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Seeing is believing: Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 camera review
Connect smartphone reviews are written with the needs of photographers in mind. We focus on camera features, performance and image quality. Introduction It’s been quite some time since Panasonic was a big name in the smartphone space, but the Lumix DMC-CM1, which was first announced at Photokina 2014, certainly is an appealing mobile device, especially to mobile photographers. That said, despite the CM1 having all the components and features of a smartphone, Panasonic describes it as a ‘Communication Camera’ in its...
read moreOpinion: Richard Prince is a Jerk
There are many people who have studied and understand the art world better than me. But there is one thing that I’m sure of: Richard Prince is a jerk. I say this for two reasons. First, I haven’t read anything that suggests he has the self-awareness and intellectual rigor that is bestowed upon him by fawning critics. The pro-Prince camp suggests that he is purposely stretching the concepts of intellectual property ownership, but I counter that he is intellectually lazy. (And even if he had the mental prowess of Socrates, it would...
read moreLegendary Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Dies at 75
There’s some very sad news in the world of photography today: renowned American photographer Mary Ellen Mark passed away yesterday in New York City at the age of 75.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that representative of the artist confirmed the death this morning. A portrait of Mark was also posted to the front page of her website: Mark received a master’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. Through the course of her photography career over the next half century, Mark published 17 photography...
read moreA Look at Benrido, One of the Last Collotype Printers in the World
Collotype is a photo printing process that was invented by French photographer Alphonse Louis Poitevin back in 1856. Due to its ability to preserve fine detail in prints, the process was used to create fine art photo prints for many years before other processes arrived on the scene. Photographer Fritz Schumann writes that the collotype printing industry has collapsed in recent years, and that there are now only two commercial collotype printing companies remaining in the world. Both of them are found in Kyoto, Japan. The larger of the...
read moreSmartChutes is a Safety Parachute That Can Save the Life of Your Camera Drone
Aerial photography drones are highly useful pieces of technology that help us to broaden our visual horizons. However, popular consumer drones, from companies such as DJI, can cost well over a thousand dollars – something you certainly want to be careful with while flying. A new product on Kickstarter, SmartChutes, believes that they can help you to protect your drone in the event of a catastrophic mechanical failure or pilot error. Nothing can be more terrifying than watching your expensive new gadget come crashing down from the...
read moreFilm vs. Digital: A Comparison of the Advantages and Disadvantages
In a world in which photographs are primarily taken with digital image sensors, there are a growing number of photographers who are newly interested in film formats of the past. But why would anyone in our age of technological convenience still choose to shoot with analog film? To understand the advantages and disadvantages of each shooting practice, we are comparing the different aspects of each’s image quality, along with the cost of usage. If you have been thinking of tinkering with film photography, you have landed in the right...
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read morePhotographer and Camera Crew Wanted for 2015 Melb Boat Show
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read more5 Macro Photography Tricks to Make Your Images Stand Out
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a series on macro photography this week. Look for a new one each day for the next 7 days. The next newsletter will have them all if you miss any! In the world of macro photography, most of discussions seem to surround the technical aspects of this photographic art form. Amongst my colleagues, lens choice comes up a lot, along with the use of a flash, extension rings, and bellows. Dynamic and creative macro photographs. I’d like to switch gears away from the technical, and share some of my...
read moreBackyard Macro Photography Safari
Editor’s Note: This is part a series on macro photography this week. Look for a new one each day. The next newsletter will have them all if you miss any! As photographers, we often have the opinion that in order to capture a great image we need to head out to an exotic location. But, what if you don’t have the time or opportunity to go to one of those places? Say you have free time some morning, and would like to go outside and capture some stunning images. You might be surprised at what you can find to photograph right in your own...
read moreSebastião Salgado: “I had travelled to the dawn of time.â€
The iconic documentary photographer, named Master of Photography at Photo London, on new biopic The Salt of the Earth, directed by his son Juliano and the German director Wim Wenders Sebastião Salgado has created some of the twentieth century’s most iconic photography. From war zones to famine, genocide to exodus, Salgado has documented many of the world’s major events of the last 40 years in crisp black-and-white pictures. He’s also won countless prizes, including being named last week as a Master of Photography...
read moreHow Tim Pearse won the graduate single image award Â
Image © Tim Pearse A recent graduate of the undergraduate photography course at Plymouth College of Art won BJP Breakthrough with a photograph exploring the discourse of contracted memory This image may look simple, but a lot of time and craftsmanship has gone in its creation. It is a lith print, made by Tim Pearse, a former BA photography student at Plymouth College of Art. And it is with this image that Pearse won the singles prize in...
