Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Street Shooters (II)
This is Fokko Muller, one of my favorite street photographers, from Emmen, the Nertherlands.
He manages a Flickr group called 'Your best street photo' and he also co-organizes the Urban Photo Collective.
You can check his work here, here and here.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Trivia (X) - a bit wonkish.
How to buy a Panasonic Lumix GF2 w/ the 14-42mm lens kit and a 5 year guaranty for only £119 / €137 in 6 easy peasy steps:
(usual street price of £ 600 / € 700)
1. Buy a double lens kit with 14mm + 14-42mm for £400 at amazon.co.uk.
2. Sell the 14mm f2.5 lens on ebay.co.uk for £170.
3. Wait for the £30 voucher Amazon will send you after dispatching the item. Yes, it's not exactly cash, but I'd easily include Amazon vouchers in EU M3 Money supply...
And you'll have to add an UK address to your address book at Amazon. Surely no problem...
4. Claim a «Free Photography Gift Pack and Five Year Warranty» from Panasonic here. Panasonic will give you not only an amazing 5 year warranty for your camera but also a Lightroom 3 disk (among other gifts). You'll have to pay €10 for shipping though.
5. Wait for the Lightroom 3 disk that Panasonic will send you. No matter what you do, don't open it.
6. Sell your new in box Lightroom 3 disk on ebay.co.uk for £90.
Finally, after doing all the math you'll get your new GF2 for £ 119 that's € 137...
With compliments from:
(usual street price of £ 600 / € 700)
1. Buy a double lens kit with 14mm + 14-42mm for £400 at amazon.co.uk.
2. Sell the 14mm f2.5 lens on ebay.co.uk for £170.
3. Wait for the £30 voucher Amazon will send you after dispatching the item. Yes, it's not exactly cash, but I'd easily include Amazon vouchers in EU M3 Money supply...
And you'll have to add an UK address to your address book at Amazon. Surely no problem...
4. Claim a «Free Photography Gift Pack and Five Year Warranty» from Panasonic here. Panasonic will give you not only an amazing 5 year warranty for your camera but also a Lightroom 3 disk (among other gifts). You'll have to pay €10 for shipping though.
5. Wait for the Lightroom 3 disk that Panasonic will send you. No matter what you do, don't open it.
6. Sell your new in box Lightroom 3 disk on ebay.co.uk for £90.
Finally, after doing all the math you'll get your new GF2 for £ 119 that's € 137...
With compliments from:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Street shooters (I)
This is Mihailo Radičević, one of my favorite street photographers, that I got to know through Google Plus.
He's just started a blog about shooting techniques that you definitely should visit. Here:
http://obviousphoto.tumblr.com/
You can circle him here.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Trivia (XI)
Google+ is in limited Field Trial.
For those of you who want to try it out, I have 150 invites here (click the picture below).
Disclaimer: Things may not always work as intended. By using Google Plus in Field Trial stage, you're responsible for protecting yourself and your data from any risks, including data loss or disclosure.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Magnum 50 years at the front line of history (ii)
Chapter 2.The Founders.
"THE FOUNDERS of Magnum were the unlikeliest band of brothers imaginable: four men of different nationalities and from widely differing backgrounds whose paths would never have crossed had they not shared a precocious passion for photography. The inspiration and driving force was Robert Capa, a swarthy Hungarian adventurer, notorious womaniser and incorrigible gambler who became known has the world's greatest war photographer. He was joined by a French intellectual, Henri Cartier-Bresson, a radical left-winger who liked to insist, a mite tetchily, that his main interest was painting but who nevertheless went on to inspire generations of photo-journalists and dominate the photographic pantheon. David Seymour, known to everyone as Chim, was a plump, owl-like Polish Jew, a shy, gentle polyglot and epicurean who, unusually for a photographer, invariably wore a suit and collar and tie. Finally there was the quiet Englishman, George Rodger, a former public schoolboy who described himself as a dreamer and only drifted into photography as a means of seeing the world".
