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Nikon’s new line of COOLPIX cameras offers features and controls that appeal to users from the casual shooter to the emerging pro. Highlighted here is the COOLPIX P7100. The 10.1-megapixel COOLPIX P7100 is the ideal camera that advanced photographers will seek as a companion to their D-SLR camera when both portability and superior image quality [...]
JOBY announced the launch of three new portable tripods, designed to meet the needs of today’s digital camera consumer. Imagine taking limitless hands-free photos wherever and whenever you want to with tripods that seamlessly attach to your point-and-shoot or CSC/EVIL cameras. Unfold the mini-tripod when you want instant stability and positioning; afterwards, the tripod legs [...]
SideKick TM by LensPen® is a new screen cleaning tool specially designed to remove fingerprints from iPads and tablet touch-screens. There are no tissues, no cloths, no sprays and no liquids. Oily fingerprints are quickly removed from your screen with a patented carbon technology. SideKick’s carbon compound is similar to the one found in printer’s [...]
Lighter and more compact than its predecessor, Sigma’s updated 18-200mm lens features the company’s “F” Low Dispersion (FLD) glass elements, which perform like fluorite glass and significantly improve lens performance. Ideal for beginner and professional photographers alike, this 11.1x highzoom ratio lens is designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras and incorporates Sigma’s Optical Stabilization (OS) [...]
At age 78 and still going strong, Rich Clarkson has been a force in photography since the 1950s. Always a stickler for excellence, he was known as a tough boss to work for but one who would make you a better photojournalist. A book produced for a July 2010 reunion of 34 of his photographers at the Topeka Capital- Journal says it best:
Rich Clarkson touched our minds, hearts and souls in ways that nobody else ever did. Fear became respect. Respect became admiration. Admiration became friendship. Friendship became love. We all owe Rich more than we can tell or show — except by what we’ve done after we left the Topeka Capital-Journal.
The long list of legendary photographers who worked for Clarkson includes Susan Biddle, Brian Lanker, David Alan Harvey, Rod Hanna, Chris Johns, Sarah Leen, Jim Richardson, Gary Settle, Bill Snead and many more.
Charles Grogg is known internationally for his fractured photographic images. Printed in silver or platinum/palladium on handmade Japanese paper, he stitches their components together with tethers, sutures or other three-dimensional material. The resulting works address issues of growth and restraint, hesitation and power.
The poet and photographic historian John Wood observes:
Charles Grogg’s photographs are hauntingly beautiful. And they are strange… Strings and wire are often an integral part of a Grogg photograph… wire, string, tendrils, roots, veins, all the connecting tethers of life, become his metaphor…
Where, one might ask, is the beauty of a mud dauber wasp’s nest, a stapled envelope, a cracked egg, or a woman with a tree’s roots on her head? It is all in the making. The very fact that Grogg can make beautiful photographs of such subjects speaks to the selectivity of his eye and the power of his craft.
Rising up through Tibet’s Himalayas, the snow-covered peak of Mount Kailash glows as if illuminated from within, radiating a hallowed essence. The sacred site is one of hundreds around the world that Izu has photographed since 1979. His 14×20-inch large format, platinum/ palladium contact prints — among them, Egypt’s Step Pyramid, Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, Easter Island, Machu Picchu and the Mayan ruins — appear in Kenro Izu: A Thirty Year Retrospective (Nazraeli Press, 2010), his ninth and most recent book.
“It’s not my purpose to photograph the architecture,” Izu tells me from his studio in Rhinebeck, New York (www.kenroizu.com). “I’m trying to photograph the air surrounding it. I feel that the accumulation of prayers over thousands of years is embedded in the atmosphere.”
Wacom pen tablets and interactive pen displays have long set the industry standard, helping photographers at all levels — from enthusiast to professional — to accomplish photo editing tasks like dodging, burning, blurring and sharpening faster and easier than ever before. Here are some of the latest developments in the Wacom product line. Cintiq 24HD [...]
While growing up in northern San Diego County, Bill Dewey was aware of photography because his two grandfathers were serious amateur photographers. His maternal grandfather had studied with the photographer William Mortensen. In the 1930s, Mortensen worked as a Hollywood portrait photographer, also staging and photographing elaborate (and sometimes bizarre) tableaus using the style and techniques of the nineteenth-century Pictorialists. Dewey remembers photographs of costumed, [...]
For the past 30 years, Jim Vecchi’s camera has helped him turn his gaze inward. “My artworks are a reflection of my ongoing search for meaning,” he says. “I rely on beauty and the act of seeing to explore, question and reinterpret the way that we perceive the world.” Vecchi’s photographs offer a way in. It’s as if his [...]
Think of Elliott Erwitt, and an iconographic image that comes to mind is his photograph of an anxious, sweatered Chihuahua dwarfed by the boots of its owner and the colossal front feet and legs of a Great Dane. With an observant and eclectic eye and an unexpected point of view, this 83-year-old veteran photojournalist has often explored life at its most [...]
