07 May, 2013 | Posted by: sellmyphotos





ONE PICTURE -- Saves A Dog’s Life - Pet photographer, Seth Casteel visits shelters across United States to make shelter pets into stars. Can a cute pet photo save a life? “Absolutely, if the photo is of a pet in a shelter.,”says Seth Casteel. He will offer a free half-day workshop for anyone who wants to learn how to take a better pet photograph. http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-news/2013/04/23/seth-casteel-shelter-dog-photo-workshop.aspx




CHINESE OCEANS -- Shi Yingying: “It's the magic of underwater photography that drives scuba divers to pick up the camera and makes photographers want to learn how to dive," says Cao Feng, 48, an amateur photographer. The Shanghai native spent eight years photographing dry land before learning how to dive in 2011 to take photographs.
http://africa.chinadaily.com.cn/travel/2013-04/24/content_16442714.htm





THE BIRTH OF SALLY MANN -- Abram Goolanian: “Sally Mann, is a photographer known initially for her large black and white (often nude) photographs of her children and eventually her unique perspective in landscape photography which so often prominently featured death and decay rather than a typical scene of life and abundance. SOURCE: http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/05/04/this-week-in-photography-history-the-birth-of-sally-mann/





MILLION DOLLAR MAN -- Andrew Taylor: “Jeff Wall's photograph of a man searching for the ends of a rope in a grimy workshop looks decidedly unglamorous for a photo worth $1 million. But that's how much the National Gallery of Victoria reportedly paid for Untangling in 2006. They got a bargain. SOURCE: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/million-dollar-man-the-artist-who-revolutionised-photography-20130428-2imjf.html

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19 Feb, 2013 | Posted by: st




The Ten Best Photography Sites - Will Coldwell gives his list of the ten best photography sites. SOURCE: http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/
internet/the-ten-best-photography-sites-1.1463814#.UR6BU_LpX-4
making two people look good on camera than one would think, and there is even more that goes into making the clients happy. For this feature, we talked to Andrea Fischman, a recent winner of an outstanding studio award from the Knot. Her photos have also made the NYTimes amongst others. Here’s what she has to say about photographing couples just in time for Valentine’s Day. Be sure to also check out her blog and Facebook page

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05 Feb, 2013 | Posted by: bswenson


CAREFUL WHERE YOU SWIM

-- Colleen Curry: “A young penguin swam into the "jaws of death" of a leopard seal in Port Lockroy, on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The photos were taken in 2009 while Amos Nachoun attempted to capture a series documenting how frigid water leopard seals hunt.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/photo-captures-penguin-swimming-jaws-death-203300985--abc-news-tech.html
PHOTO: Amos Nachoun
TAKEAWAY: A frame out of the story of life. Seal eats baby penguin for breakfast, what will eat the seal for lunch? –and so on...

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05 Feb, 2013 | Posted by: st






Clyde Butcher Talks About His Journey to Massive Black-and-White Photography. He
shoots big photos, and we mean big. He develops large format black-and-white prints that range in size from your standard 8″x10″ all the way up to 5×8… feet! This phenomenal photographer’s journey and the type of photography he’s become famous for are an inspiration to the people out there who want to see the extent to which the medium can be pushed. SOURCE http://www.petapixel.com/2013/01/27/clyde-butcher-talks-through-his-journey-to-massive-photography/
PHOTO: Clyde Butcher




Photography pioneer bends reality without digital tools. Steve Siegel: “Long before Photoshop allowed image makers to bend reality with a single keystroke, photographer Jerry Uelsmann was doing it the hard way. For more than half a century, Uelsmann has pushed the creative and technical boundaries of photography, creating surreal, dreamlike images not with digital shortcuts, but with the alchemy of light and film, seamlessly melding images from multiple negatives in the darkroom.
http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/arts/museums/mc-jerry-uelsmann-photography-michener-20130202,0,3617854.story
PHOTO: Jerry Uelsmann



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22 Jan, 2013 | Posted by: st





SPECIALIZING: PHOTOGRAPHING BIRDS – Interview by David Walker: Markus Varesvuo and Jari Peltomäki of Finland, and Bence Mate of Hungary, award-winning photographers, who co-authored The Handbook of Bird Photography discuss their careers. SOURCE: http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Whats-Your-Niche-P-7309.shtml




