John C. H. Grabill’s Photos of Western Frontier Life.. 1887-1892 Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life — hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans. Most [...]
From New York Institute of Photography Blog http://tinyurl.com/4kl3v4y A scientist friend emailed me the link to this article, inScientific American, and I felt it must be shared with the photography community as well. Talk about the healing power of photography! This brings it to a whole new level, and has also been scientifically proven. [...]
The Officers Page has been updated.. A hearty Welcome Aboard to all our new board members. Some quick notes on the upcoming changes to the CMPG Website. In the upcoming week(s) I will be working with the outgoing webmaster to update, trash or move to archive if needed, any old entries that reference past dates, [...]
We are all terrorists. So go out and shoot! http://carlosmiller.com/2010/09/07/tsa-publishes-new-posters-depicting-photographers-as-terrorists/
Have a soft spot for lo-tech cameras like the Diana-F, Holga or the Hipstamatic 100? Have an iPhone 3G, 3Gs or 4G? 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 [...]
From the Maccreate.com website. 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. [...]
Canon has taken it’s first steps with in-camera multiple flash control. Peter Carey from the Digital Photography School explains how it works with the Canon 7D at the link below. http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-control-multiple-flashes-wirelessly-with-a-canon-7d
Nancy Hill discusses five key elements to making great photographs in this article at photography.com. According to Nancy, “Any one of the five elements above will move your photographs a step away from “That’s nice.” The more of the elements you use in one image, the closer you are to getting a “Wow! That’s beautiful!” [...]
by Roger Cicala, LensRentals.com (used with permission) One of the most common examples of Anti-logic we see at Lensrentals is the statement The lens is soft/frontfocuses/backfocuses. Now don’t get me wrong, there are bad copies of lenses out there, as best we can tell ranging from 3% to 7% of lenses. And we know, despite our [...]
Got a little scratch, smudge or dust on the front element of your favorite lens? It may not be the end of the world. Our friends at lensrentals.com had the opportunity to do a little testing this past week, and here’s what they found: Read the story here
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