let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Posted: December 20, 2011
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time to dig out the thermal clothing and find some winter scenes.
Some tips for snow photography…
1 - let your camera and lens acclimatise to the cold and after
you’ve finished shooting take out your memory card but leave your
camera in its bag and take closed bag back into your house to acclimatise for at least an hour.
2- snow is wet ! - Cover the camera with a clear plastic bag with a hole at the front for the lens to shoot through and wrap an elastic band around the bag on the lens barrel to hold it in place. Screw a filter on the front of the lens if you’re using an SLR to protect the element from drifting snow
2- to avoid ” grey” snow increase your exposure settings by 1 or 2 stops
DO NOT take photos of christmas lights
Posted: December 15, 2011
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Photographer Andrew White, 33, has been stopped while taking photos of Christmas lights on a Sussex street, amid terrorism fears. Police say the photographer aroused suspicion because he was seen taking ‘many photos’ of christmas lights in a busy shopping area.
He added: ‘I only took one or two photos but even if I had taken more, who are they to say what is too many? I don’t think taking too many photos in the street warrants being considered some kind of terrorist threat, which is what they were suggesting.’
christmas gift - camera lens bracelet
Posted: December 10, 2011
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Craig Arnold is a photographer who broke a lens and began designing a unique line of jewellery. Display your passion with style, with this unisex camera cuff. Each item is one-of-a-kind, displaying the characteristic wear and tear from its previous life. Each cuff is hand finished, perfect for the photography professional or passionate hobbyist.
Size: small-medium only £ 114
Togs boycott Janet Jackson concert
Posted: December 5, 2011
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No photos were taken after all photographers boycotted the Janet Jackson concert in Oslo because she demanded that no togs would be allowed into the concert unless they signed contracts that put big legal constraints on their work, gave Jackson’s company all legal rights to any photos taken and demanded that all use of the photos must be approved by Janet Jackson before publication, and be used only in connection with an article about the Oslo concert.
Tower Bridge construction
Posted: November 30, 2011
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pictures have surfaced showing the original construction of London’s tower bridge after being retrieved from a skip in 2006 by a caretaker who was looking after a building being converted into flats and keep them under his bed.
Andreas Gursky’s $4m image
Posted: November 24, 2011
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Andreas Gursky’s image of a bleak, desolate & featureless landscape , “Rhein II,” sold for over $4 million at Christie’s auction house Since then, it has received much criticism.
Gursky says ” for me it is an allegorical picture about the meaning of life and how things are”……
…. I pass !!!!
Remembrance Day
Posted: November 11, 2011
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our Armed Forces are experiencing casualties almost every week. Remembrance Day ensures that the memory of those who have given their lives in the Service of their country, will continue and will be honoured - for evermore.
LYTRO - light field camera
Posted: November 5, 2011
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the Lytro camera captures the entire light field, which is all the light traveling in every direction in every point in space and by capturing complete light field data, the Lytro gives you capabilities you’ve never had in a regular camera.Since you’ll capture the color, intensity, and direction of all the light, you can experience the first major light field capability - focusing after the fact. Focus and re-focus, anywhere in the picture. You can refocus your pictures at anytime, after the fact. And focusing after the fact, means no auto-focus motor. No auto-focus motor means no shutter delay. So, capture the moment you meant to capture not the one a shutter-delayed camera captured for you.
Canon Aids Flooding Relief Efforts in Thailand
Posted: October 25, 2011
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the disaster has claimed more than three hundred lives and inundated many industrial areas including camera factories and printer manufacturing plants owned by Canon and its competitors. “We at Canon extend our heartfelt condolences to all those affected by this disaster and our thoughts go out to the victims and their families,” Canon said in a statement. “The Canon Group is providing aid for victims of the floods and support for recovery efforts in the affected regions with a donation of 50 million yen.”
SOS -Save Our Seascapes
Posted: October 12, 2011
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They are the views that great British holidays – and postcards – are made of.
But our ’seascapes’ must be given the same protection as treasured landscapes to ensure they aren’t lost to development, campaigners have warned.
Organisations including the National Trust are calling for the Government to protect them from development such as wind turbines, oil extraction, dredging for aggregates, port building and increased shipping.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377071/Crusade-Save-Our-Seascapes-stop-scenes-like-blighted-turbines.html#ixzz1JswhFTra
CUBA
Posted: October 6, 2011
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Just back from a Cuba trip and processing some photos - this is a favourite of mine, an old woman smoking a fat cuban cigar who has had her spot staked out on Emperado, the street between Plaza de la Cathedral and the Bodeguita del Medio for years.