Michael Hartnett, famed poet of Limerick, Ireland. Tracing his lost photography book. Gerard Fitzgibbon: “With a soft stare and a camera in his hands, Michael Hartnett sits thoughtfully on the bank of the River Arra. In his head he is sliding through images, piecing together a photography book about the people and places of Newcastle West, his home town.
http://www.limerickleader.ie/lifestyle/entertainment-arts/books-and-literature/tracing-the-lost-photography-book-of-famed-limerick-poet-michael-hartnett-1-4701705



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18 Dec, 2012 | Posted by: st




BEAR WITH US. Curious black bear takes up photography after hijacking wildlife snapper's camera. As Dean Swartz took pictures of a black bear family in Minnesota, he noticed one young bear watching him very closely. After about 45 minutes the bear decided to have a go as well and ambled over to the tripod. SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247690/Curious-black-bear-takes-photography-hijacking-wildlife-snappers-camera.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
PHOTO: Dean Swartz


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06 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st



Famed photographer shares lessons of life through the lens. --- David Peterson: “When you pick up a camera, the photograph you create says as much about you as it does the subject in it. That’s a message acclaimed Canadian photographer Freeman Patterson has been taking to audiences around the GTA on a speaking and teaching tour to mark his 75th birthday.” SOURCE: http://www.mississauga.com/what's%20on/article/1528459--famed-photographer-shares-lessons-of-life-through-the-lens



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06 Nov, 2012 | Posted by: st




TRACKING A FAMILY -- Picture Story: A 16-Year Immigration Odyssey – David Walker: “Janet Jarman visited a toxic garbage dump in Matamoros, Mexico, one day in 1996 while exploring the environmental impact of international trade policy as part of her research for her master’s thesis. Picking through the burning trash was a mother with several children. The woman gave Jarman permission to take pictures. “I had no idea,” Jarman says, “that I would be photographing [the family] to this day.” SOURCE: http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Picture-Story-A-16--6895.shtml
PHOTO: Janet Jarman

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25 Sep, 2012 | Posted by: st




CAMERA CONTROLS -- On The Road: Killer Color: Bringing It Back Alive – Maynard Switzer:”Often people will ask me, “How do you get that great color in your photos?” I appreciate the compliment, but it’s usually followed by, “You must do a lot of retouching.” Actually I don’t. I will do a little color enhancement, but how color looks in my images has qto do partly with how I set certain camera controls, how I control or use lighting in the scene, and how I compose the photograph. http://www.shutterbug.com/content/road-killer-color-bringing-it-back-alive
PHOTO: Maynard Switzer


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14 Aug, 2012 | Posted by: st



THE ‘AFGHAN GIRL’ .Q&A with National Geographic Photographer: Steve McCurry Most people will recognize his work from the famous portrait.. http://blog.holidaysplease.co.uk/2012/08/qa-with-national-geographic-photographer-steve-mccurry/

THE LEICA GUY -- Chris Wilkins: “Celebrated photographer Bruce Davidson talks about a lifetime with his Leica camera. Davidson has been one of the top social documentarians of the past 50 years. He joined Magnum in 1958 after a stint in the US Army following studies at Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University.” http://photographyblog.dallasnews.com/2012/08/celebrated-photographer-bruce-davidson-talks-about-a-lifetime-with-his-leica-camera.html/

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31 Jul, 2012 | Posted by: st




PRECIOUS PEOPLE -- Gavin Gough. “Why I like to shoot them… Stock photographs are essentially smiley faces and blue skies. Sunny days and bikinis sell stock. Coney Island in December is desolate, melancholy and can be most accurately described as “closed”. But there I was, blue fingers poking through fingerless mittens, a hard-earned Canon 1D MKII hanging from my shoulder and the niggling thought in my head that I might have invested the last of my severance package in a flight to the most unlikely place on the planet to take saleable stock photographs.
SOURCE: http://www.gavingough.com/2012/07/precious-people-and-why-i-like-to-shoot-them/


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17 Apr, 2012 | Posted by: st



Lost, Now Found: Visions of 1964 Ted Loos: "In the 1970s and ’80s Arthur Tress became well known for his strikingly surreal photographs. He staged odd situations — a man opening the trunk of his car and finding sleeping children; another man, naked, with his head in a bucket and a boot on his back — and SOURCE: NYTimes ttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/arts/design/arthur-tress-early-works-at-de-young-museum.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
via Roy Iwaki

