorium. And even then I had to fight, persuade and jollify every Olympus contact I had. It seems every man, beast and journalist wanted a P5. So, what’s so special? I know it has nothing to do with photography and camera technology, but this little number sure pulls the heart strings in the retro stakes. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the legendary PEN F film camera, the PEN E-P5 is a digital update...
Alma, a Tale of Violence, is a web-documentary co-produced by Upian, Arte and Agence Vu, presenting “a raw and poignant testimony from a former member of one of Guatemala’s most violent gangs,” say the producers. “A reformed criminal, Alma tries to resume a normal life despite facing death threats from her former gang associates.”
Dewever Plana and Fougère will receive a €8000 cash prize at a ceremony on 04 September at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan.
La Duce Vita, a web-documentary by Cyril Bérard and Samuel...
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Nikon has announced the Coolpix P7800, which sits at the top of its compact camera lineup, replacing last year’s P7700 as flagship zoom camera. The P7800 is extremely similar to its nominal predecessor, the most notable change being the addition of an electronic viewfinder. For those with a short memory, P-series cameras prior to the P7700 had optical viewfinders. The P7700 got rid of that entirely, but gave users a fully articulating LCD in...
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Fujifilm has announced the FUJINON XF23mm F1.4 R, a premium fast wideangle lens for its X system mirrorless cameras. It offers the same moderate wideangle view as the fixed-lens X100S, but with an extra stop of brightness. The overall design approach is similar to the company’s recent XF14mm F2.8 R, with distance and depth of field scales for manual focusing, and fully optical (rather than digital) correction of distortion. The 23mm F1.4 will be...
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Nikon has taken the wraps off the Coolpix S02 – a tiny metal-bodied 13MP compact camera with a smartphone-sized CMOS sensor and 2.7-inch touch-sensitive LCD. The S02 does not accept memory cards, but comes with 7.3GB of built-in storage. The entire package, built around a 3x (30-90mm equiv) zoom lens is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Apart from the new sensor, the most notable improvement compared to the S01 is the addition of 1080p...
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Nikon has announced an LED movie light for its Coolpix and 1 System cameras. We could swear the LD-1000 was already available, but maybe that’s because we’ve been seeing mockups of it attached to 1 System cameras at tradeshows for a couple of years. The lamp is fairly compact and uses LEDs behind a diffusion panel for soft, even light. Although it comes with a bracket to mount it onto compatible cameras, the LD-1000 can be hand-held for more...
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Adobe has added a new pricing tier to the Creative Cloud product, possibly in response to the negative response from the photography community when it announced that all Creative Suite products would require a monthly subscription. The Photoshop Photography Program gives users Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Bridge CC, Behance, and 20GB of storage for $9.99 per month. That price will never change, as long as you sign up before the end of this year. In order...
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Readers send me links to some interesting articles from all around the world that are related to real estate photography. I’ve been getting behind lately in passing these along. Here are some of the most recent items: Trend MLS in Hawaii article recommends “Take you own photos and avoid legal actionâ€: Anders Carlson and Ethan Tweedie on the Big Island both sent me this article. It is warning agents in Hawaii to make sure they have a license from photographers. They say  â€The safest way to ensure this is to take your own photos, but if you must hire a photographer to take them for...
Today I’m excited to announce the launch of a new dPS eBook – Portraits Lighting the Shot – by Gina Milicia. In January of this year we released a brand new Portraits eBook called Portraits: Making the Shot. It was an ebook written by renowned Aussie celebrity portrait photographer Gina Milicia on the basics of how to shoot amazing portraits that reflect the true character of your subject. The overwhelming response from readers of the eBook was that Gina had created a valuable resource that was helping thousands of photographers to improve their portraiture...
This set of images was taken from a RAW file, with the white balance adjusted using Kelvin white balance in Adobe Camera Raw. The first image was set to Auto in camera. The middle shot was warmed up by setting the white balance to 7500°K, and the third shot was cooled off by setting the white balance to 4000°K. EOS-1D Mark IV with EF 24-105 f/4L IS. 1/200, ISO 100, f/4. Photographers often deal with a variety of light sources, each of which has it’s own color cast. When compared to daylight in the middle of the day, tungsten lighting, like that which comes...
Alma, a Tale of Violence, is a web-documentary co-produced by Upian, Arte and Agence Vu, presenting “a raw and poignant testimony from a former member of one of Guatemala’s most violent gangs,” say the producers. “A reformed criminal, Alma tries to resume a normal life despite facing death threats from her former gang associates.”
Dewever Plana and Fougère will receive a €8000 cash prize at a ceremony on 04 September at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan.
La Duce Vita, a web-documentary by Cyril Bérard and Samuel...
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DxO Labs has released version 8.3.1 of its Optics Pro RAW conversion and image correction software, adding support for the Panasonic Lumix GF6 and G6, the Olympus PEN E-P5, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II, and the Pentax K-50. It also adds 490 extra camera/lens combinations to the library of optics correction modules. Click through for the full press release, including download links. Click here for free trial versions of DxO software Press Release: DxO...
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Olympus will be prosecuted by the UK Serious Fraud Office over charges that it provided ‘misleading, false or deceptive’ material in accounts submitted by its medical supplies subsidiary Gyrus Group Limited. Earlier this year three former senior executives of the company were handed suspended jail sentences for their part in a massive accounting scandal which hid huge investment losses dating back to the 1990s, and was uncovered by former...
Flat And Thin Are In
By Adrian Taylor
September 3rd, 2013
Best Practices, Content, Web Design
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In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take a moment to consider how we got here and what influence it’s having on interface design as a whole. Additionally, I’ll share some tips and considerations on designing flat interfaces. Interfaces on a Windows Phone 8 and Apple’s iOS 7. What...
Designing For Emotion With Hover Effects
By Dudley Storey
September 2nd, 2013
CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
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Of the many factors that must be considered in Web design, emotional interaction is an important, but frequently neglected, component. In the real world, we experience the sensual interaction of design all the time. Reflect for a moment on the emotional engagement of slipping behind the wheel of a powerful luxury car: the welcoming embrace of the driving seat, the tactile experience of running your hands over the leather on the steering...
I’m ready to start accepting Patio, Deck or Garden Space Shots  for the September 2013 PFRE photographer of the month contest. The photo to the right is last year’s winner of this theme (Jason Roehner, Tempe, AZ ). For those not familiar with this series of monthly competitions take a look at the Contest page that describes all the rules and the whole contest process. For a look at previous monthly winners and all the yearly winners go to the best-of-the-best page (on the top menu bar click “Featuredâ€). Please note new rule #15: “Submissions are final. That is, once your...
At some point, every photo shoot comes to an end. Every portrait session, cookbook shoot, family vacation, ad campaign, college graduation, wedding, and photo essay eventually gets to the point when it’s time to put the camera down and see what you’ve got. Congratulations– You’ve just become a photo editor. To be clear, I’m not talking about correction or manipulation in Lightroom, Photoshop or any of the other image editing software packages available. I’m talking about the task of sitting down with the 367 images that you’ve just...
