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Theme: London

Prize:

• Each month one winner’s picture will be published in the Travel section. That photo, together with a number of monthly runners-up, will be chosen to go through to the grand final
• Grand Prize: a four-night holiday for two people to the holy city of Varanasi in India

Judges: Jon Nicholson and Gordon Innes

How to enter this photo contest

“Yellowstone National Park” themed photography contest – benefitting the Yellowstone Association ...

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PHOTOCOMPETE.COM - CONTESTS

Theme: Travel

Categories:

• The Judges’ Choice
• The People’s Choice

The competition consists of three separate Seasons:

• Season 1 (3rd January 2012 – 29th February 2012)
• Season 2 (1st March 2012 - 30th April 2012)
• Season 3 (1st May 2012 - 30th June 2012)

Prizes:

•  The six winners over the six months (three from each of the two categories, chosen bi-monthly) will win an Olympus PEN Lite camera (worth £550 each).
• All six winning images will then go through to ...

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Theme: Landscape - urban, wild or remote

Prizes:

• 1st Place: £500 of Photographic Equipment of your choice
• 2nd Place: £300 of Photographic Equipment of your choice
• 3rd Place: £200 of Photographic Equipment of your choice

The winners will be announced on the 10 Oct 2012.

How to enter this photo contest

“Yellowstone National Park” themed photography contest – benefitting the Yellowstone Association – open for submissions until 4/30/12 or when 175 entries ...

Dance of the rains, picturesque natures capes, gushing streams, eclipses of the mighty moon, clouds creating mystery in the sky, wild forests with their magnificent wildlife, carnivores on the prowl, beautiful animals rarely coming out of the camouflage and so many other once in a lifetime moments - Get ready to capture images which will showcase your creativity, artistry and technical excellence.

Categories:

• Nature
• Wildlife

Prizes in each ...

Open theme.

Prizes:

• $500 USD to the photographer of the winning image each month.
• The winning image will also be featured on the home page for at least the next month and permanently in the winners gallery. A finalists gallery will also display a selection of the best work submitted each month.

Each month’s winner will be announced about a week after closing and will be notified by email.

How to enter this photo contest

AX3 - American Aperture ...

This contest is to enable both sportsmen and wildlife photographers the opportunity to display photos of turkeys. It is being run in conjunction with a turkey hunting contest in Michigan put on by Alex Perry and Brian Pavlica. The hunting contest being put on by Alex and Brian is called the Mid-Michigan Spring Turkey Long Beard Hunting Tournament. You do not have to be a paricipant in that hunting contest to enter turkey photos in this ...

Theme: Happiness On The Move

Its interpretation is left free to the vision, creativity and sensitivity of the authors who are called to reflect on the theme, moving away from its purely literal meaning and to develop it in its various aspects. The purpose of the International Award ONTHEMOVE is to tell visually all the manifestations of joy and celebration of life. Participants are invited to submit works that develop in an original way the ...

Street photographers are guerrilla documentarians. They capture the world as they see it, using small and forgotten moments to present a larger narrative. Themes of class, age, occupation, or background are brought to life by small stories that evoke our shared humanity. The keen eyes of street photographers see what others take for granted, and depict the richness and variety of our public lives. For Eye on the Street, The Kiernan Gallery seeks ...

 Calling all amateur and professional photographers alike! The CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition challenges you to capture what you consider to be the essence of urban life at any time of day, anywhere in the world. Our theme this year, ”Cities at Work’’, encourages you to portray the life of your chosen town or city. The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the ...

Theme: "Landscapes"

Prizes:

• 1st Prize: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 (RRP £542.99)
• 2nd Prize: 64GB SanDisk Extreme SDXC - (RRP £97.99)
• 3rd Prize: 16GB SanDisk Memory Vault - (RRP £89.00)

The winners will be notified by e-mail within 28 days of the end of the competition.

How to enter this photo contest

AX3 - American Aperture Awards Photography Competition: PhotoCompete Extended Deadline: June 17 – $15,000 in Awards – Prizes includes $3,500 cash, a Lytro ...

Open theme

Awards:

• Best of Show $1,500
• Second Place $500
• Third Place $250
• Merit Awards 4 at $100 each
• The show in the Tehama Country Visitor Center Gallery located at 250 Antelope Blvd, Red Bluff, California, the “Gateway to Lassen National Park.” is scheduled for August 23 through October 30, 2013, with an opening reception and announcement of awards on August 23.

How to enter this photo exhibition

International Fine Art Photography Competition: ...

We know that you are travellers and that you believe in the concept of travel with purpose. You¹ve told us that the time you spent volunteering, working, or learning abroad was life-changing. Now we want to see it through your lens‹the fun times, the hard times, the once-in-a-lifetimes.

The challenge? Help us see the world differently.

Show us a snippet of that life-changing journey, and tell us why it mattered. Give us a picture of how you are ...

When you’re curious, you’re never bored. There’s always something interesting, or a new inspiration just around the corner. As the late Robert Capa once said “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” To get powerful and impressive photos, you need to be close to the action or scene you are photographing. Replace your fear of the unknown with curiosity and who knows what you’ll discover! 

Prize:

• The most interesting, ...

Just posted in DAP is a new study of the Canon 85mm f/1.2L II and 85mm f/1.8, with the Nikon 85mm f/1.4G thrown in for good measure. Additional study of the 85mm f/1.2L II is presented, which I think will be of keen interest to anyone considering one or the other lens.

I've just launched a new site on cycling, WindInMyFace.diglloyd.com, concentrating primarily on road cycling. I intend to apply the same rigor there as I have to this site and MacPerformanceGuide.com.

I won't generally be cross-posting here from WindInMyFace.diglloyd.com, so please follow that site's RSS feed or sign up for alerts on the alerts list.

I expect to have a review sample of the Zeiss ZE 35mm f/1.4 Distagon for Canon EOS by about February 15th, and I'll be shooting it on my Death Valley photo tour. The Nikon ZF.2 version will not appear until late March or early April.

Naturally, I'll be comparing the Zeiss 35/1.4 Distagon to the Canon 35mm f/1.4L and Zeiss 35mm f/2 Distagon.

My Zeiss Guide already has some bokeh examples for the Zeiss 35/1.4 Distagon, and see my September blog entries.

See also my handy list of Zeiss lenses for Canon ...

Reader Tim R writes:

Hello Lloyd,

As you may remember I wrote to you about 2 weeks ago commenting on a problem that I was having with a Zeiss 2/35 ZE lens. The issue was with a communication failure between camera (5D mk2) and the lens. The lens was purchased about a year ago and used extensively. I contacted Zeiss about the problem and was advised to send the lens to Zeiss for inspection and repair. Today I received a NEW replacement 2/35. I think that it is important for your readers to appreciate ...

Just posted in my 34-page review of the Pentax 645D in DAP is a test of the Pentax SMC 67 45mm f/4, which can be used with a lens adapter on the 645D.

