Sunsets (thumbnail courtesy simonov). It’s hard to imagine a more spectacular time of day to take photographs than when the sun starts to set. With their incredibly rich colors, and dramatic abstraction of the everyday, sunsets are naturally appealing to most folks even if for the simple reason of we simply don’t see the world this way for the majority of the day (if at all). It’s no surprise then, that most photographers will at some point try their hand at capturing a sunset. Unfortunately, it often is not as easy as you’d imagined. The huge dynamic range of sunsets often will wreck havoc with your camera’s metering, leaving you with blown highlights, or shadows with no detail. Luckily, there are some things you can do with your digital SLR camera (and possibly point and shoot compact) to help you take home some spectacular sunset photographs of your own. We’ll tell you how, after the jump…
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Far from looking “gimmicky” the video coming from the Nikon D90 looks vastly more appealing to my eye than your typical consumer video camera, and of course a large part of that is the ability to use an incredible library of lenses and their features…
Yes, I’ve finally finished the redesign started, oh….about 5 months ago. I took the design and incorporated into a new theme that allows for more features, and hopefully more efficiency. On the back end I have to switch alot of stuff, categories, pages, etc. to get all the hook ups….
This is ISO 1600 straight from the camera of Flickr member turbodude, who has lots of crops at high ISO here…
Obviously the DIGIC IV is doing a bang up job on ISO 1600 and 3200. Still got some banding when it goes past 6400, but this is still pre-production firmware.
I’m starting to get excited about the possibilities of the 5D replacement, and one other camera that’ll be using the DIGIC IV, the 14.7 megapixel G10.
Some first glimpses of the Sony A900 out in the wild, with what looks to be a Zeiss 16-35mm lens with internal zoom…
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I noticed this today at Exposure Compensation, and had to share because the aerial photography of Alex MacLean is very good. The abstraction provided by the perspective of being in an airplane combined with MacLean’s keen (and architect trained) eye produces very appealing results with wonderful compositions.
Maclean’s website is here
In addition Maclean has [...]
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Been busy with camera news as of late, but Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Mirzaei’s work is very interesting. Compositions are spare, and there’s a focus on enviromental lines and shapes (at least in his series “The Encounters”), but the most fascinating thing about them is the capture of small moments, between 2 persons or [...]
Ali Richards takes photos (using large format) of the urban (and not so urban) landscape. The above from the series “Playgrounds” whose subject matter focuses on the burnt out carcasses of automobiles.
I love her description at Saatchi Online:
London dweller with travelling boots.
Her site is here.
Hey, there’s not a lot of news today. You should be:
taking photographs
developing photographs
backing up photographs
looking at Candida Höfer’s work
Höfer’s work featured at 1000 Words focuses on public spaces. Empty and barren, Höfer uses large format with very long exposures to reveal layers and layers of detail.
You can see (and should see) more here, and here.
It’s a slow newsday, so kill the time by going now to Brad Cockrell’s excellent photo journal. Cockrell’s quality is just unbelievably consistant. He shoots everything, and excels regardless of the subject matter (which are somehow always very interesting) I don’t know how he does it, but Brad Cockrell’s Photo Journal is a definite bookmark.
