Monday, March 30, 2009

Photography class

A Review: Symphony Orchestra serves eye candy - Peoria Journal Star

A Review: Symphony Orchestra serves eye candy
Peoria Journal Star, IL
By GARY PANETTA Breathtaking landscape photography, a charming guest conductor by the name of Michael Morgan and heaps of American-style music marked the Peoria Symphony Orchestra's last set at the Civic Center Theater on Saturday. ...


Photographer scolds consumerism through graphics - Red and Black

Photographer scolds consumerism through graphics
Red and Black, GA
Lanier said although the landscape photography he took living in Rutledge might be "prettier" than his newer city photos, the more recent images are worth seeing. "I wouldn't say [the city images] aren't enjoyable to look at - they're certainly ...


In Point Lobos, Where Edward Weston Saw the World Anew - New York Times

New York Times

In Point Lobos, Where Edward Weston Saw the World Anew
New York Times, United States
In Point Lobos State Reserve, a photographer tries to capture the same sights that inspired Weston. By RICHARD B. WOODWARD LANDSCAPE photographers are remembered for the places they took pictures of and almost never for the places they lived. ...


Aperture Foundation Announces Publication of JPEGS: Photographs by ... - Art Daily

Aperture Foundation Announces Publication of JPEGS: Photographs by ...
Art Daily, Maine
Taken together, these masterworks create an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also actively engages the history of landscape painting. Jpegs is a testament to the effects of the digital age on the medium of photography. ...

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Underwater photography

LG Complaint Over Kodak Cameras Gets US Review - Bloomberg

LG Complaint Over Kodak Cameras Gets US Review
Bloomberg
He said Rochester, New York-based Kodak, the photography company founded in 1880 by camera pioneer George Eastman, invented the digital camera more than 30 years ago and many companies license the technology. ITC investigations typically take about 15 ...


Community Calendar Classes - Bristol Herald Courier

Bristol Herald Courier

Community Calendar Classes
Bristol Herald Courier, TN
ARTS DEPOT: Abingdon, Depot Square downtown; portrait painting, basic drawing, Plein Air painting, terra cotta clay Easter bunnies, ink and watercolor, basic digital photography, watercolor for children, tapestry weaving and more; register at least ...


The MacReviewCast #204: Digital Photography, The Lounge and ... - Macsimum

The MacReviewCast #204: Digital Photography, The Lounge and ...
Macsimum, TN
By Tim Verpoorten This week we look at Flip Disk, The MacNerdNews, Digital Photography, The Lounge, Freeware plus much more. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make ...

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Photography contest

3DVU Releases Way2Go, Web-to-Mobile GPS Navigation in Full 3D ... - Emediawire (press release)

3DVU Releases Way2Go, Web-to-Mobile GPS Navigation in Full 3D ...
Emediawire (press release), WA
3DVU launches Way2Go, the first and only personalized Web-to-Mobile route planner giving real-time turn-by-turn, GPS tracking, voice and text guidance navigation for PC and mobile phones with full 3D aerial photography and real terrain elevation of ...


Adventure Photographer (New York, New York) - About The Image

Adventure Photographer (New York, New York)
About The Image, NY
He has eight published picture books to his credit among which are THE SAMURAI WAY, Spiritual Adventures with a Warrior Photographer; SACRED LANDS OF THE SOUTHWEST: aerial photography of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico; and AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, ...


Vanderburgh aerial photo deal OK'd, but with 'if's' - Henderson Gleaner

Vanderburgh aerial photo deal OK'd, but with 'if's'
Henderson Gleaner, KY
Arvay said Pictometry is prepared to throw in, at no charge, aerial photographs of Vanderburgh County that it took in 2004, when it was trying to contract with the county. The company values the photography at roughly $112000. ...
Council OKs Pictometry deal Evansville Courier & Press
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Pictometry flyovers to begin soon in Clayton County - Clayton County Register

Clayton County Register

Pictometry flyovers to begin soon in Clayton County
Clayton County Register, IA
The imagery will provide what neither satellite, GPS, mapping nor traditional aerial photography can - detailed views of any feature. It will provide a vital tool for public safety, emergency management, E911, property and appraisal assessment, ...