Recently there has been several big changes in the way the US handles same-sex marriage.  Now, I don’t write about politics, which I think is lucky for all of us in the same way that I don’t cook is lucky for the people I live with.  I write about photography and people.  I also don’t make predictions about laws and the world, mainly because I’m not sure what I’m going to have for dinner tonight and as I write this, it’s almost 8pm (cereal is always a safe bet at this point though), but I will say this: as same-gender marriage becomes more accepted...
Alma, a Tale of Violence, is a web-documentary co-produced by Upian, Arte and Agence Vu, presenting “a raw and poignant testimony from a former member of one of Guatemala’s most violent gangs,” say the producers. “A reformed criminal, Alma tries to resume a normal life despite facing death threats from her former gang associates.”
Dewever Plana and Fougère will receive a €8000 cash prize at a ceremony on 04 September at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan.
La Duce Vita, a web-documentary by Cyril Bérard and Samuel...
Oliver Zieliski took me up on my offer to translate my free e-book, What Realtors Need To Know About Photography. It’s now available in German on Oliver’s site. All you English speakers, don’t be intimidated by the fact that Oliver’s site is in German. If you use the Chrome browser it will recognize what language the site it in, knowing that you normally read English and offer to always translate the site for you. Pretty cool, this helps remove language barriers. I ask Oliver to tell us about his business and real estate photography in Germany. Here is what Oliver has to say: In...
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Following its 15 years of success in England, ILFORD’s mail-in black and white film processing and printing will now be more readily available to North American customers thanks to the new lab in San Clemente, California. As digital photography has taken over, most local labs can no longer provide processing of true black and white film, nor can they print on real silver gelatin paper, instead opting to print black and white images on color paper....
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Sigma’s 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM has generated a lot of excitement since its announcement in April, as the fastest zoom ever made for SLRs. Designed for use on APS-C / DX format cameras, it offers a 28-54mm equivalent zoom range, and promises similar depth of field control to an F2.8 zoom on full frame. But can an F1.8 zoom really work? Read our detailed review to find out. Click here for our in-depth review of the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Click...
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If you have a digital SLR and don’t want to blow two grand on an underwater housing, check out the alternative the folks at Digital Camera World came up with. Just put your camera into a clean fish tank, attach a remote shutter release cable, lower the tank into the water, and fire away. Naturally, this only works in calm water, so don’t take it into the ocean unless you fancy buying a new camera. Though the site mentions you have to take a lot...
by Sarah Hipwell. The above shot at 1/20sec at f22 I brought two cameras on a recent vacation to France. My trusty DSLR and my new fab Sony RX100. I don’t normally bring a tripod on holidays but this time I wanted to get some decent video footage. I also wanted to experiment with a variety of (still) exposures for HDR work and to get a nice sunset (low light shot). With such an array of tripods on offer, how do you decide which one to buy? I narrowed my search to 5 key features: Low cost Size – folded & extended Portability Lightweight Sturdy enough to...
One of my favourite times for taking photos is at twilight. Especially during the spring and summer, the seasons when the light is at its most magical at this time of evening. I’ve always liked the idea that great photography happens on the edges. Twilight, the transition between night and day, is an edge. While the low light levels can be technically challenging, the reward in terms of quality of light are well worth it. I think of it as the ‘magic hour’. You may also see it referred to as the blue hour, a reference to the colour of the ambient light as...
Olympus OM-D E-M1 – Review extended with more AF insights
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Sep, 2013 |
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The pixel pitch is the same as the one of NEX-7. Do not forget that we have also about 24% smaller image all over. If you produce the same image size with smaller sensor, you will have a loss, here we have 24% less image surface to cover. IQ is absolutely amazing, Sony sensor performs excellent and IQ difference on APS-C is not noticeable. On the other side, is the DOF factor, it is hard to get good bokeh with a 4/3 camera. Maybe it is a reason for Voigtlaender to make Noktons with 0.95 to get DOF ranges that look good. I have compared 4/3 to APSC, found not that the IQ was less good, but...
Apple adds support for Olympus E-P5 in latest Raw compatibility update
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Sep, 2013 |
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As much as I like the Aperture, every time I looked for a particular camera support, it wasn’t there. I still have the Aperture 2. But as I just bought a new cam (obviously unsupported by every Aperture version) I’m basically forced to “upgrade” to something else. Probably would try the Adobe’s koolaid this time. I was hoping that the free options would catch-up – at least on the photo organization side of things – but alas still no luck. DigiKam tries, but porting something like KDE to Windows or Mac apparently is exercise is futility. RawTherapee...
SanDisk introduces first CFast 2.0 memory card
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Sep, 2013 |
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Cementing its commitment to the CFast standard, SanDisk has introduced the Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 memory card, the first of its kind. The card boasts read speeds of up to 450MB/s and write speeds of up to 350MB/s, and will be sold with 60 or 120GB of storage. As a competitor to the Nikon-backed XQD standard, this first CFast 2.0 card is introduced alongside with an ARRI AMIRA documentary-style camera that records to internal CFast 2.0 cards. Users of some...
Club Hostess Wanted ASAP – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Sep, 2013 |
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Cinematographer required for one episode
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Looking for dslr operator for a music video this tuesday
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Production Assistant Required
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Gaffer Required
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Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue
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Designing The Words: Why Copy Is A Design Issue
By Sam Wright
September 12th, 2013
Content, Web Design
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The relationship between copy and design has been covered many times on Smashing Magazine. Working in a content-focused industry, we need to keep this issue pretty close to heart; creating great copy is pointless if it is visually uninspiring or unreadable. Likewise, if the content doesn’t deliver, then even the most attractive page won’t hold the reader’s attention. Yet much of the discussion so far has concentrated on issues such...
What Things Can You Do To Improve Your Customer Service
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Sep, 2013 |
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As a result of the post I did a couple of weeks ago where I asserted  that putting up with bad behavior is not a way to improve your customer service, I got a great question from Mike in Knoxville, TN. He said: I just read your post, and it got me thinking about how I take care of my clients. Clients, in a strange way, are somewhat like a spouse, how you treat them, or how you re-act to them can have different results. I’m always looking for someway to add extra value to my services, value for what I do for them, what kinda things I can do for them that they would like, would prove...
Lightroom’s Tone Curve Explained
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Sep, 2013 |
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It’s no secret that there are many ways to enhance our photographs with Lightroom. By using just a handful of sliders we can get some great results in a matter of minutes and by learning how to use tools like the gradient filter tool we can create some more specialized effects with just a little extra effort. So with all these great tools is there still a need for the Tone Curve tool in Lightroom 4 and beyond? Or is it just another way of creating the same effects? What is Lightroom’s Tone Curve Tool? Well the answer to that question really lies in the...