Just posted in my 34-page review of the Pentax 645D in DAP is a test of the Pentax-A 55mm f/2.8, the older manual focus and metal body version of the 55/2.8.

Just posted in my 32-page review of the Pentax 645D in DAP is a test of the Pentax 645D with the Pentax FA 400mm f/5.6 ED IF.

I’ve just launched a new site on cycling, WindInMyFace.diglloyd.com, concentrating primarily on road cycling. I intend to apply the same rigor there as I have to this site and MacPerformanceGuide.com.

I won’t generally be cross-posting here from WindInMyFace.diglloyd.com, so please follow that site’s RSS feed or sign up for alerts on the alerts list.

I expect to have a review sample of the Zeiss ZE 35mm f/1.4 Distagon for Canon EOS by about February 15th, and I'll be shooting it on my Death Valley photo tour. The Nikon ZF.2 version will not appear until late March or early April.

Naturally, I'll be comparing the Zeiss 35/1.4 Distagon to the Canon 35mm f/1.4L and Zeiss 35mm f/2 Distagon.

My Zeiss Guide already has some bokeh examples for the Zeiss 35/1.4 Distagon, and see my September blog entries.

See also my handy list of Zeiss lenses for Canon ...

Reader Murray O reports:

The other day I was reading an entry of yours about Canon and Nikon QC and its message came to life when I picked up a brand new Nikkor 24/1.4. When I mounted the lens on my D700, the viewfinder was inexplicably dim, and the camera could not focus or do anything else for that matter. When I unmounted the lens and heard a metallic clanging, I peered inside (forgive the poor focus on my point-and-shoot).

This is what leaves the Nikon factory these days, inspected and approved ...

You may have noticed that this blog hasn't been getting very much love lately, but it's not because we have fallen out of love with photography (that's for sure!) We're phasing out our Typepad usage in order to move all of our new content into Popphoto.com proper. You'll probably still see some links to this blog here and there, but for now, you should check out the Popphoto.com homepage for the newest content, news and all other photography-related awesomeness. 

Thanks for reading!

The PopPhoto.com ...

Federal Courthouse Photography Settlement 

Above is the full text of the settlement.

The US Department of Homeland Security reached a settlement with photographer/videographer Antonio Musumeci, who, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a claim when he was arrested six months ago for documenting a political protest outside of a federal courthouse in Manhattan.

The ACLU claimed that Musumeci was arrested based on a vague and inconsistently enforced regulation. They cited that federal courthouses in other cities like Washington DC and Philadelphia allow photography on their grounds, and that regulation must be unanimously enforced nation-wide. They also claimed that for a public building to ban photography, signs must be posted clearly and visibly throughout the area.

Almost a year ago today, we made a post about a company that was selling wacky inflatable photobooths that were designed by two professional photographers for use at weddings, parties, ect—what could possibly top that? How about an inflatable photo studio. That’s right, an entire studio made of high-grade plastic that inflates to size in 2-3 minutes. 

Brian Hedenberg, a commercial fashion photographer from New York City, was fed up with the hassle of trying to book studio space and decided to come up with an alternative to constructing his own studio—hence the I.P.S. (Inflatable Photo Studio) was born. 

Nikon launched a new version of its free photo-sharing/storage Web site, MyPicturetown.com, that includes improved sharing and usability features as well as a new PhotoMovie feature.

Members who have a free account on MyPicturetown.com now have the option to create an audio-slideshow featuring their images using Nikon’s PhotoMovie feature(if you want to create more than one audio-slideshow you must pay the premium for a Gold Account). The new feature let’s user set photos to music for a unique and personalized multimedia experience. Users can also include text and various special effects in their slideshows. Once completed, slideshows can easily be shared via email or social network sites like Facebook.

If there's currently a Samsung NX10 residing in your camera bag, you might want to bust it out and bestow upon it the new firmware that Samsung has just released. The big draw for firmware version 1.20 is that the NX10 will now be compatible with Samsung's i-Function system, which lets you control crucial camera settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO and white balance, etc) right from the camera's lens. i-Function was first debuted with the NX100 interchangeable lens compact, which we got some extensive hands-on time with at Photokina.

The NX10 will now work with the new 20-50mm zoom and 20mm prime pancake lenses, which make use of the new Lens Distortion Compensation system. Finally, the new firmware also makes the NX10 compatible with the GPS tracker, which adds geotags to images, complete with city names.

If you want to make the upgrade, you can download it at the Samsung site. Then you can take a moment to thank Samsung for being so awesome and bringing their cool new tech to slightly older models. That's the way it should be.

This is just too cool—Benjamin Lotan, an entrepreneurial Facebooker and a graduate student, started a Web site called PrintingFacebook.com. For $20, Benjamin will print a 20”x40” high-resolution image on quality photo paper featuring every single one of your Facebook friends’ profile pictures.

The size of each friend’s picture depends on the number of friends you have, but Benjamin’s Website claims that whether you have 200 or 2,200 friends, your poster will look great. 

Top:The final product, a green-leather-wrapped, homemade screw-mount reflex camera. Bottom: Denis MO in his workshop fine-tuning the "DM flex."

For past 25 years, the French speaking Denis MO toyed with the idea of building his very own 24x36mm reflex camera, completely from scratch, using nothing but his home workshop. Finally at the age of 42, he felt like he had the technical skills and know-how to make his idea a reality. 

What do you get when you combine high-speed macro photography, tiny drops of paint and one stereo speaker with a membrane stretched over it? You get Canon’s groundbreaking new Pixma Colour Printers Ad campaign. 

Shot by biochemist and photographer Linden Gledhill, these beautiful stills and video clips were shot at 5,400 frames a second with a Canon 5D Mark II and an EF 100mm Macro IS USM lens. 

The Portraits of Love Project—a joint effort put on by the PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association and Soldiers’ Angels, a non-profit group—has put out a call for photographers nationwide who are willing to volunteer their time to shoot family-portraits for deployed military personnel. The portraits will be delivered in time for the holidays to those in active duty. PMDA’s goal is to deliver at least 10,000 portraits.

For all you Leica enthusiasts out there with large disposable incomes, Leica just announced another super-limited edition M9. Unlike the Leica M9 Titanium that was announced at Photokina a few weeks back—you know, the one that had only 500 units available—the all-new Leica Neiman Marcus Edition M9 will only have a mere 50 units available. 

Manufactured and available exclusively through the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, this brown-ostrich-leather-wrapped M9 will run you a cool $17,500. Included with the camera is a chrome-finished Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH lens and a copy of Adobe Lightroom 3. As an added bonus, every camera comes hand delivered by a Leica professional that will offer a training/orientation session.

Check out all of the Jobu Design L-Brackets here.

Installation Instructions
 
Nikon D700 - Windows | Macintosh
Nikon D300* - Windows | Macintosh
Nikon D300s - Windows | Macintosh
 
* NOTE: Installation instructions for the D300 are identical to the instructions ...

My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative,
prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike,
and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper.
To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen. 

