Yesterday’s scout was epic. After waking at 3:55am Seattle time, flying Seattle >> Denver >> Aspen we arrived and hiked our asses up to 12,395 feet of elevation. Sea level to 12 grand in a few hours. Good for the heart and mind – hard on the lungs. Our scout + the weather report (scheduled [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/60/07/436007.jpeg[/IMG]
Photographers used to spend lifetimes building up their portfolios and networks before their work became widely known to a global audience, but with the advent of the Internet, the fact that anything can “go viral” is completely changing the equation for success. Wired has published a fascinating behind-the-scenes piece on Seth Casteel, whose underwater portraits [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/57/36/435736.jpeg[/IMG]
Japanese website mono-logue released this short 30-second video comparing footage from the Canon 5D Mark II and the new 5D Mark III captured at ISO 12,800. The difference in noise levels is remarkable. Here’s a closer look: (via mono-logue via EOSHD)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/56/70/435670.jpeg[/IMG]
For a recent advertising campaign to bring attention to its hydrogen-powered cars, Mercedes-Benz decided to make a car “invisible” by creating a novel cloaking device using LEDs and a Canon 5D Mark II. One side of the car was covered with several mats of LEDs that display what the DSLR sees on the other side. [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/56/51/435651.gif[/IMG]
Lytro‘s groundbreaking light field camera is finally landing in the hands of customers, and to give people a better idea of how the camera works, the New York Times has published an interesting diagram that shows what makes he camera tick. Here’s what DPreview has to say about the camera: The Lytro LFC is so [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/56/06/435606.jpeg[/IMG]
Photography enthusiast Kris Robinson used to handhold a flash above his subjects for macro photographs, but then he got tired of doing that and ran out of hands. He then came up with the brilliant idea of making a do-it-yourself contraption that attaches to his flash when it’s mounted to the hotshoe. The light travels [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/55/01/435501.jpeg[/IMG]
Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, while the world was still shooting black and white photographs, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was busy inventing techniques for creating color images. Credited with capturing the only known color photo of Leo Tolstoy, Prokudin-Gorsky’s technique involved capturing three separate monochrome photographs of the same scene, each captured [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/54/81/435481.jpeg[/IMG]
Barbara O?Brien is a very talented photographer, but she is an animal lover first and foremost. There is something very unique about the path she took to become a pro photographer and how she developed her skills. She started as a animal actor trainer and naturally picked up the camera years later to capture the [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Focus On Barbara O?Brien – From Animal Trainer To Photographer[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/54/02/435402.jpeg[/IMG]
UK-based wildlife photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas got the Internet’s attention a couple years ago with the BeetleCam, a special remote controlled DSLR that allowed them to capture close-up photos of animals in the wild that photographers would have difficultly strolling up to. After the success of that experiment, they decided to return to Africa [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/53/87/435387.jpeg[/IMG]
The last time C. Corey Fisk walked was in 1992. She has multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease that affects the central nervous system and gradually took her ability to walk and leave her bed. But early February, she went on a photo walk with photographer John Butterill in the woods behind his house in Ontario, Canada [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/53/44/435344.jpeg[/IMG]
Welcome to the first installment in the long term DPS Travel Photography Inspiration Project. We start our world travels in India. The response to requests for photos was highest for this county more than any other and what a fine group of samples were sent! I asked each participant to not only include a photo [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Travel Photography Inspiration Project: India[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/52/95/435295.jpeg[/IMG]
Alarm clock at 4am. Right now, 6am. Boarding an early morning flight from SEA to Aspen, CO via Denver. Does this rhetoric sound familiar? If it does, and if you’re a regular around here, you’ll recall a series of posts I did last year wherein I documented the play by play, day by day “Diary [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/48/83/434883.jpeg[/IMG]
What I learned very quick in my starting activity as a freelance-photographer is that, all work be damned, you have exceedingly little control over your assignment-flow. Sure, you can make a great website/jolly facebookpage/stellar portfolio. But making people to call you now, now now! is rather hard. As idleness is the devil’s playground, I decided [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. How Photoshop Makes us all Paranoid[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/48/41/434841.jpeg[/IMG]
A Guest post by Judd Green You either are a portrait photographer or landscape photographer and you come across the perfect moment, everything falls into place, every aspect and variable in the equation right at this moment equals awesomeness! Now what? Fire at will captain! Take no prisoners! I once fell into this temptation in [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Knowing how to Create a Photo and Not just Take One[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/48/30/434830.jpeg[/IMG]
Ever clicked the sepia button on Aperture, Lightroom, or your favorite photo app and wondered, “What the hell is sepia?” I bet you have. It’s fascinating how many novice and seasoned photographers alike don’t know exactly what Sepia is. So I figured I’d give you all a little bit of cocktail party ammunition to impress [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/44/94/434494.jpeg[/IMG]
A guest post by Lara White from PhotoMint. In this article, she explains why networking is critical for photographers looking to go pro. To learn more about how to get business by networking, check out PhotoMint’s new ebook, Get Connected: Build Relationships to Drive Your Business. When you make the decision to earn a living [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. 4 Reasons Why Networking Is Critical to Going Pro[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/44/11/434411.gif[/IMG]
by Lynford Morton from www.photocoachpro.com. If you want to make the evolution from pointing and shooting to creating art, one of the things you must do is master your camera. I’m talking the kind of mastery where you can pick up your camera in most situations and begin firing quickly without too much fiddling around. [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. 8 Things Every Camera Owner Should Know About Their Camera[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/43/52/434352.jpeg[/IMG]
Here’s a documentary film about acclaimed American photographer Richard Avedon that originally aired in 1995. If you have 90 minutes to spare, watching this movie is a great way to peek into the mind of a master and become inspired to improve your own photography. (via Strobist)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/41/53/434153.gif[/IMG]
In addition to its big 5D Mark III announcement today, Canon also made some big updates to its high-end professional accessories, the biggest of which is the new Speedlite 600EX-RT. This new top-of-the-line flash unit replaces the 580EX II and uses a new radio-based wireless triggering system. Communicating on 2.4 GHz frequencies, the new flash [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/41/43/434143.jpeg[/IMG]
Samsung has developed what the company claims is the world’s first CMOS sensor that can capture both RGB and range images at the same time. Microsoft’s Kinect has received a good deal of attention as of late for its depth-sensing capabilities, but it uses separate sensors for RGB images and range images. Samsung’s new solution [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/41/14/434114.jpeg[/IMG]