Lady Gaga’s Polaroid
Posted: October 1, 2011
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Lady G has been appointed as creative director and inventor of specialty products for the resurrected Polaroid brand….
“The Haus of Gaga has been developing prototypes in the vein of fashion /technology /photography innovation — blending the iconic history of Polaroid and instant film with the digital era – and we are excited to collaborate on these ventures with the Polaroid brand,” Gaga, 23, said in a statement.
photographers blamed for deer non-mating
Posted: September 30, 2011
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Amateur wildlife photographers who get too close to rutting red deer have been blamed for the failure of the animals to mate.Conservationists fear that thousands of amateur photographers - hoping to witness red deer locking antlers in the early morning - are disturbing the animal during the mating season.
However, Amateur Photographer (AP) reader Matthew Hunt has swiftly defended photographers.
He emailed the magazine after a recent visit to Richmond Park with two friends: ‘The three of us stayed close together, approached the deer slowly and stopped when the deer took notice of us. We approached no further and spoke quietly, moved slowly, photographed them and cleared off.’
Matthew blamed the behaviour of the general public. ‘Two sets of people walked straight through the first herd we stopped at, including walking through a ‘harem’ between the stag and his females. The deer were disturbed and many of the females scattered,’ he wrote. He said that a dog later ‘charged into a large group of fallow deer’. On a previous occasion, at Knowle Park in Kent, Matthew said he saw many people ‘without cameras’ feeding deer and letting their small children chase them.He added: ‘Maybe they are the disruptive element that disrupts the rut.’
This is not the first time that wildlife photographers have come under fire from conservationists.
Photo by Bill Ebbesen
The Oldest and Most Expensive Camera in the World
Posted: April 27, 2011
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WestLicht Photographica Auction in Vienna, Austria will auction a historical sensation: a ‘Daguerreotype’ - the first commercially-produced camera The wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre’s brother-in-law. Daguerre, the inventor of the first practicable photographic process, signed the camera to verify its authenticity…the auction estimate is Euro 500,000 - 700,000
Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Posted: March 10, 2011
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This landmark exhibition gives an inside view of how modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been shaped through the lens of their photographers From the days when the first Indian-run photographic studios were established in the 19th century, this exhibition tells the story of photography’s development in the subcontinent with over 400 works that have been brought together for the first time at the Whitechapel Gallery London from 21 Jan - 11 April 2010
IPAD runs MS windows CE
Posted: January 5, 2011
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Press release September 13, 2006 - The new iPAD also features an Intel PXA 270 processor with Microsoft Windows CE .NET 5.0 computing power; an 802.11 b/g radio that achieves up to 54 Mbps WLAN communications; and Bluetooth v1.2 for support of Bluetooth peripherals “We’ve packed many powerful new features into this iPAD,” said Vernon Slack, customer marketing, mobile solutions at Fujitsu “It sports a faster processor, more memory, a brighter screen with longer battery life and a faster radio.
Seems like Apple are in for a trademark battle………
New DVDs preserve your digital photos for centuries
Posted: December 4, 2010
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The Cranberry DiamonDisc, a novel DVD disc, is said to store your digital photos, movies, music, documents, and ledgers for 1,000 years or more. Misled consumers have been backing up important family memories on DVDs to keep them safe. Now, after just a few years, instead of reliving memories, file errors and unreadable discs are being discovered. While recordable DVDs are unreliable and unpredictable, often failing in as few as two years, a new 1,000 year DVD made of high tech, diamond-hard stone promises to preserve irreplaceable digital files for the ages.The Cranberry DiamonDisc was designed by a team of scientists to store digital photos, movies, music, documents, and ledgers for 1,000 years or more. Unlike conventional recordable DVDs and CDs, the new disc has no adhesive layers, dye layer or reflective layer to deteriorate - thereby avoiding the “data rot” that quickly corrodes all recordable DVDs. The transparent Cranberry DiamonDisc can withstand prolonged temperatures extending up to 176 degrees Fahrenheit as well as UV rays that would destroy conventional DVD disks
Corfe Castle
Posted: November 12, 2010
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Its getting near that time of the year to do some stock photography which means clambering through gorse in the pitch black, minus 4 freezing fog with a thick layer of slippy ice to reach the summit of the opposing hill to take this picture. The forecast for this weekend is mist and fog….. will I be out before dawn seeking a photo?? …you bet !….