Alfred Stieglitz 

Readers of the Luminous Landscape Forum (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=49968.0 and http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=49443.0) will recall that a question was raised about whether prints from the new Epson 4900 show colour inconstancy (CI), (often wrongly called “metamerism”). CI essentially means that the appearance of a unique hue changes according to differences of the various sources of illumination in which it may be viewed. A famous ...

Regular readers will have noticed that since late December '10 I have been living and working in Mexico, and shooting exclusively with the Panasonic GH2. When I came down to San Miguel in mid-December I knew that I was limited in the kind of equipment that I could bring with me. I intended to shoot documentary stills as well as video, and knew that I would be doing a lot of walking and hiking. This ...

The weather in California last December was awful.  Record rainfall, high winds and all the assorted consequences such as flooding and mud slides. For some reason, the sameness of the weather day in and day out seemed to exacerbate what I call a "photographic funk".

I believe that most photographers periodically experience a lack of creativity.  A time when one is either bored ...

I visited this location several times prior to creating this image.  However, each time the light was flat, the sky cloudless and I did not feel inspired to create a photograph. 

This particular time things were vastly different.  A sandstorm was blowing through the valley and storm clouds were moving rapidly in the sky. I was immediately stunned by the quality of the light:  the sand suspended in the air created a soft golden ...

I regularly visit the same places over and over again.  I do so because I do not tire of visiting these places and because I continue to find new inspiration in these locations.  

This approach works for me because these places hold special meaning for me.  These are places that I continue to see in a new light each time I visit. These are places that are both complex and challenging to capture in photographs, and each ...

A frequently asked question I get is whether or not my images are the result of planning, and if so, how I go about it. The answer is that my photographs are a mixture of planned and found shots – but very often the found images come out of a planned excursion. In this article, I'll share some of the planning techniques and tools that I use to increase my chances of success. 

There are two ways I go about deciding where to go on a photography trip. This applies both ...

January, 2011

PhaseOne IQ Backs

 PhaseOne announced their next generation of digital backs, the IQ series , about a week ago.

I had the chance to test a pre-production sample of the IQ 180 back last Thursday.  Kevin Raber, Vice President of PhaseOne was kind enough to fly to California with an IQ 180 to spend one day with me putting the back through its paces.  Everything that follows is based on my experience during this day of ...

The new Phase One IQ series of backs was announced on January 24, and on January 25 Phase One's VP Kevin Raber and I were interviewed about it live on SMIBS TV. Then on January 27 I published an interview with Leaf's Yair Shahar  and Kevin about both company's 80 Megapixel offerings. Following this, on January 31, I published my review of the Leaf Aptus II 12.

A lot of coverage, I know, and some would guess at an ulterior motive. They'd be wrong. It's just that both Leaf and Phase One know how to ...

Jaber Al Azmeh, Wounds

By Christine Bednarz

Damascus-born photographer Jaber Al Azmeh began his latest series during the crucial early stages of the revolutionary movement in Syria. The artist asked those in his social circle to reenact their experiences demonstrating, until clashes between activists and the regime forced him to flee to Doha, Qatar. While in exile, he completed this project of striking red and black photographs, even appearing himself as the subject of a few of the images. MutualArt ...

Dr. Edwin Land, photo by Co Rentmeester for Life magazine

1972:  This cover of Life magazine depicting a  Polaroid SX-70 camera, illustrated the feature story Dr. Land’s latest bit of magic about the inventor Dr. Edwin Land and his new instant camera and film.

Died:
1986: Eugene Omar Goldbeck, photographer and inventor, San Antonio, Texas
2009: Roy DeCarava, photographer, New York

Candida Höfer, Musée du Louvre, Paris XXI, 2005

Arthur de Ganay is a photography collector of large-format images that investigate the thematics of landscape and architecture. The collection resides on the 3rd floor of an old jam factory in Berlin. Most of the presented artists are from the so-called Düsseldorfer Photoschule that was found by Bernd and Hilla Becher, featuring Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer next to others. The collecton can be viewed only on specific dates. During the ...

Edward S. Curtis, Qahatika Girl, 1908 from the series The North American Indian.

Headlining Swann Galleries’ fall auction of Fine Photographs & Photobooks is Edward S. Curtis’s opus The North American Indian, a documentation of the customs, manners and rituals of more than 80 Native American tribes west of the Mississippi. The photobook consists of 20 folios on Japan tissue featuring 722 large-format photogravures, and 20 text volumes with more than 1500 small-format photogravures on vellum. Ink numbered ...

What is Art? “Art, in its broadest sense, means any activity that is founded on knowledge, practice, perception, imagination and intuition. In a more strict sense, Art can be regarded as the outcome of targeted human activities undertaken without a functional purpose” says the web encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. On the other hand, Art represents skill in a particular subject area, such as photography, but also the creation of a work of art through a craft patiently learned over time. The artefact. If it ...

Herb Ritts, Tatjana, Veiled Head, Joshua Tree, 1988 Platinum print Image: 48.3 x 36.8 cm (19 x 14 1/2 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © Herb Ritts Foundation

Herb Ritts is much to market-oriented, to be a real artist. He has produced goods for fashion magazines and tried the subject body images, that sometimes recalls Edward Weston. The art has a characteristic rationality to them, which has made him a celebrated photographer of the rich and beautiful and a creator of fashion sense. Ritt’s ...

Herb Ritts, Cindy Crawford, Ferre 3, Malibu, 1993 Gelatin silver print Image: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Herb Ritts Foundation © Herb Ritts Foundation

Actually, the Getty Center, Los Angeles, presents an exhibition with photographs by Herb Ritts and a catalogue which celebrates him. Herb Ritts produced portraits and editorial fashion for magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone. He also created advertising campaigns for Calvin ...

Pictures taken by photographers for themselves are often more exciting than those they are commissioned to do. theprintspace, London will be a home to DayFour Magazine’s exhibition, “Modern Love”, showcasing non-commissioned work from all around the world.

DayFour is a magazine of personal work, mainly by photographers. Like any magazine, it has a variety of contributors, runs collections of (visual) articles, and is printed and published once a year, with each issue built around a different theme. ...

According to artprice.com the prices of artworks by Thomas Ruff have gone up by five times during the last 14 years. They reached a peak in 2008 and dropped until now. The number of artworks sold per year at auctions has dropped dramatically during the last  five years. 40 percent of the artworks have been sold in the United States, 26 percent in Great Britain and 17 percent in Germany. Collectors in Europe and the United States are interested in artworks by Thomas Ruff, he is not fascinating for ...

We can be heroes, just for one hour...

Think "GoPro" and images of images of exuberant bikers, 'boarders, insane wingsuit fliers and speeding race cars tend to spring to mind. The company's promotional video for the HD Hero3 Black edition - shown below to showcase what this miniature yet tough and waterproof HD "camcorder" can do in the right hands - was enough to permanently instill those images to the brain.

But that's not all: the HD Hero3 is being used for all sorts of TV and movie production ...

Finally a ?travel zoom' worth the fare?

