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Don McCullin’s Cameras

Dec

2012

Don McCullin has recently been experimenting with a Canon 5DIII digital camera. For more than 50 years McCullin has used film cameras like Nikon and Olympus Om1′s with his favourite focal lengths; 28mm and 135mm. This camera above saved Don McCullin’s life. The bullet damage can clearly be seen. At Prey Veng, east of Phnom ...

Ansel Adams

Nov

2012

Ansel Adams: Photography from the Mountains to the Sea The Ansel Adams exhibition at The National Maritime Museum in London features over 100 prints, including many never shown in the UK before, from tiny early prints to the photographer’s huge, iconic Mural Project. Depicting Adam’s evolution from pictorialist to modernist photography through images of crashing ...

Hiroshi Sugimoto Seascapes

Oct

2012

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan 1948. In 1970, Sugimoto studied politics and sociology at University in Tokyo. In 1974, he retrained as an artist and received his BFA in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California. Afterwards, Sugimoto settled in New York City Sugimoto ...

Daido Moriyama Videos

Oct

2012

Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Daido Moriyama first trained in graphic design before taking up photography with Takeji Iwaniya, a professional photographer of architecture and crafts. Moving to Tokyo in 1961, he assisted photographer Eikoh Hosoe for three years and became familiar with the trenchant social critiques produced by photographer Shomei Tomatsu. He also drew inspiration ...

Josef Hofleher: Black and White

Oct

2012

This is a great example of Black and White photography by Josef Hofleher, an Austrian who travels all over the world to take photographs for limited edition books.. At the age of 20, Hoflehner purchased a camera and began to travel. An early award for photography began to open doors professionally and his career has ...

A Tale of Two Slums | Photographer: Stephen Dupont

Oct

2012

There are two excellent photographic essays of Polaroids made in the Mumbai slum Dharavi and the Senen slum of Jakarta by Stephen Dupont, an Australian photographer. Dharavi is one of the world’s largest slum and lies on prime real estate in the middle of India’s financial capital, Mumbai and has a population estimated to be 1 million. Many businesses ...

What camera does Daido Moriyama use 2

Oct

2012

There is a lot of discussion on the internet about what type of camera certain photographers use. It is well known that Daido Moriyama favours the Ricoh GR 1s film camera with 28mm lens and more recently the Ricoh GRD range of digital cameras. Most of the black and white prints at the Tate Modern ...

Filters for Digital Photography

Oct

2012

Filters for Digital Photography There are 3 main types of filters for digital photography; Polariser, Graduated and Neutral Density filter. These Photographic filters are attached to the front of the lens to allow certain kinds of light to be able to pass through, and reduce or block out other unwanted light. The polarizing filter ...

Tilt Shift Lens Effect

Sep

2012

Adding Tilt Shift lens effect to a timelapse video really does give the impression of a miniaturized town and it looks like you have used a macro lens. In this tutorial I will show you how to make a timelapse video from still images. Don’t worry if you don’t have a tilt shift lens like ...

Tilt-Shift Photography 1

Sep

2012

The use of tilt-shift camera movements was only available with a view camera in the early days of photography, but the same Tilt-Shift photography effect can now be achieved with any film or digital camera using Photoshop or Lightroom on a computer. Tilt-Shift Photography Tilt–shift photography encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the ...