Wedding Photography: Shooting The Rings
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Sep, 2013 |
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This bride and groom are both serving in the army, and both are gun enthusiasts. I asked the groom if he had their guns handy, and a bullet, and came up with this shot as one of the ring shots. This shot was taken in available light, under a tent outdoors. EOS 5D Mark III with EF 100mm f/2.8L IS; ISO 2500, f/16, 1/125. In my career in photography, I’ve chosen not to focus on weddings as a business model, and shoot only a few every year. I try to avoid being “traditional†in my approach to weddings, mixing traditional shots or types of shots with my own...
Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Sep, 2013 |
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Canon EOS 70D review gains test scene samples
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Sep, 2013 |
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We’re working towards completing our review of the Canon EOS 70D and have been shooting our test scene with a production camera. We’ve published the test shots, including downloadable Raw files of both the daylight and low light scene. The EOS 70D review will also be one of the few chances to see our outgoing test scene and our new, more challenging, more informative scene alongside one another. Click through to see how it performs. Now we have...
Models wanted for 2 day paid work
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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Female Model Required to be Filmed for Channel 4 Series ‘Undo Me’ – Leeds
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Jagermeister "Jagerette" Team
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Party Entertainers required for event company – London
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Actor looking for director to film with
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Photographer Wanted (Paid) – Dublin
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Responsive Navigation On Complex Websites
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Responsive Navigation On Complex Websites
By Jon Rundle
September 11th, 2013
CSS, Responsive Design, Techniques
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Central to a solid user experience is a well-structured, simple navigation system. Over the past few months, I’ve been involved in launching two large institutional websites with complex navigation systems. Maintaining simplicity on such large websites becomes increasingly difficult as content requirements grow and tiers of navigation are added, not to mention the extra complexity added by small screens. To illustrate the...
How To Find Your Stolen Images Online
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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A couple of weeks ago when I did a post about a broker asking a reader for exclusive photo rights, the post attracted the attention of Joel Rothman and Steve Schlackman who are both Intellectual Property Attorneys in Florida. Steve does a blog on the subject of IP Law for Artists. Joel has represented a couple of PFRE readers in the past and both Joel and Steve are interested in helping educating both photographers and agents about photo licensing in the real estate industry. Steve is going to cover some of these issues that we are all interested in on his Art Law Journal blog. I’ll be...
6 Tips for Photographing Deserts
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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By Kav Dadfar Deserts can make for very dramatic and beautiful landscapes but it can also be challenging to avoid your photos appearing flat and uninteresting. Here are 6 tips to help you on your way. 1. Catch the Right Light It’s no secret that photographing in the early morning or late afternoon provides a wonderfully soft light for your images which helps you avoid making them look flat – and the desert is no exception. The soft light can give the sand a beautiful glow and in the above photo, the red late afternoon light has really brought out the colour of...
Win a Beautiful Retrospective 7 Bag and $1000 to Spend on Lighting and Lenses!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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Last week we announced our new Portrait Photography eBook with a 25% discount for early birds. Readers have already shared with us some wonderful portraits they’re now capturing with the help of this eBook, and the reviews have already started to flood in. To celebrate, as we like to do with our new eBooks, we’re going to offer up a prize! Order a copy of Portraits: Lighting The Shot before the 4th of October EST and you could win a Beautiful Retrospective 7 Bag and $1000 to spend on lighting and lenses! If you’re already a proud owner of a this wonderful...
Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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Fujifilm X-M1 real-world samples gallery
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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Very nice pics, bright, sharp and colourful. M1 would make a nice compact camera upgrade I’m sure. But then, I’ve just checked the price and £600 body only is a bit steep! Ah well…. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/09/11/fujifilm-x-m1-real-world-samples-gallery
Photo project documents rivers of the interior U.S.
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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Jeff Rich’s photo project started at the French Broad river outside of Asheville, North Carolina. Since then, ‘Watershed Project’ has taken him to the Tennessee River and now the Mississippi in an effort to document and raise awareness of the safekeeping of these rivers. He tells Wired’s Raw File of the project, “I’ve had to be careful about setting some boundaries,” keeping the scope of his project limited to the...
What Apple’s new iPhones mean for photographers
Posted by Chris Roubis on 11th, Sep, 2013 |
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Apple revealed not one, but two iPhones today at its media event in Cupertino, California. The latest devices are aimed at two very different markets. The colorful iPhone 5C is poised to compete against cheaper smartphones while the iPhone 5S debuts Apple’s newest innovations in mobile technology, including a revamped iSight camera. However, both models are touting a fairly underwhelming spec of 8 megapixels of imaging power  — will it be enough to lure in mobile shutterbugs who may be tempted by the massively megapixel-powered 41MP Nokia Lumia 1020 or 20.7MP Sony Xperia Z1? ...
Crazy Cuts Models Wanted for Funky and Creative Haircuts – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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2 Male Models Required for BHI Graduate Showcase + Photo-shoot – Victoria
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Female Headshot – London
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Groom and Bride Needed for Website Album – Birmingham
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sound recorder
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Models Required for a 1 Day Catalogue Shoot – Victoria
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Video editor required for Comedy Pilot (filming already completed)
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Videographer required for online fashion photoshoot.
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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Assistant Director required for a short film
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Photograpther Wanted for Vegas-themed Casino Night – Hampshire
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Keen Editors for our Team at Made in Katana – NSW
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Photographer wanted – Leeds
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Photographer – London
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People Wanted for Music Video Shoot – Victoria
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Calling All Fashion Photographers – London
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Smashing Conference Live — Day 2
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11.15 Congrats to another round of poster giveaway winners! Image credits — eldh: Image credits — codebryo: Image credits — tinakesova: Image credits — simontheis: Image credits — pattydelgado: Source Article from...
Canon 16-35mm II vs Tokina 16-28mm Lens Review – By Dave Dugdale
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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Several readers recommended Dave Dugdale’s video lens comparison review of the Canon 16-35mm II vs the Tokina 16-28mm. Keep in mind that even though Dave is making this comparison to try to decide which wide angle lens to use on his full frame Canon DSLR the Tokina 16-28mm lens is also available for use with full frame Nikon DSLRs. I have to say that it’s pretty amazing that the Tokina looks so good compared to Canon’s best L series lens wide angle lens when it’s only half the price of the Canon 16-35mm. I can attest to the fact that the Canon 16-35 is built like a tank! I have the...
Ignore The Naysayers. Go Create Stunning Images
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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There has been a spat of posts and articles recently extolling the storyline that “Photography Is Dead!†or “Creativity Is Dead!†or both. And then some. The articles I have read rightly point out that more people have cameras and are sharing images on the likes of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. And that most of those images are not some form of art (the food you ate, a self-portrait (or ‘selfie’ as they are colloquially know) or yet another sunset, etc…). They also point to this deluge of images as something that is dragging down photography as a...
