So I havn’t been around much on the Blog thats because I’ve got a part time job plus I changed positions at my main job. So its been a busy three weeks. On the good side the part time job will pay for more camera gear. So enough about me and more about the awards. I can’t believe I missed these. Those picture are just amazing, now I know why they won the awards they did. Just look and try not to have any emotions when seeing some of the great photos.
I was slow posting Shane Kelly’s courses last time but on the ball this time. He got a bunch of usefull courses come up really soon. So register soon. Here is what he wrote NLP.
Fall Photography Courses at The Studio continuewith the following courses offered:
Basic Digital Photography -SLR
Oct 6 – Nov 17 (six Mon Evenings 7-10pm, no class on Oct 27)presently 4 seats left
OR
Nov 12 – Dec 17 (six Wed Evenings 7-10pm)registering now
Photographing People –Moving Beyond the Basics
This course filled early and I am trying to schedule another session to begin mid-November. I presently have a wait list so if interested please email to be put on that list and be notified of the start date.
For more detailed info, including course outlines, please go to www.shanekellyphotography.com or call 739-0346. (Or click on the image below to go to the website.)
This is a little bit off topic from what I usually write about but ‘damn’ this Photo Essay has some really good photos. I’ve never heard of Technology Review but I’m going to keep a tab on them. The Photo Essay is about what happens to a Cell phone when its life is over. It gets refurbished, reused and recycled. So props to Kate Greene for write a good article and to Roy Ritchie for taking the super pictures. Just remember don’t put a cell phone in a microwave.
“Doors Open is a unique opportunity for the citizens and visitors of Newfoundland and Labrador to celebrate our architecture and heritage through the exploration of some of our hidden historical, architectural and cultural gems. Buildings that are normally closed to the public or charge an entrance fee welcome visitors to look around for free.
Doors Open began in Glasgow, Scotland in 1990 under the cooperation of the Scottish Civic Trust. A year later it was launched as a Council of Europe initiative. In 1998, 19 million people had visited 28,000 sites throughout Europe making it the world’s biggest festival of the built environment.
Recognizing our rich culture and heritage, the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Newfoundland Historic Trust are excited to be organizing Doors Open events across Newfoundland and Labrador. Doors Open St. John’s continues to grow since its first year in 2003 when sixteen sites received over 27,500 visits.
Our goal is to spread the Doors Open Newfoundland and Labrador program further across the province, including additional communities and cultural sites.”
Cool ah. I have the day off so I am going to explore. Being a main-lander it gives me a chance to explore the city in ways that I might not. I missed the photo-walk but I’m not going to miss this. Now I just need to figure out where I’m going to go first. The list is long. There is even a flickr group from last years event. So it doesn’t matter if its rainy that day because I’ll be inside.
So Colin wrote a super-duper article about the photographers at the Opympics that I hope everyone took the time to read. So once you look at all the tog-blogs from the Olympics head over to The Big Picture and see some of the best from the events. 39 pictures that should been seen large.
The 2008 Olympics are finally over and to be honest, I’m slightly depressed. As an avid photog watcher at these big events I thoroughly enjoyed watching these games and I even enjoyed some of the events themselves (that USA v. Brazil volleyball final was awesome in case you missed it).
What I enjoyed the most however was the massive amount of photographic coverage available online. Being that gear and skill level improves as every year go by and that the summer Olympics only happen every 4 years it could be argued that the photographs produced this time around were, well, 4 times better then Athens.
One thing is for sure, in case you haven’t noticed Nikon owned these Olympics. The D3 has simply changed the canon vs. nikon war for sports shooting.
But one of the other things I’ve enjoyed a LOT about these games is the photo blogging. So many pro photogs these days are blogging and essentially teaching people about life as a professionally paid full time photographer. Here’s a small collection of a couple stories I’ve come across the past two weeks.
“My Olympic opening ceremony endurance test began with an 8am call to be on the roof of the Bird’s Nest stadium for a meeting of photographers.
I began my first of three climbs through the maze of steep, narrow catwalks with IOC pool photographers from AP, Getty, AFP and Xinhua. On either side of the path were sheets of glass through which the colored lights of the stadium are projected.”
The next one is just the photographer blog from TheStar.com.
This one is really good and has such tidbits as this:
“Sports Illustrated’s famed photographer, Heinz Kluetmeier, has been touring the moat and recording the action at Beijing’s National Stadium with a digital strip camera. The camera, operated by a laptop, comes with its own technician, who stands beside the photographer.
How does the camera work? In simple terms the ‘film’ travels at the same speed as the runner as it is exposed in multiple vertical strip exposures. The background is blurred and the subject is captured in a series of thin vertical pictures that constitutes one photograph on one piece of ‘film.”
So I’ve ordered my digital strip camera, have you? There’s lot of very enjoyable reading on this site.
If you ever thought professional photography was gonna be an easy gig, you need to look at this and think again.
I read that apparently he slept in the first day and missed all the action, I’m not certain on the accuracy of this. But without a doubt it happened to someone during the oympics. After flying for 24-36 hours depending on where you’re coming from who could blame you.
Summer is over and that means back to school. Thank goodness not for me, but it’s not only maths and physics you could be a’learnin’ this year. Nope, you could get school’d by Shane Kelly in the art of photography. Currently, Shane’s got one course open for registration with the possibility of one more opening if the interest is there.
Fall Photography Courses at The Studio start in September with:
Basic Digital Photography - SLR
September 24th - November 5th (Total: 6 Wednesday Evenings 7 to 10pm.)
Photographing People - Moving Beyond the Basics
September 30th - November 4th (Total: 5 Tuesday Evenings 7-10pm + 1 Saturday Workshop 9-5) FILLED!
If you’re interested in the Photographing People course please, CALL OR EMAIL Shane to be placed on a waiting list as there may be a second session this fall.
So do you like power? Power Bar, Power Metal, Austin Powers? Nope not that kind of power, I’m talking about portable power for lighting and other photo related equipment. Over at Instructables they have a neato portable power supply box. I don’t run anything yet besides my car and camera but I can see how this little power tool box would come in handy. I guess photographers have been making Vagabond style boxes for a while but this guy ‘Divet’ used ideas from a few of them to create his own. If you got time and money make a tool box power supply and let us know how it turned out on our forum.
I was looking at Wired’s website the other day and came across an awesome gallery of Lego. Just not any Lego, but Lego’s arranged in a way that they look like old, famous or classic photos. They rock in a plastic kind of way. They guy behind all this Lego madness is Mike Stimpson. Reading his flickr profile shows he is all about Lego, Macro and Strobist with a bit of Starwars (best movies ever and I’m not talking about Jar-Jar and Mannequin Skywalker). In my books he is my kind of photographer. So take at a look at his photostream and if you like his stuff that much buy a print.
This is straight from their site:
