Jaromir Jagr’s 2nd goal puts the Rangers up 3-0. Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2nd round, Game 4. May 1, 2008
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Jaromir Jagr’s 2nd goal puts the Rangers up 3-0. Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2nd round, Game 4. May 1, 2008
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They do. really do, and I never do a good enough job of pointing their efforts out. So here are a few new products to check out.
Davin Risk’s new print on demand photo book I have been where you are just arrived. 118 pages of great photos, some from his Flickr stream.
Samia Saleem and many other designers originally from the New Orleans area have gotten together to create the Degrees of Separation project and together have released a postcard book with their post Katrina responses with some proceeds going to local AIGA efforts.
Jemma and the team at Sans Nom have just posted images of a sweet new laser etched skateboard deck for Refill Magazine’s 7 Laserdeck Skateboard Show. Photos on the site are a must see.
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Seems like a good time for a little update on my contributions to other sites around the internets…
I’m looking for your vote, if you think the shot is worthy, on this image of seedlings for the JPG Magazine ‘Breakthrough’ theme for their next issue.
And last weekend was the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, the weather was pretty good and the costumes better. A bunch of photos from the event are now up in a new Flickr Set
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For digital photographers, particularly people shooting any sort of volume of RAW files you may find you need a better workflow for ‘development’ and organization of the photographs then simply storing the files on your file system and then opening a few at a time in Adobe Photoshop. Into that gap has come a few new applications including Apple’s Aperture. More recently, Adobe has finished work on its Lightroom application and moved it from a long public period to an official 1.0 release.
With that release two professional photographers and bloggers, Micah Walter and Michael Clark, have committed their time and expertise to putting both Aperture and Lightroom through the paces on a typical week or so of shooting and editing.
Both photographers have started posting their day to day thoughts after working with he applications, and the articles are both interesting and informative. Versions and Stacking, for example. Contrast that with posts like Aperture in Somalia, may be a little light on the details that feed your curiosity about the applications they are rich in story and images.
My own application of choice since the first time I used a beta has been Adobe Lightroom, but I have been planning on looking at both Aperture and Nikons own Capture NX before pulling the trigger on the 1.0 license.
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Yay! I really dug the free 10 pack of Flickr MiniCards from Moo.com and had to have more. Now my order of 100 is on their way.
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Lately it seems I’ve been carrying some bad luck with me when it comes to interesting photographic subjects around town.
Case 1: The Delicious Chicken Dinners sign.
Now gone after the store got a new awning.
Case 2: The old swing set at a nearby park.
Now removed along with some other (newer?) climbing things.
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JPG Magazine, started by Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ a few years ago, went through some big changes a few issues ago and have turned themselves into a very creative take on using a ‘community’ to submit to and create content for their print magazine (yes, I said print).
They’ve taken the high road and have made their site about collecting and sharing quality photographs and have added themes for each issue that users can submit to, get ranked, and perhaps get included in a future issue.
I’ve been watching with interest, and enjoying the photographs others have posted but not made a submission of my own until now. So allow me to take the low road and ask you to vote on whether you’d like this photo to be part of the “Embrace the Blur” theme for issue 8.
This shot of mine was taken from this set.
[EDIT: Though I do have to say as I hack away at things to make my post not look busted, their javascript embedded vote link is a bit rough and hacky]
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Does the world need another Web2.0 Community Video Sharing Massive Group Social Networking site? Treemo thinks so, and I might agree.
Treemo, It's Growing
Joining the likes of Flickr and YouTube and a fairly busy marketplace is the recently launched Treemo. Though its a busy space, Treemo /is/ trying to change the status quo in two noticeable ways.
The first is that they’re paying strong attention to the mobile device market on both the contribution and the consumption side. MobileCrunch covers this a bit more.
The other twist is that the company seems to be very interested in growing a socially conscious community and have set up affiliations with a number of different organizations in an effort to keep its users involved in some things besides just sharing video clips from last night’s adventure at the bar.
The site is still a bit rough around the edges (I’d love to see a more detailed progress bar while I’m uploading 12MB videos from my F30, and a few other changes) but from what I’ve seen looked solid. Ultimately like any other community oriented site, the real test will be whether it gains enough momentum to become a viable destination.
[Also of note, Camino contributor Samuel Sidler is on the staff]
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On my trip through my feed reader this morning I ran across a post by Jason Kottke talking about how he recently picked up a Kodak Duaflex II camera in hopes of taking some digital shots through the lenses of the old camera.
It just so happens I had sitting on my shelf as decoration (has a few cracks and dings that prevented me from trying to use it for its intended purposes) a Duaflex III. 4 minutes with the cardboard insert from an Amazon shipment for the sides of the hood and the last bits of a roll of gaffers tape and I have my own TTV ‘contraption’.
Operation is a bit awkward given I’m not using an SLR, but a smaller Nikon 995, and I need to spend some time looking for the right focus and zoom settings to get the best results, but it shows promise. Here’s one of my first test shots (no out of camera processing):
I only had the time to give it a try and see if I can focus it and if I’ve cut off any glare (pretty good). Hopefully I’ll have some time this week to take it out for some real use.
A sampling of some recent photos, bookmarks and news stories I've flagged elsewhere with this tag.
2008 will be remembered for the housing and mortgage market meltdown, but will it also be the year of the stock photography market crash? There's no doubt in my mind the industry has been in a "bubble" for the past few years.
Pause, to Begin is a unique photographic project and competition that is founded on an exploration of vision and creation. Created with the emerging photographer in mind, Pause, to Begin is informed by a philosophy of artistic contemplation and reflection. In short, we are striving to extend the potential of the photographic medium today.
