Your Rights as a Photographer

Painting with light

PhotoGraphy (2mins) from ShiKai Tseng on Vimeo.

Criticism..

via PetaPixel

The shape of things to come?

Photographic discovery

If only you had a polarizer...

Polarizing Filters for Photo and Video from Olivia Speranza on Vimeo.

The light box you never knew you had

The decisive moment(s)

Via: Co. Design > The Daily What

Check out these images from Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg. A hybrid of photography and video, these images extend that "decisive moment" and allow for greater depth within the image. Interpret depth as you will.

Trying to explain user experience

Via: Current Photographer > PetaPixel

This isn't an easy topic to explain. Why would some buy a feature lacking Leica M9, when there are better and less expensive cameras out there? Well, better only accounts for features and picture quality (variation at this point in quality is negligible), it doesn't however account for user experience or as John Ricard explains it, "usability." There is also the fact that limitations force one to, as John Ricard puts it, "focus." You may not be able to get every shot, but the shots you do get are "focused." They are honed and perfected, because after all, you have less to work with. I don't believe using the word "focus" is the best choice (it is and it isn't), but his meaning comes through.

Well designed technology should be simple to use, allowing the user to spend less time on operating and more time on the end result of what that technology was intended to do. Ease of use and physical workflow are important to professionals and amateurs alike. The more experience one has with photography or videomaking the more one develops or requires his or her tools to work the way that makes the most sense for them.

How Canon DSLR cameras work

From Petapixel.

Fiber flash mod

Via Strobist:

Flash modification by running fiber optic from the strobe head. Awesome DIY that works for the student/amateur budget.

A Long-term Project

3 Years At The Same Place (english version) from Ramon on Vimeo.

Vincent Laforet

After posting about the Canon Expo I wanted to go a bit further in depth about Vincent Laforet. Starting out as a photojournalist, Mr. Laforet spent years telling stories through a single image. After moving towards motion capture with the advent of the Canon EOS 5DmII, we have the opportunity to see how a photographer can tell a story with motion. We're moving past one image to tell a story and now telling smaller pieces of a larger story with multiple shots and movement.

Here are some samples of his photojournalist work:

And some fantastic tilt-shift photography(which started the trend and led to an iPhone photo filter):

And then there was video:




This video was viewed so many times (in the millions) when it first appeared on Canon's website that it crashed their servers.