“Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
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Patrick Di Fruscia, an absolutely pioneering and inspiring photographer is French/Canadian — thus the unique grammar.
As usual, emphasis is mine.
jeff : )
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From: natureismykingdom.com
The World Needs You 🙂
Patrick Di Fruscia
Everyday we are bombarded by reasons why we should not do what our heart tell us. Reasons like, it will never work, there is no money to be made in that field, it will be very difficult etc. Most of the time we are being told what we should and shouldn’t do by people who have never followed their dreams and passion and are now simply wishing they had done more to make it happen. These are merely words with no foundation brought to you by people with no passion.
You need to believe in everything your heart desire. If you don’t nobody will that’s for sure. You need to make sure that everyday you take a step however small it may be towards your goals. Always stay focus even when times are hard. When fear takes over, don’t worry about it ..this is a transition stage between your so call zone of comfort and your new life..keep pushing harder and don’t let that discourage you. Fear of the unknown is one of our greatest enemy and it has the power to make us believe a hundred fictional reasons why it will never work. Always Stay focus on the end result and visualize your new life…
Ken Duncan’s prices have become outrageous — out of the reach of most people. But I’ve always greatly appreciated his perspective on photographing to reveal God’s glory, and then print BIG to greatly affect a room!
…which is what I’m trying to do.
Jeff Fenske
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The Print:
Piercing the Darkness —
starting at $1900
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“It’s like God revealing His glory.”
Have it BIG as you can get it,
cause you’ll just fall into it.”
“Hopefully what it will convey to you:
there is hope even in the darkest moments.”
– Ken Duncan
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7179950432887640376#]Fibonacci and the Golden Mean
This piece uses illustrations ranging from contemporary studies in biology to ancient Greek architecture to describe how, in 1202 A.D., the Italian mathematician Fibonacci uncovered a mathematical link between science and art.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhVzvcFerk]Golden Mean
Uploaded by abysimus on Sep 22, 2008
A pictorial illustration of the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci sequence through use of artistic imaging. Natural beauty of botanical subjects used to demonstrate the repeated use of the Golden Mean in earths ecosystems. Created by http://geosage.net
From: 43 Rumors
In an official press release Panasonic announced that Fukushima factory activity have been stopped. There is a lack of electricity, gas and water that forces them to shut down the production (Source: DC-watch).
Panasonic said that: “A few employees working at the Fukushima factory, the Sendai factory of AVC Networks Company and at the Koriyama factory of Panasonic Electronic Works received minor injury. Some part of the ceiling and wall were damaged, but there has been no fire or collapse. As regards the impact on our business operations we are in the process of investigation.” (Source: AP).
I guess this will cause supply problems with current cameras (they are made in Fukushima). Also the future new product release could suffer from some changes and delays. Reminder: The Panasonic G3 should have been announced between late March and late April.
From: PetaPixel
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Those epic photographs of stars and galaxies that you see on sites like NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day don’t actually look like that straight out of the camera. Instead, a good deal of post-processing magic goes into each photograph. How much magic? Countless black and white photographs shot with different cameras are carefully weaved together, and color is added to enhance the final image. The video above gives a quick and interesting two minute tour of how they post-processed one particular photo in Photoshop.
From: Canon Rumors
The Bad News [CR2]
March 29, 2011
Delays?
Not hearing a lot of positive things about current products and new products because of the Japanese earthquake.
The latest info I’ve received says all of Canon, Nikon and Sony are still unsure what the near future is going to bring.
Canon may be in fact delaying new product announcements. I was told every executive within Canon is being told to “prepare for the worst”. Sales reps are being told not to say anything.
I do not personally know anything about the rolling blackouts and “dead zone” expansion in Japan around Canon manufacturing facilities.
I’ve received no word whether or not Canon is looking at moving some manufacturing to different countries.
Pricing Rising
As a lot of you have probably noticed, camera equipment is getting more expensive and disappearing from shelves. There’s lots of out of stock items around various stores.
A lot of retailers are getting or close to getting MSRP for camera stuff. This is not going to change quickly.
All rebate programs that were planned have been cancelled for the most part. I’m still looking around to see if any are still a go.
From: robgalbraight.com…
| Canon, Nikon suspend operations at certain facilities in Japan | |
| Monday, March 14, 2011 | by Rob Galbraith | |
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| Canon has suspended operations at eight of its facilities in Japan, all in areas affected by last week’s earthquake and resulting tsunami, and is reporting 15 injuries at its factory in Utsunomiya. In statements released yesterday and today, the company indicates that damage was most significant at its EF lens production plant in Utsunomiya as well as in Fukushima, where inkjet printers are manufactured. At both facilities, says the company, “time will likely be needed before operations resume.”
Nikon has also suspended operations at various facilities in Japan, including at its higher-end digital SLR and F6 factory in Sendai (which we visited in 2007). At least four Nikon facilities are affected, and the company is reporting an unspecified number of injuries to employees as well. In addition, interruptions to electricity and transportation systems, as well as damage to factories that produce memory and batteries for consumer electronics, are likely to have some impact on the ability of Canon, Nikon and others to build and ship digital cameras in the weeks to come. |
From: CanonRumors.com…, March 13, 2011
Canon updates their manufacturing status at various plants around Japan. They still report minimal injuries.
