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petapixel (unofficial)Great Reads in Photography: November 28, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Ernest C. Withers ' Images of Black Life in the American South – Blind
Thursdays, called Maids Day Off, Overton Park Zoo, Memphis © The Ernest C. Withers Family Trust; courtesy CityFiles Press.
Ernest C. Withers was a former police officer turned photojournalist from the Civil Rights era.
Working at a time when mainstream American publications rarely hired Black photographers, Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr. (1922 – 2007) made a way. His new book The Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era (CityFiles Press) looks at Black life in the American South during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
A Father and Daughter's Main Street March © The Ernest C. Withers Family Trust; courtesy CityFiles Press.
One of the early civil rights marches down Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee was for fathers and daughters only. It was hoped the presence of young girls might reduce the chance of violence against protesters. In later life, Renee Andrewnetta Jones, who was eight months old at the time of this famous picture, looked back on the events in which she had been an unwitting participant. She had grown up to become a pediatrician in Memphis. – Fahey Klein Gallery
I Am a Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, TN, 1968 © The Ernest C. Withers Family Trust; courtesy CityFiles Press.
Blind reports:
Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, Williams became one of the first nine Black police officers to join the force in 1948 after serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Although Withers was given a uniform, patrol car, and gun, he was forbidden to patrol white communities or arrest white folks. His power was proscribed strictly within the confines of Black Memphis during the height of segregation.
Off duty, Withers photographed the same community, documenting the fabled Beale Street music scene, the birthplace of Memphis Blues icons like B. B. King. After getting caught selling liquor illegally, Withers left the force to work as a freelance photographer…[shooting for] legendary photo magazines Ebony and Jet while working as Stax Records' official photographer for 20 years.
But in 2010, under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released documents indicating that Withers began working as an informant shortly after making his first photograph of Dr. King in 1956 — a revelation that was said to be both shocking but not surprising.
B.B. King performing on stage at The Hippodrome, Beale Street in Memphis, TN, c.1950 © The Ernest C. Withers Family Trust, courtesy CityFiles Press.
Read also: Iconic Civil Rights Photographer Exposed as FBI Informant
How Photographer Jeff Wall 's Pictures Duplicate 'Magic' of Large-Scale Paintings – NPR
Jeff Wall’s current show at Glenstone in Potomac, Md., is the largest U.S. survey of his career in almost 15 years. It shows his photographs or “pictures” as he refers to them in the video above, as they were meant to be seen, as backlit transparencies often 9-10 feet wide.
“When you see one of Jeff Wall’s large-format photographs reproduced in a book or newspaper, detail is lost,” writes The Washington Post . “That’s inevitable…That loss underscores how essential scale is to Wall’s work…
“Wall emerged as an artist in the 1970s, producing images that were hyper-alert to art history and subtly conceptual at the same time. This was, as the critic Andy Grundberg argues in his new book, How Photography Became Contemporary Art, a key moment in the history of photography when it transcended its status as a problematic subset of art and became a core, even dominant presence in contemporary art galleries.
“It did so by incorporating all the philosophical and aesthetic ambitions of painting, sculpture, film and other media. And in the process, it also became highly self-conscious, and decidedly postmodern.”
Medical Photography is Failing Patients with Darker Skin – The Verge
From The Verge:
Doctors aren’t usually in the business of publishing photography guides. But Jenna Lester, a dermatologist at the University of California San Francisco, was growing frustrated with the poor-quality images she’d receive of her dark-skinned patients…
For instance, a bad photo of inflammation on dark skin may make the already subtle condition difficult to see. In a person of color, the use of a flash or bad lighting can drown out the problem, and the inflammation may seem to blend into the skin. On the other hand, a well-captured image of the same taken near a window using natural light could allow a clear distinction between healthy and unhealthy skin…
The company [Google Health] trained a deep learning algorithm on a set of over 16,000 pictures of various skin conditions. But only 3.5% of these cases depicted dark and deep brown skin. Out of these photos of dark skin, it’s impossible to tell how many of them were taken using techniques that make sure they’re truly representative.
Matt Black’s American Geography: A Tale of Two Countries _– Magnum
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El Paso, Texas. 2015. Warehouse district © Matt Black / Magnum Photos, courtesy Thames & Hudson
Matt Black has traveled over 100,000 miles and made photographs across 46 states over six years, published as American Geography by Thames & Hudson.
Alturas, California. 2016. Cattle auction © Matt Black / Magnum Photos, courtesy Thames & Hudson
Magnum writes:
In a 2016 article titled Economic Growth in the United States: A Tale of Two Countries, economists Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman state, “Our data show that the bottom half of the income distribution in the United States has been completely shut off from economic growth since the 1970s. It’s a tale of two countries. For the 117 million U.S. adults in the bottom half of the income distribution, growth has been non-existent for a generation while at the top of the ladder it has been extraordinarily strong.”
With his project American Geography , Matt Black chose to focus on one of these two countries. For six years, starting in 2014, traveling by bus and by car across the U.S., he explored “the geography of poverty” – photographing an America and American lives that to him were the rule, not the exception.
Widely published in the media at the time, this extraordinary body of work deals directly with the flip side of the Dream, the fate of millions of Americans having to live with the psychological and physical pains and indignities of living poor in the richest country in the world.
Eagle Butte, South Dakota. 2016. At a ranch house © Matt Black / Magnum Photos, courtesy Thames & Hudson
"It becomes so easy to unsee ourselves," says Matt Black to Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of The International Center of Photography (ICP) in an interview.
The Features That More Cameras Should Have – Photography Life
Ring-tailed lemurs licensed from Depositphotos with overlaid eye AF
Today’s cameras have an impressive set of features, but no camera has all of them, although the technology is out there.
From Photography Life:
**1. Back-in-Time Buffer
**One of the key skills of sports and wildlife photography is anticipating the moment…But even with top-tier anticipation skills, you’ll occasionally end up pressing the shutter button a hair too late and missing the moment. One feature that can save the day is what I like to call a “back-in-time buffer.” It’s found on some Olympus cameras and a few smartphones, as well as a more limited implementation on the discontinued Nikon 1 line of cameras.
Here’s how it works. Any time you hold down the shutter button halfway, the camera captures a constant burst of photos with the electronic shutter. (It discards them rather than saving them to the memory card.) Once you fully press the shutter button, the camera saves the backlog of images from the past half-second or so. As a result, you’ll capture a moment that you otherwise would have photographed too late…
Currently Found On: Many of the newest Olympus cameras (where it’s called “Pro Capture”), including the OM-D E-M5 Mark III and all OM-D E-M1 cameras from Mark II and beyond.
Click on the link above for 18 other features which would be great to have.
Real Tone is Google 's Attempt at a More Inclusive Android Camera _– Engadget
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From Engadget:
Google partnered with "a diverse set of expert image makers and photographers" to tune its new camera algorithms, including adjustments to automatic white balance, automatic exposure and stray light settings.
The goal, in the company's words, is to "ensure that Google’s camera and imagery products work for everyone, of every skin tone." Considering Google's consumer base has always included humans of every skin tone, and this is the sixth iteration of the Pixel, it's about time these considerations were made.
Real Tone is built into the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro cameras and cannot be disabled and will be shared with the Android ecosystem.
**UHS-I vs. UHS-II - What Do You REALLY NEED? -- **Dave McKeegan
Mckeegan explains that buying a fast SD card capable of a maximum write speed of 300MB/sec will not necessarily make your camera write the data faster if it is not capable of writing at those speeds, even if it has a UHS-II slot. However, it will certainly help you download faster to your laptop, provided you use a suitable card reader. Also, the read/write speed written on the card is the maximum or peak speed which cannot be sustained for long. V30, V60, or V90, which indicates a minimum sustained write speed of 30, 60, or 90MB/sec, is a better indicator of the card's recording abilities.
These Beautiful Images Are a Harsh Critique of Gendered Violence in India -- BuzzFeed
The photographer Spandita Malik couldn’t have known that a breaking news story in India in 2012 about a brutal episode of violence against women would inspire an ongoing project that has shaped her work for years.
These Otherworldly Photos Convey Climate Change 's Effects on Arctic Regions – NPR
Ella Morton's project, The Dissolving Landscape , is a series of experimental analog photographs and short films that examine climate change in the Arctic and Subarctic landscapes of Canada and Nordic Europe.
NPR writes:
Mordançage is a black and white process that was developed in the 1960s by French photographer Jean-Pierre Sudre. It degrades the shadow areas of silver gelatin prints, lifting the emulsion off the paper to create unique textures and veils.
Film soaking, also known as "film soup," is a process by which color film is soaked in ordinary household solutions, such as wine, beer, lemon juice, yogurt and dishwashing fluid. The acidity in these solutions warps the film, creating a variety of effects that speak to the sublime qualities of these landscapes, as well as their uncertain future.
"…these techniques create colors and textures that make the landscape appear ethereal, otherworldly and mysterious…" Morton said. "On the other hand, they make the image literally dissolve, mirroring how the land is dissolving."
Photography Museum Fotografiska to Open Spaces in Berlin, Miami, and Shanghai – ARTnews
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Fotografiska, which first launched in Stockholm in 2010, is in expansion mode, with plans to add three new spaces to its empire of photography museums by 2023.
The private museum said it plans to open locations in Berlin, Miami, and Shanghai over the next couple of years. The Berlin (the biggest, occupying 58,000 sq. ft.) and Shanghai museums are set to open in the third quarter of 2022, while the Miami one is expected to open in the second quarter of 2023.
The 4 Best Green Screen Apps for Your Smartphone – MakeUseOf
Green screen editing has become so common lately that it is a basic editing technique, and more and more apps are coming out with green screen features to popularize this trend. If you want to try editing green screens on your smartphone, check out the apps listed at the above link.
Stunning Winning Photos of Nature inFocus Photography Contest 2021 – 121 Clicks
Tag, You Are It! Priyanka Rahut Mitra, winner—Animal Behavior. The leopardess was deep in slumber high up on a tree branch when awakened by the alarm calls of a Malabar Giant Squirrel. On spotting the rodent, she launched an attack, chasing the squirrel around the tree trunk and eventually capturing the animal.
The Nature inFocus Photography Contest honors shutterbugs documenting unique natural history moments and critical conservation issues and generates an impressive catalog of imaginative and artistic images every year. This year’s awards were selected from 18,000 images from 2,000 competing photographers across 40 countries.
Spider Dreams, Anirudh Kamakeri, runner-up—Young Photographer. Most orb-weaver spiders weave a new web every day and tend to be active during the evening hours. Having observed the spider every evening on the terrace of his house, the photographer visualized this in-camera multi-exposure image, creating a beautiful bokeh from the streetlights and signboards and framing the silhouette of the spider within.
Full Gallery of winners.
The King’s Feast, Panos Laskarakis, runner-up—Animal Portraits. During his visit to the Okavango Delta, the photographer chanced upon a pride of lions hunting buffalos. The next night, a pack of 30 hyenas tried to steal the kill from the lions. This image was made the following day when a lone lion was feeding on one of the carcasses.
Viva Cuba! The Heart and Soul of an Island Nation – in Pictures – The Guardian
© Raúl Cañibano / Edition Lammerhuber
A new book Absolut Cuba by Raúl Cañibano, published by Edition Lammerhuber of black and white images, taken over three decades, captures the Cuban photographer’s love for his native country.
© Raúl Cañibano / Edition Lammerhuber
Cañibano’s work comes from this strong relationship with his environment. “Every one of his photographs refers to the notion that each captured moment tells a whole story,” writes The Guardian.
© Raúl Cañibano / Edition Lammerhuber
Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura Fuentes writes in the book: “All reveal themselves as they are, expose themselves – unknowingly – to the gaze of the artist… To make a picture concrete, Cañibano needs only them and a little light. Nothing more, nothing less.”
What Does This Black Dot on the iPhone Do? ** -- **ZDNet
ZDNet writes:
If you own an iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max or iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max, you might have noticed that there's a black dot built into the camera array…
Yes, it's a camera. Well, it’s a scanner. A LiDAR scanner. LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging. It fires out infrared light and then uses that light to build a 3D picture of its surroundings.
The iPhone uses the LiDAR scanner to create depth maps for camera tricks such as portrait mode and to also help speed up autofocus. But with the right apps, it can do more. A lot more.
Historical Photo of the Week
Children with Turkey Pulled Wagon
Embed from Getty ImagesFanciful portraits of children were popular in the 19th century. This one shows a young boy and girl with a cart full of pumpkins and gourds “pulled” by a couple of turkeys, who almost certainly wouldn’t have remained in harness for long.
Quiz of the Week
1.) Which is the world’s largest digital camera?
2.) Which was the first hot shoe flash to have a built-in cooling system in Jan. 2016?
a.) Nikon SB 5000
b) Profoto A1
c) Canon EL-1
3.) Is it possible for a camera placed on a tripod to detect vibration and delay the firing of the shutter till the vibration has subsided?
Answers
1.) The world’s largest digital camera with a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels is being prepared for installation atop a Chilean mountain. It will scan the sky to help scientists gain knowledge about the Milky Way. The focal plane is made up of 189 CCDs, all cooled in a vacuum to nearly -150° Fahrenheit, to reduce noise in the images.
2.) (a.) Nikon SB 5000, which was claimed to deliver more than 100 consecutive shots at full output.
3.) Yes. It was first introduced in the PhaseOne XF in 2015 and is called Seismographic Vibration Delay.
Why I Like This Photo – Mohammad Murad
© Mohammad Murad
I like this photo because I love Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography.
I have this inside desire to photograph in slow shutter as something about it just fascinates me, and I’m not talking about panning technique here. I’m talking about reinventing the scene, adding a touch of mystery to it, something to represent me, something to reflect my inner self.
It’s like when a violinist plays his melody in his own way to express something inside him, maybe a feeling -- a happy or a sad feeling.
Maybe you will not understand or like his melody, or perhaps you will. But that won’t affect the violinist at all. He just wants to be heard and will leave the interpretation to the audience.
Photography using a slow shutter technique in camera simulates drawing or sketching using crayons or pencil. Each painting or image has a special mood or feeling.