read moreToshiba expands its Exceria Pro SD card line to include 64GB and 128GB models
Electronics giant Toshiba has announced higher capacity models of its high-speed Exceria Pro SD cards, increasing the maximum storage available to 128GB. The 16GB and 32GB Exceria Pro cards have existed for some time in European markets. Toshiba claims they achieve best read speeds of 260MB/s and write speeds of 240MB/s, and the new 64GB card is said to follow suit. The highest capacity 128GB card offers a read speed of 260MB/s but a write speed of 150MB/s. Toshiba has also announced plans to distribute the cards in the...
read moreSony launches Z3+ with 20MP camera
When Sony launched its new Xperia Z4 flagship a few weeks back it was a Japan-only release. Today the Japanese manufacturer has announced the Xperia Z3+, which is essentially identical to the Z4 but will be available globally. Given the new model is in many ways a fairly moderate upgrade over last year’s Z3, the Z3+ name arguably makes more sense than the Z4 moniker of the Japanese model. In fact, the main camera specification remains unchanged. A 1/2.3-inch 20.7MP Sony Exmor sensor is coupled with a F2.0 lens offering an...
read moreCanon Rebel T6s/T6i Lab Report added to First Impressions
I agree with whiteheat, though not sure about the ‘training’, many of us do seem to focus on the negative, or the lack of our ‘wish’ feature that cam x has but not this new cam. The easiest thing is to criticise, quite honestly, but do those same ppl ‘create’ anything ? How many have the skills to create a cam – essentially zero. But is cheap to criticize, even w/o understanding the reasons. So, I have not seen a perfect cam yet, TBH, nor a perfect woman, man, child, corporation, etc, but have seen...
read moreSamsung WB2200F sample photo gallery posted
Well, yes, Sir Corey, I went and read the nice article. It concentrates on the sayings of a pilot named John Cunningham and his super night vision, that made him an ace of the RAF. Although it takes more than a great vision to become an ace. There most be some other skills involved, uh? I’ve never heard of the Red Baron being a carrot eater. I enjoyed the reading, I thank you for being so nice about it, and you just provided me with a nice subject to talk at supper time.Have a great day! Source Article from...
read moreThese Portraits of Wounded Veterans Remind Us of the High Price They Paid
Warning: This post contains photos of injured veterans that are difficult to view. “The Unknown Soldier†is a powerful portrait project by photographer David Jay, who spent three years visiting and photographing wounded veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The images are difficult to view, but they capture the high cost that was paid by those serving our nation. “You can imagine how many times each of these men and women have heard a parent tell their child, ‘Don’t look. Don’t stare at him. That’s...
read moreA Time-Lapse from a Telescope’s Point of View
Since 2012, photographer Kenneth Brandon has regularly ventured into the great outdoors at night to shoot time-lapse photos of the dark sky. He recently began to wonder what a time-lapse would look like from a point-of-view on his telescope rather than through it, so he attached a DSLR to the outside on a recent shoot in Panamint Valley, California. The video above is what resulted. Brandon says he was using a Celestron C11 telescope with a CGE computerized mount for tracking stars as they move across the night sky. In the video, we...
read moreTip: A Book and Some Powder Can Work as a Camera Dolly in a Pinch
Need to do a quick tracking shot on a table but don’t have any dedicated camera equipment for doing so? A book and some fine powder can be a cheap and easy way to get the shot in a pinch. Paige Russell of Instructables writes that this idea can come in handy since it simply uses items most people already have in their kitchens. You just need a platform to set your camera on at the desired height. It could be a book or two, or any solid object that’s flat on both the top and bottom — just make sure you don’t mind getting the...
read moreStarry Self-Portraits with the Northern Lights
Finnish photographer Tiina Törmänen wanted to capture how small and fragile humans are in the unfathomable expanse of space, so she shot a series of stunning self-portraits showing her silhouette dwarfed by a backdrop of stars and the Northern Lights. The series is titled “Wanderer.†The portraits were all captured in the Arctic Lapland wilderness of northern Finland, a huge region of the country where there is only an average of 2 people every square kilometer. “Cold vast emptiness but something so beautiful,†Törmänen...
read more‘Real Moments Deserve Real Photographers’
Here’s a new 1-minute commercial that’s one part poignant and one part humor, going to great lengths to preach the simple message that real moments in life deserve real photographers to capture them. The company behind the spot is the stock photography service Latinstock Brazil. (via Latinstock Brasil via DIYPhotography) Source Article from...
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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.