How to Photograph a Portrait of a Stranger with the WOW Factor
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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By Oded Wagenstein Have you ever met a person, while travelling abroad or at home, who has such an interesting face that you would really like to photograph?  But, just before you press the shutter, you suddenly think, “How am I going to shoot this� Because there are so many questions to answer: How do I approach a strange person? Should I photograph from a distance, with a Tele-photo lens, or should I get closer? What if the person will get offended or angry? It depends on the situation but, in 99% of my portraits, I use what I like to call the “being...
Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award
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Olympus OM-D E-M1: First Impressions Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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Some of us where seeing here a replacement, or upgrade to the OMD-M5, and now, yes, it is one, but with 4/3 mount, not M4/3 mount. So, those who have the full package of M4/3 lenses will be disappointed, specially because you can mount a M4/3 with 4/3 lenses via a small adapter, but the opposite does not work. So, again we have a new 4/3 camera, with same, just updated, sensor as the OMD-M5. Is there something to be excited now, I doubt it, except those that waited for this one. If I had the choice at the moment to buy a 4/3, GX7 in M4/3 is the way to go. I do not want to carry dslr’s...
Olympus blends E-M5 and E-5 to create OM-D E-M1 flagship ILC
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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Olympus has announced its new OM-D E-M1 interchangeable lens camera, which is now the flagship of its Micro Four Thirds lineup. Rather than calling it the follow-up to the E-M5, Olympus says that the E-M1 is actually the ‘successor’ to the E-5, a Four Thirds DSLR introduced back in 2010.  The E-M1’s 16.3-megapixel Live MOS sensor has on-chip phase detection, which promises to focus legacy Four Thirds lenses (using the optional MMF-3...
Olympus introduces M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm F2.8 ‘Pro’ zoom
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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Olympus has unveiled a high-end standard zoom to match the E-M1, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm 1:2.8 PRO. It offers a 24-80mm equivalent range, is dust-, splash- and freeze-proof, and uses a manual focus clutch design similar to the 12mm F2 and 17mm F1.8 primes. A minimum focus distance of 0.2m offers 0.3x magnification, and the lens has a L.Fn button whose function can be customised from the camera. The 14 element / 9 group design is packed full of...
Sample gallery: Sony’s 20.7-megapixel Xperia Z1 smartphone
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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We’ve already got our hands on Sony’s new flagship smartphone announced at the IFA expo in Berlin last week. Now we’ve had the chance to use the Xperia Z1 for a few days and have shot a gallery to show you what the device’s camera and 1/2.3 20.7MP CMOS sensor can do. We’ve shot in a mixture of light situations and switched between the Z1’s “manual” mode which lets you shoot at the 20.7MP maximum resolution setting with a 4:3 aspect ratio and the default “Superior Auto” mode which captures 8MP images with a 16:9 aspect...
Six things iPhone photographers want from Apple’s next release
Posted by Chris Roubis on 10th, Sep, 2013 |
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In the time since Apple released the iPhone 5, mobile photography has greatly improved. Samsung, Nokia, HTC and Sony have collectively raised the bar on smartphone camera hardware, leaving iPhone photographers glancing enviously at phones with physical zoom lenses, 41-megapixel sensors, so-called ultrapixels and detachable lens hardware. While Apple’s mobile app marketplace may still be the leader in photography apps, its camera hardware has some catching up to do. What can Apple do to appease the mobile photographer who may consider switching mobile platforms for a different...
Rock Angels to tour with Trace Cyrus and Ashland High
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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Endless Summer – Beach Shoot – Victoria
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Four Fashion Models Needed for Launch Party – London
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Female Lead Required for a Hip-Hop Music Video
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Sexy Superhero Shoot (tfp) – London
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Videographer for behind the scenes video – Tuesday 17 Sept – PAID
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Camera Operatior for Brown Bear TV – UK
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Stage Manager Required
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DOP wanted ASAP for exciting thriller for festival release, IMDB CREDITED
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Festival runners wanted – Brighton
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Fashion/commercial Shoot with a Horse – London
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Photographer Required – Wolverhampton
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Photographers Assistant – Bournemouth
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Smashing Conference Live — Day 1
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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12.03 Tim Kadlec talks about the importance of performance: Tim Kadlec über performance by design #smashingconf pic.twitter.com/EZVslL2jSy — Robert Zierhofer (@rzierhofer) September 9, 2013 He’s given some great advice on setting a performance budget. Make sure that your page doesn’t go over that budget. This gives you a framework to decide whether you include a feature in your site or not. For example, your client wants you to add a carousel – to stay within budget you can decide to either: Optimize – optimize the carousel Remove – remove something else from the website Don’t...
Using Wideangle Focal Lengths With Restraint For Interior Photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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Simon Maxwell, our man in London, just finished a nice tutorial on using your ultra wide angle lens with restraint. A wide angle lens is essential for shooting real estate, but an ultra wide angle lenses can be abused. When I first got my first real wide angle lens (a Canon 16-35mm on a Canon 1Ds) I loved to rack it out to 16mm and shoot a whole listing with it on 16mm. Then when I would show the results to my wife (the listing agent) she would go ballistic and send me back to shoot it over again because the property looked like a “bowling alleyâ€. The fact is, as Simon illustrates in...
How To Take Ridiculously Unique Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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by Steven McConnell How do you make your photography more meaningful, moving and unique? Lately, I’ve been fascinated with the idea that our motivations significantly influence the quality of photography we create. This sentiment is expressed particularly well in The Foutainhead by Ayn Rand. The character is an architect, rather than a photographer, though his lessons apply to any artist who wants to create great work: “Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a...
3 Reasons To Keep Your Old Photoshop Version
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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By Helen Bradley If you’re moving from Photoshop CS5 or CS6 to Photoshop CC you may be tempted to clean up your computer and remove the older Photoshop version from it. After all there’s no point leaving it there if you’re not using it is there? Well I, for one, won’t be removing Photoshop CS5 anytime soon and I suggest you think twice about removing your older version too. Here are my reasons: 1. Adobe Axed Picture Package Adobe axed Picture Package quite a long time ago but it could be easily made to work with Photoshop CS5. For a time there I also had...
Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award
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Young man with autism turns to photography for communication
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For some of us, photography is a hobby. For others, it’s a way to make a living. For Forrest Sargent, a 22-year-old with autism who is unable to speak, it’s a veritable lifeline. His communication is limited to spelling out words using a letter board, a method which allowed him a much-needed way to express himself. Beyond that, he communicates with a gift from his parents bought for his 19th birthday: a camera. His photos capture family and...
Six things to expect in mobile from the Microsoft/Nokia merger
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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So Microsoft has bought the best bits of Nokia, and given their already cozy relationship, the two companies will likely be working as one much more quickly than, say, Google and Motorola did. What can we expect from the next couple years of this intriguing mashup? #1. Pureview rolls out en masse One of the few things Nokia is truly known for in the modern smartphone market is actually innovating in the camera space. Most skeptics of the 41-megapixel Pureview sensor have been silenced by its versatility and image quality. Sure, there’s work to be done in speeding it up and...