Taking a still photo with a great composition is wonderful, of course! But a little bit of motion in the image will make the viewer feel that the animal or the bird is doing something. It will infuse some sense of life in it.
Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography is an abstract style of shooting that has no rules – it all comes down to moving your camera over a long exposure. This lack of context is one of the main reasons why abstract photography is both interesting and challenging.
It’s hard to describe an abstract. It’s a form of art that needs no one to describe it or explain it. Every part of the photograph is ambiguous. Never explain a photo to anyone. Leave those who want to understand it to investigate and do not prevent those who want to find a mistake from finding it.
This photograph was taken in Tanzania in 2018 when a baby elephant and its mother, along with a big herd of elephants, were walking by my vehicle.
The image was shot on the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II with Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, f/18, 0.3 sec, ISO 50.
It was my first trip to Tanzania, and I decided to shoot the whole trip (10 days) with slow shutter! I even bought a variable neutral density filter for my Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens to drop the shutter speed as I desired
Mohammad Murad (b.1976) is a Kuwaiti photographer and holds a degree in communication engineering. Murad specializes in wildlife with a special interest in bird photography. He had never foreseen himself becoming the professional and award-winning photographer that he is today. He attributes his passion for photography to two factors: his father, who at an early age taught him to “capture the moment” in his photographs, and Kuwait’s gorgeous landscape combining the desert and the sea.
Read also: An Intro to Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) Photography
Quote of the Week – Matt Black
Allensworth, California. 2014. Fence post © Matt Black / Magnum Photos, courtesy Thames & Hudson
The above photo is from American Geography, published by Thames & Hudson.
[I want to help photographers] to find that inner voice or personal perspective, rather than [take] photos that people expect [them] to take.* -- Matt Black
***** Susan Meiselas and Matt Black on Being the Mentors They Wanted to Have -- Magnum
Matt Black, a member of Magnum Photos, lives in California’s Central Valley, a rural, agricultural area in the heart of the state. His work has focused on themes of geography, inequality, and the environment. Since 2015, he has traveled over 100,000 miles across 46 states for his project American Geography (see above). Other works include The Dry Land , about the impact of drought on California’s agricultural communities, and The Monster in the Mountains , about the disappearance of 43 students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
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About the author : Phil Mistry is a photographer and teacher based in Atlanta, GA. He started one of the first digital camera classes in New York City at The International Center of Photography in the 90s. He was the director and teacher for Sony/Popular Photography magazine’s Digital Days Workshops. You can reach him here.
Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos. Middle horizontal (top) and middle horizontal (bottom) from Absolut Cuba by Raúl Cañibano, published by Edition Lammerhuber.
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Great Reads in Photography: November 21, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
**HBO Film Tells the Story of How Gordon Parks Changed Photography **– The Guardian
Gordon Parks, a groundbreaking photographer who died in 2006, is the subject of A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks, a new HBO film by documentary filmmaker John Maggio.
From The Guardian :
In 1956, as the first Black staff photographer of Life magazine [worked for 20 years], he [Parks] traveled in and around Mobile, Alabama, on assignment to capture the realities of Jim Crow. He chose to shoot in color, aiming his lens at both the more vibrant and quotidian moments of Black American daily life: the church picnic, the trip to the ice cream shop, the hanging of laundry out to dry…
Aside from the mastery of Parks's composition, each image had also captured prodding, daily indignities in minute but poignant detail – a young Black woman and her niece standing in their finest clothes, for example, standing below the blaring red neon of a "colored entrance" sign.
Maggio's documentary moves through Parks's rich photo essays on a Harlem gang leader, the segregated South, Muhammad Ali, and a boy in a Rio de Janeiro favela, as well as bold early work on Ella Watson, a janitor at the Farm Security Administration. A line is drawn from Parks's legacy to the cultural narratives being charted by the current photographers Devin Allen and LaToya Ruby Frazier. – The New York Times
Read also:How Self-Taught Photographer Gordon Parks Became a Master Storytellers
Annie Leibovitz's Enchanting New Book Showcases an Artist Who Changed Fashion Photography Forever -- Vogue
Sean Combs and Kate Moss, Hyatt Hotel, Paris, 1999 © Annie Leibovitz. From Annie Leibovitz Wonderland. Annie Leibovitz, 2012 © Annie Leibovitz
In 1999, Vogue sent Annie to Paris to cover the couture collections for the first time—and surprised her by casting Sean Combs [then known as Puff Daddy] alongside Kate Moss (above). "The shoot was a cross-cultural straddling of two worlds: rap culture and high fashion," the photographer writes in Wonderland [containing 341 images]. "And, of course, they weren't all that different."
Keira Knightley and Jeff Koons, Goshen, New York, 2005, (Wizard of Oz) © Annie Leibovitz. From Annie Leibovitz Wonderland.
From The New York Times
Annie Leibovitz would like to make one thing clear upfront: She is not a fashion photographer. Given that her new book, Wonderland, is an anthology of fashion images shot mainly for Vogue, that's curious.
"Fashion wasn't anything I wanted to be involved with," she says. Yet the visually arresting images in Wonderland, her new book and collection, may be her strongest work.
Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz is published by Phaidon.
**Robert Frank's Seminal Photo Series The Americans to be Reissued After $1M Grant **– The Art Newspaper
The Americans by Robert Frank, 1969 2nd printing.
The Americans by photographer Robert Frank will be republished in 2024 by Aperture on the Centennial of Frank's birth.
Frank (1924 – 2019), who was born in Switzerland, took a road trip across America over many years after receiving a Guggenheim Grant in 1954. This body of work was published as The Americans in 1958.
"Robert Frank helped us see ourselves more clearly and critically," Sarah Meister, the former photography curator at MoMA New York, who took over as Aperture 's executive director, tells The Art Newspaper. "This new edition will respect and honor that."
"Photographers from successive generations, from Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander to Bruce Davidson and onto a new generation of photographers today, among them Khalik Allah, Hannah Price and Colby Deal, all pay homage to Frank's conceptual creation of street photography."
Frank's journey was not without incident. He later recalled the anti-Semitism to which he was subject in a small Arkansas town. "I remember the guy [policeman] took me into the police station, and he sat there and put his feet on the table. It came out that I was Jewish because I had a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation. They really were primitive." He was told by the sheriff, "Well, we have to get somebody who speaks Yiddish."… "They wanted to make a thing out of it. It was the only time it happened on the trip. They put me in jail. It was scary. Nobody knew where I was." Elsewhere in the South, he was told by a sheriff that he had "an hour to leave town." Those incidents may have contributed to the dark view of America found in the work -- Wikipedia
Wedding Photography to Do List (According to 200 Photographers) – SLR Lounge
Photo illustration courtesy SLR Lounge
SLR Lounge polled over 200 photographers to find the following eight tasks to be the most important for prepping for the ceremony.
Check out the link above for more tips and details.
**Photographer Bob Gruen Gets Candid **– the Village Voice
Private Dancer: Tina Turner lights up the Honka Monka. © Bob Gruen
The Queens club [Honka Monka] was not necessarily a household name, but it did host Ike and Tina Turner on July 8, 1970, and photographer Bob Gruen, now 76, one of the best-known rock photographers, had a stellar view.
John Lennon on rooftop in New York City. August 29, 1974. © Bob Gruen Polaroid of Bob Gruen taking a photo of John Lennon wearing NYC t-shirt on rooftop, NYC. August 29, 1974. © Bob Gruen
From the Village Voice :
In Right Place, Right Time , he [Gruen] describes the gig: "I couldn't take my eyes off her—she was like a whirling tornado," he remembers of Tina. "I raised my camera, but I didn't know where to focus. I didn't know what the exposure would be. I didn't know when the timing would be right. All I could see were flashes of her in the strobe. Thinking fast, I decided to see what would happen if I opened the camera up to a one-second exposure and let the strobe flashes expose the film—and I got one of the best pictures (above, first pic) I've ever taken."
In his book, Gruen describes the resultant picture as "five Tinas in the frame, trailing streamers of light." The dynamic image opened doors for the young photographer.
**Also,Interview: Photographer Bob Gruen **– Celebrity Access
**ZEISS Celebrates 175th Anniversary: 175 Years of Innovation, Passion and the Courage to Develop **– Imaging Insider
The illuminated tower at ZEISS' HQ in Oberkochen, Germany, during the anniversary week
175 years ago, on 17 November 1846, young mechanic Carl Zeiss opened his workshop for precision mechanics and optics in Jena, thus laying the foundation for what would become ZEISS.
Today with over 35,000 employees, ZEISS operates in almost 50 countries worldwide, with around 60 sales and service companies, 30 production sites and 27 development sites.
Read also: Video: Fascinating'Lens Design 101' Interview with a ZEISS Master
**The Unforgotten: the Vogue Photo Festival – in Pictures **– The Guardian
Untitled from the series Warawar Wawa, "Son of the Stars" in the language of the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. This is a re-imagining of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book Le Petit Prince © River Claure
For its 6th edition, titled Reframing History , the **PhotoVogue **festival features projects incorporating an alternative and different way of telling a tale. The annual photography festival invites artists to reclaim overlooked or marginalized histories, from the Bolivian Andes to Africa and beyond
The Market Photo Workshop, 2007-8. Lalhande, 21, with his cigar, in front of a photo studio in Brazzaville © Daniele Tamagni
PhotoVogue celebrates its 10th anniversary with a video that features over 500 photographs. As of today, it counts over 257,000 photographers and over 700,000 photographs from 210 countries. Curated by Vogue Italia's photo editors, PhotoVogue offers an internationally diverse database of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography.
Photo Vogue Festival 2021 is free to view online with an exhibition at BASE Milano
_Remembering British Photojournalist Tom Stoddart, Dead at 68 _– Amateur Photographer
Embed from Getty ImagesOne of the finest documentary photographers and photojournalists the UK has ever produced, Tom Stoddart died at 68 after a brave struggle with cancer.
From Amateur Photographer:
Tom began his photographic career in local newspapers in his beloved North East before moving to London and building a solid reputation as a photojournalist, most notably for his coverage of Desert Storm. He really made his name, however, with his images from the frontline of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia (he was seriously injured by Serbian artillery while covering the siege of Sarajevo in 1992).
His image of Meliha Varešanović (Tom holds the photo above), striding defiantly down "sniper alley" in the city, is now the stuff of legend.
Uma Thurman, New York, 2016 © Peter Lindbergh, courtesy Taschen
Photographer Peter Lindberg (1944-2019) self-curated his first exhibition just two years before his death selecting 140 images from the early 1980s to 2010. It featured unseen images of legendary supermodels such as Claudia Schiffer, Karen Elson and Milla Jovovich.
Sasha Pivovarova, Steffy Argelich, Kirsten Owen & Guinevere van Seenus, Brooklyn, 2015 © Peter Lindbergh, courtesy Taschen
Lindberg documented the rise of the 1990s supermodels such as Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.
"He photographed Anna Wintour's first Vogue cover in November 1988—a now-infamous image of Israeli model Michaela Bercu, wearing a bejeweled Christian Lacroix top," writes Vogue. "In what would be one of his final projects, Lindbergh was chosen by guest editor Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to shoot the cover of British Vogue in September 2019."
Peter Lindbergh. Untold Stories is published by Taschen
Read also: Peter Lindbergh, Fashion Photography Icon, Has Died at Age 74
**Irving Penn's 'Girl Behind Bottle' Sells for $210,000 at Paris Photo **-- Ocula
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Read also: Irving Penn's Timeless Photography and 'Photographism'
STOP Shooting at Apertures Smaller than f/11
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**Lady Gaga Calls Out Photographer for Making Al Pacino Remove Sunglasses on House of Gucci Red Carpet **– The Independent
Embed from Getty ImagesFrom The Independent
Lady Gaga called out a photographer for ordering Al Pacino to remove his sunglasses.
The pair were having photos taken alongside Jared Leto at the premiere of their new film House of Gucci.
In a video shared by Entertainment Tonight , one particularly confident photographer could be heard shouting: "Take off your glasses, Al!"
Pacino, smiling, removed his sunglasses. However, Gaga replied: "Don't make him take his glasses off – he's Al Pacino!"
Leto then urged him to put them back on, which he did.
**Why Apple Changed its Mind on Right to Repair **-- Engadget
From Engadget:
Apple does not have a good track record in terms of letting customers repair their hardware. The last decade-plus has seen Apple's computers become essentially impossible for users to service or upgrade, and the iPhone has always been a locked box…
So Apple's announcement earlier this week that it would start selling parts and tools directly to consumers and offer repair guides was a huge surprise and a move immediately hailed as a victory by right-to-repair activists…
Nathan Proctor, a senior Right to Repair campaign director at Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), told Engadget in an email exchange that he thinks "combined pressure from consumers, regulators and shareholders has shifted Apple's thinking."
Read also:Apple's New Program Will Let You Repair iPhones and Macs Yourself
Photo of the Week
Embed from Getty Images School Kids in Glass Cubicles in the Philippines
After almost two years of the COVID-19 shutdown, the Philippines resumed limited face-to-face classes in 100 schools across the country this week on November 15. The Philippines is the last country in the world to reopen schools.
Quiz of the Week
1.) A tilted horizon is called the
a.) French angle
b.) Kodak angle as the original Brownie was difficult to level
c.) Dutch angle
2.) Nikon made an F-mount 1000mm f/6.3 lens circa 1959. This lens was relatively short in length for its large focal length and the design was called
a.) Catadioptric lens (CAT)
b.) Reflex lens
c.) Mirror lens
3.) In the Sunny 16 rule which was popular before light meters were built into film cameras, the aperture was set to f/16 on a sunny day. How was the shutter speed selected?
Answers
1.) (c.) Dutch angle
2.) All three are correct and mean the same thing for the Nikon 1000mm f/6.3
3.) It was the reciprocal of the ISO film speed, i.e., 100 ISO would be 1/100 sec. (or 1/125 sec) and 400 ISO would be 1/400 sec. (or 1/500 sec)
Why I Like This Photo –Josh Edelson
Lt. Ryan Chamberlain (below) and CDR Frank Weisser (above) fly U.S. Navy Blue Angels numbers 5 and 6 over San Francisco, California as part of a practice run for Fleet Week on October 06, 2016. © Josh Edelson
While on assignment for Agence France-Presse (AFP), I had coordinated to photograph the Blue Angels from the air during their annual Fleet Week event over San Francisco, California. But it didn't just happen by luck.