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10 Apr, 2012 | Posted by: st




INSTAGRAM: iPHONE OPENING -- -- More Than Photo Sharing – Tamara Lackey: Initially, I thought the concept was to take a photograph every day with your iPhone, run a simple little filter over it, and post it while checking out others’ images. Over time, though, I started realizing that it could be about much more than that. It could be about showing a slice of your life and getting a very visual feel for how others are living, too. http://photofocus.com/2012/04/06/why-instagram-is-about-more-than-photo-sharing/
PHOTO: Tamara Lackey
TAKEAWAY: Last week I learned that FACEBOOK bought InstaGRAM for a billion of its FACEBOOK/Monopoly money. That’s a lot of green-colored paper or are they zeroes and 1’s? Check this post next year, April 12th 2013 and let’s see which newcomer social network company has bought them both – (or who is cleaning up the mess after the bubble burst?) -RE

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20 Mar, 2012 | Posted by: st




JUST SURFIN’ -- An Evening with Photographer Aaron Chang at the California Surf Museum. An internationally acclaimed surf photographer, Aaron Chang has more than 100 magazine covers to his name. His photos have been published internationally in dozens of magazines such as Sports Illustrated, GQ, Newsweek and Elle. Saturday, March 31; SOURCE: Surfline; http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/press-release/an-evening-with-photographer-aaron-chang-saturday-march-31-at-the-california-surf-museum_68015/
PHOTO: Aaron Chang



London Festival of Photography - June 2012 Zoltan Arva-Toth: “In June 2012, a wide range of London’s most celebrated venues will play host to a world-class, city-wide celebration of photography, as the London Festival of Photography returns for its second year. Encompassing documentary, street and conceptual photography, the festival will comprise 18 exhibitions and 40 events, including workshops, talks and screenings. “
http://www.photographyblog.com/news/london_festival_of_photography_-_june_2012/


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09 Nov, 2011 | Posted by: st




AUBREY BODINE -- The Easton Gallery of Photographic Arts has opened an exhibit of 40 photos by A. Aubrey Bodine, famed Maryland photographer.
http://www.stardem.com/article_bdeb0d2d-4d62-57a4-af19-2e6b33869c0c.html
PHOTO: Aubrey Bodine


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21 Sep, 2011 | Posted by: st




BIG TIME -- SMALL TOWN -- John P. Aloian: “Perhaps one of Watertown’s best-kept secrets, the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) is celebrating the unveiling of a permanent collection of 25 original signed portraits by renowned Canadian-Armenian photographer Yousuf Karsh. The upcoming ALMA exhibition “Karsh: Celebrating Humanity” will open on September 17. SOURCE: The Harvard Crimson ;
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/13/alma-karsh-portrait-photography/
PHOTO Yousuf Karsh

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24 Aug, 2011 | Posted by: st



UP CLOSE -- Jaw Droppingly Beautiful Small World Photography. Every year, entries in the Nikon Small World competition are stunningly beautiful. The competition receives thousands of submissions of extremely close-up photography from scientists and photomicrographers around the world. These pictures are captured with the help of microscopes, and allow us to see things in amazing detail that we wouldn’t normally be able to. SOURCE: Erin Podolak http://www.geekosystem.com/small-world-photography/


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20 Jul, 2011 | Posted by: st



Thomas Struth: photos so complex 'you could look at them forever'. The celebrated German art photographer talks about his London retrospective, and an 'odd experience' with the Queen. SOURCE: Sean O’Hagan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/03/thomas-struth-interview-photography-whitechapel
PHOTO: Thomas Struth


Martin Munkácsi: father of fashion photography. Spontaneous images are now the staple of fashion magazines - thanks to the little known Hungarian émigré whose work is revealed in a new exhibition SOURCE: Lucy Davies http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8597512/Martin-Munkacsi-father-of-fashion-photography.html

ERNST HAAS: MASTER OF COLOR P.C.: “For many of us who came to photography in the 1970s or 80s it was black and white that drew us in, and in terms of press or documentary photography it called the shots. There was of course plenty of color work out there, particularly in the US, but it was an Austrian, Ernst Haas, who first grabbed my attention and showed me the power of color photography SOURCE: Phil Coomes; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-14104149
PHOTO: Ernst Haas



