Sunday night I took a few moments to look at my copy of Eliot Porter’s "In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World". For those that are unfamiliar with Eliot Porter he was one of the first photographers focusing on nature and wildlife in color versus black and white. His work has proven to be quite influential inspiring several of today’s iconic wildlife and nature photographers including Art
I had an interesting conversation a couple weeks ago with a neighbor, Saïd Nuseibeh, who is a professional art photographer. Although I have known Saïd is a professional photographer we’ve never talked at great length all that often and until recently, we never talked much about photography itself. While catching up, Saïd and I ended up talking about use of the term “shooting” or “photo sho
From time to time a lot of buzz will surface about GPS devices for photographers that will track, map and embed GPS coordinates in the EXIF metadata of captured images. I use a GPS in the field when I’m out in remote locations not just for safety but to mark locations I’ve either photographed or plan on revisiting. To date I can’t say that I’ve missed having this information embedded in my EXI
I have to admit when I see a beautiful landscape or nature photo I instantly think two things: 1. “I’d love to visit this location and get this shot.” 2. “How would I strive to get my very own perspective of this scene.” In fact when I do visit certain locations its tough not to snap the classic perspective captured by greats such as Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Edward Weston, and contempo
The 14th episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released. Unlike previous episodes a lot of debate and controversy has been swirling within the online photography community and blogosphere in regard to various cases of copyright infringement (see my previous articles Will The Real Flickr Please Stand Up among others) and the use of Creative Commons (Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ among others &am
The 12th and 13th episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released. These episodes feature an interview with Ken Light, the famous social documentary photographer and professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Whether you’re interested in pure photojournalism, street, portrait, event and even nature or landscape photography this interview is one you’ll not want to miss. Discussed in Part I of the int
I was a hold out when it came to digital photography. I love shooting wide so the prevalence of magnification factors was very unappealing. When I could afford a digital SLR that enabled me to get into the realm of 20mm equivalent, even if not enabled with a full frame sensor, I broke from my film camera. That was in 2004 and since that time I’ve shot less than a dozen rolls of slide film versus tens of thousan
I recently came across an article on visual plagiarism and thought it was an excellent read. I’ve not run into this problem personally, but I’ve read about individual examples here and there. This article compiles a good number of visual plagiarism examples and their outcomes. Visual plagiarism: when does inspiration become imitation? – Editorial Photographers UK As the popularity of digital photogr