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the sidewalk, or car headlights reflecting off of a wet windshield, there is something beautiful and subtle about the ways in which light and water interact.
Artists Paints Photo-Like Images Looking Out of a RainSoaked Car Windshield
Of the two images above, one was made by the Washington DC-based artist Gregory Thiekler and the other was made by us. The difference between the two? The first is not a photographic at all but rather a painting.
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Gregory Thiekler is actually a hyperrealist painter whose work is meant to imitate a photograph that appears to have been taken by someone stuck in a car on a rainy day—a fascinating concept. When we came across these images, we too were fooled into thinking they were photographs, but quite the contrary. To see more of Gregory’s incredibly realistic images, check out his Web site: http://www.gregorythielker.com/.
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Mired in the Bayou ( 5 photos) OCT 16, 2010 01:11A.M.
Which image above is the painting and which is the photograph? Hopefully the credits don’t give it away. Top: Image by Gregory Thiekler. Bottom: Image by Dan Bracaglia. All Photographs © Reed Young. While a rainy evening, like the one we had here in New York City last night, can be a major drag, it can also be quite inspiring photographically. Whether it is streetlights reflecting in the puddles on
Long known as the seafood capital of Alabama, Bayou La Batre is a small town of approximately 2,500. Over the past decade, foreign imports, the
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rising cost of diesel fuel, and overfishing have eroded the seafood industry that supports this community. Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, slowed business even further, and the community was just beginning to recover when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April. Now, BP has thrown astonishing amounts of money at this small town, and competition for “free money” pitted community members against each other. Worse still, the drama distracts from the reality of what will happen when the oil money stops, and the community is left without its industry and livelihood. – Reed Young Above: Paul Nelson is the president of South Bay Community Alliance, a volunteer organization that advocates on behalf of the citizens of Bayou La Batre and Coden. Paul’s home was destroyed in Katrina. This evening,‘Mired in the Bayou,’ a mixed-medium exhibit, featuring the work of photographers Michael De Pasquale and Reed Young, written narrative and audio by journalist Erin Sheehy, and an installation by artist Graham Holly opens at 99% Gallery and Inhabitat.com. To find out more information about the show click here. To view more of Reed Young’s work click here.
Timmy Chi Tai is a nine-year-old from Bayou La Batre. He works at Boat People SOS, a local non-profit, handing out food during food drives and helping with various tasks around the office.
Ervin (right) a metal scrapper from Coden, is pictured here with Ernest Montgomery (left), the former fire chief of Bayou La Batre. They’ve known each other for over 50 years. Most of Ervin’s customers are commercial fishermen and his business has been suffering ever since the BP oil spill.
Alan Clark is an oysterman who worked for the BP Vessels of Opportunity program, which offers between $1,200 and $3,000 a day to local boat owners who help with the oil cleanup.
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Kyong “Kathy” Kim came to the United States from Korea in 1969. Her crab shop in Bayou La Batre, Alabama has been closed since the BP oil spill, and she has no plans to reopen it. She is moving to Mobile and collecting Social Security. Kathy makes beaded sculptures that sometimes sell for as much as $350. She says she is especially attached X-Rite has just announced the Seasons of Colour Photo Contest.
to her dog Cutie because she has no friends down there.
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How to Take Great Autumn Photos
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The Lomography X-Pro Chrome 100 is a new colour reversal film. Jeff Cable, Director of Marketing for Lexar Media, shares some great tips for capturing fantastic Fall / Autumn photos.
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AgfaPhoto has introduced six new digital photo frames ranging from 7 to 10 inches in size. Read more and comment »
iWorkCase is an on-location workstation for photographers and digital operators working on an Apple Macbook Pro.
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Official Pentax K-5 Sample Images
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Pentax has posted a few sample images taken with the Pentax K-5 digital SLR camera. Photography in the Raw is David Noton’s second photography DVD.
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New York: Portrait of a City (10 photos) OCT 15, 2010 01:00A.M.
© Esther Bubley/Courtesy of Esther Bubley Archive. Above: People getting on the Third Avenue elevated train (El) on the East Side of Manhattan, 1951.
© Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. Above: Mulberry Street, 1900. Reuel Golden, a former executive editor of PDN, has worked with art publisher Benedikt Taschen to produce New York: Portrait of a City. Setting out to be the visual encyclopedia of all things New York, Golden’s book collects hundreds of iconic images from early 1900 to present day. To find out more information about Reuel Golden’s book click here. Tonight is the opening of the exhibition, featuring images from Golden’s book, at the Levi’s Fall Workshop in New York city. Click here for more info. © Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum. Above: The main concourse at Grand Central Terminal, 1929.
© Jack Delano, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Above: A shot of Lower Manhattan, as seen from a departing ship, 1941.
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© Samuel H. Gottscho/Courtesy of Daniel Wolf, Inc., New York. Above: The opening day of the Empire State Building, 1931.
© Paul Himmel/Courtesy of Keith De Lellis Gallery, New York. Above: Brooklyn Bridge View, 1950.
