Extreme Photography: The Hottest, Coldest, Fastest, Slowest, Nearest, Farthest, Brightest, Darkest, Largest, Smallest, Weirdest Images in the Universe… shows the physical and technological limits of photography. From volcanoes, Antarctic exhibitions, outer space, thermal, infrared, x-ray, MRI, examples are given as to the potential of the application, its practicality and a little bit of how-to thrown into the mix.
Tag: photography
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Ones and zeros are free
On the plane this weekend, I watched David Hobby’s photo lighting seminar from his Lighting 102 material for Strobist.com. At one point he’s explaining that you don’t have to get the right exposure, and sometimes it takes some fiddling to get the proper combined flash and ambient exposure. You may need to take more than one shot, he says. With this digital stuff,
Ones and zeros are free.
So true.
Take as many pictures as you can. Often, I see people take a picture, look at it, and not be totally satisfied with what they took and accept mediocrity. If they took a few more shots, they might take one they actually enjoy. Digital photography and cameras these days are limited by two things: the size of the memory card and the person taking the picture. The former is a scarcity of space for those ones and zeroes, and the other is a scarcity of effort.
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Coordinated camera flashes at a concert
At concerts, the pop of a camera flash is constant. You see it on TV at the Super Bowl or some other event. At a Robbie Williams concert, for a Nikon ad, he called upon the crowd to raise their cameras and take a picture. The result:
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Dennis Hopper – Bucharest Nights
Eccentric and edgy Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper avidly collected art, and photography was a lifelong active hobby. In 2005, he published Bucharest Nights
, a collection of “digital paintings” at night with a digital camera. The majority of the images are ghostly and ethereal. Stark figures in golden tones against a black backdrop, light trails down a street, neon glows from a casino. A few are stunning but for the most part the book contains good pictures that work better on a whole as a body of work. The random photos of naked women taken with film, jarringly contrasts the preceding 30 or so pictures as if you were listening to soft trance music and someone turned on a buzz saw.
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Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now
Charlie Styr published Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now
using pictures from the Flickr Teenage Photography group. It’s aimed at the beginner or wanna-be-a-little-bit-cooler-by-by-taking-cool-pictures photographers. It’s balanced covering all the essential photography topics-exposure, aperture, shutter speed, light, composition, etc. It goes a little further with the example photos and includes camera settings. This comes in handy when wanting to figure out techniques specific to certain situations, such as macro, low-light, creating light trails or portraits.