Jim

Sir Isaac Newton

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Jim

History of the Color Wheel by evad

The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk.

As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles and and wheels the history.

evad

Josef Astor

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Jim

Pixel Perfect, Pascal Dangin's virtual reality by Lauren Collins

In the March issue of Vogue Dangin tweaked a hundred and forty-four images: a hundred and seven advertisements (Estée Lauder, Gucci, Dior, etc.), thirty-six fashion pictures, and the cover, featuring Drew Barrymore.

To keep track of his clients, he assigns three-letter rubrics, like airport codes.

Click on the current-jobs menu on his computer: AFR (Air France), AMX (American Express), BAL (Balenciaga), DSN (Disney), LUV (Louis Vuitton), TFY (Tiffany & Co.), VIC (Victoria's Secret).

Lauren Collins

Adam Pash

Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera by

If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box.

With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera.

Let's transform your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to its firmware.

Adam Pash

Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey, and Ella Fitzgerald by Milt Hinton

For more, go to Milt Hinton and Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs.

Jim

Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs

'Playing the Changes' Chronicles Jazz Great Hinton Host Liane Hansen talks to author David Berger about the photography of the late jazz bassist Milt Hinton.

Berger has co-authored the book Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs.

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Carl Donohue

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Jim

Storytellers by Carl Donohue

My parents, all the way from sunny Australia, visited me here in Alaska recently and together we took a trip to Denali National Park for a few cold, snowy days last fall.

We sought refuge from what my dad referred to as "the brutal and harsh sub-arctic weather" in the form of lattes and hot sandwiches at the visitor's center, where my mother, the consummate shopper, immediately discovered the souvenir store.

While mum browsed the shirts and hat racks, my dad and I wiled away the hours looking at some of the stirring photos on display.

A postcard image of a wolf that was a captive animal pre-empted a discussion of photography, art, and integrity.

That discussion, minus the one thousand interruptions from my mother inquiring about shirt sizes, colors, and styles, led to this column.

Carl Donohue

Richard Steward by Eric Etheridge

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Via (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography

Jim

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws.

The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change.

Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Atlas & Co.

Robert Burley

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Jim

The photo is dead. Long live the photo by Kate Taylor

Toronto artist Robert Burley is currently documenting the fate of chemical photography, recording the abandonment and demolition of various Kodak plants.

The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories produced will soon be obsolete, although Burley himself is still physically printing images from negatives, albeit ones he edits digitally.

The most notable of Burley's large, highly detailed colour photographs shows the implosion of buildings 65 and 69 at Kodak Park in Rochester, N.Y., where a crowd that includes people who worked in the plant busily snap pictures of its demise on their digital cameras.

Whatever sacrifices it may demand, technology is irresistible.

Kate Taylor

Gregory Crewdson

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Via APAD

Jim

Gregory Crewdson Interview

Mitch Alland

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Jim

An Approach to Street Photography by Mitch Alland

It is only three years ago that I started to do street photography: before that I photographed landscapes, buildings, objects, and sometimes made portraits of people I knew; and the exhibition that I had in Bangkok in December 2003 was of Thai temples, without people in any of the pictures.

Indeed, like many other people, I felt uncomfortable photographing strangers in the street and saw no purpose in doing so.

In 1993 when I participated in his workshop on colour photography in Tuscany, Sam Abell told me at the end of ten days, "You're certainly not a street photographer."

He was right.

I wasn't.

Mitch Alland

Chad Neuman

Selectively Adjust Color in Photoshop by Chad Neuman

There are many ways to partially color a photo in Photoshop, but some don't preserve the original image.

For example, when you use the paintbrush, even at partial opacity, it brushes over some of the photo's detail.

A better way to change color without losing an object's details it to adjust its hues.

Chad Neuman

Panamatic

Panamatic

This Level has been designed to mount between a tripod and a camera.

The Level will fit any standard tripod and hold the camera in an absolute horizontal position.

It will index into twelve positions. It rotates a full 360°.

It assists the photographer in taking panoramic pictures as well as todays Virtual Reality sceneries.

These V.R. clips have become very popular and are found more and more on the Internet.

Panamatic

Tewfic El-Sawy

Photog's Togs by Tewfic El-Sawy

I've been asked by a few readers to share my preferred type of clothes when traveling on my photo expeditions or on assignments.

It's an important issue because weight, durability, ease of washing/drying, etc all come into play.

So here are the items that usually make it into my dufflebag...there must be womens' equivalents at the same stores.

(Since I don't mean this to be adverts for the companies that stock these items, I won't link to them...sorry).

Tewfic El-Sawy

National Geographic Wildlife Camera

Photojojo Mother's Day Gift Guide 2008

Add this to your calendar: Sunday May 11th is Mother's Day.

Tom Guilmette

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