Photographer’s Forum was founded in 1978 as a magazine for serious students of photography. The annual College Photography Contest began the following year with the goal of giving students the opportunity to have their work juried and published. Over 20 years ago, Nikon USA joined in this effort and has co-sponsored our student competitions ever since. Andrew Rubenstein, Assistant Manager of Communications for Nikon, [...]
Sigma’s latest entry in its SD camera line is its flagship SD1, released inJune 2011. The successor to the SD15, the 46-megapixel SD1 presents a new option for full-frame digital SLR users and also for photographers who require the image quality of a traditional medium format camera. Mark Amir-Hamzeh, president ofSigma Corporation of America, observes,“The [...]
Epson America announces its newest 13- inch printer – the Epson Stylus® Photo R2000. The R2000 features Epson’s nextgeneration pigment printing technology for superior-quality output and durability on a wide variety of media. The printer’s media handling capabilities enable it to print on heavy stationery stocks and metallics, as well as photographic and fine art papers (sheet and rolls) and also print on specialty media [...]
THINK TANK PHOTO RELEASES REDESIGNED BAGS IN NEW SPEED CONVERTIBLE SERIES Think Tank Photo’s three Speed Convertible shoulder bags feature a “disappearing” belt that tucks away into the sides of the bag, reducing bulkiness, and convert into belt packs once the integrated belts are deployed. The soft kidneyshaped design contours comfortably around the body and built-in Modular rails allow attachment of think Tank’s Modular, Skin or [...]
NEW NOVOFLEX PRODUCTS Several new Novoflex accessories are now available from camera stores in the US. The MBAL leveling head moves smoothly and easily in any direction and locks securely with just slight finger pressure, weighs just 9.5 ounces and easily supports cameras up to 22 pounds. The BALL NQ combines a low profile Novoflex ball head with a very strong Novoflex Q MOUNT Arca compatible quick release, featuring a single [...]
NIKON AF-S DX MICRO NIKKOR 40MM F/2.8G Nikon Inc. has introduced the new lightweight and versatile AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G lens, which provides Nikon DX-format shooters macro capabilities at an affordable price point. The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 0.53 feet (6.4 inches) to allow users to capture extreme close-up photographs and High Definition (HD) video with a lifesize 1:1 reproduction ratio. Weighing approximately nine ounces, it is an [...]
Anchell Photography Workshops P.O. Box 277 Crestone, CO 81131 Phn: (719) 256-4157 E-mail: sanchell@ctelco.net Website: www.anchellworkshops.com Anderson Ranch Arts Center P.O. Box 5598 Snowmass Village, CO 81615 Phn: (970) 923-3181 E-mail: info@andersonranch.org Website: www.andersonranch.org Ansel Adams Gallery Photography Workshops P.O. Box 455 Yosemite National Park, CA 95389 Phn: (888) 361-7622 E-mail: workshops@anseladams.com Website: www.anseladams.com Art/Photo [...]
Larry Yust calls his composite images photographic elevations, a term that he says, “I invented, as far as I know.” Photographic elevations reference architectural elevations, which show how walls would appear if you could look anywhere at a building straight on. Elevations are drawn without perspective. Yust describes his photographic elevations as views which are not possible in nature because of [...]
There’s an old saying that goes, “If something really belongs to you, you can’t lose it.” That statement directly applies to photography and Mitch Dobrowner. After he discovered photography as a teenager and began achieving recognition in his early 20s, he left it behind to start a business and a family — only to return to the camera 20 years [...]
Ken Light is a social documentary photographer in the classic sense, shooting exclusively black-andwhite film. He photographs people who otherwise would never be seen or heard. You might think Ken is a dinosaur in a digital world, but in fact, he is a professor in the University of California at Berkeley’s cutting-edge graduate photojournalism program. Light’s latest book, Valley of Shadows and Dreams, will be [...]
For the past six decades, Tamron has pioneered the creation of high-quality lenses for practically every imaging application. Senior Education Manager John VanSteenberg says, “Our philosophy is that lens design is part technology and part art. The art lies in understanding the things photographers want to do, but can’t do yet because of technical limitations. [...]
The Nikon D5100 D-SLR features a large 3.0-inch high resolution swivel type variangle LCD monitor, ISO sensitivity 100-6400 for clean and clear images even in low light, and 4 frames per second (fps) high-speed continuous shooting. Photographers can take advantage of the D5100’s in-camera Special Effects Mode to apply effects such as Selective Color (choose up to three different colors in a scene while [...]
The APO MACRO 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM is a large aperture medium telephoto macro lens. As the successor to the APO MACRO 150mm F2.8 EX DG HSM, which was first introduced in October 2004, the new version now includes the OS technology and a weather-resistant design that is for convenient outdoor use. A floating focusing system in the 150mm moves two different [...]
Tamron’s MyPhotoExhibits interface at http://myphotoexhibits.com allows users to create customizable 3D exhibits online. Simply set up a user avatar and bio, upload your favorite hi-res images, and create a personalized space. After organizing the exhibit and captioning the photos, you can put the finishing touches on your exhibit space by choosing wall and floor textures and colors, photo frames, furniture and lighting. You can return to [...]
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