Master Photographer Series: Gary Winogrand shooting on the street.

This from the PBS show Creativity, shown in 1982. An excellent segment featuring interviews, commentary, and shots of Gary Winogrand shooting on the street. Although dated, it is still relevant.



Los Angeles by Gary Winogrand, 1969.

Photos - Bodie and Mono Lake Photo Workshop

California Photography Workshop to Bodie and Mono Lake, June 2009.

We had a great group of people and had some very nice photo opportunities from last week's workshop. This is a collection of some of the places and people.Link to the photos from the recent Bodie, Mono Lake, CA. photo workshop.

Photos copyright by Keith Skelton

Obama portrait taken with a cell phone

Shawn Rocco shoots with a Motorola E815 cell phone. He discovered, the Motorola E815 can produce almost velourlike black tones. He’s also found that the slight delay in the shutter release can createf serendipity by capturing an instant slightly after the one he was going for.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWym8q13-sw&eurl=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/shoptalk-4/?hp&feature=player_embedded

Q&A with Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally of The New York Times

Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally, who oversees photography for The New York Times, is answering questions from readers June 22-26. This is good information for any aspiring photographer.

Photojournalist Steve McCurry will shoot one of the last rolls of Kodachrome film.

Good bye Kodachrome. The greatest film ever made made by Kodak is coming to an end after 74 years. I began using Kodachrome in 1968 when I traveled to Mexico with my Grandfather's Kodak Bantam camera that shot 828 sized rolls film. In the following 30 years I shot thousands of rolls of Kodachome gradually switching over to Fugi films as Kodachrome processing became harder to come by.

Kodachrome is fundamentally different from other color films that have dye couplers incorporated into the emulsion layers. Kodachrome is unique because it has no dye couplers in the emulsion; these are introduced during processing. When stored in darkness, images on Kodachrome slides over fifty years old retain accurate color and density. Kodachrome was made as a ASA (ISO) 25, 64, and a Type A 40. Many top photographers used Kodachrome including Jay Maisel, Pete Turner, and Ernst Haas.

"They give us those nice bright colors. They give us the greens of summers. Makes you think all the world's a sunny day," Paul Simon sang. "... So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away."

OIl refinery, Corpus Christi, TX. Kodachrome 40. By Keith Skelton

New Voigtländer 50mm F1.1 for Leica

Cosina, manufactures of Voigtländer, have announced a new 50mm F1.1 lens. Voigtländer makes some very fine lenses and cameras. The lens has the "M" mount for Leica, Zeiss and Voigtländer rangefinder cameras. The digital lens factor makes this about a 66 mm equivalent when used on the Leica M8. The lens will cost $1,149 at Camera Quest. Leica's 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux costs a mere $10,000 at B&H Camera.

Amazing what someone might pay for one f stop of light.

Eye-Fi PRO wireless SDHC memory cards

The Eye-Fi Pro lets users wirelessly upload more file types, including JPEG and RAW images and videos. The Eye-Fi Pro also allows users to create an ad hoc connection through their computer or other mobile device to wirelessly upload media files without the need for a wireless router or internet connection. The 4 GB card also has automatic geo tagging. It might be the card that never needs to be removed from the camera. $149USD.

Lost Polaroid

Here is a nice remembrance of Polaroid's Positive/Negative films from The New York Times.

I used to occasionally shoot the Type 55 4X5 with an antique Graflex view camera. After the shot, the negative part of the film was placed in a solution of sodium sulfite in a special white plastic bucket made by Polaroid to clear it. Then it was washed and dried before printing. The ASA (ISO) was 50 and the quality of the negative was superb.

Polaroid ceased production of it's films last year.

Here is a shot I took with the Type 55 about 15 years ago and later scanned it.

Control the Canon DSLR with iPhone

Here is a cool application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. A WiFi iPhone application that allows you to remotely fire some Canons with image review. The intervalometer can be used as a custom self-timer or can take a series of images at a given time interval. You can take a picture anywhere from 1 second to 1 day apart and take up to 1,000 frames.

Here is the list of current Canon Camera Compatibility
DSLR Camera Remote supports most current and previous generation Canon EOS digital SLR cameras.

Supported Canon cameras (as of June 5, 2009) and connection types:

Firewire Connection:
- 1D Mark II
- 1Ds Mark II
- 1D Mark II N
- Rebel XT/350D/Kiss Digital N
- 20D
- 5D
- Rebel XTi/400D/Kiss Digital X
- Rebel Xsi*/450D*/Kiss X2*
- Rebel XS*/1000D*/Kiss F*
- 30D
- 40D*
- 50D*
- 5D Mark II*
- 1D Mark III*
- 1Ds Mark III*
* Indicates camera support for LiveView preview mode.

Nikon and auto focus support will be offered soon.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Here is some great information on STREET PHOTOGRAPHY by Markus Hartel. I especially like the downloadable film grain files to be used as layers in Photoshop. His BLOG is HERE.

Photographs copyright by Keith Skelton

An amateur's guide to time lapse photography

An amateur's guide to time lapse photography

Time laspe of Yellowstone shot with a Nikon D90

Yellowstone from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.

Can Assignment Photography Survive The Downturn?

Can Assignment Photography Survive The Downturn?

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The Impassioned Eye - 1 of 10 2006 documentary on Henri Cartier-Bresson

BURN MAGAZINE

Here is a great blog site, BURN, for emerging photographers created by David Alan Harvey of Magnum.

A $10,000 grant will be awarded in early 2009 to a worthy emerging photographer whose work is on the highest level. Funding would be designed to support continuation of this photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be of either journalistic mission or purely personal artistic imperatives…


Desert Storm by Sean Gallagher

Tank Man of Tiananmen Square

Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen. The New York Times.

In response to this post, a fifth photographer, Terril Jones, has shared with Lens his picture of the impending confrontation, from street level. It has never before been published.

How does a Photographer's get an agent?

How do Photographer's get an agent? From A Photo Editor.
Q and A with Deborah Schwartz Reps.

Photo by Keith Skelton

North Korea - by Tomas Van Houtryve

The photographs in Tomas van Houtryve’s exhibition were taken in 2007 and 2008, during two trips to North Korea, the country with the most impenetrable totalitarian regime in the world. Posing as an industrialist, the artist was able to visit and discretely photograph scenes previously undocumented by a Western photographer. Despite being monitored at every moment and subjected to interrogation by government minders, his photos offer a rare peek inside this starkly isolated country.


Tomas Van Houtryve, North Korea : The Secret Nation, 2008 / Food For Your Eyes from Food For Your Eyes on Vimeo.

How to Get the Most from a Photography Workshop

How to Get the Most from a Photography Workshop

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