Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX30

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX30: Digital Photography Review
Is this ultra-thin rugged camera able to keep up with its bulkier competitors? Keep reading to find out. If you're new to digital photography you may wish to read ...

7 Inspirational Photography Talks | DIYPhotography.net
Pro-Tip: Make Cool Hazy/Light Leak/Mystical Photos With A Sandwich Baggie And A Colored Marker ...DIYPhotography.net -DIY Photography and Studio Lighting

Grab a Coffee: Here's 85 Amazing Photography Links from Around ...Toad Hollow Photography
I am a fine arts photographer that specializes in HDR techniques. ... As another week passes us by Toad Hollow Photography has been diligently searching all over ... 19 perfectly camouflaged Animal Photos – OK, this is really cool! .... Culver using a medium format film camera and some specialized processing techniques.Light Stalking



Monday, July 29, 2013

Fashion Photography: The Pit (video)


The Pit: fashion photography

Fashion Photography Veterans on Photographing from 'the Pit'
PetaPixel
Collectively, the folks interviewed have some 73+ years of experience, with photographer Bruno Rinaldi clocking in 40 years all on his own. In other words ... The Sartorialist. “This season, I thought it would be fun to turn the camera on the faces of ...



Friday, July 26, 2013

Judy Chicago, Feminist Art Pioneer

Judy Chicago Birthday: Celebrating The Feminist Art Pioneer (PHOTOS ...
Huffington Post
... when I became interested in the subject of the Holocaust, I worked with my husband, photographer Donald Woodman, to fuse painting and photography, the photography to root the images in the historic events and painting to express the human story. Most recently, I became interested in issues of mortality, vulnerability and the power of the human spirit, I started working in glass because it allows one to look below the surface....

50 lessons learned about mobile photography: Connect
We love this 50 Things I've Learned About Mobile Photography List (and iPhone Photography) by Misho Baranovic, an accomplished mobile photographer and ...
connect.dpreview.com/.../50-things-misho-baranovice-had-lea...

Best lens for gig (low light) photography..Part 2.. for a d7100 ...
I'm keeping my d2x for landscape photography, but have purchased a D7100 for gig photography. I was on the verge of buying the D600 full frame, but have ...
www.ephotozine.com/.../best-lens-for-gig--low-light--photogr...



Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Miles Aldridge, Glamorous Photography

By Tabish Khan
Fashion meets art. ... Photojournalism At Its Finest In The Press Photographer's Year.
Londonist

the multimedia | photography | video showcase of
Palm Beach Post
the multimedia | photography | video showcase ...

British Landscapes Photography: Lighthouses around the British Coast - Part Two
Anglotopia.net
Laura's London · Training for Hadrian's Wall · British Landscapes Photography · Lost in the Pond · Chuffed to Bits · History of England Podcast · Earth Station Who · Reluctant Anglophile · Dispatches from the South · Dispatches from the North ...

New York Institute of Photography Reaccredited by DETC Through 2017
Broadway World
The New York Institute of Photography was re-accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) through 2017. At the June meeting of the Distance Education and Training Council, the council members voted to accredit the school, which has ...

Spinnaker Tower Announces Photography Competition Winners
AboutMyArea
The Spinnaker Tower has announced the winners of its photography competition, with the images making up its first ever calendar. Kevin Stokes triumphed as the overall winner of the competition with a stunning landscape composition. Other winning photos ...

Mural a celebration of art, Broomfield community
Daily Camera
"Cities are becoming more and more open to graffiti art," he said. "There's a bad reputation with the word 'graffiti,' because people might think of it as a tag on the Dumpster outside. I like to show people pictures of what I've done, so they see what ...

Beautiful space photography from the 2013 CWAS Awards
CNET Australia
Nothing much has changed now she's covering all things photography related for CNET. The winners of the 2013 Central West ... The permanent exhibition of this year's winning photos is on display now at Parkes Observatory. A touring exhibition of works ...

David Goldes on Mark Cohen: “Wonderful Possibilities of Photography”
2paragraphs.com
Against a cultural backdrop of tremendous interest in street photography in the 1970s as practiced by Friedlander, Winogrand, Metzker, Papageorge, Levitt, et al., one photographer's work stood out for me as remarkably unique and disorienting: Mark Cohen.



Monday, July 22, 2013

Matthew Weiner Talks Photography, Nude Scenes

Matthew Weiner Talks Photography, Nude Scenes With Gregory Crewdson
Hollywood Reporter
Their interaction was an embodiment of the spirit of the fair, highlighting the ways in which traditional still photography and motion pictures have always been in dialogue with one another and will continue to do so. As a still photographer, Crewdson ...