To get this photo, I arranged to fly in a chase plane with the door taken off. I was strapped in so I wouldn't fall to certain death in the San Francisco Bay below. I shot with my Nikon D5 and used my wide angle 24-70mm F/2.8 lens because these Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet jets were actually only about 30 feet away from me.
Capturing these monsters of war thousands of feet up in the sky, with the San Francisco skyline in the background all while the pilot is looking directly at me, is an incredibly rare and well-orchestrated confluence of circumstances. That's what I love about this photo – that you can't just go out and make this image yourself without coordinating with dozens of people and organizations.
It's actually a trickier shot to get than it may seem. The plane I was in wasn't fast enough to keep up with the Blue Angels, so we had to start at a high altitude and enter into a gigantic downward spiral to get the chase plane fast enough to match the minimum speed of the Blue Angels while maintaining a significant bank. While in this maneuver, we only had about two full rotations around the city before reaching our floor altitude, giving us only a few chances to get everything lined up.
I also needed to coordinate with the fighter pilots as well as my own to try to create separation between the planes. If the wings or any other parts of the jets overlapped, it would ruin the shot - so I'd be telling the pilots to speed up, slow down, go higher, or go lower than their wingman or us. Even the slightest adjustment on the pilot's part would alter the separation, which could make or break the photo. All that, and I still needed to line it up with the ideal cityscape background.
I also had to keep my camera inside the plane. Reaching even slightly outside would subject my camera to winds of 130mph+, making it impossible to hold onto. It's also so loud and erratic in the chase plane, you can't hear or feel your shutter firing, so you just fire away and hope for the best. I shot at about 32mm. Any wider, and I'd be seeing my chase plane's wings which kills the composition.
Shooting the Blue Angels from the sky is probably one of the most exciting shoots I've done. Not just because it's exciting to look at, but because it was just as fun of an experience as you might imagine! And if you've ever wondered whether or not these planes are actually super close together or if it's just an illusion, let this photo provide proof that they are indeed flying $56 million jets only a few feet apart at hundreds of miles per hour!
Josh Edelson is an internationally published freelance photojournalist and commercial photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Photojournalism takes up 25% of his time, and the rest goes to corporate events and headshots. His client list includes Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, The Governments of Dubai and Ireland. The most interesting thing he has done-proposed to his wife last year while skydiving in Spain! Recent News Work: via Getty
Quote of the Week -- Peter Lindberg
Naomi Campbell, Ibiza, 2000 © Peter Lindbergh.
The above photo is from Peter Lindbergh. Untold Stories published by Taschen.
People think that it is important to learn by assisting the great photographers. I say that is a big mistake. Be happy; just learn from any little guy. Learn how to use the camera - you don't need anything else. You can't be taught the real skill anyway. -- Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh (1944–2019) was a German fashion photographer who preferred black & white photography. He captured fashion models Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington together for the January 1990 British Vogue cover, beginning an era of supermodels. He photographed the Pirelli Calendar three times 1996, 2002, and 2017. In 2002 he used actresses for the calendar instead of models for the first time. Germaine Greer described it as "Pirelli's most challenging calendar yet."
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Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos. Middle horizontal (top) "Son of the Stars" © River Claure, courtesy PhotoVogue, Middle horizontal (bottom) Lalhande, 21, with his cigar, in front of a photo studio in Brazzaville © Daniele Tamagni, courtesy PhotoVogue, Blue Angels on extreme left © Josh Edelson.
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Great Reads in Photography: November 14, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
' People Arrived for Work and Got Vaporised': How Kikuji Kawada Captured the Trauma of Hiroshima – The Guardian
The ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall reflected in the Ohta river. © Kikuji Kawada. Image from Chizu (Maquette Edition) (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist, The New York Public Library, and MACK.
Photographer Kikuji Kawada was 25 when he visited Hiroshima in 1958 for the first time. He was drawn to the ruined shell of a once decorative steel-framed building that was still standing despite being severely damaged when America dropped the first atomic bomb on the city at 8.15 am on 6 August 1945, obliterating everything else within a mile radius.
© Kikuji Kawada. Image from Chizu (Maquette Edition) (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist, The New York Public Library, and MACK.
"Haunted by what he had seen, Kawada later returned to Hiroshima with a large format 4×5 plate camera and, using only the natural light coming through the shattered dome overhead, photographed the eerie shapes on what is now known as the Genbaku (A-Bomb) Dome, a memorial to the victims of the bombing," writes The Guardian. "The 'stain' photographs , as they have come to be known, are the emotional and conceptual dark heart of Kawada's book, Chizu (The Map), which was first published in an edition of 500 in 1965.
"It is," says the British photographer Martin Parr, "the holy grail of Japanese photobooks.
"When the place was destroyed," he told Aperture magazine in 2015, "there were about 30 people (who) had arrived for work and ended up vaporized."
Everyday objects … Coca-Cola bottles embedded in the ground. © Kikuji Kawada. Image from Chizu (Maquette Edition) (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist, The New York Public Library, and MACK.
Kawada's Chizu took five years to create and has resold for up to £25,000 (~$33,500) a copy. Now a new edition revisits his personal archeology of a nation's pain.
Chizu (Maquette Edition) is published by Mack.
Also, Kikuji Kawada on the Traumas of History and the Skies above Japan -- Aperture
The Stories Behind 5 of David Hume Kennerly 's Iconic Images – Digital Photo Pro
Embed from Getty ImagesPulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and Canon Explorer of Light David Hume Kennerly shares the stories behind five of his powerful photos.
Kennerly writes in DPP :
The Hug (above) was taken at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016 when First Lady Michelle Obama hugged former President George W. Bush.
I immediately knew that the embrace was important. If I had taken it a fraction of a second before, after, or standing a foot in either direction, I would have missed the moment. Another key element was Bush having his eyes closed for that magic instant, and it helped make the photo something special. The picture went viral as soon as I posted it online…
Here you see an African American woman hugging a white man. A Democrat hugging a Republican…
This image is the non-political and bi-partisan manifestation of people of all colors, sizes, shapes, and political parties getting together to celebrate the opening of the NMAAHC…I made this frame with the Canon EOS 5DS R using the Canon EF 100-400mm lens at 400mm.
Also, on Kennerly 's blog Uncropped: The Story Behind "The Hug" Photo
**Announcing the Winners of the 2021 PhotoBook Awards **- - Aperture
Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation have announced the 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards winners. From the thirty-five shortlisted, a final jury in Paris selected this year's winners.
8 Wedding Photography Trends That Will Come into Focus in 2022 -- Vogue
Wedding clients are no longer interested in the overly formal photos of the past and campy studio shots that were preferred in the '80s. Today's couples are more interested in bridal imagery that's thoughtfully composed and authentic.
Click on the link above to discover what wedding photographers will be capturing as we head into 2022, from portrait styles and lighting to popular props and color schemes.
Forced From Home: the Humans and Animals Under Threat – in Pictures – The Guardian
James and Fatu, Kenya, 2020 © Nick Brandt 2021
Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat.
The Making of The Day May Break © Nick Brandt 2021
Brandt writes in the introduction:
The animals there are almost all long-term rescues because of everything from poaching of their parents, to habitat destruction, to poisoning.
These animals can never be released back into the wild, as they would not survive. With their lives now spent within the sanctuaries, they have become habituated to humans. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to the animals, photographed, crucially, in the same frame at the same time.
The fog [which was created by water-based non-toxic fog machines on location] is the unifying visual, symbolically causing a once-recognizable world to fade from view…
I'm stating the obvious, but it needs to keep being repeated: that in destroying nature, we will also ultimately destroy ourselves. A healthy natural world is essential for the well-being of all humanity.
Richard and Sky, Zimbabwe, 2020 © Nick Brandt 2021
The Day May Break by Nick Brandt is published by Hatje Cantz
The Surprising True Story of Kodak Aerochrome and Photographer Richard Mosse 's Images and Film of the Congolese War
Read also:
****The Enclave: A Powerful Documentary on The Congo Shot Entirely on Infrared Film
****Unique Photos of Eastern Congo Made Using Infrared Film
Picasso, Afghanistan and Me: the Wild Adventures of Fred Baldwin – in Pictures – The Guardian
A car being decorated for a Knights of the KKK meeting. Baldwin recalls: “Driving through rural Georgia in 1966, I found, to my amazement, cars being decorated to go to a Knights of the Ku Klux Klan meeting. I stopped, overcame my fear, and got permission to follow them to the meeting and a cross rising on the steps of the County Courthouse in Reidsville, Georgia, where I completed the photography that night.” © Fred Baldwin, photo courtesy Schilt Publishing.
"At 90, photographer Fred Baldwin still has 'so much work left to do'," writes James Estrin in The New York Times.
Fred Baldwin (b 1928), the celebrated American photographer and co-founder of FotoFest (Houston), took a turn in the direction of the extraordinary when during his last year of college in 1955, he decided to photograph Pablo Picasso. After a three-day siege outside Picasso's house in Cannes, France, the artist finally opened the door to Baldwin, who was allowed to take pictures freely in his studio.
Baldwin (center) with Pablo Picasso, at the painter's home in Cannes, July 1955. "I was a college student. He was my imaginary father. I delivered an illustrated letter to his doorstep in Cannes explaining why I had to see him…I spent the day with him. It changed my life. After this experience, I felt that I could do anything I set out to do."
After graduating from college, he would spend the next 20 years making remarkable picture stories about people and places, taking him to extreme adventure, and at times, great personal risk. His camera would become his passport to the world and provide the material and inspiration for Dear Mr. Picasso: An Illustrated Love Affair with Freedom, from Schilt Publishing, Netherlands.
The Klan work was a complete accident. He was setting out to try to do his first documentary project by photographing a tobacco auction in rural Georgia. However, he never got there because, on the way, he found a line of cars parked on the side of the highway being decorated with KKK slogans.
How to Use Diagonal Lines in Photography -- ShotKit
You've probably heard that a diagonal line can give a sense of action or lead the viewer to different points in the image – while this is true, it's not always easy to implement this rule.
1.) Avoid connecting opposite corners
2.) Create depth with diagonal lines
3.) Use the Dutch angle
Check out the above link for eight more tips and full details.
**These Photos Show the Timeless Appeal of Travel And Tourism **-- BuzzFeed
Tourists at cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Aug.1939, from 35 mm nitrate negative, photo by Russell Lee (1903-1986), Library of Congress.
Under lockdown, travel photography fueled our jealousy, longing, and admiration. For travelers back in the 1800s, photographs were important in another way: "You might have gone to that place, but you couldn't take a picture of it, so you buy one to show people back home," said Jamie Allen, an associate curator at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, to BuzzFeed.
**The Photo-Lab to Close After 107 Years in Downtown Schenectady, NY **– Daily Gazette
**Using a Teleconverter in Lunar Photography **-- Space
Embed from Getty Images"All budding astrophotographers should consider using teleconverters in their camera set-up," recommends photographer Jason Parnell-Brookes in the article above.
How Architecture Depends on Photography
Stewart Hicks, an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses the work of famous architectural photographers.
___19 Awesome Books on the Long History of Photography _– My Modern Met
Photo from A History of Photography. From 1839 to the Present published by Taschen
Check out this curated list of 20 titles that walk you through a photographic tour from daguerreotype to digital.
Joke of the Week
The old lady was walking to her local grocery store when she spots a youngster walking her dog.
"That's a cute puppy," she compliments the 12-year-old.
"That's nothing," says the young lady, "let me show you his photo on my iPhone."
Photo of the Week
Embed from Getty ImagesRusty wipes out during the annual Surf City Surf Dog event at Huntington Beach, California.
Quiz of the Week
1.) Which are the first and only two professional mirrorless cameras to have an integrated grip for vertical shooting.
2.) Which camera has a built-in flash trigger for firing Profoto flashes?
3.) For photos created in the United States, the copyright generally expires
a.) With the death of the person
b.) 70 years after the death
c.) It never expires, provided it is created after 1925 and registered with the US Copyright Office only during the lifetime of the photographer
d) 25 years after death for unregistered works
Answers
1.) Nikon Z9 and Canon EOS R3
2.) PhaseOne. Nikon has announced a partnership with lighting brands Nissin and Profoto, but no technical details are currently available.
3.) (b.) 70 years after the death.
Why I Like This Photo -- Steve Jessmore
Fish Flip. Great Blue Heron successful at Arcadia Marsh in northern Michigan, 8/2021 © Steve Jessmore Photography
I came across this Great Blue Heron while walking on a boardwalk at Arcadia Marsh in northern Michigan. It was a midsummer afternoon in August of 2021. We had had a long day of travel, getting up before sunrise, and it was now 9 hours later. I watched the bird through my Sony a1 and Sony FE 600mm f4 GM OSS plus 1.4 converter, giving me a focal length of 840 mm. Patience paid off, and it wasn't 20-minutes later that it grabbed and flipped back and swallowed this fish.
My favorite wildlife photos tell stories and show behavior. I love this photo because of the moment and the story. The tight crop emphasizes a graphic composition with the s-curve neck and the beak. The circle of life contest between the hungry predator and prey freezes the moment of the fish perfectly centered as it is flipped in midair between the beak and swallowed whole. The gaze of both bird and fish makes the photo for me. One can see the almost "sad" look on the fish's face as if it realizes the inevitable.
There's an old saying about "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." My thought is to work with what you see and not go looking for something else you may find. Wait for something special to happen. I know a lot of photographers that I've shot with who just get a couple of shots quickly of whatever we come across and don't stop to try to tell a story. I love moments that give an insight into their behavior and life's pursuits.
Steve Jessmore is a five-time Michigan Press Photographer Association, Photographer of the Year. Jessmore left newspapers in 2013 for a new challenge-to be the photographer/photo editor for Central Michigan University. He is currently a freelance photographer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, using his 30-years of experience and focusing on storytelling, collaboration, branding and community journalism.
