Master Photographer Series: Sam Haskins

CNN has a video interview with the legendary 83 year old fashion photographer, Sam Haskins. The New Yorker also has a piece dated from September that discusses Haskin's new book "Fashion Etcetera". Check it out.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year from The First Post

The U.K. online magazine The First Post, has a small, but nice series of unusual wildlife photos.

Here is another wildlife series from The Guardian.

Starlings photo by Danny Green

A cool video shot by James Adamson with the Canon 5D

Thanks, Vimeo (and folks) your a real inspiration to me.



This is a one minute video for the weekend competition at Vimeo. I shot this with a 5d and a Ziess lens.



No Cuts

No Movements

No Nothing

1 Minute



This was taken from my car in Downtown SF.

Nikon D300S in HD - by photojournalist Ami Vitale

This has been out for a while but is still worth taking a look at for anyone considering Buying a Nikon D300S.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta

Adobe has released Lightroom 3 good until April 30, 2010 when the final version is released. The free trial can be found HERE

Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:

• Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
• State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
• Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
• Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
• Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
• Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
• New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
• More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)*

Panasonic DMC-LX3 Firmware update finally (re) released

Included in the 2.1 Firmware update are:

Improved auto white balance performance.
Auto Focus speed-up.
Recording function with an aspect ratio of 1:1 has been added.
A white balance (WB) bracket function has been added.
[HIGH DYNAMIC] has been added to scene mode.
[LENS RESUME] has been added to the [SETUP] menu.
[MENU RESUME] has been added to the [SETUP] menu.
The exposure compensation and the auto bracket compensation can now be set up to ±3EV.
Position of the guide line can now be set.
It is now possible to display the highlights in playback mode.
It is now possible to record the user’s name in the picture.
Digital red-eye removal has been modified.
Items saved in the custom set have changed.

Photographer Vincent Laforet - New video shot with the EOS-1D Mark IV

10-20-09 - Canon has requested that Photographer Vincent Laforet take down “Nocturne.” Why. one would wonder?

More HERE from Karel Donk blog.


Vincent Laforet posted an amazing video shot with the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV with ISO ranges from 100-12,800! Along with the new Nikon D3s with ISO boost up to 102,400, it won't be long until we will be shooting in complete darkness.

Alabama Hills Photo Workshop Photos

We had a great weekend in the Alabama Hills shooting photos. Here are a set a photos:

Photographs from Monument Valley Photo Workshop

We had a great photo workshop Oct. 8-11. Here are photos of the places and people:

The Unknown Street Photographer

Street Photography has always been a love of mine. I friend recently forwarded me a link with photographs by Vivian Maier who passed away this last spring. She shot in obscurity  through the 1950s to 1970s. Most were shot with a medium format twin lens reflex camera.

John Maloof acquired some 40,000 negatives of hers, 15,000 of which have not been processed, at a furniture auction in Chicago.


From these samples there are some wonderful photographs! Check it out.


I am offering a street photography workshop in Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2010.

Vincent Munier and the Nikon D3S

Most photographers are aware that Nikon has launched the D3X that boasts of a usable ISO rating up to 12,800. Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier tested the camera in the field.

The camera looks great but what is more interesting is the photography by Vincent Munier. All aspiring wildlife photographers should check out his work.

Here is a video shot by Vincent with the Nikon D3x:

Panasonic delays DMC-LX3 Firmware update

The download for the firmware update program to Ver.2.0 has been temporarily suspended, in order to make sure the reliability of the firmware, more specifically in case of the use of some newly added functions on Custom shooting mode. The download is expected to be available back again around the 20th Oct.

For the users who have already updated LX3 to Ver.2.0
The camera which has been already updated to Ver.2.0, can be used without any problem after the reset of the camera by selecting the [RESET] in Setup menu.
Please note that all settings except the clock setting will be reset to the initial settings. To keep the current settings, please make sure to write down the settings on a note in advance to reset the settings.