Town Hall Videos
More videos from the Photoshelter Photography 2.0 Town Halls: Presentations by commercial photographer Chase Jarvis and photo editor Catherine Talese.
September 30, 2007 #
40D Review
The-Digital-Picture.com has posted a Canon EOS 40D review. It’s loaded with detailed information, technical tidbits and keen observations, as usual.
September 27, 2007 #
Everywhere
8020 Publishing—the folks behind JPG Magazine—has just announced their next project: Everywhere magazine (their capitalization, not mine). Everywhere is a community-based travel magazine, and will no doubt be based on the same formula as its sister publication. A free trial issue can be ordered from the website—but only if you live in the US. The irony!
September 27, 2007 #
Panel Discussion
The good folks over at Photoshelter have posted a video of a panel discussion from the first in a series of Photography 2.0 Town Hall meetings. The discussion features a number of successful photographers and photo buyers, and covers stock photography prices, copyright rules and more. Well worth the download.
September 24, 2007 #
Color Space Visualization
Mikkel Aaland discusses the topic of color spaces over at the Inside Lightroom blog, and recommends Chromix’ ColorThink as a good tool to visualize and compare these beasties. But with a starting price of $149, it’s not exactly cheap—so here is a little tip: The ColorSync Utility installed on every Mac OS X machine does essentially the same job. It allows you to visualize and compare color spaces, manage ColorSync profiles for various devices, convert color values between profiles and much more. All for free!
September 22, 2007 #
The Cult of Leica
Over at The New Yorker, Anthony Lane waxes lyrical about Leicas in general, and the M-series in particular.
September 20, 2007 #
Layer Tennis
If you fondly remember the days of Photoshop Tennis, rejoice: Those days are now back, in the form of Coudal Partners’ new Layer Tennis. The first match is on September 28th, and pits designer/developer Shaun Inman against highly talented illustrator Kevin Cornell, with commentary by John Gruber, of Daring Fireball fame. Not to be missed.
September 19, 2007 #
Long Weekend
SensorNoise will be away for a few days. See you next week!
September 13, 2007 #
Digital Journalist Anniversary
The Digital Journalist has just posted a new issue, and celebrates its ten year anniversary.
September 11, 2007 #
Nikon and Sony Previews
The Digital Photography Review has posted previews of the Nikon D300 and the Sony Alpha DSLR-A700. There is very little information about usability aspects, but both articles are loaded with technical details, including comparisons with earlier models.
September 11, 2007 #
Exposure Equation
Over at the O’Reilly Digital Media Blog, Harold Davis explains how to get very long exposures just right at night.
September 8, 2007 #
Breakfast
Via Coudal Partners: A great photographic project featuring people and their breakfasts.
September 5, 2007 #
40D Report
Over at The Luminous Landscape, Michael Reichmann has just posted a hands-on report on the new Canon EOS 40D. He has many good things to say about the camera, and also takes the opportunity to compare it to Nikon’s D300.
As previously mentioned, I think the D300 poses a serious challenge to the 40D: Price sensitive consumers will probably stick with entry level DSLRs, but for more demanding users, the D300 offers a lot of extra goodies for not a lot of extra money. It will be interesting to see which way the scales swing—but even more interesting to see how Canon responds: I predict that Canon will be jolted into action and that the next midrange models will see some significant enhancements to bring them in line with the D300’s capabilities.
September 4, 2007 #
Endangered Machinery
Haiko Hebig runs a blog with photos of both open and abandoned heavy industry installations. Some of the images are pretty sinister, but it’s a fascinating subject matter.
September 3, 2007 #