A good zoom on a travel camera is a great idea, youll get closer to the action, and with cameras like this Exilim, you'll still be able to fit it in your pocket. And, although the original asking price was a hellish ?299, we found the Exilim EX-ZR100 online for a much more competitive ?179 at the time of writing.

So is this portable little shooter worth an investment, or is it something you should avoid at all costs?

While the race for more ...

You might think that GoPro has the extreme sports camera market stitched up with its Hero range. In fact, the popularity of those cameras has inspired a lot of other manufacturers to produce action cameras that have an amazing range of features. One such...

The Panasonic Lumix GF6 is far from just a subtle upgrade to the series. Even though there's still no hotshoe or viewfinder - something we doubt will ever make it to the GF-series - it's otherwise just about the most feature-packed entry-level compact...

In the search for all-in-one compact camera perfection the Canon's thrown its latest tech into the ring: the PowerShot SX280 HS is the first Canon model to introduce the Digic 6 processing engine. But by resting on the same 20x optical zoom and 12.1-megapixel...

Bijou beauty or mediocre miniaturisation? In truth, there's a bit of both in the PowerShot N, Canon's truly compact compact. On the whole, though, this clever re-imagining of how cameras should look and perform puts the bias strongly towards the former....

When Canon came to update the EOS 650D DSLR it did something not entirely expected: while the inevitable EOS 700D surfaced, so too did the brand new EOS 100D, a shrunken-down DSLR some 25 per cent smaller and 28 per cent lighter than the aforementioned...

When we first saw the Sony NEX-6 ahead of its launch towards the end of 2012 we were impressed with how it seemed to encapsulate the very spirit of what, in our view, a compact system camera should be. The NEX-6 is small yet comes complete with a built-in...

Cameras for outdoor activities are all the rage these days. It's a segment that, while not invented by GoPro, has certainly been popularised by that company. These days though, the uses for rugged technology that can produce great quality pictures while...

The NEX-5R is the product of Sony's continuing refinement of its compact system cameras. We're already fans of the interchangeable lens series, and found the previous NEX-5N model to be a little star in the image quality department, but a little behind...

Sony NEX-3n & 20 f/2.8 Lens Quick Review by Steve Huff

This is one of the best deals in the mirrorless photo world right now, as of this writing (May 2013). For under $450 you can have an APS-C NEX camera with a decent  and compact 16-50 Zoom lens included. Great buy. 

This NEX-3n is an older release as it arrived a couple of months ago but I asked Sony to send it to me as this site has a history of reviewing ALL of the NEX cameras and I have had yet to even hold the newest version of the “3″, the ...

Palouse Workshop Update and Special on “Beauties of Nature” workshop

Hello to all! I have some updates on my Palouse Road Trip as well as my buddies Todd and Jay’s “Beauties of Nature” workshop so for anyone looking to get in one either of these, read on..

PALOUS ROAD TRIP

This is going  to be so much fun!! It was sold out, but one guy backed out last week so I now have ONE seat open at $1500 with a private hotel room while we are in Pullman so you will have your own room. You can read details on this ...

“Leaving Your Comfort Zone”

by Brian T Adams

Hello everyone. My fiancée and I recently went on our first trip to New York City. What a fantastically chaotic place. From all the sounds and sights akin to those in the movies to the chaotic guy on the subway yelling to the cosmos some sort of declaration that scared the hell out of everybody, New York was nonstop. And we loved it.

I wanted to seize the opportunity to photograph a new and foreign place. Yet, this time I wanted to do something different. ...

Leica Majority Shareholder Buys in to Internet Photo Platform i-shot-it.com

Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, majority shareholder of Leica Camera AG, has acquired a 25.1% stake in the Internet platform “I-shot-it”. For a small fee, www.i-shot-it.com enables photo-enthusiasts—from amateurs to professionals—to take part in photographic competitions. An independent jury of internationally acclaimed photographers selects the prizewinners and in the open competitions, members of the “I-shot-it” community select the ...

More Classic Lenses: Leica 50 1.5 Summarit & the Canon 50 1.2 LTM

1st up, the classic but unique Leica 50 1.5 Summarit

The Leica 50 Summarit has had a weird reputation as an oddball “crazy bokeh” super soft lens and for years I held off on buying one for that very reason. Every time I have seen samples they were crazy soft and without any sharpness to be seen along with almost NO contrast. But at the same time, it had a unique look..almost like the lens was painting the pixels on to the memory card ...

Friday Film: The Leica M Monochrom vs Leica M6 on a wedding

By Joeri van der Kloet – see his website HERE

Let me start with explaining what I do for a living. I am a documentary wedding photographer, based in the Netherlands and a little more than two years ago I switched from a DSLR to the M-system. I work with one M9 and one M9-P and a couple of lenses. Being a documentary photographer, my approach to wedding photography is to capture real moments, without interfering in these moments. For me, and ...

Hi Steve Huff,

My dad showed me your homepage and I really like your mindset and how you work together with your readers. So I thought why not sending you some of my pictures and see if you like them

My name is Miriam Anastasia Ottmann, friends call me Mimi. I am 16 years old and go to highschool. I am German but I live on Salt Spring Island in Canada for half a year. This is a wonderful place to do some of my favorite activities: meeting new people, enjoying the nature and taking pictures. I like ...

INSANE Deal of the Day! The Panasonic GX1 for $249 at Amazon, Prime Eligible

WOW!!! This is a giveaway and will not last long. The Panasonic GX1 is being cleared out at Amazon right now for $249. New in box GX1 Micro 4/3 body, $249. This was the main competitor to the E-P3 and while I preferred the Olympus E-P3, the GX1 was considered the comeback camera from the original GF1. If you want one, get it now at $249. They will not last!

BUY THE PANASONIC GX1 HERE for $249!

If you want a perfect lens for ...

The Classic Nikkor 8.5cm f/2 LTM lens review

click on any image in this review for a larger size image

Ahhh yes. Classic solid brass and chrome lenses from the 1950′s certainly have a charm about them. When you find one, hold one and use one you will indeed say to yourself “they do not make them like this anymore”. While Leica still makes damn finely built lenses today, the prices are so high that I see many shooters priced out of the market. I have friends who save for an entire year just so they ...

Hey Steve!

Here’s my submission to your Daily Inspiration series!

I recently deleted all of my photos off my Flickr account, sifted through years of photos i have taken on my hard drive and newly edited 16 of them i deem to be my best. They can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/feiningers-cat/

I had quite a severe case of GAS in the last two years but fortunately you can not only buy cams on Amazon but also sell them there. So yeah, I lost quite some money this way but I regard that as a rental ...

From around the watercooler
I have heard from a couple of places that the Canon EOS-1D X may be delayed, yet again. The latest we’re hearing is that arrival of the camera body won’t be until June, 2012.

We’ve also heard allocation to stores is based on preorders from CPS members. In other words, CPS members will get to the front of the line for 1D X preorders.

This isn’t confirmed by Canon yet.

