Ideas ...
"I do feel these are extraordinary times. I do feel that we in a sense are at the beginnings of a renaissance with regards to journalism," he said. "I know that's hard for many people to hear given the pain of the disruption to the traditional sources." More…
I wasn't really going to delve into the issue, not even with my very short post last week about the recent kerfuffle around the portrayal of Appalachia. But Colin Pantall just published some thoughts about it He asks "Who wants to know what Appalachia really looks like?" More…
"...books which purport to be displays only of photography are often not fit to be published as books." More…
The commodification of internet art is not going to happen in the way the art market has traditionally operated or in any way currently being attempted. This all comes down to a simple square-peg-in-a-circular-hole economic dilemma,... More…
Diary of a Photographer, The Discomfort of Networking More…
You know the tide has turned in the media landscape when bloggers begin demanding payment from newspapers for copyright infringement. More…
For those of us who remember it, Flickr was once an amazing place. More than just a website or a bucket of features, it was a vibrant community made up by professional photographers and amateur photo junkies alike. More…
Whereas Ansel Adams photographed the sinuous, abstract patterns left by timeless winds on desert sand dunes, New Topographics photographer Robert Adams's photograph of a similar western scene turns out to be dune-buggy tracks crisscrossing the desert floor. More…
Was Righthaven right to sue an Ars author?
A new article sort-of makes the case... More…
For the first time in history, photography is about to lose control of its monopoly on affordable, convincing realism and it's time for us to understand that realism has never been the most important feature of the photograph. More…
Beauty may only be skin deep, but apparently it's also scientifically measurable. At least that's what Lorraine Cosmetics was banking on when they put together the Britain-wide beauty contest "Lorraine: Naked". More…
In that sense, no photographic treatment of any place will ever be truthful. Too much will be excluded, and our brains would never be able to even process the infinity of images and information a truthful portrayal would provide. More…
Journalism is not being disrupted by better journalism but by things that are hardly recognizable as journalism at all. Stepping up your game is always a good idea, but it won't save you. More…
We contacted members of various emergent collectives to find out what they've learned during their infant years. In a collective of four, is the workload quartered or quadrupled? More…
One of my pet peeves with some DSLR owners is how much they baby their camera gear. Sure it's prudent to get rid of fungus-inducing oil stains on the lens after a shoot or cleaning a lens to perfection before a shoot to avoid nasties like flare and ghosting, but More… |
Tips, Techniques &
Technology ...
Because I’ve never seen one tutorial that told me "the whole story" of how to do it properly, I've decided to put together what I've learnt during the last two or three of years of scanning film with my DSLR. More…
Gumroad claims that it serves to democratize the ability to sell stuff online,..It does so by creating a link to your photograph(s) so that your fans, friends, and followers who want to buy it, can do so, and no store set up is needed. More…
Today we have a video tutorial showing photographers how to photograph smoke. After a few mishaps and a small studio fire, Kai is able to get off some good smoke shots from a bundle of incense sticks More…
Almost every professional photographer I speak to about lead generation asks me the same question at some point during our conversation: "How can I get more website visitors from the search engines without having to pay for expensive ads?" More…
Do you use email in an attempt to gain photography business? After reading that question, you probably went one of two ways. More…
For many people, their first introduction to panoramic photography was using a film camera. These cameras had a pseudo panoramic mode ...With the advent of digital, it was realized that you could take several images and "stitch" them together More…
Do you ever find yourself procrastinating? Its human nature. Here are 7 of my favorite tricks I use when I find myself procrastinating over something big. More…
There are situations, such as portrait shoots and action photography, where you might want to move focus activation to a different button. This technique is often called "back-button focusing" More…
There are lots of ways to increase traffic and customers to your website for free. Not everyone has huge budgets for advertising, so you have to get scrappy and promote yourself wherever you can! Here are some ways to increase your visibility More…
