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I started using my Dad's cameras when I was a little girl.
The first one was a cheap Brownie.
I was eight or nine.
I dressed up our farm cats in my doll clothes and took their photos.
Pictures of my family and cousins were part of my earliest work, too.
In high school my Dad gave me his Rolleiflex twin lens.
He had brought it home from WWII and he no longer used it.
Sandra Dyas
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The Magnum photographer whose flat in London was a creative haven for photographers during the 1960s, and whose documentary photography course at Newport became the most successful course in photographic education in Britain, talks about photography, photographers and of a life enriched by friendship.
Photo Histories
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NSFW due to fake blood.
Joshua Hoffine - Horror Photography
I stage my photo shoots like small movies, with sets, costumes, elaborate props, fog machines, and special effects make-up.
Joshua Hoffine
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Postcards from Hell by Elizabeth Dickinson
For the last half-decade, the Fund for Peace, working with Foreign Policy, has been putting together the Failed States Index, using a battery of indicators to determine how stable -- or unstable -- a country is.
But as the photos here demonstrate, sometimes the best test is the simplest one: You'll only know a failed state when you see it.
Elizabeth Dickinson
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50 Fascinating Examples of Sequence Photography by Prakash Ghodke
Sequence photography is the technique of shooting a series of images where the subject is captured in successive motion.
When creating a sequence photo, all the action is combined into one layered image in post-processing.
Today we have collected 50 impressive examples of sequence photography, along with a couple of tutorials to help you achieve the same effect!
Prakash Ghodke
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Taking Photoshop's Curves Beyond Highlights and Shadows by Ben Gremillion
Read on for more details about what Photoshop curves are, as well as how to use them properly for your designs.
Ben Gremillion
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Also go to Eadweard Muybridge.
Jim
Only on MAN: The newest Eadweard Muybridge mystery by Tyler Green
Naef explains why he thinks that stereographs attributed to Muybridge were in fact taken by Watkins, who sold the negatives to Muybridge.
Muybridge then printed and sold them under his own name.
Tyler Green
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In20Years.com - See You... In 20 Years! Make your face look old for free
In20Years is using advanced face detection and morphing technology to predict what your face would look like in 20 or 30 years from now.
Our magical engine turns your face old automatically. All you have to do is upload your photo.
You can also see what future holds for you if you were a drug addict.
Oh, yeah - and it's FREE!
In20years
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Dostoyevsky observed that "beauty is the battlefield where God and the Devil war for the soul of man", and others have seen our obsession with beauty as merely a flaw to be ironed out through religion or moral instruction.
Nicola Copping
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In his years behind the counter at Paul's Photo, Mark Comon has seen and heard it all.
Among the most common problems he has helped customers trouble shoot have been issues of autofocus malfunctions and exposure difficulties.
Here are some of his quick fixes.
Outdoor Photographer Magazine
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Big-range zooms (10x and more) aren't just for travel anymore.
With good sharpness and contrast across their focal lengths, today's models are some of the most advanced optics on the market and they're designed for digital.
Outdoor Photographer Magazine
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The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE)
- Time and direction of sunrise and sunset
- Time and direction of moonrise and moonset
- Phase of the moon and % illumination
- Times of civil, nautical and astronomical twilight
- Graphical display on a map
- Save any location you want - no fixed lists
- Automatic time zone detection for any location on earth
- Determines elevation above sea level
- View azimuth and altitude of sun/moon for any time of day/night
- Distance, bearing and elevation angle between any two points
- Find when the sun/moon will appear from behind a hill
- Compensation for atmospheric refraction
- Compensation for elevation above the horizon
- Does not require network connection for rise/set times and azimuths.
The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE)
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Also go to How to Become a Pro.
Jim
Skip Cohen and Scott Bourne, combined, have more than seven decades of experience in the photographic industry.
Imagine what would happen if they combined forces to help educate more photographers!
It's time for the industry to be introduced to GoingPro.