Enfojer project turns your smartphone into an enlarger for B&W prints
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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Billed as a way to bring back the romance of the darkroom in the smartphone era, Enfojer is an indiegogo project which promises to make your smartphone into an enlarger to create real prints. Part app and part hardware, Enfojer enlarges the image displayed on a smartphone’s LCD, projecting it onto real photo paper. Â The paper is then processed as usual in traditional black and white chemistry. The resulting black and white prints are expected to last around 70 years when processed properly. Though iPhones are shown above, the plan includes apps and cell phone templates for...
American Society of Media Photographers warns about new Facebook T&Cs
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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Another day, another controversial change to Facebook’s terms of service – this time, Facebook is planning to update its (very) smallprint in a way that some commentators worry greatly increase the company’s power to exploit users’ content and identities. The American Society of Media Photographers has warned its members to ‘beware’ Facebook’s proposed new terms of service, which – it claims – would...
Playing with food: Stephanie Gonot’s colorful culinary photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 9th, Sep, 2013 |
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Photographer Stéphanie Gonot’s food photos aren’t the stylized, sexy kind you’d see on the cover of magazines like Bon Appetit. Images in her ‘Fad Diets’ series are frightening visual documents of some of the weirder diets out there, while also being striking experiments in color and texture. They may not make your mouth water, but they are a lot of fun, and might just make you reconsider that crash diet… Here’s...
Female Plus Size Model – for TFP Editorial & Look Book Shoot – Sydney
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Sep, 2013 |
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Three Models Required for Prestige University 3rd year Presentation – Vic
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Last Minute Request Male Models for Nude Photoshoot – NSW
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The Bakery by Cakey Mini Fashion Show in Stratford Westfield – London
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Curly Hair Models – Victoria
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Talented crew members wanted to join new start up
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Tropfest deadline in a month, lets do this!
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Story Board Artist Needed
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Small crew for Marijuana documantary
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Producer of Music Video ‘Take The Dub Back’ – Victoria
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Photographer Required for Retro Shoot – Victoria
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Photographers Looking for a Model to Practice on – Queensland
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The Magic of Digital Nature Photography [BOOK REVIEW]
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Sep, 2013 |
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I like these books for more than the obvious reason that they contain a wealth of help in their pages. For one thing they’re an easy read so, after a hard day behind the camera, you can relax at home and read it for pleasure, not only soaking up all the useful info but enjoying the largish pictures within its pages. Author Rob Sheppard intentionally laid out all the practical info and creative suggestions you would need to take your images to a higher level: which lenses and accessories are best for the purpose; the pluses and minuses of RAW vs JPEG; how do you...
Coping with Extreme Brightness (Without HDR)
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Sep, 2013 |
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Good photographers learn to work within the limitations of their equipment and learn to cope with scenes where the brightness range is too great for the camera’s sensor to handle. Here are some ideas for you to explore – and none of them involve HDR techniques. 1. Look at the light I suspect the reason that most photographers are attracted to HDR photography is because they like the look of the high contrast, super saturated images you often see created with this technique. It’s not really about capturing every detail of a high contrast subject. Look at the...
Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Sep, 2013 |
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American Society of Media Photographers warns about new Facebook T&Cs
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Sep, 2013 |
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Another day, another controversial change to Facebook’s terms of service – this time, Facebook is planning to update its (very) smallprint in a way that some commentators worry greatly increase the company’s power to exploit users’ content and identities. The American Association of Media Photographers has warned its members to ‘beware’ Facebook’s proposed new terms of service, which – it claims – would...
Playing with food: Stephanie Gonot’s colorful culinary photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 8th, Sep, 2013 |
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Photographer Stéphanie Godot’s food photos aren’t the stylized, sexy kind you’d see on the cover of magazines like Bon Appetit. Images in her ‘Fad Diets’ series are frightening visual documents of some of the weirder diets out there, while also being striking experiments in color and texture. They may not make your mouth water, but they are a lot of fun, and might just make you reconsider that crash diet… Here’s...
Female models wanted – Southport/Liverpool Photoshoot
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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Glamour Calendar Shoot in Greenwich, London
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sound designer & editor wanted for a short film
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American English Accent Coach Required – US
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Afterglow Entertainment Event Photographer – Ontario
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Photographer Required for Shoot with Singer and Pianist – London
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Fashion Photographers Required – Doncaster
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This Week In Real Estate Video #74 – Editing RAW Video In Lightroom
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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This Week In Real Estate Video #74 – Editing RAW Video In Lightroom September 6th, 2013 Jon Lindsay is a property/architectural filmmaker in the UK doing some interesting work with RAW video and Adobe Lightroom. It’s a new system that has changed his workflow and produced great results. The video to the right shows an example of the results Jon gets with this new workflow. Jon says: After shooting a walk through with a Merlin Steadicam (thanks to Fred Light for advice I go back to the property and shoot RAW video of the important selling points of a house – e.g. external, living...
Available Light Portraits: Weekly Photography Challenge
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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This week we are celebrating the launch of our brand new Portrait Lighting eBook so I thought it might be fun to have a portraiture themed weekly challenge. Your challenge is to take and share a portrait image that only uses the available light in the setting where you’re shooting. So if you’re outside during the day – shoot only using natural light. If you’re inside, only use the light in the room (window light, the normal artificial lights in the room etc). So – you can use artificial light but no your speed light or any studio lights – just what is...
Natural Light: Making the Most of Hard Light
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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In a previous article I explored ways of taking photos in soft light. Today, I’d like to look at the opposite of that, and discuss the idea of taking photos in hard light. In the earlier piece I wrote about matching the light to the subject. That’s an important concept to understand – especially when it comes to hard light, a type of lighting considered by many photographers to be unsuitable for most types of photography. I’m not saying those photographers are incorrect. Hard light doesn’t suit every type of subject, and if you’re trying to take a...
The rise of Haytham Pictures
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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What The Duck #1434
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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WTD #1434 Check out ‘What the Duck’ in our Link Directory What the Duck is a comic strip by Aaron Johnson. It started as a webcomic, with the first strip posted in July 2006. The strip has appeared as print in numerous photography magazines including Amateur Photographer in the UK. It was picked up for syndication in 2008 by Universal Press Syndicate under the name W. T. Duck.  What The Duck is published here every week, and also runs in...
Rumors of inexpensive Fujifilm X-series camera hit the web
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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You are missing the point. Why does, every good, new, and progressive benefit, have to take about three steps back; in other known areas? IP BS? We need to stop that. I don’t know, all there is to know; but you should listen to folks; even if you disagree with them. You might actually learn something, from discussions. Of course, anyone can post in here, and that includes, the folks working with Sony, Fuji, and Canikon, Oly, Pany, Penny-Tax, etc… All we really have here, is reason, including logic; about the facts. We can’t verify anyone’s credibility here. You know; at...