HEARST PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION: 8 x 10 BY 18 - Culturekiosque
Culturekiosque
NEW YORK, 28 APRIL 2013 — Photojournalism has been a stud farm of fine-art photographyalmost since the first print publications began including photographs to illustrate text. Now in its third iteration, the Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial ...

International photography festival Diffusion to launch in Cardiff this week
WalesOnline
Diffusion festival director David Drake. Three years ago, as director of Ffotogallery – the national development agency for photography – I was invited to present an exhibition of eight Welsh photographers at Fotosommer Stuttgart, a major festival in ...

Photography - Revolutions with Jon Faine
ABC Online
You may have even used a film camera for taking photos of your family and special events and waited for days or even weeks between taking the photo and seeing the end result. These days photography is instantaneous and the Facebook photo album has...

Contact: Jonathan Hobin exhibit draws on tragic events and kids for inspiration
Toronto Star
... we are as adults.” Starting Thursday, 17 of Hobin's images from “In the Playroom” will be released as a feature exhibition in Toronto's Contact photography festival at the Gladstone Hotel, in partnership with the Patrick Mikhail Gallery. CONTACT ...

Million dollar man: the artist who revolutionised photography
Sydney Morning Herald
Wall dabbled in painting and conceptual art as a young artist but gravitated to photography after seeing an opening to pursue what he calls a cinematographic approach. Wall likens his practice to cinematography because, he says, it expresses the idea ...

Photography contest invites submissions for fine art award
British Journal of Photography
The Photo Democracy Award for Fine Art Photography is said to be the "only award in the world that judges photographs on commercial value, with the simple aim of unearthing fantastic imagery and getting it on to collectors' walls", says the Chris ...

Saltz on the Met's Photography and the American Civil War
Vulture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's incredibly affecting “Photography and the American Civil War” is a shocking view of a pain so deep, destruction in blood and psyche, that seeing these 200 or so photographs installed in eleven galleries amounts to a ...



Friday, July 19, 2013

Icons of twentieth century photography come to Edinburgh for major Man Ray exhibition

Icons of twentieth century photography come to Edinburgh for major 
Man Ray exhibition

Art Daily
He initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his works of art but in 1920 began to work as a portrait photographer to fund his work in other media. In 1915, whilst at Ridgefield artist colony in New Jersey, he met the French artist ...

Art Beat: Phoenix-based photographer Marilyn Szabo exhibits "Uncomfortable ...
SouthCoastToday.com
With "Uncomfortable Places," Crowell's, under the aegis of McDonough, has reestablished itself as a serious contender in the private gallery scene in New Bedford. It will be followed by a show by Pennsylvania-based art photographer Peter Newport.

Photos: The Art of the Pow Wow
Indian Country Today Media Network
... who organized the event and spent eight months preparing. People traveled from as far away as Germany, the Dakotas and Hawaii to be at the Oroville Pow Wow. Here are some of our favorite photos of the event, all taken by photographer Paula Beehner.

Workshop- 'Meet Photography' at Eastern University
Daily Star Online
The workshop was conducted by renowned photographer Hasan Saifuddun Chandan, MAP, EFIAP on the aesthetic sense of photography. Everyday the workshop began in the afternoon and continued till the evening. Students were given out certificates after ...

Awaken your vision at Obscura Festival of Photography
The Star Online
“It also seeks to bring some of the region's and world's finest practitioners of the art to Malaysia to help nurture the next generation of photographers, curators and editors as well as to raise the public consciousness in photography as an instrument ...

Night Sky Photo -- Patagonia Wallpaper -- National Geographic ...
See a photo of the night sky above a landscape in Patagonia and download free wallpaper from National Geographic.
photography.nationalgeographic.com/.../tree-stars-patagonia/



Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Photography Collections With Personality

Two photography collections with personality
Boston.com
That description certainly applies to the collections on display in “An Enduring Vision: Photographs From the Lane Collection,” which runs at the Museum of Fine Arts through March 30, and “Building a Collection: Photography at the Fitchburg Art Museum ...

'Currents' photography show reveals an array of artistic approaches
News & Observer
Carolyn Janssen's "Massive Failure," archival inkjet print mounted to plexiglass, 2012, is part of “Currents” – photograhs from the collection of Allen Thomas Jr.at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh. ... Other striking works in “Currents” are ...

Photography exhibit to illustrate town's history
Greenwich Post
The Stamford Photography Club (which was originally the Stamford Camera Club founded in 1945) provides a meeting ground for photographers of all levels. The organization regularly holds classes and conducts competitions in a variety of categories and ...

