Nikon D800 or Canon 5D MarkIII? →
Trying to decide on one of these hot new cameras? You’re gonna want to watch this.
Does photography matter anymore? →
This is a really terrific blog post from Austin photographer KirkTuck. For anyone wondering what the future of photography holds, now that everybody is a photographer, here’s one somewhat sobering take. Be sure to read the comments afterwards.
a sad story (part 2, maybe a happy ending...?) →
…or at least a new beginning. Kodak’s bankruptcy is official today, but then comes the story about this fascinating project, timed to be a part of bicentennial celebrations of the invention of photography. Perhaps rumors of the death of film are still a bit premature?
A sad story... →
…from the Economist last week. Polaroid, now Kodak, so many others. All great old photography names lost to “creative destruction”.
Unpacking from Sedona →
Jenny just posted a day-by-day recap of our pre-holiday return to the Southwest, accompanied by some pretty incredible photographs. Jenny is a registered landscape architect, technology designer and cofounder of a Cambridge start-up, and, as you can see, a very talented photographer. Her blog, User Experience Minute, demonstrates her passion for “all things design” and even serves as a diary of our travels. To see more of her work, visit ichang.com and ichangphoto.com.
Packing for Sedona
Tomorrow’s going to be a long day.
I’ll be at school at 8:30 to finish a full-time Portfolio II class (congratulations, guys, Practicum’s next, then graduation!), then it’s a mad dash to Logan to catch a 5:30 flight to Detroit, followed by a connector to Phoenix. Friday we’re driving up to a remote lodge in Sedona for a week of pre-holiday r&r among the red rocks, totally off the grid– no TV, no internet, and no cell phone– no shit.
Splash!
Students in my Product and Still Life Lighting I module at CDIA earlier this month learned that the “still” in “still life” doesn’t necessarily mean “boring”.
That’s it. Game over. I’m going back to film.
I give up. The geeks won. I’m thinking, all at the same time:
- I hope it doesn’t work.
- I can’t stand it.
- I don’t know what I’d ever do with it.
- It does look kind of cool, though.
- I never liked teaching depth of field anyway.
- I want one.
It’s officially not photography any more. Or at least it won’t be soon.
One of Those Shots: Lunch Hour, Quincy Market 2011
One of the things I love about teaching photography full time is that I can finally, after 30-some years of slogging through the commercial trenches, spend my time behind the camera making the kinds of pictures I’ve always loved to make. While I seem to be becoming more and more of a cultural landscape shooter, my first love will always be good old fashioned seat o’ the pants street photography.
CDIA Student Kristin Caffray at Occupy Boston
Kristin Caffray gets it.
A talented young photographer who started at BU/CDIA’s Waltham campus in September 2011, Kristin has already demonstrated a deep commitment to her craft by documenting the recent Occupy Boston protests in the city’s Financial District during her Camera and Workflow modules. What attracted instructor Shawn Read and the rest of us to Kristin’s story, other than the powerful photographs and street portraits she’s been making, was the way she’s been using social media, her blog, and flickr to push her work out to the rest of the world. And the rest of the world is noticing! I’ll let Kristin pick up the story from here…