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For Canucks
Camera Canada has the 5D Mark III bodies in stock and for sale. They are priced at $3679.96, which should get you in range of the US pricing of $3499 after all the conversions and things like that. You’ll get great service from Camera Canada, I deal with them almost weekly.

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Most won’t need this one.
Canon has released a firmware update for the EOS-1D Mark IV.

Affected Product

Firmware
Firmware Version 1.1.1 incorporates the following change.

Improved Canon ultrawide for full frame?
The world is waiting for Canon to release a top end performing ultra wide lens for full frame cameras. While I think the 17-40 f/4L is a bargain of a workhorse and the 16-35 f/2.8L II is a very solid performer, I think the line is still lacking that standout ultra wide zoom lens. I have heard numerous photographers say they’d pay “anything” for a top notch lens in that segment.

Below are 3 patented optical formulas for new ultrawide angle lenses for Canon. ...

A Nikonian loves the 5D Mark III
Nikon wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer took the 5D Mark III to a wedding to discover it’s a pretty good camera. It’s a good review, as he does point out a few weaknesses.

Ryan’s conclusion

Right now, Canon is primarily competing with the Nikon D800. At $500 cheaper and with a high-resolution, high dynamic range sensor, the D800 will be a tempting option for most users. For someone like me who takes more than a quarter million photos a year, the idea of a sensor that ...

The 5D Mark III get support
Adobe has released Lightroom 4.1 release candidate and it now supports the Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

Other bug fixes were also addressed. Expect to see a final version of Lightroom 4.1 next week.

New Camera Support

Fixed Issues

The following issues have been fixed in the Lightroom 4.1 release candidate:

Pocketwizards
I received the following report about PocketWizards and the 5D Mark III. I have not confirmed this myself.

Been using PW products for 8 years now. I currently have a Canon 1D Mark IV, which works great up to 1/800 at the studio with hyper sync, and preordered a 1D X. I just bought a Canon 5D III and won’t sync at shutter speeds higher than 1/160 using Mini TT1 and Paul C. Buff Einstein Flashes fitted with Poceket Wizard Power MC2′s. Any speeds higher than that, it will give u the dark ...

Go Duke… oh wait… March Madness One Day Sale!
From the folks at LensRentals.com…… “Whoa! We’ve got way too much stuff up for sale. Tyler says he is tired of looking at all this equipment looking all sad on the shelf, and wants to see it all go to a new home. So today only, he is offering a special deal: Purchase any item before 4 PM CT today and put the code MADNESS10 in the special instructions box during checkout and we will take 10% off the purchase price after your order has been submitted.” ...

Technical Invite
Canon has sent out another invite for April 16, 2012. This will be beyond the .

Could this be the hoped for 4K DSLR Canon has already teased the world with? As some would say, is this what videographers wanted the 5D Mark III to be?

We have heard the 4K DSLR would be announced sooner than later, however it’s rumoured availability would be in the distant future.

The next Cinema EOS product coming on April 16, 2012?

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Thanks Ivan

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The Bugs
No camera these days is going to launch issue free, and a very noticeable one has shown up with the 5D Mark III is used in combination with the EF 200 f/2L IS. The issue being an odd and rather loud noise from the what seems to be the image stabilizer. I have noticed this first hand while using the combination in AI Servo mode.

Others have noticed it, and there’s a thread on the about it.

I will be testing the following lenses tomorrow with the 5D Mark III to see if the issue is isolated ...

If you are going to buy the Metabones here are some links to ...

During the WW2 the US military used the Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm f/2.5 on bombers to photograph German military and industrial facilities. PolygonSandwich blog owner (Click here) made the impossible possible and uses this lens to take pictures with the Panasonic GH2! That is definitely the biggest lens ever used for a digital mirrorless camera. You cna see image samples on his blog. There is also a how to guide if you want to do something like this too.

The lens itself costs around $600 used on eBay ...

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Imagine you can have a GX1 for $199…no wait..it’s real! You can grab it now at RobertsCamera on eBay US (Click here)! And yes, it’s brand new and with free shipping.

Officially Panasonic doens’t offer any special GH3 with X lens kit price. But at leats at BHphoto (Click here) you can get it along a free vertical grip. You save $199. And the canadian store Henry’s (Click here) dropped the price of the GH3 by $100.

More new deals:
GX1 for $239 now at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
The 20mm pancake for $335 is back at Amazon (shipment from May 26).
E-Pm1 with 14-42mmII kit lens for $285 at Amazon (Click here).

The current GX1 sells out for $239 only at Adorama (Click here)

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Trusted sources confirmed that the new GX1 successor will be announced in late August! It will be the only Panasonic MFT camera announced this autumn. I have been told it will be a high quality, very new designed camera. And one source expressively said…”43rumors people will like it for sure“.

I will leave ant speculation about what it will be to you. I am trying to convice the sources to spill out the specs…

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At the moment stores are ...

Egami (google translation here) spotted the next Olympus Glass patent with built-in camera. The camera features a 1/2.3 inch sensor with 27mm equivalent lens. A while ago I spotted another patent where the Olympus glass actually acts as a sort of viewfinder of compact or mirrorless cameras (Source freepatentsonline):

There is a lot of talk about the Google Glass. And it seems that Olympus only has patented similar devices. But can a small company like Olympus battle against a giant like Google?

P.S.: ...

Today Amazon is accepting preorders on the new Black Lenses and VF-4:
Black Olympus 75mm f/1.8 (Click here). Will ship from June 14.
Black Olympus 45mm f/1.8 (Click here). Will ship from June 14.
Black Olympus 17mm f/1.8 (Click here). Will ship from September 13.
Olympus VF-4 (Click here). Will ship from June 14.
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Links to all newly announced Olympus stuff:
E-P5 Black at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto and Samys. In Europe at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and at Wex UK.
E-P5 White at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto ...

Sony’s United States Patent Application 20130113982) describes a sensor with PDAF

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Last year Olympus and Sony signed a partnership that will soon show his first developments in the camera industry. According to trusted sources Olympus will get the new generations of Sony sensors with on sensor phase detection AF for a future high end OMD model. And Sony will use some of the knowledge from Olympus to design a couple of A-mount lenses that will be released in 2014. I think that’s a pretty good news ...

Ungraded Blackmagic Pocket CInema Camera – Market from John Brawley Tests on Vimeo.

The Olympus E-M5 design patent at Freepatentsonline.
Blackmagic Cinema Camera test at Focus Numerique.
E-P5, accessories and lens price in france (Lepidi).
New Quenox grip at Enjoyyourcamera.com
Sigma 60mm review at lcap.tistor.com.
20% of all cameras produced today are system cameras (Digitalcamerainfo).

Fabrys: “I just want to share with you my last video shot with the OMD E-M5 in Berlin: https://vimeo.com/66480595“ ...

The GX1 has fallen to a new low price record. You can grab it Adorama for $239 both in Black (Click here) and Silver (Click here). It’s $244 at Amazon (Click here) And the X kit sells for $499 at Amazon (Click here). This makes it the most sold mirrorless camera of the weekend (here is the ranking).