Dave Stewart's photography Jumpin' Jack Flash & The Suicide Blonde exhibited ...
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine
Mr. Stewart arrived early and made himself accessible to photographers who took photos of him by his large portraits (photograph/s) part of the exhibition dubbed Jumpin' Jack Flash & The Suicide Blonde, which will open to the public on Sat.- July 13th ...

Capturing the moment
Troy Daily News
Mark Hirtzinger recently opened a state-of-the-art photography studio at 23 1/2 W. Race St., Troy, after being in the yearbook and photography business for more than two decades. ... Hirtzinger said often people are wary of the expense of senior ...

Photography book review: Hidden Identities: Unfinished, By Yvonne de Rosa
The Independent
The charity's co-founder, Mark Cook, invited London-based Italian photographer Yvonne De Rosa to meet some of the orphans he was working with in his attempt to transform them from having “hidden identities” to becoming respected and recognised human ...

WMNF resident photographer to lead photo tour
Boston.com
CENTER SANDWICH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire photographer John Anderson — one of two resident photographers at the White Mountains National Forest this summer — will give a lecture and lead an overnight photography trek through the wilderness.

Folk, films and photography come out to play
Hindustan Times
“Along with exposing the Delhi audience to plays by theatre groups from other cities, like Mumbai, we also want to promote sister arts like photography and film-making through the festival,” says Atul Satya Kaushik, founder, Films and Theatre Society ...



Monday, July 15, 2013

Indian photographer and photojournalist Raghu Rai

Photography Calling
Himalayan Times
And while talking with The Himalayan Times, he spoke about his experience in his 50 years of photography, his life and visions. “Expression and energy are the essence of a picture,” ... This is the grace and greatness for the 71-year-old Rai who has ...

Photographer Ellen Fisch Schedules Photography Trip to Germany
Consumer Electronics Net
In the last decade NYC architectural art Photographer Ellen Fisch has taken several trips abroad to increase her aesthetic and to improve her photography taking skills. "I am constantly learning and growing as a photographer/artist," notes Fisch ...



Friday, July 12, 2013

MFAH acquires Heiting photography book collection

MFAH acquires Heiting photography book collection
Your Houston News
Of the 25,000 books in the collection, many are considered works of art in themselves and will be featured objects in future exhibitions that attempt to reveal to audiences the parallel developments between photography and the published photographic ...

Annenberg Space for Photography presents Helmut Newton: White Women ...
Art Daily
The Annenberg Space for Photography announced its next installation, Helmut Newton: White Women•Sleepless Nights•Big Nudes, featuring the work of the revolutionary fashion photographer. Opening on Saturday, June 29, 2013, this is the first exhibition ...



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

'War/Photography' exhibit at the Corcoran

Art review: 'War/Photography' exhibition at the Corcoran
Washington Post
Captions focus on the who, how and when of war photography, clinically parsing the many ways — official, professional, propagandistic, amateur and artistic — that the camera has intersected with mankind's meanest and most destructive pastime.

'War/Photography' exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery
Washington Post
Gelatin silver print from original glass half-plate negative, printed 2012. The photos in the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibit “are often wrenching and horrifying, but wall texts keep the voice measured, the affect flat,” The Washington Post's Philip ...



Monday, July 8, 2013

Capturing the world through photography, video and multimedia

Capturing the world through photography, video and multimedia
Los Angeles Times
Chemnitz, Germany — The sculpture "Secretary" (1972) by Allen Jones is on view at an exhibition in eastern Germany that focuses on one of the main representatives and co-founders of British Pop art.  . . . (more at link above)



Friday, July 5, 2013

Exhibition exploring history of photography in America opens at Smithsonian

Exhibition exploring history of photography in America opens at Smithsonian ...
Art Daily
“The images in this exhibition represent some of the finest examples in the Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum's collection of American photography, a pioneering collection begun more than 30 years ago,” said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent ... (more at link above)



Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Branding Your Images

Can We Get Some Diversity with our Images?:  . . . . Brand it - A couple of photographers, Will Byington and Eric Roper, told me: “No matter what, any picture you put on the internet WILL be stolen.” It’s just how some people roll these days. Unfortunately. Unless it doesn’t bother you, branding your picture with your logo or even just your name would be smart before posting anything. I downloaded a font I liked from dafont.com to tag my new Sony NEX 3N pictures  . . . . (more at link above)



Monday, July 1, 2013

Great smartphone photography is about more than just the camera

Great smartphone photography is about more than just the camera | ZDNet: "Great photography requires practice, skill, and proper technique and can indeed be performed with cameras on smartphones. Microsoft recently partnered with the folks at We Are Juxt to engage in a Windows Phone challenge where Nokia Lumia 920 devices were used exclusively to capture photos and showcase the results." (more at link above)

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Art and design: Photography | theguardian.com