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01 Jun, 2011 | Posted by: st




QUICK SNAP -- Snapfish, the online photo developer, has introduced Snapfish Stock Images, an image and microstock licensing service. The service offers thousands of stock images to Snapfish members from Snapfish members. This includes event photos, product images, and pictures snapped by professional photographers.
An alternative for all the publicists out there who organize a lot of events and need to send snapshots quickly. SOURCE: Tonya Garcia http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/snapfish-stock-images-offers-photos-image-licensing_b21578
TAKEAWAY: Did I hear 'iStock revisited?' -RE


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14 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



CAN CELL PHONE CAMERAS DO IT? -- That’s a question often asked. Let the photos speak for themselves.
SOURCE: Brian Lam; Gismodo.com http://gizmodo.com/5576509/395-photos-taken-on-cellphones?skyline=true&s=i
TAKEAWAY: Photobuyers look for pictorial illustration first, technical resolution second.


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20 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: photosource




AH! TO BE AN AMATEUR AGAIN! -- Snapshot Winner for Last Sunday -Eric Collins. He said was "just being a tourist" and witnessed an approaching storm from the North. I was later told it was a wall cloud." Eric won a $25 gift card from Dairy Queen.
http://www.wane.com/dpp/weather/snapshot-winner-for-sunday-april-18



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27 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: photosource



OLYMPIC SHOOTING– The upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada will likely provide some fierce competition and dramatic photo opportunities. Whether you plan to visit as a spectator, or enjoy photographing sports in your own hometown, you'll find good tips on taking photos of sporting events like the Olympics in this article.Read more at NYIP - Olympic Photos | Olympic Pics | NYIP http://www.nyip.com/ezine/sports/olympic-sports.html#ixzz0doeG83ia
The first question with most winter sports is this: How should you handle your camera to minimize the effect of freezing cold on its operation? We have devoted an entire article to Cold Weather Photography and we recommend that you read it.So too with downhill skiing and cross-country skiing. If you're unfamiliar with our How to Take Great Photos of Skiing and Snowboarding article, you'll find it on our Sports Photography Page. In cross-country skiing, don't overlook the opportunity for a picture of the mob start, like this picture.Read more at NYIP - Olympic Photos | Olympic Pics | NYIP
http://www.nyip.com/ezine/sports/olympic-sports.html#ixzz0dodr2JoA
http://www.nyip.com/ezine/sports/olympic-sports.html SOURCE:New YorkInstituteofPhotography
downhill skiing
Copyright NYIPStudent IgorJurse


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15 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



HERE’s LENSBABY AGAIN -- Do you use Lensbaby? Have you taken a
great photograph that you would like to share? You can submit only two
images, submission deadline is December 31st at 6pm PST.
http://virtualphotographystudio.com/photographyblog/2009/12/09/want-to-be-a-published-photographer/


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08 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: photosource


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SHOWCASE -- Pictory Tells Stories with Photos - Pictory is a showcase for people around the world to document their own lives and cultures. Anyone can submit one large, captioned image to each of Pictory's editorial themes.
http://www.creativepro.com/article/pictory-tells-stories-photos

PRIMATE PREVIEWS -- Monkey Business & Photography. It said that if you give a typewriter to a monkey and a lot of time, eventually he will write a Shakespearean play. So what happens when you give a camera. A 33 year old Orangutan named Nonja who lives in a zoo in Austria has been given a camera this Tuesday and has since been snapping happily. SOURCE: http://blog.melchersystem.com http://bit.ly/5EMhiJ


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24 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



EVOLVING NYC -- -- The City Change, Site by Site 8SsnOt. The evolution of New York has been illustrated in photographs in countless ways. Two of the biggest collections belong to the city. Photos of Every Building in New York City, From the ’30s or ’40s, Then Updated. More photographs and the history of specific properties are available at nytimes.com/nyregion.
http://bit.ly/8zsOuW


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17 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



BON APETIT! – National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen was in Antarctica to capture shots of leopard seals. One approached him, jaws wide and ready for biting... and if you haven't heard the rest of the story... SOURCE: Melissa Block NPR; PHOTO: Paul Nicklen/National Geographic.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120399312&ft=1&f=1001&sc=YahooNews
Melissa Block talks with photographer Paul Nicklen about Polar Obsession, his new book of photos documenting the wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic, out this month. Nicklen's work has been published in hundreds of magazines around the world, including National Geographic. Read more on NPR's photo blog The Picture


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27 Oct, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



SAY CHEESE -- White House Photographer Talks About Covering Obama Kids. White House photographer Pete Souza and his staff are taking plenty of pictures of the Obama daughters. You're just not going to see them for a decade or so. Photo: Pete Souza; SOURCE: Daryl Lang, PHOTO DISTRIC NEWS. http://bit.ly/EFOVO


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14 Oct, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



Julius Shulman was a great architectural photographer-one of the greatest-but not many people know about his work, or indeed know anything about architectural photography as a whole. Director Eric Bricker is out to change that with his new documentary film, The Art of Visual Acoustics. SOURCE: Rebecca Pahle. http://bit.ly/O9DVO


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17 Jun, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



SEEING THE LIGHT - Seven artists explore light types, sources and affects
in this exhibit
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/jun/15/seeing-light-seven-artists-explore-light-types-sou/?partner=RSS


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03 Jun, 2009 | Posted by: photosource



EDITING IN ISRAEL -- Expanding the Boundaries for Photo Editors - Jessica Korman decided to start “Photo Editor Awareness Day”. She moved from New York to Israel where photo editors are non-existent. And it seems, -- copyright also.
http://rising.blackstar.com/expanding-the-boundaries-for-photo-editors.html#more-4201



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11 Mar, 2009 | Posted by: photosource





PHOTOGRAPHY REALITY Series Coming. Bravo seems to have noticed the lack in photography-themed reality TV shows because the network is going to be airing a new docu-series Double Exposure (working title). Double Exposure will follow photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani as well as high-end stylist GK Reid to show viewers what it's like in the fast-paced world of high fashion and celeb photography.
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Photography-Reality-Series-Coming-To-Bravo-15902.html


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14 Jan, 2009 | Posted by: photosource




HE CAPTURED A RARE MOMENT. Sunnyvale photographer shoots a rare moment at Yosemite. Amateur photographer John Harrison's "Nature's Firefall," which won the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop contest in December, is an extreme rarity.
That particular effect can happen only for a few weeks during the winter when the sun is at the right angle, when there are no clouds and during the few months when there's enough snowmelt to produce the falls. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11408416?nclick_check=1


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17 Dec, 2008 | Posted by: photosource





JUST FOLLOWING INTUITION. No one has had a greater influence on photography in the last half-century than the Swiss-born Robert Frank, though his reputation rests almost entirely on a single book published five decades ago. While he has produced other volumes over the years and made 31 films and videos, all roads in his career lead back to this masterpiece, "The Americans," an intimate visual chronicle of common people in ordinary situations drawn from several trips he made through his adopted country in the mid-1950s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/arts/design/14geft.html


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22 Oct, 2008 | Posted by: photosource





UGH! NOT AGAIN. The world's photojournalists have been doing their best to find original ways to illustrate the global financial crisis. Some of their efforts have been commendable -- others, not.
The Best and Worst of Financial Crisis Photography. SPIEGEL ONLINE has collected the best of the best, and some of the worst. First things first: It would be difficult to pin the blame on the current financial crisis on the traders on the floor of the world's stock markets. It's not their fault. But seriously. How many more images of contorted, exasperated, horrified and desperate traders can we take? For the last two weeks, as the financial markets have remained frozen and the stock markets -- at least until this week -- plummeted to ever lower depths, newspapers, Web sites and television news have offered up a parade of faces buried in hands, mouths agape in dismay and arms flailing in the air as traders watch stock prices fall off a cliff. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,584127,00.html


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08 Oct, 2008 | Posted by: photosource



AMATEUR REPORTERS -- Seth Shimkonis wants to help the orphans of Peru tell their own own story. In November, the 2000 South Western High School graduate will travel to Arequipa, Peru, for six months to teach the children of New Hope Children's Home the art of photography.
Eventually Shimkonis hopes to develop a program similar to Kids with Cameras. That program was created from the documentary film "Born into Brothels," which follows children who live in the red-light district of Calcutta. The children were given cameras to document their lives and surroundings, and the photos were then sold, with proceeds going toward the children's education.
http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_10590573


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