Ever wonder how the image stabilization mechanism in your lens works? So did the folks over at Camera Technica. They took apart one of their Canon 18-55mm lenses to see the device in action, saving you (and your lens) from the task of taking your own apart just to have a look around. More…
Once we have our theme worked out, we must get our materials ready. I suggest doing this before you start to build your WordPress website. More…
Many photographers are looking to sites like Emphas.is and Kickstarter to raise money for personal projects. More…
Ever had the urge to wrap your body in photographs? Yes? Well, today, all of your dreams can come true! More…
How would you go about creating a call to action for a product not yet created? For example, how would one get a client to book or purchase a package through a website without a consultation? More…
Have you ever tried taking pictures of someone wearing glasses? I had no idea how challenging it would be until I started taking snapshots and portraits. More…
Workflow - I hear that word all the time.In this article, workflow is designed to convey the five steps photographers go through every time they are hired as a professional photographer. More…
Video: A Quick Make-Your-Photo-Better Setting in Lightroom More… |
Reviews
We meet the German-born, New York-based photographer working with Ryan McGinley who explores his love of nudity and alt porn More…
The following collection of websites do a fantastic job of integrating their social media campaigns into the design itself. Through custom designed icons and typography, these social media elements fit into the page stylistically, and are easily accessible without overwhelming the user. More…
These series of portraits by Claire Felicie are pretty astonishing; they depict members of Dutch infantrymen before, during, and after a year of active duty in Afghanistan. Just what is the cost - the impact in physical and psychic terms on young men - of combat deployments? More…
The first thing you notice about Paul Graham's new book, The Present, is the cover. It's silk; if the light shines one way it's brown, it shines the other way and it's golden. Two views in one. More…
While going through his grandparents' attic, web designer and photo enthusiast, Julien Mauve came across a box of old toys that he used to play with as a kid. Rather than sticking them away, the box gave him an idea. More…
The Leica 21mm f/2.8 Elmarit ASPH was, for a long time, one of the best ways to get into a super wide angle lens for your Leica M system, but in June 2011, Leica announced a replacement for the aging Elmarit: the new 21mm f/3.4 Super Elmar More…
Roslyn Julia is from a small town in western NY called Corning.Her work illustrates a quest of finding one's own place in the world and reflecting upon it. The images transcend reality to show a fleeting moment, that like a memory, will not be remembered in full clarity. More…
Larry Fink is a man who clearly enjoys the physicality and sensuality of the world around him. Passionate and outspoken with an impish nature, he enjoys good food and earthly delights. More…
If you're thinking big lights and lots of gear... forget it. Edward Verosky goes the other way - and that's something I like. So his Taking Portraiture to the Next Level and Taking Portraiture to the Next Level II are always at basement level when it comes to equipment. More…
A series of before and afters of classic pin up illustrations from the 40s and 50s shows the original photographs next to the artist's rendering of the "idealized" woman. Proving some things never change. More…
Using tiny props, the Carmichael Collective has built a series of small remembrances for dead bugs they found around their office and on the street. The "Bug Memorials" project documents these shrines in photos and a short YouTube video. More…
Metamorphose is a project by photographer Frederic Fontenoy that consists of slit-scan self portraits created in outdoor locations. The technique produces an effect that makes his body look like it's metamorphosing into some other life form. More…
Interrogations is the result of Donald Weber's personal quest to uncover the hidden meaning of private, unpleasant encounters with unrestricted Power. It is a simple, elegant book that sears itself into your memory. More…
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Matt Granz makes absolutely stunning landscapes and environmental images of the Bay Area. Actually, he makes stunning images of a number of areas, but many of his San Francisco area images really approach being iconic. More…
Most new products come in and you just know right away if it is something that you will like or not. The SpiderPro Holster was not one of these products. More…