**Quote of the Week -- **Nick Brandt
Harriet and People in Fog, Zimbabwe, 2020 © Nick Brandt 2021
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.* -- Nick Brandt ****
Nick Brandt (b. 1964) is an English photographer. Brandt's work generally focuses on the rapidly disappearing natural world because of environmental destruction, climate change and man's actions. While directing Earth Song, a music video for Michael Jackson in Tanzania in 1995, Brandt fell in love with the animals and land of East Africa.
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Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos, car in Reidsville, GA, Fred Baldwin, photo courtesy Schilt Publishing, A History of Photography From 1839 to the Present published by Taschen and tourists at cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park from Library of Congress.
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Great Reads in Photography: November 7, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Canon Explorer of Light Rick Sammon talks about the Canon EOS R3 – Phil Mistry
I suggest selecting your "keepers" from a wildlife shoot based on two main factors: 1) gesture – the position of the wings, body and head, and 2) the sharpness and illumination of the eyes. If the eyes are not well lit and in focus, you (and I) have missed the shot (in most cases). © Rick Sammon
Rick Sammon has been photographing for 40 years.
"I'm an A-to-Z type of photographer," Sammon says. "I do it all – and I enjoy the freedom of not specializing."
Sammon, a Canon Explorer of Light, has photographed in 100 countries and been published in 42 books. He started as an underwater photographer leading scuba diving expeditions to the seven seas. He then easily transitioned into travel, landscape, wildlife, cultural and nature photography.
The true test of how well Animal Tracking works is when you try to photograph a fast-moving subject coming directly at you. The R3 passes the test with flying colors . . . and flying feathers in this case! © Rick Sammon
The 5-Minute Sunday Interview
Phil Mistry: How long have you been shooting with the Canon R3?
Rick Sammon: I have been photographing (more like testing at home for my travel workshops and tours) with the Canon EOS R3 for about three weeks, using the Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM lens for my wildlife photography.
PM: What is one thing that you like the most about the R3?
RS: Asking about the "one" thing I like about the camera is kinda like asking a parent, "Who is your favorite child?" So, to answer that question, I'd say I like the combination of super-fast auto focus (with subject detection, especially animals) and the super-high frame rate – which helps me capture very subtle differences in gestures in my wildlife photographs.
Separation (especially the heads and eyes) is the key when photographing multiple birds in flight. Photographing with a camera with a frame rate of up to 30 frames per second can help photographers accomplish that goal. © Rick Sammon
PM: Does the 24 MP sensor allow you to crop as you could do with your other cameras?
RS: Yes! Because I always try to get it right in camera, photographing at the lowest possible ISO for the cleanest possible shot.
PM: When Canon makes the R1 (or whatever they call the top-level camera), what three features would you like to have which are not there in the R3?
RS: At this point, for my type of wildlife photography, I think the R3 is ideal.
When it comes to birds in flight (BIF) photography, it's usually wings up, or wings down that makes a good shot. This composite of the same seagull, photographed with the R3 and RF100-500 lens, illustrates that photo philosophy. © Rick Sammon
PM: Is eye control useful for all photographers?
RS: I think the Eye-Control is useful for photographers who photograph busy scenes, such as a baseball batter running between second and third base, with the pitcher in the foreground and outfielder in the background. It is also useful when photographing different types of birds flying over a field or pond – and you want one shot of a particular bird.
PM: Any other thoughts?
RS: I think the feel of a camera is important, just as the feel of a guitar [Sammon is a guitar teacher] is important. Easy-to-access controls are also important, especially when exposure and focus decisions need to be made in a split second. The R3 offers both . . . not to mention offering an amazing viewfinder.
Read also: ** Looking vs. Seeing as a Photographer**
The One Shot That Changed Everything – in Pictures – The Guardian
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Can a photograph change your life? Multiple photographers pick the image that cast a spell on them – and made them reconsider their own way of doing things.
Candid stories, presented alongside their chosen photographs, give unparalleled insights into the creative influences of contributors, including: Alec Soth, Don McCullin, Alex Prager, David Bailey, Duane Michals, Gregory Crewdson, Jack Davison, Joy Gregory, Mari Mahr, Megan Winstone, Nan Goldin, Takashi Arai, Valerie Sadoun, Zhang Kechun.
Gillian Laub Explores Her Family 's Political Dramas – The New Yorker
Grandpa helping Grandma out, Mamaroneck, NY 2000. The first photo Laub took of her family that was ever published © Gillian Laub, photo courtesy International Center of Photography
New York-based photographer Gillian Laub's photos of her Jewish-American family saga feel both anguished and hopeful.
"Photographing my family is a way for me to navigate my identity," Laub tells _The New Yorker. "_These are people, my people, who I have felt very much a part of, but also outside of, and I have been navigating that line since the moment I picked up the camera."
In one photograph during the pandemic, Laub shows her parents standing outside a sliding glass door holding a balloon and cake and wishing her a happy birthday in a loving but also frustrating way.
My cousin Jamie with a captive audience, Armonk, NY, 2003. © Gillian Laub, photo courtesy International Center of Photography
Although the photos were captured over two decades, the most recent ones reveal the cracks in the family relationships over different political affiliations.
My quarantine birthday, 2020. © Gillian Laub, photo courtesy International Center of Photography
"The rise of Donald Trump, and her family's support for and even adulation of the man, puzzled and distressed the liberal photographer," writes The New Yorker.
Gillian Laub Family Matters is on at The International Center of Photography till Jan 10, 2022.
Travels With Boji: Istanbul 's Commuter Dog – The Atlantic
Boji, an Istanbul street dog, rides a subway train in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 21, 2021.
From The Atlantic :
Boji, a street dog living in Istanbul, Turkey, has become a popular sight on the city's subways, ferries, trams, and buses. Chris McGrath, a photographer with Getty Images, recently joined Boji as he made his rounds, during which he can travel as much as 30 kilometers [19 miles] a day. "Since noticing the dog's movements," McGrath says, "Istanbul Municipality officials began tracking his commutes via a microchip and a phone app. Most days, he will pass through at least 29 metro stations and take at least two ferry rides. He has learned how and where to get on and off the trains and ferries."
One of the World 's Leading Nature Photographers Hopes to Reconnect Readers to the Wild World Around Them – Daily Mail
Panzer division, Kenya. To get this wide-angle, low-viewpoint image of a crash of rhinos, I lay motionless in a narrow ditch that was located in the direction they were heading. Their eyesight is quite poor, so they rely on their sense of hearing and smell. When they got really close to checking me out, I used silent mode on my Nikon Z7 to not startle them. Nikon Z7, 24-70/4.0, 1/500 @ f/8.0, ISO 500
Mother: A Tribute to Mother Earth by photographer Marsel van Oosten and published by teNeues features more than 200 striking landscapes and wildlife images.
Eternal adversaries, Japan. On average, the Steller's Sea eagle is the heaviest eagle in the world, at about 5–9 kg (11–20 lb.), and it is one of the largest raptors overall. They mainly feed on fish, but they occasionally prey on red fox and even small domestic dogs. Foxes often try to steal fish from the eagles, and this eagle was chasing it off for that reason. Nikon D500, 200-400/4.0, 1/3200 @ f/5.6, ISO 400.
Mother contains mesmerizing pictures from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Antarctica captured by Oosten over the past 15 years. He hopes that the images in this book will reconnect people to nature, make them realize that Mother Earth desperately needs our protection, and inspire them to take action.
Facebook update, Japan. When a tourist got too close to a macaque to get some close-ups with her iPhone, the macaque snatched it from her hands and started playing with it in the hot spring. At some stage, it held it just like a human. This image has gone viral on the internet, and it is my most-stolen image. First Prize winner in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Nikon D800, 70-200/2.8, 1/250 @ f/7.1, ISO 800 Nightcap, Botswana. After spending a long afternoon in a hide next to a waterhole in the remote eastern corner of Botswana, it was getting too dark to photograph. As I was packing up, a leopard came down to drink, and I quickly got my camera out again. I used a small headlamp and bumped up the ISO to 51,200 to get this shot. Nikon D5, 70-200/2.8, 1/30 @ f/2.8, ISO 51200 © Marsel van Oosten
Photos of '70s Halloween Trick-or-Treaters That Will Melt Your Cold Heart – BuzzFeed
Group of Trick-or-Treaters © Larry Racioppo
Larry Racioppo photographed Halloween in Brooklyn for years, capturing classic costumes from Star Wars characters to the Bride of Frankenstein.
"I could drive a cab two days a week to cover rent ($125 in 1973), and the rest of the time, I practiced photography," Racioppo tells BuzzFeed .
Bride of Frankenstein © Larry Racioppo
He photographed all over Brooklyn but capturing Halloween in his neighborhood was his favorite.
Three boys with tear makeup © Larry Racioppo
Racioppo has donated a collection of about 100 photos to the New York Public Library's photo collection.
Skeleton and ape © Larry Racioppo
These photos are a journey back in time, to The Bionic Woman and Star Wars , before Elsa and Shrek.
A Photographer on The Prowl Captured New York City 's Most Outrageous Halloween Costumes of 2021 —BuzzFeed
Today's Halloween costumes shot by British photographer Adam Powell strike a marked difference from the ones of the '70s at the link one paragraph above.
The Big Picture: Brutal Intimacy on the Streets of Tokyo with Bruce Gilden – The Guardian
Businessman at lunchtime outside JR station, Tokyo, Japan, 1996 © Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos
From The Guardian :
Bruce Gilden, infamous for his up-close, flashgun New York street photography, visited Japan several times in the 1990s. His pictures of Tokyo, collected in a new book, Cherry Blossom, share the brutal intimacy of his Manhattan archive. His camera has always sought out and ambushed characters, hard men, broken souls, desperate women.
Many of his Japanese pictures are in the faces of Yakuza gangsters; one or two make you wonder how he lived to make the prints. Others go in search of people marginalized by Tokyo society: homeless drunks, aging sex workers, teenage biker gangs. The man in this photograph [above] is described as a "businessman at lunchtime," though, reaching into his breast pocket, he seems to carry much of the threat and menace of the more overtly violent of Gilden's subjects.
Cherry Blossom by Bruce Gilden is published by Thames & Hudson
Read also: ** A Chat with Bruce Gilden About Life, Work, and Photography**
Why the Myth That Dark Skin Is Harder to Photograph Persists – Allure
And how three photographers are pushing back against a bias that's existed since film was invented.
"The film chemistry that creates color balance was not originally designed with yellow, brown, and reddish skin tones in mind, and such hues wouldn't even be considered until the 1970s," writes Allure.
Read also: Here 's a Look at How Color Film was Originally Biased Toward White People
Across Time with Photojournalist David Burnett - Sony Alpha Films
David Burnett (b. 1946) is an American magazine photojournalist. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time. He was a member of the Gamma photo agency and co-founded Contact Press Images. American Photo magazine named Burnett one of the 100 Most Important People in Photography. "That made his mom very happy," writes his website.
Looking Back on Helmut Newton 's Legacy in Fashion Photography – Forbes
Embed from Getty ImagesThe German-born fashion photographer Helmut Newton, born 101 years ago, changed photography with his iconoclastic ways.
"He was no fit for British Vogue , but rather found a kinship with the risks that French Vogue was willing to take, at the time," writes Forbes. "Over the course of his 60-year career, Newton disrupted fashion photography from something perfect to elegant anarchy.
" Fact: He created sexually-charged fashion photos in French Vogue in a time when they were risqué."
Do Photographers Have to Learn Video? – Photofocus
© Melissa Moody, 2021
"With new still cameras bringing professional-level video to photographers, it is only a matter of time before people will ask us to make motion pictures," says photographer Kevin Ames in the article above.
Canon started the revolution when they introduced HD video in the 5D Mark II in November of 2008, and still photographers realized that they already have a very useable video camera in their hands.
For the still photographers of today, cinema-quality video is already readily available in the cameras they are using. Resolutions up to 8K and pro codecs are now becoming standard, as are higher frame rates for capturing slow motion. RAW video and Log profiles are also becoming more prevalent in pro still cameras.
Raw Photos of Landfills Show the Extreme Amount of Waste Humans Produce - BuzzFeed
Embed from Getty ImagesIn Kuwait, disposed of tires have been accumulating for about 20 years at this tires' graveyard, threatening the environment and human health due to hazardous components they contain.
Where does all the trash go after you take it to the dumpster? The reality depicted in the images here showcases the current state of waste management and how the items we discard are piling up worldwide.
Embed from Getty ImagesA Venezuelan migrant searches a rubbish dump for clothes for her and her children on the outskirts of Iquique, Chile.
"1,825 pounds of trash per year: That's how much the average American produces, according to statistics by the Environmental Protection Agency," says Buzzfeed. "According to the agency's findings, food and paper top the rankings for types of waste going into landfills."
Photo of the Week
No, Don 't. We're on the Same Side!
Embed from Getty ImagesSpot-billed pelican interact on the banks of an artificial lake in Colombo on September 28, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images)
Quiz of the Week
1.) JPEGmini has released update 3.3 for the image optimization app, which brings a long-requested feature to the software to:
a.) Compress RAW still files
b.) Reduce the size of video files
c.) Reduce the size of audio files
2.) Is it possible for a lens adapter to widen the angle of view of a lens?
3.) Which is the first combined LED light and digital strobe? Hint: It does not have a conventional flash tube but fires the flashes via the LED.
Answers
1.) (b.) Reduce the size of video files. It supports the optimization of H.264(AVC) MP4 and MOV files, and users can expect up to a 50% file size reduction (30% on average, with peaks up to 80%).
2.) Yes. A new Mitakon adapter for Nikon Z widens the angle (by 0.726x) of full-frame lenses on APS-C cameras.
3.) The StellaPro Reflex. It can be used as an off-camera flash controlled remotely by Godox or Elinchrom triggers and fires up to 20 frames per second for extended periods without overheating.
Why I Like This Photo – Meryl Meisler
© Meryl Meisler
I like this photo because it shows a person doing something private in public. A young woman is looking in a handheld mirror to apply face powder while riding a moving NYC subway train. We view the subject from over her left shoulder as her left hand grasps hold of the makeup mirror. In the reflection, we see her right hand applying powder with a cosmetic pad. She looks calmly into the mirror at her reflection, patting her skin while avoiding eye contact with the camera lens. The composition is a series of diagonal and parallel lines accentuated by the slightly off-center circular mirror. The close-up of her hands and face overlaps a young, bearded man wearing ear pods, holding a mobile device, staring off in another direction. A hooded figure crouches on the farthest seat of the train.
