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The complexity was always there, even in the "good old days," it's just that it was under the FILM heading.
Black and White or Color? Prints or Slides? 24 or 36 exposures? Fast or Slow? Single Prints or Double? 3 by 5 or 4 by 6 or 5 by 7 or 6 by 9? Proof Sheet? Jumbo Proof sheet? Borders or Borderless? Straight or Scalloped edges? Booklet? Slides Mounted or unmounted? Cut or rolled? Cardboard or Plastic mounts? . . .
Open Mike: Simple Cameras
First, I wanted to mention that I had a very nice experience yesterday with Nathan Benn's Kodachrome Memory. My copy arrive yesterday in the mail, from Nathan himself. (Along with a beautiful small print of this picture! Thanks so much, Nathan.) It's rich work, and will be worthy of repeated vis...
The only thing wrong with "Turkey Man" is that it is the wrong perspective to be used as a screensaver :)
'People Working' Contest: The Finalists
Photo by Peter Brian Schafer Judge's comment: When I did the first run-through of the contest entries, "Dahiana" was not one that I thought would make the list of finalists: my first choices were based on more formal qualities. As the number of possible finalists dwindled, though, it became ap...
The little girl, for sure. The seminal moment when play becomes work. The "journey may be its own reward" but "work" is a means to an end. The first time this girl is empowered by that thought is captured here.
On a mission to convert a plain beige world to pink!
'People Working' Contest Semifinalists, Batch 1
Here's the first group of photos chosen by our celebrity mystery judge (who is real—this is not misdirection from the trickster Ed.). We're keeping the identities of the photographers under wraps during the commenting. Please don't comment on your own photo or acknowledge it. Unfortunately, I ha...
Quodlibet or mash-up. Might also simply be called "two songs in counterpoint".
A popular one at Christmas time is a combination of William Dix's "What Child Is This"(Greensleeves) and Scott Soper's "Child of the Poor"
http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/12/20/what-are-you-singing-what-child-child-poor
Need Some Help...
I'm having trouble finding a musical term. Is there a word for it when you sing or play two melodies, and each one works alone but you can also sing them both at the same time and they work together? I'm not talking about a "round" where you play the exact same melody but with a delay. TIA, Mike
April Fool's articles are supposed to be woven of whole cloth - not stitched together from fragments of genuine history - it makes it too hard on us while trying to decide how much of a fool we are. I refuse to fall for the ruse. Imagine, the designer of Zeiss Ikon cameras creating the Instamatic. Preposterous! Next thing you'll tell us is that he invented the IBM card and the photocopier!
Hubert Nerwin's Brilliant Idea
Zeiss camera designer Hubert Nerwin and family shortly after their arrival in the U.S. following WWII. Nerwin was instrumental in the development of the dominant American consumer camera of the 1960s, the Kodak Instamatic. Photo courtesy Zeiss Historical Society. I'm a day late with this. Last...
A TED presentation from 2007 of the Microsoft effort mentioned by some others.
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
If you get tired by the computer talk - just jump to 4:00 into the video.
"This is a reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral that was done entirely computationally from images scraped from Flickr. "
'Most Tourists Take Pictures from the Same Spot'
Corinne Vionnet, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow Most of us are aware of the recent phenomenon of huge masses of photographs—many, many billions—being uploaded helter-skelter on the internet, leading me to wonder sometimes if the next great movement in photographic creativity might not come fr...
Thomas Pindelski has posted timings and file structures on his blog - iPad Camera Connection Kit.
Quick Review: Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit
By Marc Rochkind I got my Apple iPad on its first day, April 3, but had to wait until today for the Camera Connection Kit ($29), which just arrived. The Kit consists of two separate receptacles for the iPad's connector: one for SD cards, and one with a USB female socket. The USB socket is inten...
It's as if, at the turn of the century, photography was considered artistically inferior to painting, so some enterprising photographer found a way to paint all over his images to make them look "artistic" -- i.e. like paintings.
I am looking at a portrait on my wall from my grandparent's wedding in 1910 (I presume that is the century whose turning you are talking about.) It is all hand colored - including a bunch of flowers and furniture that I believe were not actually in the photo. There is also a photo of me from 1958 at my first Communion. It is also hand colored.
I always just assumed that this hand coloring was driven by a desire for color. But your comments make me think this may have been an attempt for authenticity to mark important life events. For example, the detailing on the flower on my lapel clearly shows brush strokes. It is not an invisible attempt at adding color - the hand of the human artist is proudly apparent - and this style spans at least a half century!
Random Excellence: Evan Baines
The Wedding from Heaven: Let's face it, we've all heard stories of weddings from hell. Photographically speaking, I mean. Either complaints from the photographer about clients, or complaints from clients about photographers. When something goes amiss with a wedding photography gig, somebody, it ...
Every time I have moved to a different part of the country I get a little culture shock in what is covered during the sports segment of the nightly news.
When I moved to Boston it was the coverage of College hockey. Moving to Indiana it is both in-depth coverage of high school basketball (and not just during tournament time) and full coverage of auto racing - NASCAR, Indy, and F1 - with locally based color commentators.
Instant Collectible for Basketball Fans
This is holy week—as anyone who follows college basketball will confirm. Today, the Butler Bulldogs a.k.a. "Dawgs" of tiny Butler University, in Indianapolis, take on mighty...well, not Duke. They're actually playing Michigan State. Duke is in the other half of the draw. The friction with Du...
Mike,
What is the state of High School photo class technology. Is any work done with film and developing and optical printing (sort of like taking Latin)? Or is it all digital? If so, how much is photography and how much is PhotoShop?
Waukesha South Photo Students
This morning I was invited to give a couple of talks to some of Mary Windler's advanced photo students at Waukesha South High School, where my son is a junior. South is known for being strong in the arts, and has an excellent photo program. The school offers three different levels of photograp...
A very breezy (but fulfilling) article on Wikipedia about Gary Stochl.
This is a link to the specific version, it is so conversational in its personal viewpoint that it will no doubt get edited (or deleted) into pedia-ese in the future.
'On City Streets'
By Ken Tanaka I love a good little story, even if it’s true, but especially if it involves photography. Here’s a dilly from a few years ago that I think you’ll enjoy. One day in 2004, Bob Thall, chair of Chicago’s Columbia College Photo Department, was met at his office by a rather unusual v...
A lot more comments on Second City Cop from the boys-in-blue here:
Bystanders Pummel Purse Snatcher
They do their research and find out more stuff about the photog:
Crime scene photographer finds himself on cops’ bad side
BTW (according to comments in the link) the victim refused to sign a complaint and the shirtless man was Released With Out Charge (RWOC in one of the comments).
Citizen's Arrest
An unusual crime situation documented by Chicago photographer Mike Anzaldi. Anzaldi narrates a short slide show at chicagonow.com. Note that the situation evokes a kneejerk "how could he just stand there" response from one of the commenters. As I've written elsewhere, a very common reaction to p...
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