Sputnik’s-eye views of county for sale - Lebanon Daily News

Sputnik’s-eye views of county for sale
Lebanon Daily News, PA
His company has archives containing thousands of aerial photos of the Lebanon Valley from as early as 1963 available for purchase. (Brad Rhen / Lebanon Daily News) A Toledo-based aerial-photography company is offering area residents vintage photos of ...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Learning photography

The Cold Facts Of A Melting Arctic - CBS News
To the human eye, the stark Arctic landscape appears frozen in time. But this environment is actually changing. Through time-lapse photography, one can see the landscape disappear … Time-lapse pictures, in some sense, are redefining that term

Couple shares a passion for photography - MyCentralJersey.com
Like most married couples, Gail and Joe Tanski have a lot in common. But they'll be the first ones to tell you that the primary reason they're together is that they share the same passion. The results of that passion — photography — are now

Monday, March 23, 2009

Digital photography review

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: File handling preferences - Corporate Media News

Corporate Media News

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: File handling preferences
Corporate Media News, CA
Find out more about multi-user subscription options at http://www.lynda.com/multiuser/ Chris Orwig is a faculty member of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. He is a professional freelance photographer, interactive designer, educator, ...


Pirkle Jones, California photographer, dies at 95 - Los Angeles Times

Pirkle Jones, California photographer, dies at 95
Los Angeles Times, CA
"I had professional clients who said, 'What in the world are you doing photographing Panthers?' I'd just sort of shrug my shoulders. I did not make a big speech about it. I did the talking through the photographs."

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Macro photography

Eudora Welty as Photographer - Smithsonian

Eudora Welty as Photographer
Smithsonian
But more than that, they show the photographer's wide-ranging curiosity and unstinting empathy—which would mark her work as a writer, too. Appropriately, another exhibition of Welty's photographs, which opened last fall at the Museum of the City of New ...


The News & Advance has solid showing at VPA awards - Lynchburg News and Advance

Richmond Times Dispatch

The News & Advance has solid showing at VPA awards
Lynchburg News and Advance, VA
The News & Advance photographer Kim Raff also won the best-in-show award for daily photography for her work on the series, drawing comments from the judges that included, “A strong photographer-driven project with enough variety to keep us (and ...
News Virginian earns 12 awards in VPA competition News Virginian
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Recognizing photography as a line art - Times Bulletin

Recognizing photography as a line art
Times Bulletin, OH
In 1959, Ivan Dmitri, a highly regarded portrait and color photographer, approached the "Saturday Review" with an idea to help advance the cause of fine photography. Dmitri showed the editor-in-chief a large portfolio of photographs by skilled ...
New Orleans Museum of Art Announcess The Art of Caring: A Look at ... Art Daily
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Nature photography

Gallery: The Best of the Gadget Lab Flickr Group - Wired
The Gadget Lab Flickr group has been quietly growing, and our readers have been posting some great shots, ranging from plain good pictures (with some geek technique behind them) to hardware hacks to follow-ups of the How To projects here at the Lab

Capturing the miniature elements of nature - Estes Park Trail Gazette
ESTES PARK, Colo. — Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) has beautiful vistas and majestic landscapes. Yet there is a more subtle, delicate, and endless landscape that surrounds us. Discovering it requires a shift in the perspective of the seeker

Photo contest winner - Blue Springs Examiner
Congratulations to Chris Williams, a retired school teacher from Independence, who is the Week 2 winner of The Examiner’s photo contest. Williams used a Nikon D2 camera and macro lens to take this picture called “Winter’s Spear” of a piece of

Alien Skin Software Bokeh - Australian PC World
Alien Skin is great if you or your photographer doesn’t have access to the necessary lenses to achieve a Bokeh effect, or you want to add this effect at the end of a composition. Bokeh is the real-world photographic technique for creating images

India will be big technology innovator in next decade (Comment) - Thaindian.com
Economists have been predicting it, stargazers have been forecasting it, and now the technology trend watchers are saying it - the coming decade is surely going to belong to India. Jason Pontin, the charismatic editor and publisher of MIT’s