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Also see Build A Tilt-Shift Lens for Your SLR for Cheap and Olivo Barbieri - Model World.
Jim
It's called a tilt-shift effect.
It's a favorite device of fine-art photographers and the Flickr crowd.
The result: a sprawling photo-scape suddenly looks like a scale model.
To pull it off you need an expensive tilt-shift lens — or this simple trick with Photoshop or GIMP (multi-platform free/open source image editing software).
Nolan Wynne
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Tom Guilmette - One Day At Fenway - Letus Extreme Film - Time Lapse - HDTV
I wanted to use my computerized pan head to preform a very slow left to right pan.
I used a telescope head designed to follow the stars in the sky.
I removed the telescope and modified the mount to accept my camera and Letus rail system.
The model was the Celestron Nexstar 114GT.
I set the pan rate to "one", the slowest possible pan speed.
Tom Guilmette
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For more rephotography projects, go to Rephotography.
Jim
Allen Dutton - Arizona Then and Now
For his landmark book, "Arizona Then and Now," photographer Allen Dutton traveled across the state to recapture archival images from their exact original location.
Watch as early century images transform into contemporary photography.
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Also go to Jill Freedman.
Jim
Jill Freedman - Through Weegee's Lens
BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city.
Niko Koppel
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Ansel Adams's Yosemite by Miki Meek, Amy O'Leary & Tom Jackson
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
Ansel Adams
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Sepia No More by Virginia Heffernan
Guoleifsdottir learned how to title and tag photos so that they might readily come up in searches; how to police copyright transgressions (as when some of her photos were sold illegally on eBay); and how to push, push contrasts by processing her pictures with Photoshop software.
These skills might not have advanced her with New York galleries, but they made for a charmed ride on Flickr.
A photography blogger who posts under the name Thomas Hawk is a Flickr regular, and he told me in an e-mail conversation that there is not a single Flickr style.
But he conceded that intense postproduction processing is necessary for popularity on the site.
Virginia Heffernan
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Between the late 1930s and the early 1960s a group of young photographers living and working in New York City redefined street photography.
This group of artists became known as The New York School.
A new exhibition at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London (until June 7 2008) brings together the work of these photographers as they documented the post-war energy of the city in their trademark black-and-white, film noir style.
Step in for a look ...
Guardian
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The camera costs $47.95.
Jim
Any kid who's ever wondered what their dog or cat is up to when they're not around will find just what they've been waiting for in this sneaky little camera!
Discover This
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New Cameras Guarantee a Smile on Your Face by Katherine Boehret
This week, I tested three new digital cameras that claim to do the thinking for you.
Some digitally analyze the scene you're about to capture, automatically choosing the setting that would take the best picture.
Others can detect when a subject is smiling so as to automatically know when to snap the photo.
One camera even attempts to digitally alter frowning faces into smiles, with amusing results.
Katherine Boehret
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Also go to Aislinn Leggett.
Jim
Aislinn Leggett - I Am Tourist Art by Rosecrans Baldwin
Who are these tourists, where do they come from, and why do they foul up my morning commute?
Anyone who's lived in a big city knows the feeling of working in Disneyland, and anyone who's visited one probably brought a camera.
Aislinn Leggett's series "I Am Tourist" takes on the wonder of tourism, zip-off shorts and all.
Rosecrans Baldwin
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For more, go to Stuart Franklin.
Jim
Stuart Franklin - In the Time of Trees
Magnum Photographer Stuart Franklin has spent a decade exploring the beauty of trees and the unique place they occupy in man's world
Time Magazine
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I shot (pardon the pun) some kids playing guns at what seemed to be an abandoned church the other day.
These kids were serious.
One of them actually knew a little history for some of the battles they were trying to act out.
I realized that I don't need to go to Iraq to shoot war when it's right in our backyards...
*Sounds is best with loud sub woofer*
P.S. Gun sounds, howling wind, heartbeat and demonic synths added for dramatization.
Tim Hussin
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On his return he decided to continue taking pictures.
Last October he attended an adventure-photography workshop led by Corey Rich and organized by Rich Clarkson, the legendary former photo director of National Geographic.
Clarkson was so impressed by Bleakney's images of South America that he decided to publish them in an upcoming book, titled The Bicycle Diaries.
"I started the trip to see new places," says Bleakney, "and ended with a new life."
David Schonauer
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Also go to How To Be An Alaskan Fisherman and Corey Arnold.
Jim
I forgot to mention my lousy injury.
I somehow managed to drop a bucket full of engine degreaser that ejected itself into my open eyeballs.
I damn near blinded myself.
This is me with full bug eyes doped up on Vicadin after medivac to Anchorage.
It would've been way cooler to lose a pinky finger to a king crab claw but I don't think that's ever happened.
Corey Arnold
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The music is Muddy Water's I Feel Like Going Home.
Jim
Wayne Miller - Chicago 1946-1948
We may differ in race, color, language, wealth, and politics.