There is a warm tone throughout the image. Orange seats and a small orange circle on the signage indicate to a regular subway rider that this is an F train. The woman wears gold-colored accessories -- a wristband, hoop earring, mirror, and handbag with gold metal details. The man with the earbuds has a warm orange cloth bag, the person in the distance wears a muted green hoodie. The only cool tone color in the composition is the seated figure's blue checked pants. An eerie yet incandescent light reflects throughout the train.
I wasn't carrying a stand-alone camera when I saw this woman but knew it was an image I wanted to capture. I asked if I could take her photograph and post it on my Instagram account because I never saw anyone applying makeup just like that on a train. She replied yes and continued fixing her makeup while I used my iPhone XR using existing light to take this photo on November 21, 2019. I asked if she wanted me to tag her. She replied yes and typed @cocaine_waiitress directly onto my post. I applied the hashtag #onlyinny.
Less than four months later, the world as we know it changed due to the pandemic. Now, everyone is required to wear masks on the NYC subways.
The best camera is the one you have on you.
Meryl Meisler (b.1951 South Bronx, NY) studied with Lisette Model while photographing her hometown and the city around her. After working as a freelance illustrator by day, Meisler frequented and photographed the infamous New York Discos. As a 1978 CETA Artist grant recipient, Meisler created a portfolio of photographs that explored her Jewish Identity for the American Jewish Congress. After CETA, she began a 3-decade career as an NYC Public School Art Teacher. Her latest monograph, New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco is available here.
******Quote of the Week -- **Bruce Gilden
© Bruce Gilden, Japan, 1998 / Magnum Photos
The above photo is from Cherry Blossom by Bruce Gilden, published by Thames & Hudson.
If you can't smell the street, it's not a street photograph. – Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden joined Magnum Photos in 1998. His work has been exhibited widely around the world and is part of many permanent collections such as MoMA, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Contemporary American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has this to say about Gilden: "He's a f**king bully. I despise the work, I despise the attitude, he's an aggressive bully, and all the pictures look alike because he only has one idea— ‘I'm gonna embarrass you, I'm going to humiliate you.' I'm sorry, but no."
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About the author : Phil Mistry is a photographer and teacher based in Atlanta, GA. He started one of the first digital camera classes in New York City at The International Center of Photography in the 90s. He was the director and teacher for Sony/Popular Photography magazine’s Digital Days Workshops. You can reach him via email here.
Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos.
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Great Reads in Photography: October 31, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
The Nikon Z9 's New Sensor Could be the Start of a Big Shift in Photography – The Verge
The Z9 provides blackout-free viewing from its stacked CMOS sensor and one of the fastest readout rates of full-frame cameras. GIF: Nikon
From _The Verge:
_Nikon has made no mention of things like computational photography for HDR-style photos or the cyclical buffering that smartphones do to simultaneously capture up to nine or ten frames and combine them with each press of the shutter button. But the new 45.7-megapixel full-frame backside-illuminated stacked CMOS sensor isn't far off from what has been in phones for years, at least in terms of the core design. This kind of construction uses a sandwiched architecture of sensor, logic board, and dedicated RAM — yielding incredibly fast readout speeds.
Polaroid 's New Camera Is Great for Pros, Bad for Idiots (Like Me) – Gizmodo
Polaroid Now+ courtesy Polaroid
With the new $150 Polaroid Now+, Polaroid has once again tinkered with that time-honored formula to make its famously intuitive camera a little bit more feature-rich, loading it up with new creative tools that boost the camera's core functionality and allow savvy photographers greater remote creative control over the photos they produce. In other words, the camera that was once idiot-proof is now less so, which is great news for seasoned photogs and bad news for me, an idiot. -- Gizmodo
Also, The Polaroid Now+ Takes the Classic Polaroid Camera to a Whole New Level ** -- **CNN Underscored __
A Photographer Captures American Protests — And Iconic Images From Jan. 6 -- BuzzFeed
© Mel D. Cole
Mel D. Cole has spent the last 20 years documenting music, nightlife and more. In April 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, Cole started driving around New York City, documenting the streets. But when George Floyd died after being pinned to the ground by an officer's knee, Cole dedicated the rest of 2020 and beyond to photographing the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country and their ramifications.
The body of work he has produced from the electrifying summer of 2020 and beyond is a powerful outpouring of the hurt, outrage and courage of people compelled to act. Inspired by the black-and-white documentary tradition of the 1960s, Cole seeks to create what he calls "a collective memory" that continues the civil rights movement's legacy.
American Protest: Photographs 2020 – 2021 by Mel D. Cole is published by Damiani.
A Photographer Captured the Art of Bloodless Bullfighting in Texas for Over a Decade – NPR
Karla Santoyo faces a bull in the Santa Maria Bullring on July 2, 2016. © Katie Hayes Luke
Katie Hayes Luke has been photographing the bloodless bullfights at La Querencia ranch in south Texas for the last 13 years.
David Renk attaches flowers to the back of the bulls before a fight on February 13, 2011. To be considered a successful fight, the matador(a) must pull the flower from the bull's back to symbolize a clean kill. © Katie Hayes Luke
In the United States, it is illegal to kill a bull, and therefore the fights are run differently than in Spain, where it is defined as an art form or cultural event.
Matador Cayetano Delgado touches between the shoulders on the bull's back to symbolize the end of the bullfight with a "kill" on January 12, 2020. © Katie Hayes Luke
Intimate Photos of Cindy Sherman Like You've Never Seen Her Before – AnOther
Contact – Cindy Sherman Photography by Jeannette Montgomery Barron
From _AnOther:
_On 31 October 1985, photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron arrived at Cindy Sherman's studio in downtown New York to photograph her as few had seen her before – as she was, unadorned. Gone were the wigs, the theatrical make-up, and the props that Sherman used to transform herself into a vast array of female personas brought to life in her art. In the course of an hour, Baron created 40 black and white portraits of the artist, now brought together in Cindy Sherman: Contact (NJG), a limited edition of 400 books and 20 portfolios.
"She seemed very comfortable being photographed by me. I hope she was," says Jeannette Montgomery Barron, remembering the fateful encounter with the artist on Halloween 1985.
Read also : Cindy Sherman Photograph Sells for $3.8 Million, Setting New Record
A 'Time Capsule' of Lost Photographs of the Black Panthers, Found 50 Years Later – Creative Boom
After his mother passed away in 2018, Jeffrey Henson Scales made a surprising discovery while helping to clear out the family home. The photographer and photo editor for the New York Times found 40 rolls of film, which included forgotten images of the Black Panther Party and its founding members.
"I hadn't seen them since the 1960s and was struck by not only my origin story as a photographer but also the new urgency these images and the civil rights movement takes on in the context of today's ongoing struggle for racial justice," Scales tells Creative Boom.
Also, ** How a Surprise Discovery of Photographs From the 1960s Meets the Moment** – The New York Times (Subscription required)
National Geographic: 50 Greatest Wildlife Photographs ****_– ArtfixDaily
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Christian Ziegler © A cassowary peers through the foliage in northeast Queensland, Australia, courtesy National Geographic: 50 Greatest Wildlife Photographs
The new National Geographic exhibition, National Geographic: 50 Greatest Wildlife Photographs, displays the very best wildlife pictures from the pages of National Geographic magazine. Curated by renowned nature picture editor Kathy Moran, this exhibition is a celebratory look at wildlife with images taken by National Geographic's most iconic photographers such as Michael "Nick" Nichols, Steve Winter, Paul Nicklen, Beverly Joubert, David Doubilet and more. These images that showcase photography's evolution convey how innovations such as camera traps, remote imaging, and underwater technology have granted photographers access to wildlife in their natural habitat.
Paul Nicklen © A Kermode bear eats a fish in a moss-draped rain forest, courtesy National Geographic: 50 Greatest Wildlife Photographs
For 130 years, National Geographic has utilized its storytelling expertise to connect its readers to the great outdoors. The organization has pioneered the art of wildlife photography ever since the first image to appear in National Geographic magazine of a reindeer in 1903.
National Geographic: 50 Greatest Wildlife Photographs will remain open at the National Museum of Wildlife Art from Nov 6, 2021 - Apr 24, 2022.
Parents Outraged Over School Picture Day 'Retouch' Trend – New York Post
Sample photos for DEMONSTRATION ONLY and not connected with the reporting in the NYPost. Elements of stock photo licensed via Depositphotos
From _New York Post
_Jennifer Greene doesn't want her 12-year-old daughter, Madeline, to feel pressured into looking picture-perfect.
So, when the Maryland mom opened the seventh-grader's school picture package from photography company Lifetouch and saw it urged parents to lay out an extra $12 for portrait "retouching" services — including teeth whitening, skin-tone evening and blemish removal — she freaked.
"I was shocked," Greene, 43, told The Post.
"I completely disagree with [retouching a child's school picture], because it's teaching kids that they need to look perfect all the time and that they can change [a perceived flaw] with the click of a mouse."
Retouching options on school portraits aren't new — but they're now being offered to students as young as pre-K and are becoming as ubiquitous as face-altering filters on social media, which have triggered a spike in anxiety and depression in teen girls.
Guide to Contemporary Photography -- Shotkit
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_Contemporary photography is a category that encompasses fine art photography created after the late 1960s – when modern photography ended.
If you want to know more about the history of photography, I recommend the books of John Szarkowski. He was the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he was one of the most influential historians, curators and critics.
Contemporary art entails any artwork – whether it's performance, video, sculpture, painting, etc., created in the past few decades up until the present day.
The exact origin is still debated, but most historians consider it at the end of the 1960s or the early 70s. Despite the somewhat precise date range, it refers to the period that follows modernism.
‘ Fill the Frame’ Documentary Explores Social Media 's Influence on Street Photography – Amateur Photographer
A new film, Fill the Frame, by director and keen street photographer Tim Huynh, shows some of the challenges of street photography.
Huynh focuses on the work of eight New York-based amateur street photographers Paul Kessel, Jonathan Higbee, Dimitri Mellos, Mathias Wasik, Melissa O'Shaughnessy, Melissa Breyer, Julia Gillard and Lauren Welles.
"I'm seeing the fine art street photography approach (Saul Leiter's work, for example) gaining more popularity than the Garry Winogrand traditional style of street photography… where the images will predominantly combine deep dark shadows, vibrant colors and architecture, and where the photographer is further back from the subject," Huynh tells Amateur Photographer.
"Anyone looking to always find the glory shot will be sorely disappointed. If you do street to receive some kind of glorification, I suggest you rethink your purpose. Just enjoy the fact you have this interest and ability to roam the streets and make art happen, capture that moment that only you saw."
' I Call It Fire Brain': What It's Like to Photograph the West's Biggest Wildfires -- Gizmodo
Embed from Getty ImagesJosh Edelson shot corporate events, headshots and general advertising. Once the pandemic hit, all that work vanished, and news became most of his work.
"I enjoy covering a protest, but where I really feel passionate is covering things related to the climate: floods, fires, and things like that," Edelson tells Gizmodo.
"I don't know if it's a healthy thing, but I feel like the camera, in many ways, is sort of an emotional barrier. I don't often process everything that I experienced until after, like after I leave the fire…
"I'm thinking, where's the fire moving? Am I safe here? Do I have an exit? Are the power lines above? Are there any trees that are about to fall? Are there propane tanks nearby? Go to 1/500th of a second, f-stop 4, ISO's too high. Step back; the windows are going to blow out.
"It happens fast. Sometimes a home will catch fire, and in 20 minutes, it's down… Safety is obviously at the top of my mind. Also…staying out of the way of firefighters.
"If I'm photographing a person coming home to a burned home, I always try and get some sort of at least non-verbal confirmation that they acknowledge my presence. I try not to get too close. When people are crying, the last thing they want is a camera right in their face. There's a balancing act between getting solid photos and respecting people's privacy."
**Photoshop 2022: 9 New Features with Pros & Cons! **-- PiXimperfect
2021 has been a year of AI, and with Photoshop 2022 (version 23.0), Adobe has released many features that use machine learning, powered by Adobe Sensei, and claim to make most things automatic.
This video, by PiXimperfect, hosted by Unmesh Dinda, explores what these new features are and whether they are effective or not.
Also, ** Adobe Photoshop 2022 Top New Features in 9 Minutes!** – Photoshop Training Channel
22 Self-Portrait Ideas to Get You Inspired – Digital Photography School
Are you looking for self-portrait ideas so you can create powerful, eye-catching results?
Below are just 3 of 22 ideas on how to improve your self-portrait game.
1.) Experiment with reflection
2.) Experiment with objects in front of the lens
3.) Try framing
Great Read From the Past – 2017
How Did Peter Hurley Become a Photographer? -- Rangefinder
When I was younger, I was training for the Olympics in sailing. Polo wanted real sailors for a campaign they were doing that Bruce Weber was shooting, and I went over and got the job. I didn't know anything about photography at the time or who Bruce was, but from there, I got into modeling, and one day Bruce was like, 'Why don't you pick up a camera?' He was one of the people that really encouraged me. I value that immensely, but I also just love his work. – Peter Hurley in Rangefinder.
_Read also:
_How to Light Headshots: Five Tips from Peter Hurley
5 Quick Headshot Tips in 3 Minutes by Photographer Peter Hurley
Photo of the Week
Embed from Getty ImagesThe winner of the scariest costume category with "Maleficent" celebrates during the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade at East River Park Amphitheater in New York on October 23, 2021. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
**Quiz of the Week
**1.) Can a high-end digital camera function without a mechanical shutter?
2.) Which manufacturer recently released two zoom lenses and claimed they were the lightest in their class?
3.) Is there a Sigma zoom lens that costs over $25,000? Hint: It weighs 35 lbs. and needs a battery to work.
**Answers
**1.) Yes, the new Nikon Z9 does.
2.) Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S at 1,355 g and Nikkor Z 24-120mm f/4 Sat 630 g.
3.) Yes, the Sigma APO 200-500mm f/2.8 with 2x Teleconverter. Sigma first showed this lens at PMA in Jan 2008 in Las Vegas. It is still in production but is a special-order item at Adorama.
