Beached Whale

If you answered yes to both of these questions, you’ll want to check out the story of The Great Hipstamatic 100, and the Hipstamatic iPhone App.

Briefly, the Hipstamatic 100 was a low-cost clone of a cheap, Russian plastic camera that was made in the early 80′s by a pair of brothers in Wisconsin. 157 of the cameras were made before they were killed by a drunk driver. 154 of those cameras were sold — the other three remained with the family.

Now, the folks at Synthetic are making what may be the ultimate plastic camera emulator, and it’s an app for the iPhone. For a couple of bucks (for a limited time) you get a snazzy app that sports a small selection of “lenses”, “films” and a “flash.” And, additional lens and film sets (called Hipstapaks) are available for only 99 cents.

You’ll probably not be able to print poster-sized prints from the images made with Hipstamatic, but I have made an 8×8 of the attached picture on cheap, plain paper, and it actually looks pretty good.

Troy Fisher of Ivy Mike

While we’re at it, cell-phone cameras are getting to be pretty darned good these days. Even the stock photo application on the iPhone can be used to make some fun images — even under some pretty challenging conditions.

The image of vocalist Troy Fisher was made at the Recher Theatre in Towson, and is shown here pretty much straight out of the phone. Is is a “perfect” image? No, it’s certainly not. But, it captures the raw energy of the moment in a way that a top-notch DSLR never could.

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Members: If your image(s) were selected, please make the appropriate arrangements for your work to get to Penn Camera. More details shall follow on the events e-mail list and in the forums.

I should mention that the images are not displayed in the gallery in the order of ranking, but rather, by the unique ID number of the image, as it was assigned automatically by the database system.

A Flickr group ( http://tinyurl.com/2c2gn5u ) has been created to display the pictures taken and all participants are encouraged to come to the CPMG meeting on August 25th which will be devoted to a discussion of the photos taken.

Many thanks to Earl Blake for organizing this event

http://www.photowalklist.com/

Last night I was a photo editor at the NBA Playoff game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Phoenix Suns. I’m a staff photographer at The Oregonian newspaper. It was my responsibility to import, select, caption and send images via ftp to the newspaper. The tip off time was 7:50 p.m. My deadline was 9:15 p.m. This means I would have to have enough photos sent to cover the needs of the paper and for the online gallery by halftime. Here’s how it went.

http://aperture.maccreate.com/2010/04/30/aperture-3-03-editing-three-photographers-using-nine-cameras-at-the-nba-playoffs/

I’ve created a twitter account for the club  ( cmpg_photos )  that  with Geren’s help, is now linked to our website.  Posts, announcements, even uploads to our Flickr site are automatically posted to Twitter.  Why wait for emails when the tweets can come right to your mobile device.   Fellow Twitter members cans start following us at cmpg_photos .  Non Twitter members can follow us at http://twitter.com/CMPG_Photos ,  or become members at  http://twitter.com/login, signup is fast, free, and fun. Follow US! at CMPG_Photos ….    Tweet Tweet!

DwM

Central Maryland Photographers’ Guild_CMPG

This group will be open to any CMPG, Fickr member, who wishes to showcase one or more of their favorite images on Flickr.

Since I’ve restricted group membership to club members only, (only members can post all can see) send me your flckr user’s name I’ll sign you up.  The groups url is

http://www.flickr.com/groups/mdphoto/

For those out there who are not flickr members why not join up and give it a try.   www.flickr.com  It’s fast and easy to sign, up plus it’s FREE!

Enjoy!

dwm