How to make a slideshow for a 5% of the production costs compared to Magnum in Motion. After using iMovie to put together a slideshow on my Mac, I decided to go with a another solution—Soundslides (Mac and PC) for a few simple reasons: Soundslides doesn’t tend to spit out huge files that […]
Archive for October, 2006
Putting together a slideshow with sound, or “Soundslides, Magnum in Motion, and the 95/5 principle”
Published October 9th, 2006 in Mac and Technique. 0 CommentsJoel Meyerwitz on street photography (video)
Published October 9th, 2006 in Photographers. 0 CommentsRecently, I’ve been looking around for videos of photographers on the net and I found this video of Joel Meyerowitz explaining how he goes about doing street photography. Meyerowitz, dressed like a cat burglar, black cap and all, black Leica in hand, weaves around pedestrians on a Manhattan sidewalk, clicking away. His snaps are then […]
Henry Wilhelm’s take on new pigment inkjet printers, Photokina 2006
Published October 6th, 2006 in Ink Jet Pinters. 0 CommentsVincent Oliver, over at photo-i.co.uk sat down for an video interview at the Photokina with Henry Wilhelm from Wilhelm Research and got Henry’s take on what’s exciting about pigment inkjet printers from the past couple of years. In particular, he mentions the new HP z2100 and z3100, and its self profiling ability. Then he discusses […]
A definition of Documentary Art: Szarkowski, Gedney
Published October 5th, 2006 in Theory. 0 CommentsAlec Soth’s blog led me over to the notebooks of William Gedney online at Duke and to a nice definition of documentary art that Gedney quotes in one of his notebooks from John Swarkowski: “A documentary art work must appear to be unmanipulated, literal, clear, complete, and easy; it must not allow its art to show; […]
Alec Soth dove into blogging a couple of weeks ago has already addressed topics like parenting and being a photographer, how he finds his subjects, and the controversy brewing around a photograph taken by Thomas Hoepker on 9/11. Alec even reprinted an email he got from Hoepker on that subject. Surprisingly, for someone who already […]
Leica M8 video, sample images taken with the Leica M8
Published October 2nd, 2006 in Equipment. 0 CommentsThere are a few video reviews out there now of the digital Leica M8 from the Photokina. I’ve seen a few and this one answers a few questions users may have. Michael Reichmann’s Photokina video blog takes a look at the M8 and concludes that the camera itself is what everyone hoped for—an solidly […]
