The photography sector is facing another upheaval: Towards the end of the 1990s, digital cameras started replacing analog models. Now there is a new trend to replace digital cameras with cell phones with camera capabilities. A representative study carried out by optical component specialists Schneider Kreuznach confirms the potential of cell phone photography. Around 1,000 users in Germany, China, India, and the U.S.A. were interviewed about their specific usage patterns relating to picture-taking with digital cameras and cell phones. International comparison of usage patterns One out of four respondents indicated that in future they would exclusively use cell phones for picture-taking (early adopters), provided the quality matched that of today's upper mid-range digital cameras with approximately 6 million pixels.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Self-Taught Techniques
Without much cajoling, international award-winning photographer Song Jin Tek reveals the secrets behind his remarkable photo of a bird diving underwater with a fish firmly in its beak.
Conventional wisdom has it that nature photography requires patience and luck, but Song, whose work ranked 9th in the Photographic Society Americas colour slide division in 1990, says he can make birds, dragonflies, butterflies and insects pose for him.
His birdshot, entitled Catching (1990), was actually a scene from an aquarium. As part of the props preparation for the shot, Song impaled a live fish on a wire and planted it firmly among rocks in the middle of the aquarium.
Other fish, meant only for the camera, were made to swim among the leafy sides, shielded to prevent from distracting the bird.
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Conventional wisdom has it that nature photography requires patience and luck, but Song, whose work ranked 9th in the Photographic Society Americas colour slide division in 1990, says he can make birds, dragonflies, butterflies and insects pose for him.
His birdshot, entitled Catching (1990), was actually a scene from an aquarium. As part of the props preparation for the shot, Song impaled a live fish on a wire and planted it firmly among rocks in the middle of the aquarium.
Other fish, meant only for the camera, were made to swim among the leafy sides, shielded to prevent from distracting the bird.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Aerial Photography as High Art
Conrad Lowman is an artist who really gets high on his art. High in the sky, that is. While he was studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, Lowman was inspired to take to the air with a camera. He had seen the works of William Garnett, a pilot who took pictures of wheat fields and man’s manipulation of the earth from the sky.
In 1990, after he had formed his own photography business in Wilmington, he was on an aerial shoot over the USS North Carolina Battleship when he asked the pilot to fly over the barrier islands and marshes.
“The patterns, textures, designs and colors were so spectacular that I have been photographing nature’s changing waterscape ever since,” he said during the opening of a show on Jan. 25.
His aerial photographs are on display at the Fayetteville’s Museum of Art’s Gallery 208.
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In 1990, after he had formed his own photography business in Wilmington, he was on an aerial shoot over the USS North Carolina Battleship when he asked the pilot to fly over the barrier islands and marshes.
“The patterns, textures, designs and colors were so spectacular that I have been photographing nature’s changing waterscape ever since,” he said during the opening of a show on Jan. 25.
His aerial photographs are on display at the Fayetteville’s Museum of Art’s Gallery 208.
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