Fujfilm XF 55-200mm F3.5-4.8 R LM OIS Real-world Samples
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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The Fujinon XF 55-200mm F3.5-4.8 R LM OIS is the first telephoto zoom for Fujifilm’s X system cameras, and offers an 83-300mm equivalent angle of view. It has built-in optical image stabilization with 4.5 stops claimed benefit, and uses linear stepper motors for silent autofocus. The lens features an (unmarked) aperture control ring, and offers high quality all-metal barrel construction. We’re working on expanding our previously-published...
Cokin revamps square filter lineup as ‘Creative Filter System’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Sep, 2013 |
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Cokin has announced a complete overhaul of the branding and packaging of its square filters. The existing different-sized ranges ( ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘Z-Pro’ and ‘X-Pro’) have been rebranded into a single ‘Creative Filter System’, with the four sizes relabelled ‘S’, ‘M’, ‘L’ and ‘XL’. Gone are the old bulky plastic storage boxes too, replaced by a slimmer...
Leafleters/Promo Staff for Various Jobs – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Sep, 2013 |
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DIY Guy Photo Shoot. Few hours this weekend, on location near Basingstoke
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Video Editors Required For Numerous Jobs – Asian Weddings
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MAKE UP ARTIST (FEATURE FILM)
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RUNNERS FOR THIS MONDAY
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Producer, Ella and the Dragophant – London
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Camera Assistant/Focus Puller Needed for Original Web Comedy – NSW
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A Review of the Think Tank City Walker 30
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Sep, 2013 |
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All in all, this was a pretty good summer– except, of course, for the trip that didn’t happen. I was supposed to hit the road with some friends last month, but events beyond our control pulled the rug out from under us at the last minute. My bags were packed. I was ready to go. The taxi was waiting outside my door. OK– not really, but my Think Tank City Walker 30 really was packed and I am all out of cheesy musical metaphors. I took a few shots of this pretty amazing bag before I unpacked it and thought I’d share a few impressions. I see so...
How to Create this “Fight Club†Inspired Portrait using One Light
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Sep, 2013 |
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By Gina Milicia – author of our brand new Portrait Lighting eBook. Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.†-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club Australian actor Firass Dirani in my Fight Club inspired shoot @firassd (twitter) @firazzle (Instagram). Most of my inspiration for photo shoots comes from Movies, art and popular culture. Ever since I saw the movie Fight Club I’ve always wanted to do a fight Club inspired shoot. My aim was to create a really cool, gritty, edgy looking shot. I could have achieved this look...
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Samuel James
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Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Marco Gualazzini
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Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Eugene Richards
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Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Tomas van Houtryve
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Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Matt Eich
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Ricoh unveils 360-degree, smartphone-controlled Theta camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, Sep, 2013 |
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Ricoh has unveiled their new Theta digital camera, which can take 360-degree panoramas with its two ultra-wide-angle lenses. The stylish and thin Theta can be controlled via your iOS device after you’ve downloaded the appropriate app. There’s no live preview of the photo you’re about to take, so you have to cross your fingers and hope for the best. If you’re using your smartphone to capture the image, the photo will be automatically downloaded to your mobile device. You can also use the Theta independently and transfer the photos to your phone or computer at a...
Director for web series
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Camera Crew needed for new TV documentary pilot
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The Seven Years That Changed Everything
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The Seven Years That Changed Everything
By Vitaly Friedman
September 5th, 2013
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Today is the day when it all started — the day when this little website launched back in 2006. Today, we celebrate our seventh anniversary, and you, dear readers, are the ones who have made it possible and kept us going. Sorry about that heavy 0.5Mb GIF, but after all it’s our little birthday today and this GIF has been circling around the office for ages now. Time For A Little Story A couple of months ago, I was on a night train on my way to one of those...
How To Create A Water Lily In Illustrator
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How To Create A Water Lily In Illustrator
By Veerle Pieters
September 4th, 2013
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Water lilies are beautiful flowers and ideal tutorial material. To get to our result, we’ll be doing a lot of clever actions, mostly rotating and duplicating, and we’ll have a lot of room for experimentation as well. For instance, we can try out different ways to build the layers of petals, and we can play with different shades of pink gradients. This tutorial shows the basic steps I followed; but in creating this flower, I did way...
Delivering Real Estate Marketing Photos To Realtors
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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A recent question from Phil in Texas made me realize it’s been a long time since I’ve talked about photo delivery. Phil says, “I have been delivering a disk to the agents but am looking at doing the upload (to the MLS) myself to save time and aggravation with realtors who can’t figure it out.†Yes, you need to be sensitive to your clients needs an abilities but I don’t recommend uploading your clients photos to their MLS because this violates most MLS password sharing rules. Let the client, or someone in the clients office setup their listings. Photographers shouldn’t be doing...
7 Tips for Photographing Kids
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Notice something about the title of the article? It doesn’t say how to take “portraits†of kids! Kids, especially those five and under, pretty much dictate how the photography session is going to unfold, and it usually involves moving. Fast! Over the years my style has evolved from format portraiture with medium format film camera (which is NOT conducive to movement) to 35mm, and finally to digital. Digital allows much more freedom of motion and with a few tips you should be on your way to some great photos of kids. THE SEVEN TIPS : have patience be ready...
Olympus PEN E-P5 Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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The Olympus PEN E-P5 sure took some getting. Following a briefing by Olympus it was two months before I actually got my sticky fingers on one in the review-atorium. And even then I had to fight, persuade and jollify every Olympus contact I had. It seems every man, beast and journalist wanted a P5. So, what’s so special? I know it has nothing to do with photography and camera technology, but this little number sure pulls the heart strings in the retro stakes. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the legendary PEN F film camera, the PEN E-P5 is a digital update...
Alma wins Web-Documentary award at Visa pour l’Image
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The same but different: Nikon announces Coolpix P7800 with EVF
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Nikon has announced the Coolpix P7800, which sits at the top of its compact camera lineup, replacing last year’s P7700 as flagship zoom camera. The P7800 is extremely similar to its nominal predecessor, the most notable change being the addition of an electronic viewfinder. For those with a short memory, P-series cameras prior to the P7700 had optical viewfinders. The P7700 got rid of that entirely, but gave users a fully articulating LCD in...
Fast and wide: Fujifilm releases XF23mm F1.4 R for X system
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Fujifilm has announced the FUJINON XF23mm F1.4 R, a premium fast wideangle lens for its X system mirrorless cameras. It offers the same moderate wideangle view as the fixed-lens X100S, but with an extra stop of brightness. The overall design approach is similar to the company’s recent XF14mm F2.8 R, with distance and depth of field scales for manual focusing, and fully optical (rather than digital) correction of distortion. The 23mm F1.4 will be...
Nikon unveils tiny Coolpix S02 for ‘trendy individuals’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Nikon has taken the wraps off the Coolpix S02 – a tiny metal-bodied 13MP compact camera with a smartphone-sized CMOS sensor and 2.7-inch touch-sensitive LCD. The S02 does not accept memory cards, but comes with 7.3GB of built-in storage. The entire package, built around a 3x (30-90mm equiv) zoom lens is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Apart from the new sensor, the most notable improvement compared to the S01 is the addition of 1080p...