Why I Like This Photo – Cameron Dever
© Cameron Dever
I like this photo because not only is it compositionally interesting and beautiful, but also it symbolizes love and connection and what it's like to be in a relationship. It was a completely experimental shot too, so it became more than what it was originally intended to be when it came out like this. It became more symbolic than just a regular photo of a couple.
I think it's very important to know how to compose an image and work with light of all kinds, composition, color, and all of the technical aspects of photography. When you do that, your voice and instincts as an artist kick in, and you really make some magical, unique images. That's what happened with this photo for me. I decided to play with motion blur and turn the camera as I shot. Simple, but it created something amazing.
I shoot on a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV for all of my digital images. For film, I mainly shoot on a Canon EOS Rebel 2000 and various other film cameras I pick up at thrift stores. All my images are currently shot on a 35mm lens. I'm not big into artificial lighting other than the flash I stick on my cameras. So that's the only artificial light I use for my photography.
This photo was taken in 2020, and it was during an engagement session. Like I said previously, it was a complete experiment, and I just hoped it came out when I took it. It was a pleasant surprise.
One of the biggest pieces of advice I like to share is just to take photographs as much as possible. And experiment with different things when you do. Both of those things help you find your voice, and when you find your voice in your art is when you become a valuable, unique artist. I highly recommend reading Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist, which covers what I just said and so much more.
Cameron Dever, a wedding and commercial photographer, was born in Mesa, Arizona. The desert was home for 19 years until she moved to Utah. She received her first camera for Christmas when she was 15 years old and has been photographing ever since. Dever _did a year and a half at ASU with a business entrepreneurship degree but quickly realized that photography always was and will be her passion and ultimately graduated from BYU with a photography degree. She was married last summer to her husband Nathan and now lives in a little vintage apartment with their cat noodle. She enjoys thrifting, traveling, rock climbing, hiking, and trying new Thai food places when she 's not taking photos. _
Quote of the Week – Chris Johns
A giraffe walking in a misty forest in the Ndumu Game Reserve. © Chris Johns
The above photo is from National Geographic: 50 Greatest Wildlife Photographs at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, from Nov 6, 2021 - Apr 24, 2022.
Today, taking a photograph is easier than it has ever been, but that does not mean just anyone can create a powerful body of work that informs and emotionally touches people.* – Chris Johns
- Griz Chat with former National Geographic Editor Chris Johns, April 2020
Chris Johns (b. 1951) is a photographer and former editor-in-chief for National Geographic Magazine from 2005-2014. He spent many years in Africa for the magazine and is the first photographer to have been named its editor-in-chief. Johns is the former distinguished professor at the Univ. of Montana and taught a course in conservation journalism, examining the powerful impact visual storytelling has had in the conservation movement.
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About the author : Phil Mistry is a photographer and teacher based in Atlanta, GA. He started one of the first digital camera classes in New York City at The International Center of Photography in the 90s. He was the director and teacher for Sony/Popular Photography magazine’s Digital Days Workshops. You can reach him via email here.
Image credits: All photographs as credited and used with permission from the photographers or agencies. Portions of header photo via Depositphotos.
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Great Reads in Photography: October 24, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Art Wolfe on his Approach to Night Photography _– Amateur Photographer
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Leopard (Panthera pardus) in thorn tree (Vachellia sp.), Chobe National Park, Ngamiland, Botswana. The gnarled branches of an ancient thorn tree play host to a resting leopard. Canon EOS 5D, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens, f/5.6 for 1/500 second, ISO 400 © Art Wolfe
Art Wolfe, who just turned 70, has been capturing wildlife, landscapes and people for nearly half a century. Earlier before the arrival of COVID-19, he was out of the house for more than nine months every year.
His latest book, Night on Earth , is a wide-ranging collection of travel images made in the hours between dusk and dawn and taken in various locations worldwide, including Alaska, Namibia, Malaysia, India and the Galapagos Islands.
Golden Gate Bridge photographed from Marin County headlands looking south to San Francisco, California. Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, EF24-70mm f/4L IS USM lens, f/14 for 8 seconds, ISO 1000 © Art Wolfe
"I love it," he tells Amateur Photographer. "The whole technology of the mirrorless camera permits much smaller lenses.
"For instance, when I was in Kenya earlier this year, I was handholding an RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 lens and very easily capturing animals on the [Canon EOS R5.] Then I could add a 1.4x extender, and suddenly I have a 700mm lens that's very easy to hold. I'm not a gym queen, so handholding and shooting animals without a tripod really makes capturing the ephemeral moment so much easier.
"Historically, if I'd wanted to shoot a night-time shot that includes the stars, they would all be star trails…With film, you could never take a fast enough shutter speed to show the stars were just pinpoints of light…Today, with high ISOs, I have been able to shoot amazingly detailed images of the Milky Way as part of night-time landscapes."
Full moon at dawn over tufa fairy chimneys, Cappadocia, Turkey. Canon EOS-3, EF17-35mm lens, f/11 for 1/30 second, Fujichrome Provia film © Art Wolfe
Read also: Building a Photo Brand From the Ground Up: Tips from Art Wolfe
The Images That Tell the True Story of the War in Afghanistan – Columbia Journalism Review
From CJR
Images from Afghanistan have always revealed the truth behind the notion that the American war was on solid footing. We may have been told, since it first began shortly after September 11, 2001, that significant progress was just around the bend. But the pictures showed something else.
There are few pictures in this article from the second decade of the war. By October 2015, with the ground war largely replaced by airpower, the conflict barely registered in the US. The American accidental bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières Trauma Center in Kunduz might have been overlooked too if photographer Andrew Quilty hadn't been there to document the horror and "the man on the operating table."
**A Photographer Captured NYC's Most Glamorous Dogs Picnicking in Central Park and Sunbathing on Top of Skyscrapers **-- Insider
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In his latest series, photographer Gray Malin took some of the city's cutest models and photographed them in some of its most famous locations. The result? An adorable, fun-loving collection of doggone glitz.
"Shooting in Manhattan can be notoriously difficult, but Malin was able to finagle permission to shoot at must-see locations like Rockefeller Center and The Plaza Hotel in addition to Bergdorf's and Central Park," writes Travel + Leisure.
You can see Malin's new series and his other work on his website.
Trove of Unseen Photos Documents Indigenous Culture in 1920s Alaska -- Smithsonian
Diomede Mother and Child
Edward S. Curtis: Unpublished Alaska, the Lost Photographs, at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan features recently discovered photos taken during the photographer's 1927 voyage to Alaska, displayed alongside notes from his personal journals.
Edward Curtis and daughter Beth in a kayak
Per a statement, Curtis was a photographer and ethnologist who documented the lives of Indigenous peoples in America's Southwest, West and Northwest during the early 20th century.
Four Happy Nunivak Women Ju-kuls (Lena Wesley), Nunivak
Native News Online points out that Curtis often tried to depict Indigenous people as they were 200 to 300 years before European colonization. He removed objects like clocks and modern vehicles from his snapshots, staged ceremonies and dances, and dressed his subjects in outfits they wouldn't typically wear.
All photos courtesy of Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan.
**How Can You be a Colorblind Photographer? **– Photofocus
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"Why does that dog look green?" asked a young man of his parents.
That comment led to his parents discovering that their child was red-green colorblind. Years later, Ken Lee is now a colorblind night photographer.
Lee has one book published with two more on the way. His images have appeared in National Geographic Books, Omni magazine, Los Angeles Times , Westways magazine and numerous other publications.
10 Lessons from the Masters of Portrait Photography
English portrait photographer Alex Kilbee shares ten lessons learnt from master portrait photographers:
Martin Schoeller
Yousuf Karsh
Robert Mapplethorpe
Richard Avedon
Dan Winters
Arnold Newman
Nadar
Andy Gotts
Bill Brandt
**How to Make Your Own Photo Book **– Amateur Photographer
Creating a photo book can feel like tackling a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle in your head. To ease the strain, Tracy Calder asked three book-loving professionals to spill the beans about costs, collaboration, and content when making your own photo book.
**USB-C Cables are Getting New, Confusing Logos for Faster 240W Charging Standard **– The Verge
Also,Report Says MacBook Pro USB-C Ports Don't Support Fast Charging
**Film on the Life of Model-Turned-WWII Photographer Lee Miller **– Deadline
War correspondent, U.S. Army Official Photograph, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lee Miller traded a glamorous career as a Vogue cover model and muse to artists like Man Ray for a dangerous career as an American WWII photographer. She chronicled the fighting on the allied front lines and exposed the atrocities that Hitler's Nazi Germany perpetrated on Jews in concentration camps.
"I'm surprised that a film has never been made about this incredible woman …," actor Kate Winslet who plays Miller in the film Lee, told Deadline. "She has been misunderstood and so often viewed through the lens of a man, through a male gaze, because she started her life as a model and was very beautiful.
"When you mention Lee Miller, you might first hear Man Ray…What she did, as a female photographer on the front lines during WWII, so much of what was documented was not just giving a voice to the voiceless, but it was educating people on what actually happened during the war…You have to remember, people were trying to cover it up…British Vogue would not print Lee's photos of the liberation of Dachau because … they were told that by the Ministry of Information that it was not what the country needed at that time…"
**Bullfighting Is Still Happening. These Photos Show Why It Shouldn't Be **– Feature Shoot
Bullfighting. Corrida in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, Depositphotos
**The Week in 37 photos **-- CNN
Embed from Getty Images96-year-old defendant Irmgard F., a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, sits in a wheelchair as she is led into the courtroom at the start of her trial in Itzehoe, northern Germany, on October 19, 2021. - The first woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades, Irmgard F. is charged with complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland. However, an arrest warrant was issued by the court in the northern town of Itzehoe after Furchner left the retirement home where she lives on September 30, 2021, as her trial was set to begin and headed to a metro station. (Photo by Christian Charisius / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Embed from Getty Images Minamata is a new movie focusing on the industrial poisoning of Japanese fishing communities in Minamata, Japan. It depicts the courageous work by acclaimed photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith (played by Johnny Depp) and his wife Aileen Mioko Smith to expose this crime before a global audience during the early 1970s.
MGM purchased the distribution rights to the film for North America but has not screened it in the US. Amazon, which has struck a deal to acquire MGM for $8.5 billion, has not given any indication when it will be released.
"In July, director Andrew Levitas issued an open letter revealing that he had been told by MGM's acquisitions head Sam Wollman that the company was 'burying' Minamata over concerns that 'the personal issues of Johnny Depp,' could reflect negatively on MGM," as reported by WSWS.
**Photographer Jamel Shabazz on Life in 1980s NYC and Using His Camera to Connect With His Community **– My Modern Met
Photographer Jamel Shabazz picked up his first camera at age fifteen and started to document his peers. He has been photographing New York and its hip-hop culture for decades. In 2018 he received the Gordon Parks Foundation Award for documentary photography.
****How Photos from the Battle of Antietam Revealed the American Civil War's Horrors -- History
The "Sunken Road" at Antietam, stereograph showing dead Confederate soldiers in a ditch on the battlefield at Antietam, MD., Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer. Photo from Library of Congress.
The Battle of Antietam was a battle of the American Civil War where American war dead were photographed for the first time. 22,700 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in the battle, which was fought outside the small, western Maryland town of Sharpsburg.
"Mr. [Mathew] Brady [photographer] has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war," The New York Times of Oct 20, 1862, reported. "If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it."
The photographer who captured The Dead of Antietam was Alexander Gardner, a Scottish immigrant who managed Brady's Washington gallery. Gardner has been reported to have rearranged bodies. Gardner's interest in photography started when in 1851 while visiting The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London, he saw Brady's photographs.
Gardner and Brady's main objective was to sell photos. Sales were good with civil war stereographs and Album Gallery Cards selling for 50 cents ($10.67 in 2020 dollars) each during the war. Scenic stereographs of Niagara Falls would sell for only 25 cents each.
Great Read From the Past – 2014 ****
**How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter **– All That 's Interesting
Warning: Some photos in this article are graphic.
When this photograph capturing the suffering of the Sudanese famine was published in The New York Times on March 26, 1993, the reader reaction was intense and not all positive.
Some people said that Kevin Carter, the photojournalist who took this photo, was inhumane, that he should have dropped his camera to run to the little girl's aid. The controversy only grew when, a few months later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the photo. By the end of July 1994, he was dead.
Read also:The Ethics of Photojournalism
Photo of the Week
Quiz of the Week
1.) Photographer Diane Arbus received an obituary in _The New York Times
_a.) 2 weeks after her death
b.) 46 years after her death
c.) 8 months after her death
d.) She has never received an obituary
2.) Sony unveiled a new flash HVL-F60RM2 capable of firing up to 10 frames per second for 200 consecutive flashes. Impressive! At what power setting is this possible?
3.) Eastman Kodak shipped more than 1.5 million Brownies in the first year of production. What did it cost in 1900 when it was released?
**Answers
**1.) (b.) 46 years after her death. Reason per NYT : "OVERLOOKED. Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. Now, we're adding the stories of other remarkable people."
2.) 1/32 flash output level, Ni-MH batteries using the mechanical shutter
3.) $1 (equivalent to $32.66 in today’s dollars)
Why I Like This Photo -- Amit Eshel
© Amit Eshel
I like this image for the emotion it conveys in the bear's look, the seagull in the background, and the way the pastel colors blend beautifully and create an optimistic feeling despite the melancholy mood.
I shot it in Katmai National Park in Alaska in early October 2020 at the peak of the fall colors and was overwhelmed by the diversity and beauty of the remote environment.
Knowing the story of this bear cub connects me even more to emotion. She was born to an old mother estimated to be around 25 years old. This cub had no other brothers or sisters to play with. All this cub wanted was to play with other cubs, and with many salmon available in the river this year, many bear families have come in close contact near the river mouth. The cub expressed curiosity towards other bear families and sometimes was able to play with cubs from other litters. Mother bears are very protective about their own cubs and usually do not allow them to play with other females' cubs.
