A 2013 survey on UK and USA commercial photography day rates by the folks at Eposure
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Dogs wait for us. That’s just what they do. With cinematic lighting and sometimes borrowing from the great Film Noir lighting directors of old, Martin Usborne works hard getting his images for Dogs in Cars just right. See why an Instagram mentality just can’t get the job done in this wonderful series about the waiting game of lonely canines.
via the artists web site
Most of the world’s greatest pictures were taken with this member of the legendary V-System. All of my fine art images were shot on these classic all metal workhorses. Why?
- Because you can switch out a film back for a digital back in about 1 min and it takes the sharpest medium format images on the planet.
- Because the viewfinder could be looked at from a distance or up close, allowing you compose like no other 35mm camera.
- Because all controls are on the camera (and not buried in some badly designed menu where you can never find the settings you are looking for. (See all 35mm DSLR’s for this wonderful design flaw).
- Because the square format is loved by those who know you get both a vertical and horizontal crop without turning your camera sideways.
- Because it can also shoot film which is still the best storage/capture medium of all time.
- Because the camera and all the lenses were handmade by camera perfectionists.
Yet another sad day for top pro equipment… sigh…
via the Hasselblad Web site
Hasselblad 503CW to cease production
Diasec is a patented process used for face-mounting Chromogenic prints to plexiglass and became very popular in the 1990’s by artist such as Andreas Gursky. C-prints fade whether they are mounted to plexiglass or not. Plexiglas just adds more complications. Because of this I switched to more permanent processes but many very well known artists continue to use this long out of date technology which is a puzzle for me to no end. C-print Mounted to Plexiglass & the Issues with Fading is a huge concern you need to pay attention to.
via the best printer in NYC: http://laumont.com
Gursky was one of the first artists to make oversized c-prints. “If you were going to make big colour prints in the early 1990s, you had to do it chromogenically,” says Wilson. “Inkjet printing was just not good enough then.” Because c-prints on this scale are relatively recent it is only now that collectors and conservators are starting to understand fully the challenges of maintaining such works.
Another issue with Gursky’s work is that each image is face-mounted; a layer of Plexiglass is placed on top of the image and, in effect, the picture is fused to it. Conservators say they do not yet know if this process, which gives photographs a slick, wet look, accelerates degradation. Plexiglass is also sensitive and scratches easily. Because the image is fused to it, it cannot be replaced the way a layer of glass would be.
The World Photograhy Awards were announced with Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang taking the top L’Iris d’Or prize for her series of youth portraits who survived the July 2011 massacre on the island of Utoeya, near Oslo.
via the web site
List of winners
- Architecture – Fabrice Fouillet, France
- Arts and Culture – Myriam Meloni, Italy
- Campaign – Christian Åslund, Sweden
- Conceptual – Roman Pyatkovka, Ukraine
- Contemporary Issues – Valerio Bispuri, Italy
- Current Affairs – Ilya Pitalev, Russia
- Fashion – Klaus Thymann, Denmark
- Landscape – Nenad Saljic, Croatia
- Lifestyle – Alice Caputo, Italy
- Nature & Wildlife – Satoru Kondo, Japan
- People – Andrea Gjestvang, Norway
- Portraiture – Jens Juul, Denmark
- Sport – Adam Pretty, Australia
- Still Life – Vanessa Colareta, Peru
- Travel – Gali Tibbon, Israel