Nikon reveals LD-1000 LED movie light for 1 System and Coolpix
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Nikon has announced an LED movie light for its Coolpix and 1 System cameras. We could swear the LD-1000 was already available, but maybe that’s because we’ve been seeing mockups of it attached to 1 System cameras at tradeshows for a couple of years. The lamp is fairly compact and uses LEDs behind a diffusion panel for soft, even light. Although it comes with a bracket to mount it onto compatible cameras, the LD-1000 can be hand-held for more...
Adobe introduces cheaper Creative Cloud with Photoshop + Lightroom
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Sep, 2013 |
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Adobe has added a new pricing tier to the Creative Cloud product, possibly in response to the negative response from the photography community when it announced that all Creative Suite products would require a monthly subscription. The Photoshop Photography Program gives users Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Bridge CC, Behance, and 20GB of storage for $9.99 per month. That price will never change, as long as you sign up before the end of this year. In order...
Looking for Presenters for a Reality TV Series Shoot
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Looking for Production Assistants for a Reality TV Series Shoot – NSW
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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A Composer required for a Tropfest film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Camera Man/Women Needed for Pilot!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Set Builder Wanted!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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6 Cameraman Required for Campaign Photo Shoot – Western Australia
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Photographer needed for sporting event
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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One Backstage Photographer Required for Campaign Photo Shoot – WA
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Three Photographers Required for Campaign Photo Shoot – WA
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Photographer Needed for Short Action Film – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Photographer & Digital Videographer for Entertainment Pilot – NSW
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Progressive Enhancement Is Faster
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Progressive Enhancement Is Faster
By Jake Archibald
September 3rd, 2013
Opinion Column
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The aim of republishing the original article by Jake is to raise awareness and support the discussion about the role of progressive enhancement within the community. We look forward to your opinions and thoughts in the comment section. – Ed. Progressive enhancement has become a bit of a hot topic recently, most recently with Tom Dale conclusively showing it to be a futile act, but only by misrepresenting what progressive enhancement is and what its...
Some Real Estate Photography News Items
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Readers send me links to some interesting articles from all around the world that are related to real estate photography. I’ve been getting behind lately in passing these along. Here are some of the most recent items: Trend MLS in Hawaii article recommends “Take you own photos and avoid legal actionâ€: Anders Carlson and Ethan Tweedie on the Big Island both sent me this article. It is warning agents in Hawaii to make sure they have a license from photographers. They say  â€The safest way to ensure this is to take your own photos, but if you must hire a photographer to take them for...
Discover the Secrets of Beautiful Portrait Lighting
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Today I’m excited to announce the launch of a new dPS eBook – Portraits Lighting the Shot – by Gina Milicia. In January of this year we released a brand new Portraits eBook called Portraits: Making the Shot. It was an ebook written by renowned Aussie celebrity portrait photographer Gina Milicia on the basics of how to shoot amazing portraits that reflect the true character of your subject. The overwhelming response from readers of the eBook was that Gina had created a valuable resource that was helping thousands of photographers to improve their portraiture...
Setting The Mood By Adjusting Your White Balance
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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This set of images was taken from a RAW file, with the white balance adjusted using Kelvin white balance in Adobe Camera Raw. The first image was set to Auto in camera. The middle shot was warmed up by setting the white balance to 7500°K, and the third shot was cooled off by setting the white balance to 4000°K. EOS-1D Mark IV with EF 24-105 f/4L IS. 1/200, ISO 100, f/4. Photographers often deal with a variety of light sources, each of which has it’s own color cast. When compared to daylight in the middle of the day, tungsten lighting, like that which comes...
Alma wins Web-Documentary award at Visa pour l’Image
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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DxO Optics Pro 8.3.1 adds support for five recent cameras
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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DxO Labs has released version 8.3.1 of its Optics Pro RAW conversion and image correction software, adding support for the Panasonic Lumix GF6 and G6, the Olympus PEN E-P5, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II, and the Pentax K-50. It also adds 490 extra camera/lens combinations to the library of optics correction modules. Click through for the full press release, including download links. Click here for free trial versions of DxO software Press Release: DxO...
Olympus fraud saga rumbles on with UK prosecution
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Sep, 2013 |
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Olympus will be prosecuted by the UK Serious Fraud Office over charges that it provided ‘misleading, false or deceptive’ material in accounts submitted by its medical supplies subsidiary Gyrus Group Limited. Earlier this year three former senior executives of the company were handed suspended jail sentences for their part in a massive accounting scandal which hid huge investment losses dating back to the 1990s, and was uncovered by former...
Male TATTOOED Fashion Model Wanted for Online and Print Shoot – Manchester
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494663
Classy Female Lingerie Model Wanted For Photoshoot – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494661
34B/12 Swimwear fitting model required
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494645
Lingerie Video model DEMO
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494630
Model required for Fashion shoot – Victoria
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494626
Sound Technician Required for Feature Film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494660
Need Editor – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D492361
Production manager required
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494581
Best boy/girl required
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494571
1st AD required
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494575
Flat And Thin Are In
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Flat And Thin Are In
By Adrian Taylor
September 3rd, 2013
Best Practices, Content, Web Design
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In the last several years, we’ve seen a rapid shift in software and app interface design, from 3-D and skeuomorphic to flat and minimal. Although this trend has become nearly ubiquitous, let’s take a moment to consider how we got here and what influence it’s having on interface design as a whole. Additionally, I’ll share some tips and considerations on designing flat interfaces. Interfaces on a Windows Phone 8 and Apple’s iOS 7. What...
Designing For Emotion With Hover Effects
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Designing For Emotion With Hover Effects
By Dudley Storey
September 2nd, 2013
CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
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Of the many factors that must be considered in Web design, emotional interaction is an important, but frequently neglected, component. In the real world, we experience the sensual interaction of design all the time. Reflect for a moment on the emotional engagement of slipping behind the wheel of a powerful luxury car: the welcoming embrace of the driving seat, the tactile experience of running your hands over the leather on the steering...
Now Accepting Entries For PFRE Photographer of The Month – Patio, Deck or Garden Space
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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I’m ready to start accepting Patio, Deck or Garden Space Shots  for the September 2013 PFRE photographer of the month contest. The photo to the right is last year’s winner of this theme (Jason Roehner, Tempe, AZ ). For those not familiar with this series of monthly competitions take a look at the Contest page that describes all the rules and the whole contest process. For a look at previous monthly winners and all the yearly winners go to the best-of-the-best page (on the top menu bar click “Featuredâ€). Please note new rule #15: “Submissions are final. That is, once your...
When to Stop Being a Photographer and Start Being a Photo Editor
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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At some point, every photo shoot comes to an end. Every portrait session, cookbook shoot, family vacation, ad campaign, college graduation, wedding, and photo essay eventually gets to the point when it’s time to put the camera down and see what you’ve got. Congratulations– You’ve just become a photo editor. To be clear, I’m not talking about correction or manipulation in Lightroom, Photoshop or any of the other image editing software packages available. I’m talking about the task of sitting down with the 367 images that you’ve just...