In early September, she encountered a porcupine and has since suffered from quills stuck in the bottom of a front paw. She was hobbled and avoided placing weight on the injured paw for a couple of weeks, and at times the future did not look very promising for her, but I'm happy to tell the cub is well-positioned to recover from the injury caused by the porcupine quills completely. As this cub has shown, the life of a spring cub contains risk as well as moments of joy.
I have taken this shot from the water level perspective using a floating hide. I love shooting from eye level of the subject to create an intimate feeling. The light was so soft, and the colors of the water and the trees in the far background came out so beautiful. I have used my widest aperture to lead the eye to the melancholy look of the bear, and the seagull was just in the right distance to be softly out of focus but still very present in the composition.
It was shot on Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x at 560mm 1/1000, f5.6, ISO 800.
Amit Eshel is an award-winning wildlife photographer and photography tour leader from Israel. Since he was a young child, he has been drawing, and animals have always been a source of inspiration. With a BA in illustration, animation, and graphic design, he combined his love for art and nature to begin a career creating animal-inspired jewelry using photos of wildlife as a tool to capture special moments as models for his designs. Once Eshel fell in love with photography, his life was changed forever.
Quote of the Week -- Cornell Capa
JFK during a campaign event. New York City, USA. October 19, 1960 © Cornell Capa © International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos, photo courtesy of Magnum
The above photo of Cornell Capa is from On The Horizon: The Magnum Square Print Sale, in Partnership with Aperture of o ver 80 signed or estate-stamped 6×6 " prints available here.
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs.* – Cornell Capa
*From: Cornell Capa: Photographs, Bulfinch Press, 1st ed, 1992.
Cornell Capa (1918–2008) was the founder of the International Center of Photography, NY., in 1974 to champion "concerned photography"—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. In 1954 - after the death of his brother, photojournalist Robert Capa while covering the war in French Indochina - Cornell Capa resigned from the Life staff and joined Magnum, the international cooperative photo agency that Robert had helped to found.
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Great Reads in Photography: October 17, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
The Singular Work of a California Photographer, Unearthed – The New Yorker
Joan Archibald, a Long Island, New York wife and mother of two, was tired of her life as a suburban homemaker in the early 60s. So, she moved to California and, in the era of increasing curiosity of Eastern culture, she changed her name to Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and time.
By the mid-to-late sixties, she began to perfect her photography and even took classes at a junior college. Kali worked by herself and did not share her work publicly. The considerable photography oeuvre that she produced was only rediscovered by her daughter, Susan, in 2016, three years before she died, at the age of eighty-seven.
Flooded with swirling, multilayered psychedelic hues, Kali's portraits, often of wide-eyed young women, can feel like the ultimate distillation of an expansive, naïve and chaotic place and time. -- Len Prince, T: The New York Times Style Magazine
More on Consent -- Conscientious
"A little while ago, there was a discussion on Twitter that centered on a photograph someone had taken of a young woman on the New York subway," writes Jörg M. Colberg . "The woman, a mother of two young children, was wearing a short dress, and she was clearly struggling to deal with her two very active children."
The Pioneering Scots Photographer Who Captured China -- BBC
Two Manchu soldiers with John Thomson, Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871. This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pioneering Scottish photographer John Thomson (b.1837) took some of the earliest pictures of China and the now world-famous Angkor Wat religious monument in Cambodia.
A Pekingese chiropodist. John Thomson. China, c. 1869. The picture is housed in the Wellcome Collection and is on display. The original B&W picture is © Wellcome Trust. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasgow). CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
He traveled to the Far East in 1862 and captured photographs for a decade which form one of the most extensive records of any region taken in the 19th century.
What 's Happening in the Fine Art Photography Market – ArtNet
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what is one worth in dollars?
Although the market for fine art photography has never reached the soaring heights of other contemporary genres, it remains an exciting niche with a consistent crew of all-star artists at the top.
**The Magical Bond Between People and Animals – in Pictures **– The Guardian
Jaden on a trampoline with Chrissy, Animal Tracks, Agua Dulce, CA, 2019 © Sage Sohier
Awesome alpacas, frolicking flamingos, and recuperating ravens … these rescue animals – in Sage Sohier's photographs – have a zest for life and a remarkable willingness to forgive people.
Janice with alpacas, Attleboro, MA, 2016 © Sage Sohier Nancy on the beach with rescued cockatoos and "Baby Blue," Key West, FL, 2014 © Sage Sohier
Peaceable Kingdom The Special Bond between Animals and their Humans is available from Kehrer Verlag.
How Good Is the Canon R3? A Review From a Pro – DigitalPhotoPro
In an interview with Dan Havlik Jeff Cable, gives us the full scoop on the Canon EOS R3, including his early review of its autofocus system, resolving power, and the things he liked and didn't like about the camera. Along with discussing shooting sports with the R3 at the Olympics, Cable addresses how the camera might (or might not) be suitable for wildlife and event photography.
Quotes from the interview:
While I brought two Canon R5s with me to the Olympics as well, I ended up using the R3 98% of the time. I shot with it for almost everything, and even though it was a pre-production model, I had no issues with it.
On the other hand, on a photography trip to Africa after the Olympics, I shot everything on a Canon R5, and it was great to capture wildlife with 45MP and crop where necessary. I shot photos of African fish eagles and did a lot of cropping on them… I also didn't really need the R3's 30fps in Africa.
I appreciated that the R3 has a CFexpress card slot. CFexpress cards are just faster. Faster to download, faster for everything compared to SD. I actually wish the R3 had two CFexpress card slots rather than one CFexpress and one SD.
Greek Photographer, Not a Nurse, Took the Pigeon Photo During a Chance Encounter in Hospital – AFP Fact Check
Facebook posts published here and here in October 2021 include the image of an elderly patient sleeping in a hospital bed with a pigeon perched on top of him.
"It's been 3 days since this patient arrived in hospital for treatment," the captions read. "And in those 3 days, no one in his family came to ask about his well-being (maybe also living alone). But a pigeon comes every day and sits in his bed."
The posts allege that the man used to feed pigeons daily in a park.
World 's Most Dangerous Photography Jobs – ShotKit
- Storm Chasers
- Conflict photojournalism
- Surf Photography
- Deep-Sea & Shark Photography
- Conservation Photography
- Sports & Adventure Photography
Get the details and tips at the link above.
**How To Preserve the Rubber Parts of Cameras& Lenses **– Beyond Photo Tips
When you've had a camera for a while, wear-and-tear comes into play. One of the many things that happen when cameras are stored away for a long time is that the rubber starts to degrade.
While there aren't many ways to recover rubber that is starting to degrade, there are ways to keep the rubber from spoiling too quickly in the first place.
"If the rubber is only just starting to become sticky, you can give it a light dusting of talcum powder to reduce the tackiness," advises Susheel Chandradhas. "Prevention is better than cure, so ensure that you don't let hand lotions, DEET, or sunscreen get on the rubber parts of the camera."
**This Bride Didn't Have a Gown or Photographer on her Wedding Day. A Hospice Caregiver Helped her Redo it, 77 Years Later **– CBS News
Frankie King did not have an extravagant wedding day. It was 1944 — at the height of World War II — when her high school sweetheart, Royce, became her fiancé. But like many young men at the time, Royce joined the military and was moved to a base in another state. Royce returned to Oelwein, Iowa, to marry his bride.
"It's a small town," Sue Bilodeau, their daughter, told CBS. "They only had a couple of days' notice."
So, no time to buy a wedding gown and no photographer either. But all that changed at age 97, thanks to a caring nurse!
Nikon FM3A: Nikon 's Last Manual-Focus SLR at 20 – Amateur Photographer
Nikon's last manual-focus film SLR, Valwit, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
From _Amateur Photographer
_The traditional form-factor of the 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) evolved in the 1950s and was subsequently refined over the next half-century…In the semi-professional range, it seemed likely that the FM2n would be the end of the line for the all-metal, all-manual FM series of SLRs when it appeared in 1983.
It was a surprise to many when Nikon launched the FM3A in the summer of 2001, two years after the D1 digital SLR. With manual focus, all-metal construction, no built-in winder, and a marked absence of liquid crystal displays, it seemed to encompass everything that the SLR manufacturers were trying to leave behind at the time. It looked retro, even old-fashioned, and not a few photographers at the time scratched their heads and wondered who and what the enigmatic FM3A was for.
Ansel Adams, Brassaï and Bill Brandt Sitting on a Bench: Paul Joyce 's Best Photograph – The Guardian
Ansel [Adams] asked me if I used his zone system. It's a way of regulating exposure based on the conditions and the film you're using. Ansel had written five volumes on this, and you had to be a scientist trained at Oxford to actually understand it. So, slightly embarrassed, I told him: "Well, I kind of have my own system." "Oh," he said. "You probably use mine unconsciously anyway." -- Photographer Paul Joyce in The Guardian
The Godfather of Rock 'n' Roll Photography Isn't Ready to Talk About His Legacy – InsideHook
Mick Rock still has the rock 'n' roll look, even though he's now well into his seventies. But that's entirely appropriate. The British-born, New York-based photographer, helped define the city's music scene in its one true golden age, shooting iconic images of Iggy Pop, Bryan Ferry, Syd Barret and Lou Reed — for whom he shot the album cover of Transformer. He shot the same for Queen II and David Bowie's Pin-ups.
It's funny how photography then just wasn't considered an art form. But it is now. -- **Mick Rock **to InsideHook.
Photo of the Week
Quiz of the Week
1.) Who took the world's first selfie and when?
2.) Is it possible to make a zoom lens for any format with a fixed f/1.2 aperture in the near future?
3.) The AP Leafax 35 was a portable device used by photojournalists that transmitted photos over analog phone lines starting in 1988. How long did it take to transmit a single color photo?
Answers
1.) American photographer Robert Cornelius took a self-portrait (the word selfie did not exist then) in 1839 (Oct. or Nov.) And this was without a cable release! He simply ran in front of the camera after taking the cover off the lens and, in the hurry, couldn't possibly accurately position himself in the center.
2.) We do not know, but this week a Nikon patent for two Z-mount camera lenses, a 35-50mm f/1.2 and a 50-70mm f/1.2, has been issued (filed in Jan 2019).
3.) Around 30 mins.
Why I Like This Photo – Rachel Owen
Liturgy 2020 © Rachel Owen
At the height of the covid pandemic, my son entered his first year of high school. I felt his age group was significantly underrepresented in the COVID-19 conversation, and I wanted to create an image portraying what he and his friends were going through.
I told my son I needed him for a photo, and he being a teenage boy growing up with two photographers for parents, looked at me and said flatly, "You've got ten minutes, Mom."
Knowing the portrait categories at WPPI only allow single capture images, I planned to create a triple exposure with my Canon 5D Mark IV. Also, knowing my son would make good on his ten-minute cooperation limit, I spent a couple of hours in preparation with video tutorials on best multiple exposure practices and setting the lighting with my husband as a test subject.
We started with a 50mm lens and switched to 100mm for more compression allowing his shoulders to overlap. I knew the virtual reality goggles would stick out, so I wanted a small aperture (we used f/10) to keep everything in focus from front to back. We used butterfly lighting because I wanted the ominous look of shadows cutting in the cheekbones; then, it was just a matter of getting the right amount of kicker to separate him from the background but not distract.
Ultimately the shoot took 22 minutes. My husband and son had a great time laughing at me as I frantically tried to get every detail right within my time limit. The goggles and headphones kept messing up his hair, and I wouldn't let him move a muscle until all three exposures had been taken.
I titled this image Liturgy 2020 and wrote a poem with the same name, which pretty much sums up everything I intended to say. My hope for my son and this generation is that he would learn to pay attention to what is around him, genuinely listen to the opinions of others, and have sound arguments for what he believes with the courage to speak it out.
Liturgy 2020
He will not see for his vision is regulated⠀
Let us not see evil⠀
He will not hear for his ears ring with a technological hum⠀
Let us not hear evil⠀
He will not speak for institution has vanquished his voice⠀
Let us not speak of evil⠀
We mirror his stare and turn a blind eye
Rachel Owen, and her husband Jeff, are a wedding photography team based in Chicago that have dipped their toes into nearly every genre of photography. With over 3,000 weddings and 3,000 portraits sessions of personal experience, Jeff and Rachel's greatest joy is using their cameras to preserve the love in a relationship or a family bond, knowing those moments will live on in print forever.
Quote of the Week – Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi, "Bester V," Mayotte, 2015 © Zanele Muholi, Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Gropius Bau.
Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material. -- Zanele Muholi
Gropius Bau opens the first major survey in Germany of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi from 26 Nov 2021–13 Mar 2022.
Zanele Muholi FRPS (b. 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender, and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. In 2012, Muholi began the acclaimed series of dramatic self-portraits entitled Somnyama Ngonyama (“Hail the Dark Lioness” in isiZulu), where the artist adopts different poses, characters, and archetypes to address issues of race and representation.
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Great Reads in Photography: October 10, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
**Photo Dumps Are Now in Museums **– Elle
Isaac West, Untitled, from IN LOVE, 2021. © Isaac West
A new photo exhibit called INWARD: Reflections on Interiority at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City features work shot entirely on an iPhone. Open through next January, it gives the spotlight to five emerging Black artists.
Brad Ogbonna, Paul & Peter, 2021. © Brad Ogbonna
Curator Isolde Brielmaier notes that Apple is redefining its work, specifically regarding the iPhone 12 Pro Max and its camera capabilities.
"The richness of darker skin tones comes through in a much more dynamic way," Breilmaier explains to Elle.
Isaac West, Untitled, from IN LOVE, 2021. © Isaac West Arielle Bobb-Willis, New Jersey 01, 2021. © Arielle Bobb-Willis
Breilmaier is likewise awestruck that a tech tool can also produce personal images. "I think my favorite part of curating this exhibit is to see how compelling the viewpoints of these artists are. They're using the same phone that I use, that you use, but what they see is completely unique," she says. "So, through their Photo folder, we can see their world. Which informs how we see our world."
How an F-15 Pilot's Life Was Saved by a Photographer – Air & Space
Stock photo of US Air Force F-15 Eagle, Depositphotos
Last July 13, Ian Simpson was in a favorite spot just outside the fence at RAF Lakenheath, north of London, England, home to the US Air Force 48th Fighter Wing taking photos of planes taking off.