© Phillip-Lorca diCorcia/Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York. Above: Philip-Lorca diCorcia: 42nd Street, 1996.
© Estate of Evelyn Hofer. Above: A series of highways flowing through the heart of Manhattan’s West Side, 1964.
Estate of William Claxton. Above: Various jazz musicians outside the Metropole Café, the center of traditional jazz in New York, Broadway,
© Steve Schapiro. Above: A film still from the classic 1970s movie Taxi Driver, featuring Robert De Niro and the director Martin Scorsese, 1976.
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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES
We want to feel like old school photography masters: mixing chemicals in darkrooms and watching images as they slowly develop.
Why Use a Gray Card? OCT 15, 2010 12:41A.M.
So, what did we do when we learned that some of the first color photographs were made almost 150 years ago, and they weren’t made with color film?
A gray card is used for two purposes: To set a Custom White balance Meter a Scene How to use a gray card to set a custom White Balance If you have a digital SLR, the manual will probably give you pictures and walk you through the steps. Essentially what you’re doing is instead of [...]
We learned how to use our digital cameras to party like it was 1909, of course! Now we’re going to share everything we learned and show you how to bring out your inner mad-photo-scientist to make full color photographs using only black and white ones!
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DIY Photo Magic: How to Turn Black and White Photos into Full Color Images!
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Panasonic AG-AF100 Pricing Confirmed OCT 14, 2010 05:35P.M. Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3
We love the ease of digital photography, but sometimes we get an itch for some experimentation.
Panasonic has unveiled the MSRP and availability of the Panasonic AGAF100 interchangeable-lens digital video camera.
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Canon EOS 60D Review OCT 14, 2010 05:30P.M.
The Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM lens is now available for purchase in the US. Read more and comment »
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Urban Photographer of the Year 2010
The EOS 60D is a new kind of DSLR camera from Canon, blending features from the cheaper 550D / / Rebel T2i and the more expensive 7D to exactly occupy the middle ground between the two. Aimed at the wellheeled amateur with a penchant for video, the 60D is the first EOS camera to offer an articulated LCD screen, making it easier to shoot both stills and importantly video. Read our expert Canon EOS 60D Review to find out if Canon’s new prosumer DSLR is a worthy addition to the EOS range.
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CB Richard Ellis today launched its third annual Urban Photographer of the Year competition across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Sony NEX Firmware Update Now Available
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The new firmware update for the Sony NEX-3 and Sony NEX-5 compact system cameras, which was announced in September, is now available for download. Canon has released a firmware update for the Canon EOS 1000D / Rebel XS digital SLR camera.
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The Great British Enthusiast
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QuickSpot Flash Accessory OCT 14, 2010 03:05A.M.
The Great British Enthusiast is an exhibition of street photographs by Matt Stuart. The QuickSpot honeycomb grid from Harbor Digital Design (HDD) offers photographers an easy and inexpensive way to produce dramatic lighting effects, like a snoot.
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virtually unchanged. This was when Sally realized two things—first, that her friend was indeed wrong and second, that she should hang onto the meal to see just how long it would actually take to rot.
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Artist Photographs Happy Meal Once a Week for 180 Days, No Change in Appearance
180 days later, Sally had acquired 27 images of the burger (after the first ten days, she began photographing the meal about once a week). The scary part: the first photo of the fresh burger and fries looks almost identical to the burger and fries photographed a half a year later.
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How does that sit in your stomach? From: Yahoo News
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Water Emergency (4 photos) OCT 14, 2010 01:00A.M.
© Michael F. McElroy. India has 17 percent of the World’s population and just 4 percent of its fresh water. With a population at 1.2 billion people and counting, the cities are bursting at the seams. Water cuts, pollution and a lack of basic services are the reality for millions. These photographs are part of an ongoing project documenting the water Crisis in India.
The infamous Happy Meal. Top: Day 1, Bottom: Day 180. Photographs by Sally Davies.
Above: Saneosh Naitam holds 1 of 8 notebooks that date back from 1998 to present. The notebooks hold the names of 15,000 farmers who have committed suicide in the Vidarbha region. Farmer suicides are directly related to the water crisis. Failed crops, due to lower than average monsoon season, cause the farmers to borrow more money for the next years crop and incur more debt. The farmers see no way out of debt and turn to suicide, out of shame. To see more of McElroy’s work click here.
What originally started out as an argument over how long it would take for a McDonalds Happy Meal to get moldy, turned into a scientific experiment and eventually a fascinating photographic project. On April 10, 2010, Sally Davies, a New York City photographer, purchased a Happy Meal with the plans of letting it sit out on her coffee table, uncovered, to prove a friend wrong who was convinced it would get moldy and rot after only a few days. Sally began photographing the burger and fries daily and posting the images on her Flickr. After a week, the Happy Meal’s appearance looked
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Mumbai’s water is somewhat infamous. It’s not clean, and its supply is inconsistent. For millions living in the city, water is obtained at any means necessary, even if that mean illegally tapping city water pipes.
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Peartree to Demo 80-Megapixel Leaf Back OCT 13, 2010 06:35P.M.
