Lomography’s Spinner 360 Degrees
Posted on: 18 June 2010
This looks cool. What a neat way to capture those panoramic views. Keep in mind it’s lomo and not DSLR.
IRISBook
Posted on: 17 June 2010
If you’re using photobooks to market your work, you may want to check out a new kid on the blook–IRISBook.
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IRISbook is a boutique photo book company for professional photographers looking for a modern approach to showcase work to clients. We create stunning, handcrafted, press printed books with the utmost care for quality and attention to detail. Being photographers ourselves, we have a first-hand understanding of your needs and your desire for excellence. This allows us to offer superior, personalized and knowledgeable service. We strive to offer a distinguished, beautiful product that will show off your talent and truly impress your clients.
- Visit our website to see our products
- Take a look at our 2010 price list
- Sign up for an account
It may be a little pricey for the amateur photographer, but the seasoned professional will appreciate the quality and price of this new company.
Intro to Compositing
Posted on: 16 June 2010
Compositing, or photo compositing, is the technique—art and craft—of combining images to create a new image. The newly created image often presents its own version of reality.
Compositing is often used in advertising, where the use of the technique is sometimes intended to be obvious and at other times is designed to be seamless. Compositing has sometimes been used in journalism, although this use is generally frowned upon when discovered. The opprobrium hasn’t stopped the usage—for example, the Communist party under Stalin used old-fashioned compositing to “purge” out early party leaders as they were discredited by altering historic photographs to remove those who had been purged from the party.
Compositing comes into its own as a fine art technique, where concerns are conceptual, aesthetic and visual rather than related to factual concerns, ethics and marketing. This article concentrates on compositing to create art images—in any case the techniques are essentially the same no matter what the intended usage.
As art, photo composites usually present essentially unreal or “impossible” worlds (this phrase has been used as a description of M.C. Escher’s work, and I like to apply it to many of my photo composites).
If you’ve ever considered this art and would like to learn how to do it in Photoshop, you’ll want to read this article in photo.net.
More on Wedding Photograpy
Posted on: 15 June 2010
Jeff Ascough was voted one of the top ten wedding photographers in the world by American Photo. He has been a professional wedding photographer in the United Kingdom since 1989. He has covered over 1000 weddings with a documentary photography style. Ascough emphasizes capturing the moment without any prompting or interference and using available light. American Photo voted Ascough as one of the ten best wedding photographers in the world.
He is also a Canon Ambassador and uses the Canon 5D Mark II’s due to the low light capabilities. Frank Van Riper in America’s Washington Post described Jeff as “A master at shooting by available light” and went on to describe his images as ”…among the best I ever have seen—an absolute pleasure to see.”
Jeff took a moment to answer questions from photo.net members in the Wedding Photography Forum. Here’s the original Q&A thread.
You can read the complete interview on Photo.net which includes indepth discussions of wedding coverage, workflow, wedding business marketing, gear, technique, album creation, personal style development and what inspires Jeff.
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