Sherman's photographs evoke an idea of art as a mediated illusion, a grotesque and haunting chimera composed of different parts and pieces, of high-art and popular culture, of fantasies and uncertainties that are embedded and embodied in an array of visual cues that we encounter each day. More…
I had been living in Mexico City for only two months when I encountered artist P.J. Rountree's collection of El Grafico covers. He collects various visual textures from the urban environment, manipulating some and archiving others as part of an ongoing project. More…
Cathleen Naundorf is a photographer of the old-school, for whom composition and technique is everything, her photographs considered and refined in an approach not unlike classical painting. More…
Handbook to the Stars has a strange world on display that is hard to describe. Straight photographs sit next to very much constructed ones, colour photographs sit next to b/w ones (which might or might not be inverted). More… |
News
A 14 year old teenage girl by the name of Julia Bluhm has started a petition for 17 magazine to publish one issue of the magazine which contains real models, who aren't airbrushed to have perfect skin and re-structured in photoshop. More…
Fujifilm have announced the launch of the WCL-X100, a wide conversion lens designed specifically for the X100. More…
At the end of last week, Sigma Corp. of America announced firmware updates for both variants of its flagship digital SLR, the Sigma SD1. More…
Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the immediate availability of its Adobe Creative Cloud - a radical new way of providing tools and services for creatives. More…
Adobe will issue free security fixes for CS5 apps after all:
The company says it's working on patches for Creative Suite 5.x versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. Previously, customers would have had to pay to upgrade to CS6 to get the fixes. More…
Mr. Faas was a brilliant planner, able to score journalistic scoops by anticipating "not just what happens next, but what happens after that," as one colleague put it. More…
Facebook's $1bn acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram may be delayed for up to a year, after a complex competition investigation has begun, according to a report. More…
Leica Camera AG presents the V-Lux 40, a new addition to Leica's digital compact camera portfolio. More…
Leica Camera AG is expanding the product range for the Leica S professional camera system with five new central shutter lenses, available from October 2012. More…
Handmade at Leica's headquarters in Germany, the Leica X2 features a new APS-C-format professional CMOS image sensor with over 16.5 megapixels (effective 16.2 MP). More…
The Leica M Monochrom is a new 18MP, full frame, black-and-white-only digital camera. The sensor was designed from the ground up as a black and white sensor. More…
The compact Minox DC 1422 packs a 14-megapixel sensor and a 25-125mm equivalent 5x wide zoom in a body that weighs just over 100 grams. More…
Nikon has posted firmware updates for the Nikon 1 V1 and J1 compact system cameras. Version 1.12 addresses an issue that caused some frames to be duplicated in slow-motion movies recorded at a frame rate setting of 1200fps. More…
HP's new Officejet 150 has built-in Bluetooth for printing docs from Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices, and it lets you scan to PC and email files in addition to transferring via USB and memory cards. More…
Jim McCrary, the former A&M Records staff photographer who shot the cover of Carole King's Tapestry and other rock-and-roll albums, died on April 29, 2012, "of complications from a chronic nervous system disorder," the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 72 years old. More…
A publisher has filed a copyright infringement case against Tumblr, launching what could be a test of legal rights and responsibilities of photo sharing services and their customers. More…
Olympus has announced the Tough TG-1 iHS, a high-end rugged, waterproof compact camera. The main selling point of the camera is its 25-100mm equivalent F2.0-4.9 zoom lens. More…
Once partners in xD, now Fuji and Olympus have parallel dueling press releases for elementproof P&S cameras. Fuji has just revealed the new elementproof XP170 digital camera with a 14mp CMOS sensor, 5x optical zoom (28-140mm eq), folded optics, 2.7" LCD, etc. More…
Along with the release of Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw 7, Adobe Camera Raw 7.1 release candidate is available for download via Adobe Labs. More…
A man, Harry McCabe, plunged 160 feet to his death from a Cornish cliff in front of his horrified wife and children while attempting to take photographs, it has emerged. More…
MEXICO CITY - The bodies of three photojournalists were found dismembered on Thursday in the eastern state of Veracruz, days after a crime reporter for a national magazine was killed in her house there. More… |
 
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