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How To Shoot A Panorama With A DSLR
Article by travel photographer Itai Danan, editor of Neocamera.
With great controls comes great responsibilities. Unlike Point & Shoot users who often have the benefit of a Panorama Assist mode, DSLR users have to control everything themselves. This is more work, but allows for greater flexibility while shooting images for a panorama.
The basic principle of capturing a panorama is to ensure utmost consistency between images. This means that focal-length, focus, aperture, ISO, shutter-speed, exposure, white-balance and image parameters all have to match exactly. Other than focal-length, these settings usually have both automatic and manual modes. The key is to lock each setting before shooting. Let’s go over each one: Continue reading
LookBetween for Emerging Photographers (by Look3 Festival of the Photograph)
We just wanted to announce that the LookBetween is taking place this coming weekend. This is a spin-off of Look3: Festival of the Photograph that takes place in Charlottesville VA each year in June. This is an “off” year, so the sponsors are doing a smaller event for emerging photographers. It’s an invitation-only even for 90 emerging photographers and others in the industry. Both Look3 and LookBetween were initiated by National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols. We’ll be attending and it sounds like it should be an amazing time filled with some of the best imagery in the world from up-and-coming photographers.
Here’s some information from the inviation: Continue reading
Photocrati Announces $5000 Grants for Photographers
Earlier this week Photocrati announced a new program giving $5000 grants to photographers working on social, environmental, and humanitarian projects. From the grant page:
The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to non-professional photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. Our goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.
We will offer one grant in 2010. The application deadline is March 15, 2010, and the award will be announced in June 2010. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award.
Award decisions will be made by the Photocrati Fund Board, a prestigious panel that includes some of the world’s best-known environmental and cultural photographers.
Check It Out:
Announcing $5000 Photocrati Fund Grants
Sharing a favorite photo – just for the heck of it
I was looking at this photo as a possible magazine submission the other day and thought – I should just share it. I love the contrast between traditional and modern.
Contrasts: A dani man wears traditional body paint and decorations along with his sunglasses at the Baliem Festival. Held every August in the Papuan highlands, the festival is a celebration of dani culture involving dances, competitions, and mock battles.
Introducing Best of Wedding Photography
I noted in my last post that work on Photocrati’s photography blog and photography WordPress themes have been keeping me from posting regularly on DSLRBlog.
In addition to Photocrati, I’ve been working on another great project with a great group of wedding photographers. Some of the best and best-known wedding photographers in the world are working together to launch a new, invitation-only membership group for wedding photographers called Best of Wedding Photography. This will be the most selective group of wedding photographers in the world.
Membership invitations are based on peer-review. We’ve created an independent board including Crash Taylor, David Beckstead, David Ziser, Anna Kuperberg, Glen Johnson, Ben Chrisman, and Matt Adcock / Sol Tamargo from Del Sol Photography. If you pay attention to the world of wedding photography, you should recognize many of these names. Beckstead and Chrisman have both been named as the WPJA’s Photographer of the Year in various years. Five of these member have been named among the Top Ten Wedding Photographers in the World by American Photo in various years. Johnson has a best selling book on wedding photography and David Ziser, of course, runs a well-known workshop series in the US.
We believe this organization will change the landscape of the wedding photography industry and become one of the most sought after invitations among wedding photographers worldwide. Look for the launch some time in November.
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Images & Their Stories – Bringing DSLRBlog Back to Life!
We are excited to announce our new series of ‘Image Stories’. Every photographer is an artist and each artist captures not only an image but a story to tell. Let us share your photography, and the stories behind your images with the world.
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