Yep, GX2 rumors are coming soon

Hey everyone. I’ve got a couple of Lightroom news-related items for you today. First off, I just got word that the latest issue of Lightroom Magazine (issue #4) is up on the App Store. If you’ve got an iPad, here’s the link to the free app where you can download the first issue for free. Each issue after that is $4.99. I’ve also included a few screen captures from the app (Cover, Table of Contents and my Editors Note) below.

Also, Adobe just released an update to Lightroom. We’re at Lightroom 4.4 ...

Hey everyone! This post is brought to you by a post-Easter-Sunday-chocolate-sugar-high, so I can make no claims as to it’s accuracy or usefulness But I do think you’ll like these presets. They’re an update to some I released a while back, that went over really well. Basically, it’s a warm sunflare glow effect that makes a nice finishing touch on your outdoor photos.

It’s pretty simple. There’s a “Left Side” version and a “Right Side” version. They both emanate from the upper corner of the photo ...

One of the cool things about Lightroom is that it’s got some easy ways to customize the interface and make the program look more like your own. One of those ways is with panel end marks – you know those little graphics below the panels on the left and right side of Lightroom. Check out the video below and I’ll show you how you can make your own graphics and have Lightroom display them, instead of the default ones that it ships with.

We’ve been getting fantastic reviews of the latest issue of Lightroom Magazine. If you own an iPad and are still on the fence about downloading the magazine, I thought I’d share one of my favorite articles from this issue with you. See, we always get a ton of questions about color management between Photoshop and Lightroom. Last year, I met Joe Brady who’s a total wizard when it comes to this stuff. So we asked him if he’d write an article to help make sense of it all and he did just that. Here’s ...

Happy Friday! Over on my personal blog at www.MattK.com, I told a little story about how I hadn’t removed some spots/sensor dust/debris in a photo that I had printed. See, when it comes to your web images, it’s really hard to see those little spots. But when you print, all bets are off – those things show up like you wouldn’t believe. While most people would never see them, because they don’t typically walk up and look at your photos from 6 inches, photographers examine photos extremely closely. ...

Hi everyone. Just wanted to give a quick Photoshop World update for anyone going (or thinking of going). First, I’m teaching a pre-conference workshop on Photoshop Compositing with the awesome Glyn Dewis. We’ve teamed up for a 4-hour workshop where you’ll get to light, shoot and build your own composites while we’re there with you to help out. Plus, in order for me to get out of writing a huge 40 page workbook for the session, I convinced the powers-that-be to let me give away a free copy of my ...

Happy Monday everyone. I wanted to let you know that our Lightroom Magazine App issue #3 is really close. The magazine is basically done, and will be submitted to the App store this week. After that, it can literally take just a couple of days or up to a couple of weeks depending on how things go. In the meantime, I figured I’d share the cover and table of contents so you could take a look at what’s coming in the issue.

Here’s the link to the app and a free issue (issue #1). Don’t forget, there’s ...

One of my favorite effects in Photoshop plug-ins is the Tonal Contrast effect. onOne Software’s Perfect Effects has it, and Nik has it as well. But I know that lots of people still don’t use 3rd party plug-ins, so I set out to try to recreate the effect in Lightroom. After trying a bunch of different combinations I think I came pretty close.

Now, there’s definitely something in the “special sauce” that the plug-in companies use. So if you have the plug-ins (or are thinking of getting one), I’d still ...

Hey everyone. One thing that happens to me when using presets deals with customizing them. See, I’ll be using a preset I’ve downloaded and realize I keep making the same “tweaks” to it every time. Well, instead of wasting the time changing it each time, you’ll see in the video that there’s an easy way to take your custom settings and combine them with the preset itself. Enjoy!

Hey everyone. One thing I hear more and more about on my Lightroom seminar tours is that more and more people are using Elements to go along with Lightroom. First off, the feedback I hear is that everyone loves Lightroom. So much so that they don’t want to leave it. But when they want to do some quick cloning or retouching, it seems people are finding Elements fits right in.

Well, I just found out that the folks over at the Photoshop Elements Newsletter are giving away my Photoshop Elements Book ...

Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. The town of Hartselle loves its baseball. From five year olds through high school, baseball occupies the hallowed ground of youthful dreams. Fans gather in pickup trucks outside the outfield fence for a high school playoff game.

I think I wrote some time ago about starting a photo essay shot completely with my iPhone.  I have always wanted to do a sports story that takes you from the little leagues to the major leagues.  This isn’t really it because I don’t have a major league ...

Daily Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. UAH professor Kevin Knupp and a team of graduate and post-graduate students chase and study storms. Ryan Wade sets up a data package inside the control van as the team gets ready to launch a weather balloon ahead of a line of thunderstorms.

The final story in our series for the two year commemoration of the April 27, 2011 tornadoes was a really fun story on storm researchers at the University of Alabama Huntsville.  Professor Kevin Knupp and his graduate and doctoral ...

I didn’t find out about a baseball assignment until the game was already in the second inning and there was about a 45 minute drive to the field.  No matter, it is playoff time in high school baseball and I would at least get there in time for an inning or two.  Honestly, getting much out of an inning or two of high school baseball is an indefinite proposition.  Sometimes you can shoot a whole game and get nothing.  Other times you can shoot an inning and come away very happy.

To make sure you get ...

Daily Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Justin Adams lost his left leg and his brother Chase when the April 27, 2011 storm struck the Mt. Hope community. Adams was blown from his destroyed him into a swampy area with severe injuries to both legs.

Two years can seem an eternity.  Five minutes later it can seem like yesterday.  Such is the nature of trauma and grief.

I was surprised when our editors decided to do a two year commemoration of the devastating April 27, 2011 tornadoes but I was all in.  For me, this ...

Daily Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Hartselle High students, teachers and administrators settle into the new high school Monday, April 1, 2013. Nicholle Smith, Will Payne, Kayula Norwood, Mary Filiatrault and Greg Filiatrault enjoy a little first day tailgate in the parking lot before they enter the school.

Life in many small towns revolves around the schools, particularly the high school.  Painted on water towers all over the place you see something like, “Welcome To Hartselle, Home of the Tigers.”  We ...

Daily Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Alicia Hunter is a survivor of stage 3B non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was diagnosed 13 years ago.

Let me begin here by saying unequivocally, I HATE THE STUDIO!  There, I got that off my chest.  I love shooting portraits but I hate the studio.  I am a location lover.  Some folks really geek out in a plain, blank room.  I don’t.  A plain, blank room speaks nothing about the person you are photographing.  I want them in their own environment.

That can’t always happen.  We did ...

There is a wonderful part of the Lord’s prayer that goes like this; “give us this day our daily bread…”  Oh no, he is preaching again! Run away, run away!  Not really a sermon.  Don’t panic.  I probably won’t say the “J” word more than once or twice.  Settle down.  Now, where was I?  Oh, yes, daily bread.  Which brings me to the idea of keeping it fresh.  That prayer that Jesus taught his disciples was actually born out of the old covenant where the priests put fresh bread out daily in the holy place ...