The people living on the sidewalks and roads in India’s richest city ( the’ illegals’ as the Government refers to them) have no source of sanitation or water and every day becomes a search for water to drink, wash clothes and bathe.
Peartree has announced that it will be the first camera dealer in the world to demonstrate the 80-megapixel Leaf Aptus-II 12 digital back. Read more and comment »
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Dehli’s Yumuna river has been heavily polluted with raw sewage and industrial waste turning this once clean river into a bubbling black mess.Fifty-seven million people depend on the Yumuna waters and the river supplies 70 percent of Delhi’s water.
AKVIS NatureArt OCT 13, 2010 06:30P.M.
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AKVIS has released a new program entitled AKVIS NatureArt.
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Music Makers OCT 13, 2010 01:00A.M.
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Canon EXPO 2010 Paris OCT 13, 2010 06:15P.M.
Canon has unveiled new concepts for the future of imaging at Canon EXPO 2010 Paris. Read more and comment »
© Jimmy Williams PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG - NEWS While on a typical commercial assignment, James, a retired golf caddie, started belting out a simple blues rendition of the song Stardust… High up in the sky the little stars climb, always reminding me that we’re apart… a favorite tune of his late wife. James was not a musician by trade, but his soulful interpretation of the melody overcame the shakiness of his pitch. James’ delivery was innate. The emotional connection created while taking this portrait stirred my desire to continue with a series. Today, I’ve photographed over thirty like-souls in a series I call “Music Makers”.” – Jimmy Williams
Nude Photography Webinar OCT 13, 2010 05:15A.M.
Click here for an audio/visual narrative on the project. The Music Makers series returns to North Carolina this week for a solo exhibit at UNC’s Center for Study of the American South. Opening reception, October 14th 2010, 5-7pm.
Manfrotto School of Xcellence has announced a free Webinar titled “Nude Photography 1/3: Conceptual”, which will take place on Friday, 15th October from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT. Read more and comment »
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Photography vs. Paint OCT 12, 2010 06:50P.M.
Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Has blinding your friends with a bright white flash become predictable and mundane? We like to keep ‘em on their toes with the 12-Color Splash Flash!
Intelligence Squared has announced an upcoming debate entitled, “Photography Will Always Be a Lesser Medium than Paint”.
Compact and portable, it’s a self-contained filter flash system that lets us switch the color of our flash by simply turning the color wheel.
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We just attach it to our favorite camera for bright, colorful pix wherever we go.
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William Albert Allard: Five Decades OCT 12, 2010 06:20P.M.
Nik Software has just announced that its HDR Efex Pro plug-in is now available for download. Read more and comment »
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William Albert Allard, a National Geographic institution and worldrenowned photographer, is releasing a photographic memoir, William Albert Allard: Five Decades, detailing his life in the field.
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Canon SX130 IS Firmware 1.0.10 OCT 12, 2010 06:10P.M.
Pentax Imaging Company has confirmed the US launch date and MSRP of the Pentax 645D medium-format DSLR camera. Read more and comment »
Canon has issued a firmware update for the Canon PowerShot SX130 IS camera.
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Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs executes her signature water spray into the air during an intimate performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Kevin Tachman’s portrait was included in the winners gallery of the 2009 Ultimate Music Moment contest. The 2010 Contest is currently open for entries until October 18, but enter today to avoid late
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Travel Photography Master Class at Stanfords
fees. A Fans’ Favorite winner will also be selected.
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On 26th October, Stanfords Travel Bookshop will play host to a travel photography master class. Read more and comment »
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The new Canon PowerShot SX30 IS compact camera climbs straight to the top of the super-zoom ladder with its incredible 35x, 24-840mm optical lens - truly all the focal range that most photographers will ever need or use. In addition to this, the SX30 offers a 14 megapixel image sensor, 2.7 inch vari-angle LCD screen, electronic viewfinder, flash hotshoe, full manual controls and 720p HD movies. Read our in-depth Canon PowerShot SX30 IS review to find out if this new super-zoom really is all the camera you’ll ever need.
O Yeah Yeah Yeahs! OCT 12, 2010 01:00A.M.
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Lowepro Launches New Adventura Range
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Canon EOS System - The Expanded Guide is a new book by freelance photographer and writer Andy Stansfield.
Lowepro’s Adventura range comprises five lightweight, affordable camera bags featuring a toploading design.
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Red Bull Culture Clash
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Red Bull is looking for a writer and photographer to cover the upcoming Red Bull Culture Clash.
Canon Rebel T2i / EOS 550D is a new title in Ammonite’s Expanded Guides series.
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Samsung NX5 / NX10 Firmware 1.20 OCT 11, 2010 06:05P.M.
Samsung has released a firmware update for its NX5 and NX10 compact system cameras, adding support for the new i-Function lens. Read more and comment »
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Ricoh GR Digital III Firmware 3.00 OCT 11, 2010 06:00P.M.
Ricoh has issued a function-enhancing firmware update for the GR DIGITAL III. Read more and comment »
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