Every plant is closed on March 14, and most remain undecided beyond that.
No word whether or not product announcements will be affected or not. Manufacturing of everything else will be.
thanks Konstantin
cr
A bit of noise on the left channel,
but still nice.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvQLNZNdP9U]Stunning Photography Steven Beck Original Music Ryan Stewart
ryanstewartmusic | March 22, 2007 | 65 likes, 3 dislikes
http://ryanstewartmusic.com
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/equa…
I recently teamed up with professional photographer Stephen Beck and we are in the process of creating several photo montage videos. We plan to convert these to screen savers.
He is a professional photographer for hire. For more photos and any information on Stephen please visit
http://www.myspace.com/ryanstewartmusic
Thank You
From: Peta Pixel
Derick Childress spent three nights shooting a massive light painting photograph with the message “Emily, will you marry me?” drawn out on the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina as a proposal to his girlfriend Emily Kern. The final image was made up of about 800 individual stills that each took 10 seconds to expose.
Watch Video Here
From: Canon Rumors
Price Increases Coming to USA? [CR1]
January 2, 2011
Unable to confirm as of yet
PR has posted a report that Canon USA will be raising prices as much as 10% come February 1, 2011. I have been unable to confirm that is going to happen. The reported reason is to combat the weak US dollar.
It’s completely believable.
From: PetaPixel
Last Lab Creates T-Shirt in Remembrance of Kodachrome
Yesterday the last certified Kodachrome processing facility — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas — finally stopped supporting the legendary film. They decided to create a t-shirt for mourning photo-geeks that sports the classic Kodachrome colors. If you’d like this tiny slice of Kodachrome history, you can get it for $13 over at Dwayne’s Photo.
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Goodbye Kodachrome: Last Processing Facility Discontinues Support
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After Kodak announced the end of Kodachrome’s production in June of 2009, the number of photo labs that developed the film began to dwindle until finally only Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas remained as the lone certified Kodachrome processing facility in the world. Today, they will be processing their last roll of Kodachrome, bringing the film’s storied career in the photo industry to an end. CBS News Sunday Morning did a neat feature looking back on the popular film.
Tor Even Mathisen created this stunning timelapse video of the aurora borealis over Tromsø, Norway, shooting the still frames with a Canon 5D Mark II and 16-35mm f/2.8L II lens. The individual frames captured are beautiful in themselves, but the result of combining them into a timelapse video is breathtaking.
Description from PetaPixel:
Noah Kalina’s famous “everyday” project spanned six years of his life, but began when he was 19 years old. “Natalie Time Lapse” is similar, but begins when the subject is born and ends when she is ten years old. Even though the pose and expression are far from being as precise as in Kalina’s video, it’s quite interesting watching someone go from newborn to ten-year-old.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejbNVWES4LI]Natalie Time Lapse: Birth to 10 years old in 1 minute 25 sec
JAMagicFilms | October 03, 2008 | 485 likes, 6 dislikes
We take a photo every day (at least we tried to!) since birth until the present.
Stop motion human growth!
Description from PetaPixel:
Man-made technologies are often inspired by things found in nature, right? Well, the big camera corps could learn a thing or two about in-body image-stabilization/vibration-reduction from chickens.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUeO3auRZg]
Description from PetaPixel
Turns out those crazy high speed photography shots you see of bullets shattering things aren’t as difficult to achieve as you might have thought. All you need is about $20 and some brains (aka circuit skills). YouTube user destinws2 shows how its done in this 5 minute tutorial.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0sATDVCTME]High Speed photography 101 – Restoring Awesomeness to Art
destinws2 | November 28, 2010 | 58 likes, 0 dislikes
High speed photography isn’t quite as difficult as one might think. It may be accomplished simply with a flash and a camera capable of holding open the shutter. Most of these photos were taken in my garage with my rifle setup.
The acoustic trigger circuit kit is available from http://www.hiviz.com/. The kits are designed and distributed by Dr. Loren Winters, a high speed photography wizard who is truly a high speed photography pioneer who has given greatly of himself to introduce students to the wonders of Newtonian Physics.
Checkout my FLICKR high speed photoset if you’re bored – http://www.flickr.com/photos/40994371…
The music was created by “A Shell in the Pit”. Please support this wonderful artist by purchasing his music. An example of his work can be found at:
http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/tr…
Lastly, I’m working on a website http://www.artisticballistics.com. I’m trying to fund my children’s education by selling awesome art created with bullets. It will take me a few weeks to get the site up and running.