After 24 years as a newspaper photographer it is pretty rare to have an assignment I have never before shot.  I went to Huntsville this week to shoot the state finals in wrestling.  I don’t think I have ever shot a wrestling meet before.  If I have, it was so long ago it was back in the film era.  I was so unfamiliar with the sport I was slightly concerned about how to shoot the event.

I decided to go a little early and shoot some matches that were completely irrelevant to our readers.  I quickly ...

Daily Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Trevor Davis smiles as his mom, Jennifer Rainey hugs him at the regional Special Olympics swim meet at the Aquadome Friday, February 15, 2013. The event is a qualifier for the state Special Olympics.

I love special people.  I was just like most of you before my wife and I had a son with special needs.  Our little boy Reece was born with Down syndrome.  In his too-short life he taught me more about love than I had learned in all my years of living.  Now, even though Reece ...

Daily Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. East Limestone student Seth Fowler goes crazy in the stands as he and other fans try to distract a Wenonah free throw shooter during the Northwest Regional Basketball tournament at Wallace State in Hanceville Tuesday, February 19, 2013.

I had my first basketball assignment of the season yesterday and it came at season’s ending.  For the first time in my career I did not shoot a single regular season basketball game.  I shot regional tournament games yesterday, four in ...

A long awaited firmware update is available for the Canon 5D MK III (available here). The update brings uncompressed 4:2:2 8 bit video from the HDMI port. 

It also improves autofocus capabilites. I'm downloading now.

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Joel Sartore, A photographer's life from Joel Sartore on Vimeo.

A great video by my friend Joel Sartore.

Getty Emerging Talent Award

To complement our Grants for Editorial Photography program, we offer an opportunity for young photographers to receive mentoring and support through our Emerging Talent Award. Applicants must be under the age of 25 or currently enrolled in a full time photojournalism program (please include a signed letter from a faculty member, confirming this). Winners are added to the Emerging Talent roster on Reportage by Getty Images.

To apply, please email a CV or bio and a website ...

In 1996 the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund announced a new award, the Howard Chapnick Grant, to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing research, education and management. The Grant was established to honor the memory of Howard Chapnick, and acknowledge the value of his enormous contribution to photography.

The annual $5,000 grant may be used to finance any of a range of qualified undertakings, which might include a program of further education, research, ...

The Photocrati Fund offers a $5000 grant to a photographer to undertake an important humanitarian and environmental photography project. Our goal is to identify outstanding photographers and to provide the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.

The 2013 Photocrati Fund competition will be open from Tuesday January 15, 2013 – Tuesday April 30, 2013. Following that time, the applications will be judged by our panel of distinguished reviewers. The ...

Reminder to apply. 

The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation announce the 12th annual Inge Morath Award. The annual award of $5,000 is given to a female photographer under the age of 30, to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One award winner and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum photographers and the director of the Inge Morath Foundation.

Submissions must be made by April 30, 2013. For guidelines, visit: http://www.ingemorath.org/index.php/2013/01/the-inge-morath-award-2013-guidelines/ ...

Reminder to apply. 

Our mission is to be an efficient and innovative fund raising foundation that helps globally to promote, support and match humanitarian and travel photographers to NGOs and other humanitarian causes that need their story told. 

Founded in the USA in 2010, Focus For Humanity is now a Singapore based non profit foundation that supports amateur and professional humanitarian and travel photographers in perfecting their craft through providing a series of workshop grants, scholarships ...

Anyone who has tried can tell you that lighting cars well is a difficult thing to do. The size of them, the lack of flat surfaces, how reflective they are, and the variety of different materials all make for one of the most trying photographic challenges out there. In this video, renowned automotive photographer Tim Wallace talks with us about the methods that have helped him to become so successful. [more]

I love movies. Maybe even as much as photography. Being a fan of movies means I am also a fan of movie lists, because they help me to discover films I may not have seen. Also, with my being a mildly OCD photographer, I began thinking about which films relate to photography. There are surprisingly few that I have seen or heard of. So I decided to compile a list of my ten favorites, in ascending order. Note that this list is in no way exhaustive, so please add your suggestions in the comment section ...

The longer I’ve been a photographer, the more I’ve come to realize that the quality of the camera you own is far less important than how you shoot. The iPhone fashion shoot, now an iconic post on Fstoppers, showed that quality images can be taken without the biggest or latest camera body. While I’ll affirm that shooting professionally shouldn’t be determined by what kind of cameras you have, I think professionalism should be somewhat defined by how many cameras (and lenses) you have. [more]

There haven’t been too many raging deals lately, but if you’re in the market for a new micro four thirds camera, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 has dropped to basically ludicrously low pricing. I’m not even entirely sure how Panasonic is making a profit at this price point. Just a few weeks ago it was listed for $300, but now it’s down to $239. It’s not that the camera is bad either, as reviews have been pretty positive. At this price though, it’s not much of a risk. [more]

Sigma, hot on the heels of the outstandingly successful 35mm f/1.4 Art lens, has been releasing and announcing new lenses in their Global Vision realignment like crazy. Recently they released the 30mm f/1.4 lens for APS-C cameras, and I had high expectations for it after being told that the president of Sigma was aiming it to meet the performance set by the 35mm. So did it? [more]

This might be an extreme take on the all-too-common client request of “get it done quickly,” but it serves as an excellent benchmark of what can be done in a short amount of time. Odds are, you won’t ever be asked to do a full post-production retouch in such a short amount of time, but the idea behind what Aaron Nace of PHLEARN is showing here is solid: with the right tools and knowledge you can streamline your workflow with extreme effectiveness. [more]

In efforts to make Flickr “awesome again,” Yahoo unveiled today their new and re-imagined Flickr with a new design and new features. Some of the major design changes include a new homepage featuring large images posted by your friends, new beautiful profile photosteam and new photo pages. Flickr also announced each user will get 1 Terabyte of storage for free, with the ability to upload hi-res photos, and many of them. [more]

Food styling can take place in the production kitchen and in front of the camera. How do you know when and where to style your food? The answer will depend on what food you are shooting. For food with long shelf lives, like cupcakes, the dish will generally be camera ready when it leaves the kitchen. If the dish involves a sauce and a variety of garnishes, the styling will occur both in the kitchen and in front of the camera. Here is a behind the scenes look at a dish that involves styling in both ...

Filmmaker J.J. Abrams; Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Super 8, Lost, Revolution, Fringe, the upcoming Star Wars movie (the man is everywhere these days,) gives us a peek into his process during a recent sit down interview with the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts.

Abrams discusses the transitions between television to the big screen, balancing hyper-reality with intimacy, why television leaves room for surprises, the best advice he’s ever been given and what advice he would give to ...

