Just stumbled on this: a really cool project pulled together by Arthouse co-op in Atlanta... You send them $18 and they send you a disposable camera with 24 shots to document your life this summer. You + 999 others from around the world get your snapshots in a gallery show on September 25th, helping to build a picture of life in 2009. It's Friday and you've got a wadded up 20 dollar bill in your... read more ›
May
15
May
12
I'm taking the liberty of suggesting that you do one or more of the following today:1. Shoot personal work. Call in some favors, get creative with no budget, and shoot something for yourself.2. Set free that idea you've been holding onto. Write a blog post about it. Ask your friends what they think. Tell the world.3. Learn about video. Don't have a camera? Buy drip coffee for a month instead of lattes, and buy a... read more ›
May
11
I tweeted this earlier today, but just couldn't resist posting it here on the blog as well. Sure there's all kinds of great aerial, RC, mega extendo tripod VR, or unique POV photography stuff going on these days, but this is quite beautifully executed. Like Google earth NYC, but with a whole lotta polish. Fly like superman over NYC here.File under supercool. Or Superman. (Eat your heart out, Clark Kent. The ol' innernets lets me... read more ›
May
06
In case you blinked and missed it, Panasonic has joined the Video dSLR game with Nikon and Canon with the announcement of their new Lumix GH1, to be released end of May.They're touting a couple "breakthroughs":_HD footage with autofocus. Personally, I have really developed an appreciation for the manual aspects of the Nikon D90 and the Canon 5d, but I can see why the general (read: non-pro/advanced-am, photo-crazed) population will appreciate this._a "multi-aspect"sensor. Short version... read more ›
Apr
27
I've been yelping about photo and video convergence since long before the Nikon D90 and the Canon 5d, so it's nice to see the support for these claims just keep on rolling in. For example, Esquire magazine today announced that the June 2009 issue of their rather glorious magazine (on sale May 10) features Megan Fox on its cover, and more importantly, that the image was captured with a video camera. Yes. That's right the... read more ›
Feb
16
They've been hinting at it for some time now, butPocketWizard radio slaves just one minute ago announced a completely refreshed product offering aimed at continuing to dominate the photographic airwaves radiowaves. And they've spoiled us. Check out the Mini TT1 transmitter and the Flex TT5 transceiver pictured above.It's no secret that I've been using their stuff religiously as long as I've been using remote flashes and cameras. Hell, I just spun through some of my... read more ›
Jan
26
Alrighty. I'm pumped to try something new here. Today I am starting work on a 4-day North American advertising campaign, which--according only to what those I know in the biz can confirm for me--might just be the first such campaign shot using the Nikon D3x.Oh ya, btw, I've started dropping some 24.5 megapixel Nikon bombs these days. Just got a production D3x on Friday.As a part of my continued mission with this here blog, I... read more ›
Jan
07
The year was 1968. My uncle was killed in Vietnam, and this was the camera that he carried into war.But this isn't a sad story, nor is it the end of a story, it's a sort of a cool new beginning--not for my uncle Rick unfortunately, but it is for this little camera.Enter stage right: Seattle’s largest cultural festival, Bumbershoot. Hundreds of bands, theater, performance, food, it’s a 3 day festival in September. Very cool.... read more ›
Jan
07
If you follow me on Twitter, you likly already saw this from my morning tweet, but I couldn't resist posting it here as well. It's just too unbelievable not to share. This photo (left) is of a functioning 4x5 camera made from aluminum, titanium, brass, silver, gem stones and a genuine 150-year-old human skull. Seriously. It seems that the maker of these camera, photographer Wayne Martin Belger is a complete purist and only willing to... read more ›
Nov
14
Ok friends, brace yourselves. The company that brought us the RED ONE video camera--that I've used and raved about before, ad nauseum--today announced their newest addition to the imaging world: not one, but two new DSMC (that's "digital stills and motion camera" in case you missed it) camera platforms...EPIC and Scarlet. Sure you remember my earlier post about the converging technologies of still and video. We've naturally been excited by the newest video dSLR's by... read more ›