"While in later years the credit would be diligently shared, it was Capa who had the idea and Capa who made it happen. In fact his name was not Capa at all, but Andre Friedman. He was born in Budapest on 22 October 1913, the son of a tailor".
"The young Andre went first to Berlin and enrolled at the respected Hochschule fur Politik to study journalism, [...] but the Nazis were in the March and in January 1933, soon after Hitler was appointed chancellor, he decided, as a Jew, that it was prudent to leave".
"[He] made is way to Paris [...] and it was there he met a young Polish photographer by the name of David Szymin, who had managed to find a job working for the Communist weekly, Regards. Szymin's name was pronounced 'Shimmin' which was why everyone called him 'Chim'. [...] Chim was born in Warsaw on 20 November 1911, the only son of a well-known Yiddish publisher".
"Henri Cartier-Bresson, talking in his Paris apartment on the rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Tuileries: 'We all met in Montparnasse' before the war, I don't know dates. I met Chim first at an association where Man Ray belonged, Brassai and son on, called Artistes et Ecrivains Revolutionaires. [...] I just met Chim there one day among heaps of people and he had a Leica and so had I and he asked me "What have you got there?" I said it was a Vidom, which was a viewfinder of that time, of a Leica, which is of course, no longer in use, and started up this conversation. And we saw each other and he told me "I know somebody very, very curious, a very strange person. You''ll meet." I took him about four months to introduce me to Capa, who was living in the Hotel de Blois with his mother, little Cornnel and two Japanese and I think on the ceiling was hanging the laundry'."
"THE FOUNDERS of Magnum were the unlikeliest band of brothers imaginable: four men of different nationalities and from widely differing backgrounds whose paths would never have crossed had they not shared a precocious passion for photography. The inspiration and driving force was Robert Capa, a swarthy Hungarian adventurer, notorious womaniser and incorrigible gambler who became known has the world's greatest war photographer. He was joined by a French intellectual, Henri Cartier-Bresson, a radical left-winger who liked to insist, a mite tetchily, that his main interest was painting but who nevertheless went on to inspire generations of photo-journalists and dominate the photographic pantheon. David Seymour, known to everyone as Chim, was a plump, owl-like Polish Jew, a shy, gentle polyglot and epicurean who, unusually for a photographer, invariably wore a suit and collar and tie. Finally there was the quiet Englishman, George Rodger, a former public schoolboy who described himself as a dreamer and only drifted into photography as a means of seeing the world".
"While in later years the credit would be diligently shared, it was Capa who had the idea and Capa who made it happen. In fact his name was not Capa at all, but Andre Friedman. He was born in Budapest on 22 October 1913, the son of a tailor".
"The young Andre went first to Berlin and enrolled at the respected Hochschule fur Politik to study journalism, [...] but the Nazis were in the March and in January 1933, soon after Hitler was appointed chancellor, he decided, as a Jew, that it was prudent to leave".
"[He] made is way to Paris [...] and it was there he met a young Polish photographer by the name of David Szymin, who had managed to find a job working for the Communist weekly, Regards. Szymin's name was pronounced 'Shimmin' which was why everyone called him 'Chim'. [...] Chim was born in Warsaw on 20 November 1911, the only son of a well-known Yiddish publisher".
"Henri Cartier-Bresson, talking in his Paris apartment on the rue de Rivoli, overlooking the Tuileries: 'We all met in Montparnasse' before the war, I don't know dates. I met Chim first at an association where Man Ray belonged, Brassai and son on, called Artistes et Ecrivains Revolutionaires. [...] I just met Chim there one day among heaps of people and he had a Leica and so had I and he asked me "What have you got there?" I said it was a Vidom, which was a viewfinder of that time, of a Leica, which is of course, no longer in use, and started up this conversation. And we saw each other and he told me "I know somebody very, very curious, a very strange person. You''ll meet." I took him about four months to introduce me to Capa, who was living in the Hotel de Blois with his mother, little Cornnel and two Japanese and I think on the ceiling was hanging the laundry'."
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
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