As a young man growing up, "I want to be a Cameraman" was never heard around our house. Too difficult. Is there any professional value in that dream today? Ironically, the possibility of becoming a photographer was a goal I never considered, though I was gifted...
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[caption id="attachment_4461" align="aligncenter" width="680"] D610 24MP Front View[/caption] The Nikon D610 HD-SLR Delivers FX-Format Quality and Pro-Level Features for Enthusiasts Ready to Take Their Passion to the Next Level MELVILLE, N.Y. – Nikon Inc. today announced the Nikon D610, the latest FX-format HD-SLR to incorporate cutting-edge features and...
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The 1.4/55 Zeiss Otus is claimed by Zeiss in their marketing promotional materials as the perfect lens. Don't believe this. No lens is perfect. But this one may be close....
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Uwe Steinmueller | 10-7-2013 From: Digital Outback Photo Integrating PhotoNinja With Lightroom, and how best to use it. Our standard image organizer and raw converter is Lightroom 5. But there are cases where we prefer to use other raw converters for some images and cameras. For our Nikon D800...
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Amelie and Alchemy from Konstantin Brazhnik on Vimeo. An antiquarian Tintype photographer father. A four year old contemporary energetic daughter. For 15 seconds, the two worlds collide and with a little help from the black arts of Luther Gerloch emerges poetry...
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Today, hundreds of thousands of photographs will not be taken. The US Congress has declared war on landscape photographers. Thousands of locations are now posted:OFF LIMITS. Across the country, vacations, that dreamed of and earned respite from a year's toil, are being collectively ruined. People...
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Sony QX10 Lens Camera Field Report: More than a cool Concept? Uwe Steinmueller | 09-28-2013 From http://www.outbackphoto.net Mobile phones are the most used cameras in the world. But they are limited in many ways for those who love photography: Mostly fixed focal length (no zoom) Image quality below entry level compact cameras Not much...
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Today's feature is a story that repeats once a year: Burning Man. If you peruse the web, you will find numerous Burning Man films, most of them little worth the time spent watching them. This one is the exception. From a ten year veteran of...
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Seed Story from William D. Caballero on Vimeo. From behind a camera lens, William D. Caballero tells big stories using small figures. His childhood action figures, model railroad set miniature people, and 3D printed polymer-resin models became an army of actors that William positioned amongst life-sized backdrops...
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Samy's Camera did a special interview with Peter Fetterman on the opening of the Salgado Genesis show I previously reported on here: http://thecameraforum.com/sebastiao-salgado-genesis/ The following is from a Samys Camera PR Release. It is an interview with gallery owner Peter Fetterman on his long relationship representing Salgado,...
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Have you ever seen a TV or stage set of a room? Have you been to a live play? There are usually 3 walls - the back wall and 2 side walls. The fourth wall is presumed to be there, but it's invisible - it...
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The Falcon from Scot Hampton on Vimeo. The Falcon is a steampunk stop-motion film starring Professor Weston (ISO 50), Silly Patty (+2/-2 EV) and 'Howell' the Owl (f/256) during the Age of Argus as they journey throughout the Focal Kingdom. The Falcon is composed entirely of macro-photographed...
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The Owl and the Pussycat from Suzanne Birrell on Vimeo. The Owl and the Pussycat is a "coloring book" style animation set to music written, directed, and vocals by Suzanne Birrell. Guitar - Tom Duarte. Lyrics-Now public domain, originally written by Edward Lear (circa 1871). CALICO PIE One...
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Filmmaker and documentarian Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Grizzly Man) has directed a short film on the dangers of texting and driving. From One Second to the Next looks at how four lives have been impacted by texting-related accidents. A gripping subject, from an excellent and...
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MIDWAY - Plastic Beach from Midway on Vimeo. "In the Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity. A beach cleanup on Midway Atoll made...
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MIDWAY, a Message from the Gyre : a short film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo. MIDWAY, a Message from the Gyre, is a short film. It is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the...
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