Like a number of people without a ticket to the Nationals' game Sunday, Mark Butler stood outside the left field gate and watched some of the historic event from a distance. The Minnesota man carried a digital camera to capture the memories.
Maurice Mc Duff ( Studio McMomo), from the canadian photographers association QuebecPhotos, have prepared a set of photos with different lighting schemes, along an explanation and visual schematics for each one of them, explaining how he did them. An excellent opportunity to learn about new lighting schemes and to see how each detail in the scheme its later reflected in the final photo.
Two men were released from police custody this morning after they took photos of Picatinny Arsenal Sunday afternoon, an incident that led to Route 15 in Morris County being shut for three hours last night.
MakingRoom is a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making. You'll see quite a bit of photography here but MakingRoom is at heart an âArt Magazineâ and will be open to the discussion of film, video, painting, and more. Itâs our hope to comfortably view and examine the range of individual processes that lead to powerful visuals. We plan to talk fairly plainly but with depth to artists at all stages of their practice.
Lenox Laser now offers an improved line of precision laser drilled pinhole lenses designed for use with Single Lens Reflex Cameras (SLR).
Hereâs my stock photography list. If Iâm missing anything good let me know.
I'm in Las Vegas this week for the annual PMA conference and trade show. I've been here for a few days already, and there's one topic that has come up in almost every discussion I've had with photographers: Aperture.
The B&H Event Space offers free events almost every day of the week and includes a great selection of educational seminars hosted by leading manufacturers in the industry as well as our very own B&H Mavens, professional development workshops and inspirational lectures by distinguished photographers.
There are special considerations to take into account if youâre shooting RAW and you want to be sure that youâre getting a proper exposure You wouldnât think changing image capture from film to digital photography would require a new way to think about exposure, but it may, depending on how you use your digital camera. This is because a digital camera sensor behaves quite differently from how film and our human visual system respond to light intensity. Digital cameras record data in a linear fashion.
Back in June of 2007, we began our first collaboration with a civic institution to facilitate giving people a voice in describing the content of a publicly-held photography collection. The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer.
There comes a time in every point-and-shooterâs life when he or she wonders if there is more to photography than a palm-sized block of aluminum stowed away in oneâs pocket.
Book Excerpts, Videos and other materials for learning Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
A daily photo blog covering the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
I hate to admit it, but the main reason I bought a D300 in the first place is because of the bigger LCD screen on the back. I know that sounds silly, but it's true (I had only actually held a D300 once; at Photoshop World, and then only for about three minutes.
he New York Civil Liberties Union sued the police department Thursday in an attempt to stop its officers from detaining and questioning photographers and filmmakers who take pictures of city landmarks.
My Korean isn't even good enough to call appalling, but fortunately for me, some Web site pictures of what sure looks like a new Olympus E-3 SLR speak louder than the surrounding words.
After an initial leak last night while testing the servers, Adobe has officially released Lightroom 1.1 to the expectant public. The free download for all 1.0 customers is available from the Adobe website.
People, please! Enough postcard shots. Get them at Google Images and Photoshop yourself. New York has more things to point your lens at per square block than some cities have, total.
I have been where you are. by Davin Risk (Book) in Arts & Photography : Photography is an emotional and intuitive process for me. Scenes, objects, and the subtleties of light and colour are like emotional bookmarks. The images act as stand-ins for my experience and hopefully extend it for others to find their own emotions and memories. I see many of my images as shared fragments of other peopleâs lives â the traces that people leave behind which form subjective narratives. Iâve called them âlittle storiesâ in the past. They arenât the story of someoneâs life but maybe the slightest description of a passing thought. This book is a non-linear collection of images taken between 2004 and 2006. Most photos have been shown on my website lowresolution.com. Davin Risk, January 2007
Lightroom Develop Presets
Lightroom Develop Presets
downloadble presets for different flim stock like effects in adobe lightroom
downloadble presets for different flim stock like effects in adobe lightroom
A while ago, I wanted to make a rigid softbox for tabletop photography. A rigid softbox differs from a regular softbox in that it has a hard shell, typically made of metal that holds a diffusion panel, typically made out of white acrylic.
A while ago, I wanted to make a rigid softbox for tabletop photography. A rigid softbox differs from a regular softbox in that it has a hard shell, typically made of metal that holds a diffusion panel, typically made out of white acrylic.
It's the next Brian Lehrer Show Flickr project! Send us a photo of something that defines the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwaanza/Solstice time for you. Symbols of peace and justice or the lack thereof? Expressions of faith, family fun or discord? Gluttony, Barneyâs windows, lines at the airport? Make it visual and make it good! We'll talk about the best photos on the air.
It's the next Brian Lehrer Show Flickr project! Send us a photo of something that defines the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwaanza/Solstice time for you. Symbols of peace and justice or the lack thereof? Expressions of faith, family fun or discord? Gluttony, Barneyâs windows, lines at the airport? Make it visual and make it good! We'll talk about the best photos on the air.
quick how to on making tilt-shift looking images with photoshop
quick how to on making tilt-shift looking images with photoshop
site covering the photo technique of shooting through an older viewfinder to gain noise, distortion and other 'old' effects
Lots of great prints for sale in 10x15 and 20x30
Choose your favourite Flickr pics, Make 100 different cards for $19.99, Add your personal details on the back, Share with friends!
Article looks in on new digital SLR offerings including the Nikon D80, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and Sony Alpha DSLR-A100
Article looks in on new digital SLR offerings including the Nikon D80, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT and Sony Alpha DSLR-A100