But look at what we all have in common.
If I could photograph these universal truths, I thought that might help us understand.
Wayne Miller
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Freeman Patterson is the author of many books, including Photography and the Art of Seeing.
Jim
The Candid Frame #50 - Freeman Patterson
Freeman Patterson is a the epitome of what is sometimes referred to as a "photographer's photographer".
His many years as a photographer and a teacher has influenced and inspired generations of photographers all over the world.
The insight he brings into the craft of photography is both generous and eye-awakening.
Ibarionex R. Perello
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For more. go to X-ray Photography.
Jim
See through the world: X-ray photography reveals beauty in unexpected places
A new book of photography has revealed a curious world of intricate beauty and startling forms hidden beneath the surface of everyday objects.
Nick Veasey used a lead-lined studio to create x-ray photographs of a remarkable array of objects, from fruits and flowers to humans, vehicles and buildings.
Daily Mail
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Also go to Harry Benson.
Jim
Photographer Harry Benson - 'Anyone is Getable'
Benson, 78, has spent the past five decades capturing iconic images of famous faces — from the Beatles to Benazir Bhutto — and he's still far too busy to be anyone's agent.
NPR
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Also go to Eric Jaquier and Frozen images.
Jim
Eric Jaquier - Lost World of Leads
Swiss photographer Eric Jaquier talks about the urban landscape of northern England 40 years ago.
SwissInfo
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Also go to William Christenberry and Lee Friedlander.
Jim
Smithsonian American Art Museum Launches Photography Podcast
We just launched a new podcast in our museum series about our photography collection and exhibitions here at SAAM.
The American landscape has always been a rich subject for photography.
Our photography curator, Toby Jurovics, talks about the work of two of his favorite landscape photographers in SAAM's collections, Lee Friedlander and William Christenberry.
In addition Jurovics discusses the "deadpan" dog photographs of William Wegman while conservator Kate Maynor talks about how the museum protects photographs while on exhibition.
And finally we take a look at a recent installation here called We the People.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Motherhood & Photography by Heather Morton
I uncovered a strange little coffee klatch bit of posting at a photo blog awhile ago about the difficulty of bidding a job by way of a conference call with a client on the line while you are at the park with your kids.
You know the story- kids see you're on the cell and proceed to hurt themselves, scream your name repeatedly, that kind of thing.
Heather Morton
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Also go to Anthony Karen.
Jim
Anthony Karen - Aryan Outfitters
Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old "Ms. Ruth" sews hoods and robes for Klan members seven days a week, blessing each one when it's done.
A red satin outfit for an Exalted Cyclops, the head of a local chapter, costs about $140.
She uses the earnings to help care for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, "Lilbit," who was injured in a car accident 10 years ago.
Mother Jones
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Also go to The Soiling of Old Glory by Scott McLemee.
Jim
Stanley J. Forman - The Soiling of Old Glory by Louis P. Masur
In his recent speech on race, Barack Obama spoke about the legacy of racial hatred and resentment in America.
One of the events he probably had in mind was the controversy over busing that erupted in Boston in the mid-1970s.
A single photograph epitomized for Americans the meaning and horror of the crisis.
On April 5, 1976, at an anti-busing rally at City Hall Plaza, Stanley Forman, a photographer for the Boston Herald-American, captured a teenager as he transformed the American flag into a weapon directed at the body of a black man.
It is the ultimate act of desecration, performed in the year of the bicentennial and in the shadows of Boston's Old State House.
Louis P. Masur
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Photosynthesis III: A Collaboration Between the Boston Arts Academy and Winchester High School
By creating photographic portraits of themselves and their surroundings, students from the Boston Arts Academy and Winchester High School have been exploring their sense of self and place in a unique collaborative program at the Griffin Museum.
Griffin Museum
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The two exhibits below are the result of collaborations between young photographers and established photographers.
Jim
School of Visual Arts - Mentors
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Mentors", an exhibition of works by nearly 80 photography students inspired by their year-long mentorship with key figures in the arts community.
Drawn from the ranks of New York City's best-known photographers, curators, art directors, publishers, art dealers, critics and writers, SVA's mentors are paired with students based upon their field of expertise and the student's area of concentration.
The 2007-2008 program mentors include Rolling Stone director of photography Jodi Peckman, photography critic Vince Aletti, illustrator Maira Kalman, gallerist Edwynn Houk, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, and photographers Lorna Simpson, Tina Barney, and Gregory Crewdson, among others.
School of Visual Arts
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Melanie Schiff - Spit Rainbow by Nicole Pasulka
Alongside large, loud, clamoring installation and sculpture at the Whitney Biennial 2008 and the M.C.A. Chicago, Chicago-based photographer Melanie Schiff's work is quietly and surprisingly magnetic.
The photos combine warmth and shadow in settings flooded with association and narrative.
It's as if the photographer's been lying around all day waiting until everything is just right.
Nicole Pasulka
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