Original BBC Article (w/video)

Prof. Miles Padgett and his team of scientists at Glasgow University’s School of  in Scotland have created a technology which can generate a 3D image using just four stand-alone pixels by capturing light frequency waves beyond what the human eye can see.

[more]

Jen Basford is the owner of Seniors Ignite, an organization dedicated to providing next-level senior portrait photography education to photographers to help them grow their business. She also owns 3 girls photography in Edmond, Oklahoma. She is best known for fashion-inspired high school senior portraits and the annual must-see fashion show she puts on for upcoming seniors each spring. Jen is one of the top senior portrait photographers in the Midwest largely due to her out-of-the-box approach to ...

Joy Vertz, Milwaukee WI, is a photographer who is passionate about the business side. Having started in her basement in 2003 and now running two profitable studios, she has seen (and learned) a lot about what it takes to run a successful, smooth operation. She routinely blogs and educates about pricing, marketing, workflow and process. Joy holds a degree in Studio Art from Lawrence University. Follow Joy on Instagram & Twitter: @joyvertz

In my 10 years in business, one of the most frequently received ...

Brant Slomovic is a documentary photography based in Toronto. He was recently featured as a Contender in the 2012 Hey, Hot Shot! International Photography Competition and in the Collection at Flak Photo. His current personal projects include Shinny, which details the ubiquity of shinny Hockey in Canadian culture, and Puja, which explores daily rituals of spirituality in Indian life. Please follow Brant on Twitter.

1) You became a documentary photographer after pursuing emergency medicine. First what ...

Jane Shauck is a West Hartford, Connecticut based wedding and commercial photographer. I first met Jane at a Pictage User Group meeting that she hosted. We subsequently saw each other at trade shows and conferences like Mystic Seminars or Inspire Photo Seminars (both in or near Connecticut by the way). Before her husband, Mike, joined her business as a second-shooter, I assisted Jane at a wedding. I was always impressed by how organized she was and how very calm she appeared to be during the entire ...

If you have read David Jackson’s two mega posts on Tiffinbox, you already know what his photography and lighting workshops are going to be like: Raw and real.

Haven’t read the posts yet? Here you go: An Open Letter To A Photographer and On Chasing Rainbows And Unicorns.

I have had the pleasure to visit his Appleton, Wisconsin studio twice in one year – once to attend his Breaking The Rules workshop and the second time to attend his then new f/what? workshop.

“The Breaking The Rules workshop is essentially ...

My name is Mahesh Bhat and I’m a Bangalore based photographer and India is my canvas. I’ve been photographing the life and times of my country and parts of the sub continent for 25 years. I’m an assignment photographer with Getty Images and represented by Global Photo Associates, NYC. I’ve worked with Polaris Images and Agence Vu.

In the last 25 years, the city of Bangalore went from where every place was 15 minutes away from each other to every place is at least an hour from each other. It became ...

Feuza Reis is a wedding photographer, blogger and founder of SEO for Photographer’s Bootcamp “Get Found With Fuse”. This is Feuza’s second guest blog post. Read her first one as well. Follow Feuza on Twitter.

In the last few weeks, some photographers in the community have imparted SEO advice that has made me want to cringe and hide. Not only were there some major mistakes taught, some things mentioned were irresponsible and can get photographers in trouble with Google.

Here are 5 SEO myths photographers ...

Jim Mortram is a documentary photographer. That’s perhaps the easiest way to describe him. The images on his website – Small Town Inertia – gripped me like a vice for their gritty portrayal of lives lived in rural England. I was surprised by how quickly I cared for those people Mortram photographed. There is compassion and clarity in Mortram’s approach and it is a refreshing change from the synthetic and saccharine images we are all subjected to every day. Mortram has published a limited edition ...

It’s spring and you want to post new images to your website and create a photography portfolio your clients are going to love. But you don’t know how to go about it. Either you are just starting out in the business or you have been in the photography industry for a while. Either way, your portfolio needs a kickstart. What’s your next step?

Being flummoxed is natural. So, with me, deep breath in. Deep breath out. You still with me? I’ll cut to the chase.

PhotoShelter, again, has published a guide ...

Angela Pointon is an inspirationalist and advocate for professional photographers. She is a monthly columnist for Professional Photographer mag and offers Photo Business Renovations to photographers everywhere. Her brief e-book, “The Art Of A Photo Business: what every photographer wished they knew before starting their photography business” is available for download in all digital formats. Follow Angela on Twitter or Facebook.

DesignAglow recently posted a question to the photography community on ...

Talking Ansel Adams @ Yosemite

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We recently met back up with Bob Holmes and asked him to show us what’s in his bag. He gave us a look inside with some good tips along the way for cleaning dust from your camera’s card slots, packing spare equipment and packing a separate bag for use in the field and more–and catch the outtake at the end!.  Thanks to Bob holmes for sharing. Be sure to catch his other videos
And thanks to our friends at ThinkTank

Here’s an interesting look into the life of Allen Ginsberg by a friend of our blog, Eve Pearce. Eve is an avid photographer who likes summer sunsets and writing in cafes. She looked into the life of Ginsberg and discovered that like all of us here, he had a keen interest in photography.

Remembering the Photography of Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg is best known for his poetry and his role as one of the leading figures of the 1950s Beat Generation. His poems brought attention to gay rights, dealt with ...

Alexander Gage has been active in our little corner of the interwebs here at Silber Studios for a long time.  He’s a British expat who lives and works in Switzerland. We admire the absolute passion Alex has for photography and wanted to let you know about a project he did over the course of a year that we thought was pretty cool.

For the duration of 2012, Alex participated in his own, self-imposed 52 photography project. The “52/50 Photography Project”, was shot solely using a 50mm lens which Alex ...

What the heck is that thing called a “histogram” and how do you use it anyway?

A histogram is a graph that shows the exposure from pure black on the left, to pure white on the right. It is a tool you can use to see how well your image will be exposed in your camera. One of the secrets of photography is to learn to “see” what your camera sees. Your eye can see a much wider range of light than your camera, so using the histogram can help you see only the range of light that the camera will capture. ...

We got a chance to talk to the one and only Joe McNally, who’s shot cover stories for TIME, Newsweek, FORTUNE, Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Joe also happens to be the photographer who shot the first all digital coverage in the history of National Geographic Magazine. He was kind enough to share some of the tricks of the trade that he’s learned over the years.

What should we ask Joe the next time we catch up with him?

Bambi Cantrell is one of the world’s most decorated and sought after professional photographers of our time. She’s been recognized by everyone from Microsoft to American Photo Magazine and was the first woman to be honored with the prestigious “Golden Eye” award from the Russian Federation of Professional Photographers. Clearly she’s got the technical side of her game in order.

But we feel one of the main reasons why she’s shot for The Estee Lauder Family, legendary basketball player Gary Payton, ...

This interview with Camille Seaman is packed with so much goodness. She talks about using natural lighting in shooting subjects as varied as giant icebergs to TIbetans who don’t use lights indoors at all during the day. More importantly what really struck a chord is how WHO a photographer is plays a central role in their work.