Monthly Archives: August 2009

Becoming a green photographer.

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Photography, is it harmful to the environment? I hadn’t thought much about it until I read the article below. The good people at Nature photography have written a very good piece on photography and the environment. As it turns out, there are quite a few things you can do to help minimise your effects on the environment. I take the chemicals I use for developing to the local tip who have a chemical recovery service. I rarely print photos out. But I do tend to venture far and wide (road trips) for photography.

If you are worried about the environment, have a read. It wont stop global warming, but it might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Pumpkin Patch

My green photography.

Nature Photography.

50+ Incredible, 70 Stunning, really?

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Am I the only one felling short changed at the descriptions given to some of the collections of photos these days? I have provided two links below that are shining examples of what I like to call the over hyped web page descriptions. Certainly, some of the photos on both those pages are incredible, others are stunning, but I cant see how all of them are one or the other. There are some terrible photos in the groups below. Some are garish HDR things that may have once looked like a photo, but now look like they have been coloured in by a three year old who is colour blind. No matter how hard some people try, you just can’t polish a turd. Others show as the famous Flickr “This photo is no longer available”, so it should actually be 68 Stunning examples blah blah blah.

Maybe people should look at my stunning and incredible Flickr stream? 🙂 No, really, I kid.

Rain

I agree, this is a very good photo. Stunning or incredible? You be the judge.

ReadyPhotoSite Blog » 50+ Incredible Examples of Contemporary Street Photography.
70 Stunning Examples of Cityscape Photography

Where Do You Rank with Photography Snobs?

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Paul Melcher has written a fantastic guide to the different types of photographers and where they rank according to photography snobs. Here is the 1st example.

1. Conflict Photographer. The bigger the scarf around the neck, the more important you are. It’s like a medal of honor. Conflict photographers are treated as heroes, regardless of the quality of their images. It is not so much what they bring back that matters, but what they go through to get it. They even earn more credentials if, heaven forbid, they are wounded or killed. The path to legendary status is then almost a given.

Just a minute, I need to grab my scarf. 🙂

See the link below for more.

Where Do You Rank with Photography Snobs? | Black Star Rising.

Copyright Infringement, this may help.

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Have you ever wondered if someone has used one of your photographs with out your permission? Here is a tool that may just help you find people. Here is a quote from their web page.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. For some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.

What a terrific idea. Whilst I have no problem with people posting my photos on blogs or other non commercial sites, I do have a problem if they are making profit from my images. If you are the same, check out the link below. Again, I haven’t used this service, nor do I endorse it. This is just a heads up for people interested in it.

Photographers copyright infringement helper..

Tilt-Shift Photography for Land Rover Commercials.

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Is tilt shift photography, or even faux tilt shift photography, the new HDR? It seems like there are trends in photography. Street photography was all the rage 12 months ago. HDR has had its time in the sun. Now, it seems like every man and his camera are into tilt shift photography. Land Rover are now even using it in there commercials. Check out the link below. Where will it end?

Tilt shift Land Rover.

Tilt-Shift Photography for Land Rover – PSFK.

The photographer is more important than the camera

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It seems such a simple statement, but it generates quite some discussion on forums. Jerry Walch makes a good argument in the link below for the people who don’t want to spend big dollars on cameras. I agree with him to a point. I think the really good gear can make it easier to take a great photo, but not necessary to take a great photo. The photo below isn’t a world beater, but it isn’t bad for a $30 plastic camera and home developed.

Swamp Road Gallery

Digital photography: The photographer is more important than the camera | Factoidz.