Going Pro 2010
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Also go to How to Become a Pro.
Jim
Creative Types, Learning to Be Business-Minded by Kate Taylor
"Does everyone have Excel?," Peter Cobb, a lawyer and administrator at the New York Foundation for the Arts, which runs the program, asked the class last Saturday.
"For next week, your assignment is to make a list of all your expenses for 2009."
Kate Taylor
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Fine Art Photography Top 16 by Alain Briot
What are the most important aspects of Fine Art Photography?
The answer to this question certainly varies from photographer to photographer because each of us places more importance on some aspects than on others.
What follows is what I personally consider to be the most important aspects of Fine Art photography.
Alain Briot
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The Road Not Taken: The Power of Wilderness Photography by Ian Plant
I don't much like shooting icons.They always seem too crowded—and not just with other shooters, standing shoulder-to-shoulder by the dozen, forming an ensnaring web of tripod legs.
There's also the ever-growing procession of photographers that have come before, a parade of ghosts that haunt places like Delicate Arch and Half Dome.
Their voices chant like a chorus, urging your hands to frame the tried-and-true compositions of sunrises and sunsets past.
Ian Plant
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Dwight Eschliman - 37 Or So Ingredients by Maggie York-Worth
Breaking down the deleteriously toothsome Twinkie, photographer Dwight Eschliman documents the Hostess confection by exposing all of its ingredients in a simple format.
From mundane sugar to the alien Red 40 (above), the petri-dish-style portraits offer a concerning view of that old adage, "you are what you eat."
Maggie York-Worth
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Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography by Mirko
Unfortunatly I never had the opportunity to do client work on an infography, but it seems to be one of the most challenging task for a graphic designer.
The perfect infography must synthetize complex information in a simple visual representation, which is not easy.
The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful.
Mirko
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Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan
Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
This is my Japan.
This is one of the many reasons why I love Japan.
I shot this in many locations around Japan in the summer of 2009.
Some of the location include Tokyo, Matsuyama, Imabari, Nagano, Gifu, and Ishizushisan.
Brad Kremer
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Museum of Animal Perspectives by Sam Easterson
The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras.
Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public's capacity to empathize with animals and plants.
The MAP is curated and coded by video naturalist Sam Easterson.
Sam Easterson
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The history of photography is punctuated by practitioners who have developed a technique or style that has become a part of art history.
The first period of "photogram" exploration was to gain scientific record of natural objects (e.g. Anna Atkins).
The second period was a rediscovery of the artistic potential as illustrated by Christian Schad, Man Ray and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy in the Dada, Surrealist and Constructivist periods of art, respectively.
More recently, photogramists have utilized the photogram as a means of artistic expression to produce a wide variety of designs and surreal imagery.
Les Rudnick
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Flash applets CS 178 - Digital Photography Spring Quarter, 2010 Marc Levoy
These applets are designed to supplement the course lecture material in CS 178.
They will typically be demonstrated live in class, then added to this web page.
At that time they will also be linked into the course schedule and the course home page.
The applets were designed by Marc Levoy and built by CURIS students Nora Willett and Katie Dektar, and PhD student Andrew Adams in the spring and summer of 2009.
Marc Levoy
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Princeton University - Art of Science
Princeton University's fourth annual "Art of Science" exhibition features scientific imagery focused on the theme of energy.
The $250 first prize for 2010 goes to "Xenon Plasma Accelerator" by Jerry Ross, a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
MSNBC
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Smithsonian Magazine - In the Moment: 7th Annual Photo Contest Winners by Jesse Rhodes
On a rainy June morning, Debra Vanderlaan and a group of her friends gathered at Newfound Gap, a pass through a stretch of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, and prepared to embark on a hike.
"As we were readying our packs to start up the trail," Vanderlaan recalls, "the rain subsided for just a moment."
"Out of a touring vehicle popped these eight young Mennonite women who went right over to the edge of the overloo."