Photographing A Same-Gender Wedding or Ceremony
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Recently there has been several big changes in the way the US handles same-sex marriage.  Now, I don’t write about politics, which I think is lucky for all of us in the same way that I don’t cook is lucky for the people I live with.  I write about photography and people.  I also don’t make predictions about laws and the world, mainly because I’m not sure what I’m going to have for dinner tonight and as I write this, it’s almost 8pm (cereal is always a safe bet at this point though), but I will say this: as same-gender marriage becomes more accepted...
Alma wins Web-Documentary award at Visa pour l’Image
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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Back to the future: ten one-of-a-kind cameras from the 21st century
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Sep, 2013 |
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An interesting if, …eccentric…list. But no question that there are some worthy picks here. And I’m very glad to see the Oly E330 here, the original “solution looking for a problem” per DPR’s review of old. Notable in this list is the predominance of Sony and Oly—“outsiders” that needed to innovate relentlessly in order to compete with the big two—and we are all better for it now. As for omissions or changes—well, we all have our opinions I’m sure. I would have picked the Oly c8080, perhaps the first digicam to give...
Maternity Photo-Shoot 11/10/2013 – Pregnant Model Required
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494220
Promotional Staff for Olympia Beauty
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494219
Male Fitting Model Urgently Required 38"chest/32" waist – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494214
Runners for Film – Derby
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494215
Colour Grader Needed
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494177
Film Script Writer Wanted – NSW
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494140
URGENTLY looking for a Camera Person
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494103
Writer Needed for an Aspiring Film-Maker – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494050
Photographer Wanted to Shoot Acclaimed Singer/Songwriter – Dublin
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D494239
Checkout PrimePhoto.de By Oliver Zielinski In Berlin
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Oliver Zieliski took me up on my offer to translate my free e-book, What Realtors Need To Know About Photography. It’s now available in German on Oliver’s site. All you English speakers, don’t be intimidated by the fact that Oliver’s site is in German. If you use the Chrome browser it will recognize what language the site it in, knowing that you normally read English and offer to always translate the site for you. Pretty cool, this helps remove language barriers. I ask Oliver to tell us about his business and real estate photography in Germany. Here is what Oliver has to say: In...
Ilford opens US lab to meet demand for black and white film development
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Following its 15 years of success in England, ILFORD’s mail-in black and white film processing and printing will now be more readily available to North American customers thanks to the new lab in San Clemente, California. As digital photography has taken over, most local labs can no longer provide processing of true black and white film, nor can they print on real silver gelatin paper, instead opting to print black and white images on color paper....
Need the speed? Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM in-depth review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Sigma’s 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM has generated a lot of excitement since its announcement in April, as the fastest zoom ever made for SLRs. Designed for use on APS-C / DX format cameras, it offers a 28-54mm equivalent zoom range, and promises similar depth of field control to an F2.8 zoom on full frame. But can an F1.8 zoom really work? Read our detailed review to find out. Click here for our in-depth review of the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Click...
Goldfish all gone? Turn that empty tank into an underwater housing
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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If you have a digital SLR and don’t want to blow two grand on an underwater housing, check out the alternative the folks at Digital Camera World came up with. Just put your camera into a clean fish tank, attach a remote shutter release cable, lower the tank into the water, and fire away. Naturally, this only works in calm water, so don’t take it into the ocean unless you fancy buying a new camera. Though the site mentions you have to take a lot...
Black-and-white images capture the power of summer storms
Posted by Chris Roubis on 2nd, Sep, 2013 |
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Awesome post but all three of those photographs shown, and every other one on the photographer’s site under “Storms,” is of American extreme weather, not Canadian, Mexican, Nicaraguan, or any other country on the continent. Since that is the case why are you mentioning the continent?? Sorry, but the increasingly common habit of referring to the continent every time something America specific is mentioned is getting very old, and annoying. People that write for a living should not be making such obvious mistakes. Source Article from...
Looking for the Next Cover of our Magazine – NSW
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493911
Bikini Tennis Players
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493906
Free Portfolio Shoots for Male Models / Actors – Gold Coast / Brisbane
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493896
Cinematographer and Second Unit Camera Wanted – New York
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493916
Film Composer Seeks Assistant – NSW
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493885
CAMERA PERSONS URGENTLY REQUIRED
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493876
Film Crew Wanted – London
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493875
Sound Recordist/Boom Op for IMDB credited professional short film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493870
Freelance ‘Night Guides’/Hosts Needed for London Gone Wild
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493677
A Travel Tripod that can Also Act as a Light Stand
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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by Sarah Hipwell. The above shot at 1/20sec at f22 I brought two cameras on a recent vacation to France. My trusty DSLR and my new fab Sony RX100. I don’t normally bring a tripod on holidays but this time I wanted to get some decent video footage. I also wanted to experiment with a variety of (still) exposures for HDR work and to get a nice sunset (low light shot). With such an array of tripods on offer, how do you decide which one to buy? I narrowed my search to 5 key features: Low cost Size – folded & extended Portability Lightweight Sturdy enough to...
The Magic of Natural Light: Twilight
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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One of my favourite times for taking photos is at twilight. Especially during the spring and summer, the seasons when the light is at its most magical at this time of evening. I’ve always liked the idea that great photography happens on the edges. Twilight, the transition between night and day, is an edge. While the low light levels can be technically challenging, the reward in terms of quality of light are well worth it. I think of it as the ‘magic hour’. You may also see it referred to as the blue hour, a reference to the colour of the ambient light as...
Winners of Red Bull Illume 2013 contest announced
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Compositing always makes me feel they cheated. I know, I know. Great shots nonetheless. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/09/01/winners-of-red-bull-illume-contest-announced
Billboards offer tourists a glimpse of smog-free Hong Kong
Posted by Chris Roubis on 1st, Sep, 2013 |
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Ever heard the term “labored metaphor”? At least eventually, once the people becoming rich can’t breathe or are attacked by those that can’t breathe, something will be done to change environmental regulations even in China. Then low wage work will move to another country where the environment can be destroyed without much notice. Eventually, when an iPhone or a digital point and shoot camera costs $2,000 we’ll be paying the true cost of an item. Hopefully there will be some animals, trees, clean water, and non-cancer-filled humans around to enjoy a sustainable...
Male & Female Promotional Staff – ACT
Posted by Chris Roubis on 31st, Aug, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493701
Male & Female Promotional Staff Needed – TAS
Posted by Chris Roubis on 31st, Aug, 2013 |
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Actors, Models, and Musicians wanted.All ages and looks, no experience required. Source Article from http://www.starnow.com.au/Link.aspx?l=4815&return_url=%2Flistings%2FListingDetail.aspx%3Fl_id%3D493703
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.