As US Air Force pilot Major Grant Thompson took off in his F-15E, Simpson noticed a shower of sparks coming from the aircraft's rear. As the fighter continued to climb, Simpson Googled the base, called the switchboard, and reached flight operations. "I said, 'Look, something is wrong with the plane, definitely. We've got lots of photographs of sparks coming out the back'," Simpson, 56, told the Associated Press.
**The First Picture Taken on a Leica **– Kosmo Foto
The first image of a crowd of shoppers was taken from the Ur-Leica by Oskar Barnack, 1914. The old town of Wetzlar, Germany, view down Silhöfer Straße (street) with the Eisenmarkt (iron market) to the left. Barnack died 1936, in Bad Nauheim, Germany. Public Domain from Wikimedia.
Stephen Dowling, founder & editor of Kosmo Foto, writes:
At the turn of the century, many cameras – Kodak's lightweight Brownie excepted – were bulky, heavy and difficult to carry. Oskar Barnack, a skilled mechanic who worked in the microscope department of Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, was an enthusiastic amateur photographer who often took cameras with him on his travels.
It's believed that Barnack began thinking about a camera small enough to take anywhere as early as 1905. At Ernst Leitz, he was involved in the production of the company's first cine camera. Cinema films used a much smaller film format than stills cameras of the time, making them much lighter and easier to carry. Cine film's size – 18 x 24mm compared to large plates used in many still cameras – was Barnack's springboard for developing the world's first 35mm camera.
… Between 1913 and 1914, Barnack perfected the design of a camera that, a decade later, would enter the market as the first Leica camera. Instead of the film being transported vertically, as it was in a cinema camera, Barnack's prototype camera transported the film horizontally…He called this camera the Ur-Leica.
Wetzlar's historic center survived aerial bombing in World War II relatively unscathed, and the street looks almost like Barnack viewed it in 1914. A commemorative plaque marks the spot in Wetzlar where Oskar Barnack tested his Ur-Leica in this modern view (2018). Aljawad, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
**A True Story About Bogus Photos of People Making Fake News **-- WIRED
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From _WIRED:
_The photographic elite gathered in Perpignan, France, on September 1 at the annual Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival. That night, the outdoor screen shimmered with images of people using laptops in Soviet-era apartments and a bear strolling past rundown industrial sites. They came from The Book of Veles by Jonas Bendiksen, an award-winning documentary photographer. He had traveled to North Macedonia, which had been home to a vibrant fake news industry during the 2016 US election. As his peers gazed at his work, Bendiksen watched from the bleachers with increasing discomfort…
In fact, Bendiksen had created the people in the images with software. The next day, the prestigious cooperative Magnum Photo posted an interview in which Bendiksen revealed that although he had traveled to Veles, every person and bear in his images were digitally faked using 3D models like those used to make video games…
"It's scary that the most visually sophisticated people on the planet fell for this," Bendiksen told WIRED. "Where's the threshold for fooling people who are not so visually literate?"
San Francisco Photography Legend Robert Altman Dead at 77 – SFgate
Robert Altman, the legendary San Francisco photojournalist who focused his lens on the city's counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, died on Sept. 24.
Altman, who was born in NYC, trained under Ansel Adams before moving to San Francisco in 1968, where he quickly became a fixture in the city's counterculture scene, befriending — and sometimes photographing — artists, musicians and hippies with ease. He was Rolling Stone 's chief staff photographer.
The'Gift of Pictures': Praemium Imperiale Laureate Sebastião Salgado on his Photography – JapanForward
This year's laureate in painting is artist and photographer **** Sebastião Salgado (Brazil/France), recognized by the Japan Arts Association for his powerful works that "put a spotlight on the dispossessed and exploited, the beauty of nature, and the fragility of the world and its inhabitants."
To make a photo, you need to have an authorization ‒ not a written authorization, nothing signed, but a tacit authorization. It should not be you taking photos; it should be the person in front of you who gives you the photo as a gift. – Sebastiao Salgado to JapanForward
Lion Roaring as Fly Buzzes into his Eye Wins Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2021 —The Sun
Fly in the eye. Chobe National Park, Botswana. © Hannes Lochner
An amazing photograph of a lion roaring as a fly buzzes in his eye has won the Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2021.
The stunning entry was selected from 25,023 photographs that celebrated the African continent.
"With one snap of the shutter, this image succeeds with so many of the criteria that make an excellent photograph," commented the judges. "It is technically brilliant from the perspective of timing, anticipation, and setting the camera perfectly for the predicted behavior. Then, as with so many great wildlife shots, luck played a huge part as the fly just happened into the frame at the right time."
'The Murderous Pharaoh' – a member of the famous cheetah coalition of five, Tano Bora, in the middle of a zebra meal. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. © Aditya Nair Attack – a pride sets upon a giraffe cow and her helpless calf. Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Kenya. © James Nampaso
**Discover Daguerreotype Photography and How the Pioneering Process Is Still Used Today **-- MyModernMet
A daguerreotype of Shimazu Nariakira, the daimyō of Satsuma in formal attire taken by Ichiki Shirō (1828 - 1903) on 17 September 1857, is the earliest surviving Japanese photograph. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons from Anne Tucker et al., The History of Japanese Photography. Yale University Press, 2003.
My Modern Met writes:
American artist Chuck Close worked with Jerry Spagnoli to take a series of daguerreotype images of fellow artists, poets, film stars, and other creatives. Close converted the old metal plates into super-sharp, large digital prints by scanning the daguerreotype in high resolution. Merging old and new techniques, the experimental artist found a rather dangerous way to capture the famous faces in beautiful detail. "A normal daguerreotype is a more than two-minute exposure," he says. "We've made it instant photography by having a billion foot-candles of light go off all at once, and that's very painful. The flashes are so intense your eyes slam shut. It's like having an ice pick shoved in your eyeball."
_Where and How to Photograph the Aurora _-- Space
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and aurora borealis over taiga forest, Depositphotos
Here is a guide to capturing the elusive Northern Lights or aurora borealis which is certainly there on every adventure and outdoor photographers' bucket list.
On an active night, the aurora can be thousands of miles long, so you can capture it in Iceland, Norway, Finnish Lapland, Alberta (Canada), or Alaska. You can also capture it in New Zealand, where you can get the Southern Lights or the aurora australis.
**'I Want my photographs to Convey the Reality' - Lynsey Addario **– PhotojournalismNews
I am trying to capture the reality of a given scene or situation and trying to say whatever the subject is trying to say. My images are just a vehicle for the subject or story.- Lynsey Addario to Photojournalism News.
Read also:
****A Chat with War Photographer Lynsey Addario
****War Photographer Lynsey Addario Shares the Photos That Impacted Her the Most
**Helen Levitt: the Most Celebrated, Least Known Photographer of her Time **– The Guardian
From _The Guardian:
_The American poet and cultural critic David Levi Strauss memorably described Helen Levitt as "maybe the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time." That was in 1997 when Levitt was 84 and the subject of a retrospective at The International Center of Photography in New York, the city in which she was born and made most of her work. Just over two decades on and 12 years after her death, aged 95, in 2009, one could argue that little has changed in terms of her enigmatic status.
**Local Wedding Photographer Sues NYS Over Right to Deny Service for Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies **– WENYnews
WENY NewsA local photographer is suing New York State over the state's anti-discrimination laws, specifically, the photographer's right to choose to accept or deny requests to photograph same-sex marriage ceremonies.
**Five Photographers Share Why They Use Creative Commons Licenses **– Flickr
Prairie. Seen at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. JoLynne Martinez CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Creative Commons is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and they have since the beginning been offering an alternative to full copyright under Creative Commons licenses.
These licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.
Photographers, artists, and other creators on Flickr have contributed hundreds of millions of photos, enabling others to use their work in Wikipedia articles, news items, and more.
Does this Photo Show a Meteor Falling into a Volcano? -- Snopes
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"This is a genuine photograph of a meteor streaking above a volcano. While the angle of this photograph makes it appear as if the meteor was falling 'into' the volcano, that likely isn't the case," explains Snopes.
The claim is miscaptioned as the stated destination of this meteor was likely off by a few miles.
Indonesian photographer Gunarto Song's photo above was a four-second exposure as the meteor descended above the volcano. The meteor was a round light, but the long exposure created a streaking effect.
**Harlem Street Named After White Photographer Art Kane of Famed Picture Gets Community Pushback **-- Yahoo
Still one of my fave photos. A Great Day in Harlem - 57 of the coolest jazz cats, photographed by Art Kane, 1958 pic.twitter.com/nwr2qJA8tI
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) March 26, 2017
A 1958 photo of legendary jazz musicians, called A Great Day in Harlem, was shot by photographer Art Kane on August 12, 1958, while he was on assignment for Esquire and quickly became famous.
Last month, the city renamed this iconic block between Madison and Fifth Avenues, calling it Art Kane Harlem 1958.
Now residents are objecting to a street being named after the man who took the iconic pic.
Great Read from the Past -- 2017
**Monkey Selfie Photographer David Slater Says He's Broke: 'I'm Thinking of Dog Walking' **– The Guardian
Read AlsoPhotographer Wins Monkey Selfie Copyright Case, Court Slams PETA
Photos of the Week
The Story of Two Men on Different Sides Whose Paths Unwittingly Crossed 80 years Ago
Embed from Getty ImagesDefendant Josef S. gets help from his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp (L) to hide his face behind a folder as he arrives for his trial in Brandenburg an der Havel, northeastern Germany, on October 7, 2021. - The 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will become the oldest person yet to be tried for Nazi-era crimes in Germany when he goes before the court charged with complicity in mass murder. The suspect, identified as Josef S., stands accused of “knowingly and willingly” assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
Embed from Getty ImagesHolocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum shows a family picture as he arrives to observe a trial against defendant Josef S.
**Quiz of the Week
**1.) Canon EOS R3 and Sony a9 II use what's called Stacked CMOS technology for their 24 megapixel sensors. This means:
a.) Certain pixels are stacked one on top of the other for better light gathering
b.) There are high-speed ram chips wired directly to the rear of the sensor
c.) Multiple colored filters are stacked on top of each pixel
2.) Who opened the first photographic studio in the US?
3.) The new iPhone 13 Pro offers Macro. Is there a third-party software solution to shooting in macro mode for owners of older iPhones?
**Answers
**1.) b. These ram chips allow for high-speed readout rates.
2.) Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. Daguerre gave Morse a copy of his photographic instructions in the summer of 1839 before Morse returned to America after a visit to France. Morse hadn't sold his telegraph yet, so he supported himself by opening the first photography studio in the United States and teaching others photography.
3.) Yes, all iPhones (from the iPhone 8 and on) can shoot macro with the Halide app — no accessories required.
Why I Like This Photo – Patrick Smith
I like this photo because it is one of a kind from Super Bowl LV. No other photographer has the same image, a rare feat for a major sporting event where photographers were stacked next to one another.
What elevates the image even more is that it's of what many consider one of the greatest of our lifetime, Tom Brady. Not only did he win another Super Bowl, but after being with the Patriots his entire career, he proved that being traded and his age wouldn't stand in his way of winning another ring.
For this image of Tom Brady, having an angle with a clean background was first and foremost important. Second, it was hoping to get a reflection of his face. There is so much happening on the field of play during any sporting event, but especially at the Super Bowl and celebration following the game. Family, friends, players can get in the way of zeroing in on the moment.
This was shot on a Canon 1DX Mark III on a Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x at 560mm (with the converter down) at 1/1600, 5.6 at 6400 ISO.
This was shot as Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrated with the Lombardi Trophy after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021, in Tampa, Florida.
Due to the pandemic, photographers did not have field access like we normally would at prior Super Bowls. This was something we had become accustomed to when sporting events began to make their return a few months prior. This, however, made working the entire game difficult navigating only the first row of seating, finding creative ways to tell a story from this one position.
By the time the game had ended, it felt like a weight was lifted. As the celebration started, I saw the reflection in the trophy and tried to work it a few times. Sometimes you just know if you were able to get the shot, and that was the case here. It was after Brady passed on the trophy, I was able to confirm on the back of the camera that I did and then transmit it to our remote editing team at Getty so they could get it out for the world to see on our site in under a minute.
We usually cover the Super Bowl with a massive team of photographers and editors on-site, but this game had to be covered with only three photographers and a couple of technical and editorial support. Therefore, strategy in our movements became much more of a thought process and very deliberate to make sure we covered every aspect of the game, celebrations, fans, etc. At the end of the day, it was a huge success for our Getty team, and this is just one image that shows that.
Patrick Smith _is a staff photographer withGetty Images based in Baltimore, MD, documenting news, sports, and feature stories locally and internationally. _Smith has been recognized notably by The Pulitzer Prizes, Pictures of the Year International, The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Society of Professional Journalists, National Motorsports Press Association, and The National Press Photographers Association.
Quote of the Week – Mitch Epstein
Chilton Ranch, Arivaca, Arizona 2017 © Mitch Epstein. Photo from Property Rights published by Steidl
Documentary work is commonly associated with objectivity. I am not objective.* – Mitch Epstein
*My photographs have been drawn from the real world since my beginnings in the late ՚60s although I've never thought of myself as a documentarian. Documentary work is commonly associated with objectivity. I am not objective. My photographs function like poetry, a distillation of my real-life experience compressed into the flattened frame of a still photograph. DocumentJournal.com
Mitch Epstein (b. 1952) is a photographer who helped pioneer fine-art color photography in the 1970s. Epstein's fifteen books include Property Rights (Steidl, fall 2021), In India (Steidl, fall 2021), Sunshine Hotel (Steidl/PPP Editions, fall 2019); Rocks and Clouds (Steidl 2017); New York Arbor (Steidl 2013); Berlin (Steidl/The American Academy in Berlin 2011); American Power (Steidl 2009); Mitch Epstein: Work (Steidl 2006); Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (Steidl 2005); and Family Business (Steidl 2003), winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award.
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About the author : Phil Mistry is a photographer and teacher based in Atlanta, GA. He started one of the first digital camera classes in New York City at The International Center of Photography in the 90s. He was the director and teacher for Sony/Popular Photography magazine’s Digital Days Workshops. You can reach him via email here.
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