Bow Tower Under Construction
iPhone 4 makes for an interesting camera and darkroom all on a mobile device.
The Bow Tower under construction in Calgary
IPhone 4 Camera
The new iPhone 4 camera is pretty sweet with its 5 megapixel camera and LED flash. I picked mine up during the official launch in Canada on Friday. I can tell the camera UI is way more responsive and will make mobile photography a lot of fun.
Adobe Photoshop 20th Anniversary
Adobe celebrates 20 years of Photoshop
It’s hard to believe but Adobe’s Photoshop is 20 years old now. There’s also a Photoshop 20th Anniversary site which includes a video of the original creators discussing the early uses of the image editing program.
The first names for the famous image editing program was Display, and Image Pro before it was finally called Photoshop.
The image editing program was originally developed by Thomas Knoll and John Knoll in 1987 and was finally released as Photoshop 1.0 in 1990 for the Macintosh.
Photoshop has been a favorite tool of mine to edit images and made it much easier to edit and process images over the traditional wet darkroom.
The Sartorialist – Fashion Photos Of People On The Street
The Sartorialist is a fashion blog, but has many interesting portraits on the street.
The Sartorialist blog was started by Scott Schuman to share great fashion photos of people he saw on the streets of New York.
Schuman worked in women’s fashion industry in sales and marketing. He also opened a fashion showroom for young designer collections.
Shuman’s love for photography and fashion came together in The Sartorialist blog. He photographed from the view of a designer looking for inspiration.
The collection of photos will provide on the blog will certainly provide inspiration for fashion fans but also photographers who love portraits.
U.S. National Archives Added To Flickr Commons
President Nixon and Elvis pose for a photograph. Source, U.S. National Archives
The U.S. National Archives has been added the The Commons in Flickr, a collection of the world’s public photos.
There are 3000 images that have been uploaded to The Commons collection and are divided into four main collections. The collections cover Americana and American history.
Anyone interested in the photographic history will have the opportunity to view such photographs as the civil rights march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and landscape images of national parks by Ansel Adams.
The Commons in Flickr also allows viewers to give their input and knowledge to the growing collection of public photos by adding tags and leaving comments.
The combination of historical photography freely available online and input from viewers makes this a much richer experience than any photographic history book could provide.
Bow Building With Artificial Light
Artificial lighting lit up the construction site around the Bow building under construction.
During a morning walk to the C-train for work I always like to stop and look up at the Bow building under construction in downtown Calgary. The small size of my Panasonic GF-1 with the 20mm lens made it easy to take a quick photo.
A slow shutter of 0.8 sec at f/7.1 and 200 ISO was my exposure. I braced my camera on part of the train platform to help steady it for the shot.
I’ll probably go back and make several more attempts at photographing the Bow using a low ISO.
What attracted me to this city landscape is the artificial lighting surrounding the construction site.
Photo Exhibit 2010 at SAIT
SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) is holding a special photojournalism exhibition on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 1:00 – 3:00 pm at the library, room MC111.
This is a great opportunity to show support for graduating students and their hard work in photojournalism.
Review of Olympus E-P2
For more reviews: Steve Huff Photo
Crossroads: The Art of Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks was an American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and film director.
Crossroads: The Art of Gordon Parks exhibit is on display at the Ulrich Museum of Art until April 11, 2010.
The opening reception brought about 300 people last Saturday. The exhibit features photographs, letters, documents from the life of Gordon Parks.
Gordon Parks was the first African American to work as a photographer for Life magazine from 1948 to 1961. A photo essay on a Harlem gang leader give him the opportunity to work on staff for Life magazine. Other photo essays by Parks, included a Brazilian boy, Flavio da Silva. Silva was ill with bronchial pneumonia and malnutrition.
Parks also worked as a trainee for Roy Stryker in the Farm Security Administration. It was at this time he created some of his most memorable photographs, documenting the life of Ella Watson.
Watson worked as a cleaner. A portrait of her standing in a stiff pose in front of an American flag was inspired by Parks after he encountered racism in local shops and restaurants.
Portrait of Ella Watson, a government cleaning woman. Photo by Gordon Parks
Ella Watson and her family. Photo by Gordon Parks
Carry Your Camera For Breaking News
A two-storey commercial structure in Calgary's Chinatown, which houses Bobby Chao's restaurant caught on fire this morning around 5 a.m. on Monday, January 25, 2010. -Photo by Peter Mah
I bought the Panasonic GF-1 because it was small, light weight, and mainly to carry with me all the time.
You never know when an opportunity for a photographic moment might happen. Sometimes news breaking moments happen close by and the best camera is the one you have with you.
Those opportunities might even provide images for online citizen journalism websites, such as NowPublic.
