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M-Audio Microtrack II
This recorder
lets you record in WAV or MP3 recording to compact flash card.
Looking
for Microphone
Transom.org
did a handheld microphone shootout where they did comparisons. They let you
listen to an audio sample from each one.
Think
Tank
The
Multimedia Wired Up Collection, is comprised of four belt-mountable pouches
and two beltpacks that all share a common design goal: to tame the wires
tangling up the stills shooter tasked with gathering sound and moving
pictures too.
Nikon
I have always used Nikon cameras and lenses through my
career. They have a great line of cameras and lenses for any job.
http://www.StanleyLeary.com
Stanley@stanleyleary.com |
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
- Lewis Wickes Hine
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| Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal [i.e., Pownal] Cotton Mill. Vt. |
Lewis Hine is a photographer I have studied and admired and I think of him when I struggle for something to photograph. Like Hine, I started my studies in the social sciences. I studied social work and would quickly realize my calling was to be photojournalism. Read more--
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| Dogwood in my front yard. |
Tis the season is such a cliché for a reason. We all understand that timing is everything when planning our vacations. We go to the beaches in the summer and to the mountains to ski in the winter. If you go the wrong time of year you will miss the ability to take in the best of a place.
If you Google the phrase “Tis the season” you will find more than 5,690,000 hits.
Tis the season photographers to be getting outside in your backyards and planning those road trips to capture the spring time in full bloom.
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These are some photos I made this past weekend at Corp Day at The Citadel. Which ones do you like and why?
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| 1st Battalion marches out to the parade field. |
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Filling the frame with a subject can look quite different depending on the focal length of the lens.
These three examples the f/stop stayed the same.
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| The 28mm wide-angle lens lets you see the environment around the subject more as you see in this photo of the What the Ducks. |
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“The instant can be the end product of a long experience as well of that of immediate surprise.”
--Henri Cartier-Bresson
Mika Ariel with her new camera bag in Hawaii
This past week I was at the Museum covering the Founder of Chick-fil-A, Truett Cathy’s, 90th birthday. While there I saw some of the exhibit of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
I think every photojournalist knows about his work and probably more about his philosophy of the Decisive Moment. This is when the photographer is thinking, “I need a figure in that space, but just any figure won’t do. It must no merely fill the space but also give the space a meaning that is as yet incomplete. The figure will need to have a credible reason for being there, will have to relate to the space in a significant way, and, above all, add something to it. His or hers appearance in that space must be considerable to make the resulting picture a clear expression of what I want to say.”
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Keep the subject off center
If you were listening in last week when I was doing one critique after another at the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference, you would have heard a theme to my comments.
First, I like also to review all the photos before I comment. This way I can categorize some of the comments that apply to some if not all the photographs.
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Reviewing each other's work. |
If you want to grow as a photographer you will need to have someone review your work. There are two types of people to review your work_the general public or a professional. The professional can be another photographer, photo editor, graphic designer or art director.
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Scott Kelby teaching at the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference. |
Galatians 5:19-21
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Let me start today with a confession. I just spent the past five days with some incredible photographers and I was very jealous about their work and their careers.
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