[caption id="attachment_2343" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Fuji X-E1 - 1/5th Second 35mm f/1.4 @ f/1.4, ISO 6400[/caption] Back in August, thanks to a kind loan from Will Crockett over at DiscoverMirrorless.Com, I got to try the Fuji XPro-1 for a couple of days. That story is here:http://thecameraforum.com/xpro-1/ I liked it...
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City of Light from H. Paul Moon on Vimeo. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm a complete sucker when it comes to two things: Paris, France, and great video productions. Both represent the pinnacle of the arts in my mind, so when...
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Here's Chris Niccolls from TheCameraStore in Calgary, Alberta, & Nick Devlin, renowned landscape photographer and columnist on Luminous Landscape, testing the Sigma DP1 and DP2 Merrill edition cameras. While certainly not for everyone, these horrible little cameras produce absolutely stunning landscape photographs. I particularly like Nick...
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Micro Expressions: exploring motion image photography from untitled film works on Vimeo. Follow Abraham Joffe, CANON's new EOS-1DC and the professional image makers who gave of their time to be interviewed who included: Dean Bentick (inlighten photography) Brett Purmel, David Stowe (Society photography), Ryan Schembri (Xsight) Sue Bryce, Phillip...
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By Lawrence Beck In the mid-80’s, while on a flight to New York, I met a San Francisco photographer named Jimo Perini. What caught my eye was two bricks of film sticking out of his tote bag: Tri X and Ektachrome 160. I asked him where he...
By Lawrence Beck In the mid-8...
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photographer: David Alan Harvey layout and design: Bryan Harvey producer: Eva-Maria Kunz coordinator: Diego Orlando production: Andrea Barbato, Michael Courvoisier, Candy Pilar Godoy Attention photographers! We at thecameraforum.com offer the following presentation as a whole new take on just what a printed book can be. The ability for the reader...
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USING PHOTOSHOP TO DESIGN A PHOTO LAYOUT Jim Quinn used Photoshop to create the complicated layout of his documentary photo exhibit, "Good Friday in Colonia San Luis Rey," which was shown in the winter of 2012 in the Instituto Allende's Galeria Pergola in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. If...
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Amore Mio is Italian for "My Love." Judging by this excellent wedding production done by Austin, Texas, wedding filmmaker Joe Simon, that love certainly shines too. Joe shot Amore Mio using a prototype software version of the new Panasonic GH3. Joe's thoughts? Well, the quality of...
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By Jim Quinn With some photo subjects, extending the frame to the left or right, or even up or down, can work far better than the usual 3x2 format that photographers have been dealing with since the earliest Leicas. And with the Sweep Panorama feature in...
By Jim Quinn With some phot...
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This one minute commercial was published by Canon on November 20, 2012. As of this morning, twelve days later, it has racked up 319,692 YouTube views. It's received 2,830 likes, 12 dislikes. It has over a hundred comments. Someone is paying attention. I have no knowledge whether...
This one minute commercial w...
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Surf photographers are an interesting lot. Heroes of the surf all, the best bravely move with fierce determination directly towards a force of nature that engulfs, mangles, and tries its best to break their bodies into many tiny broken pieces. How do they manage to...
Surf photographers are an inte...
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Since moving imaging has become so easy and inexpensive to produce and post, many photographers wonder if there is any room for still photography to exist and thrive as an art form. Indeed, one of the purposes of this forum is to share ideas for...
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The Bicycle Series It was just after sunrise on an October morning in 1989 when Arturo Monroy, a brilliant watercolor painter living in Antigua, Guatemala, opened his window to 7A Avenida Norte. A neighbor Arturo knew to possess unquestionable psychic talent greeted him as he passed...
The Bicycle Series It was jus...
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Did you ever wonder how food commercials capture that perfect shot of beer cascading into a glass, or perfectly moistened vegetables falling elegantly onto a plate? Let's go behind the scenes for a visit to the German studio The Marmalade, where they specialize in slow...
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Long ago and far away in my distant past - about 25 years to be exact - I had the crazy idea of learning to fly an R/C Helicopter. I wasn't all that interested in the R/C bits of it, my vision was to mount a...
Long ago and far away in my di...
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The Latest From DigitalOutBackPhoto: FolioBook for iPad The iPad is an excellent device to show your portfolios to clients or friends. Unfortunately the Photos app is not really very good to show your work. The main reason is that the Photos app is a photo browser (even a...
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