Jesse Rhodes
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in-public are delighted to announce the publication of '10', a hardback book of two hundred in-public Street Photographs from the last ten years.
As far as we are aware this is the worlds first compilation of contemporary Street Photography ever published.
in-public.com
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Dawoud Bey - Commencement Remarks - Yale University School of Art
Rather I want to encourage you to believe that your work not only should continue, but that it is imperative and that it needs to exist in the world.
You each need to continue to believe that your work matters and that through your work you have the ability to change and reshape the world one person or one viewer at a time and to continue to expand your own sense of who you are in the process.
Dawoud Bey
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Bob Witkowski: Rust Never Sleeps by Dean Brierly
Actually, I took a long hiatus from shooting rust abstracts.
For some reason I couldn't "find" any great junk cars or I just was no longer able to "see" the patterns any longer.
I don't know what happened.
But in the past three years, I began looking again...and I began seeing again.
Bob Witkowski
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Hiroshi Watanabe by Michael Werner
So, the question is, "Are you good? "
Simple, easy, and sure way to find out is you.
No one can answer this question but yourself.
If you aren't sure if your work is good, then probably your work is not good enough.
Don't ask somebody else.
Instead, hang your work and live with it.
If it makes you feel good and proud that you made it, your work is good.
If you think, "He will be sorry," when someone rejected your work, then your work is very good.
When you are sure about your work, you are ready to be found.
Hiroshi Watanabe
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Design by Nicholas Felton, photos curated by Josh Haner
Jim
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EXPOSED: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera. Tate Modern, London by Sue Hubbard
Images which were never intended to be seen by a wider audience that have now entered the collective public imagination such as that of the kidnap of the toddler James Bulger being lead away by two ten year old boys, who would later murder him, in an anonymous shopping mall, and the infamous pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, watched over by two American soldiers in green rubber gloves, giving the thumbs up
Sue Hubbard
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Sculptris wants you to make 3D models.
Download it and have a go!
I'm sure you will enjoy.
Dr. Petter
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National Geographic and Fauxtography by Dr. Neal Krawetz
Basically, "photographer" William Lascelles submitted a photo to National Geographic and claimed that it was real.
The magazine asked Lascelles to verify the photo, and he submitted a second fake photo.
National Geographic then printed the image, only to learn that Lascelles lied to them twice; they were duped into printing a fake photo.
Dr. Neal Krawetz
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What's Wrong with 'Flickr HDR'? by Erik Reinhard
The point is that the awful 'look' of most HDR images as seen on Flickr is not intrinsic to HDR technology, and is utterly avoidable.
Erik Reinhard
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In the Wake of the American Dream
But like all dreams, it ends, and in its wake are the remains of the small towns and a deeply ingrained way of life.
Ross Mantle
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Perspectives of Poverty by Duncan McNicholl
This is not to say that people do not struggle, far from it, but the photos I was seeing only told part of the story.
I thought that these images were robbing people of their dignity, and I felt that the rest of the story should be told as well.
Duncan McNicholl
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This is comments about the original posting.
Jim
Thank you for your response attempting to assist me in my Nikon purchase.
So many guys use cameras like male jewellery and take shitty pictures.
eggbean
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This is the original posting.
Jim
Letter to George by Mike Johnston
However, I find your recommendation preposterous and extremely strange coming from a so-called expert.
George
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If You See Something, Say Something by Greg Allen
Here is a quick roundup of high-risk artworld names and their correct pronunciations by curators, interviewers, and even the artists themselves.
Greg Allen
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Why preserve Van Gogh's palette? by Lucy Davies
Where and how colour is laid can convey emotion, psychology, religious significance.
"The whole value of what you are about" wrote John Ruskin in his Elements of Drawing, first published in 1857 "depends on colour."
"If the colour is wrong, everything is wrong: just as, if you are singing, and sing false notes, it does not matter how true your words are."
Lucy Davies
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