Pennywhistle Productions
Artistic Ballistics
A Shell In the Pit
HiViz
From: PetaPixel
One thing I love about photography and videography is that it often allows us to see things in different ways, whether it’s macro photography or slow motion video. The above video is absolutely stunning and will probably blow your mind. It shows an experiment in which a water drop is filmed at 2000 frames per second, revealing something you probably never knew about the behavior of water.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSK4k3D-50]
From: PetaPixel
Another entry for our list of “random things made awesome by slow motion”: here’s a video of a steel ball being dropped into fine sand heated to about 500° C, at which point it takes on strange liquid properties. Be sure to also check out the water drop at 2000 fps video we posted in the beginning of the year if you haven’t seen it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGIHqd8BUQ]
I find the giant pinhole camera,
shown at minute 3:15
fascinating!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EchMdvl8SY]The Genius of Photography Ep1 – 1/4
GeniusOfPhotography | November 07, 2010 | 28 likes, 0 dislikes
Fixing the Shadows – Part 1 of 4
Fixing the Shadows tells the story of the birth of photography itself and the profound question that it raised, and which has never been satisfactorily answered: what is photography for? Detailing the rival methods of the pioneers Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre for ‘fixing the shadows’, the programme examines how photography took its place alongside other new technologies like the railway and telegraph to transform our understanding of the modern world. It describes how pioneer photographers like the portraitist Nadar asserted the status of photography as an art only for this status to be transformed by the Kodak revolution, which put the camera into the hands of the masses who unlocked its potential for surreality, randomness and surprise. Finally it examines the case of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the schoolboy photographer who demonstrated the true genius of photography in the hands of the amateur. Includes interviews with Chuck Close and David Byrne.
From: Peta Pixel
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In 1877, photographer Eadweard Muybridge settled a longstanding debate on whether or not a horse completely leaves the ground at any point during its gallop by taking a single photograph of a horse completely airborne. In the same way, photography was also used recently by a group of researchers to uncover the mystery of how cats drink.
Using high speed cameras, they discovered that cats touch the surface of liquids with their tongues (up to four times per second) before quickly pulling back up, causing a stream of liquid to rise upward. Before gravity pulls the stream back down, the cat closes its mouth around some of it, capturing the liquid. The process is quite different from dogs, which cup the water using their tongues and haul it back into their mouths.
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Yay for the usefulness of photography!
(via NYTimes)
From: New York Times
… Writing in the Thursday issue of Science, the four engineers report that the cat’s lapping method depends on its instinctive ability to calculate the point at which gravitational force would overcome inertia and cause the water to fall.
What happens is that the cat darts its tongue, curving the upper side downward so that the tip lightly touches the surface of the water.
The tongue is then pulled upward at high speed, drawing a column of water behind it.
Just at the moment that gravity finally overcomes the rush of the water and starts to pull the column down — snap! The cat’s jaws have closed over the jet of water and swallowed it.
The cat laps four times a second — too fast for the human eye to see anything but a blur — and its tongue moves at a speed of one meter per second.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmN6pBEfSIQ]B&H Superstore Video
BHPhotoVideoProAudio | December 10, 2008
Since our store opened more than 30 years ago, we’ve gone beyond simply supplying you with professional gear. We’ve aspired to share our knowledge of technology with you in the most personalized way. Visit our store, and youll find a sales staff made up of industry professionals who share your passion for technology and will help you use it to its fullest potential. As you choose from over 198,000 products, feel free to enlist their help.
From: PetaPixel
A Glimpse at the Mind-Boggling Special Effects Behind HBO’s John Adams
HBO posted this interesting behind-the-scenes video that gives a glimpse into the kind of special effects that went into filming the popular miniseries John Adams. It’s pretty crazy how they construct entire realities around the actors using CGI.
And you thought Photoshopping was hard…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUs7hDq2PA]John Adams Visual FX (HBO)
HBO | August 11, 2008
Check out the John Adams Visual Effects feature. For more information about John Adams, log onto HBO.com
From: http://www.natureandphotography.com
Honoring Nature with Lightroom???
[by Rob Sheppard]
Nature is important, not just to me, but for all of us. We can’t exist, for example, without plants and their photosynthesis. That produces both oxygen and food.
Sometimes I will hear that someone doesn’t use Photoshop or Lightroom because he or she wants nature to be real, to be as it is. Well, that doesn’t actually happen. The camera does not see the world as we do. We focus in on important details and interpret what we see. Colors, for example, do not exist as absolutes but are heavily influenced by things around them. Green will look different surrounded by red, black or white. This is the basis of some very important optical illusions.
In addition, the camera emphasizes light and contrast, whereas our eyes emphasize subject and context. Plus, all cameras are compromises in image capture. They have to be. The engineers making them have to create a camera that will work well for everyone from photojournalists to wedding photographers to advertising photographers to nature photographers, and that requires strong compromises in the imaging system.
In order to create images that honor and respect nature, sometimes we must use Photoshop or Lightroom to get rid of problems and weaknesses of the technology. If someone says that they only do “real” photos and don’t use Photoshop or Lightroom, they are saying that they think camera technology is more important than both the human experience of nature and nature itself.
I don’t know if the movie is worthwhile and wholesome,
but I appreciate what Julia said in the trailer for:
EAT PRAY LOVE
I want to go some place where I can marvel at something.
– Julia Roberts (in character)
Focus on what is marvelous!
Set your sights high!
Be at peace.
Philippians 4:4-8
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.