"The following is a tutorial on how to create an extension tube / reverse mount for a standard 18-55mm lens using common plumbing supplies found at your local hardware store… Reversing the lens using a ‘reversing ring’. This special adapter attaches to the filter thread on the front of a lens and makes it possible [...]
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The BBC writes:
"Actor Paul Newman has joined calls for the legislature in [the US state of –Nicolai] Connecticut to pass a law protecting image rights.
"Newman is among a group of actors backing a bill banning the use of a person’s image or voice without consent for up to 70 years after their death.
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"…added that the [...]
JPG writes:
"Issue 5 is now available! Our ‘Photography is Not a Crime’ issue is a celebration of the freedom to photograph.
"Inside you’ll find 31 photographer’s takes and stories on the theme, NYC subway photography by Edmund Leveckis, Shane Lavalette’s Family Portrait Project, an interview with attorney Bert Krages about your rights when shooting, and a [...]
Thomas Hawk writes:
"Having been the subject of unwarranted police background checks and being detained when shooting in the streets of Oakland myself, I was dismayed to read about this guy, Ben Hider, who was detained by police for two hours, searched, forced to empty his pockets and frisked. His crime? Taking photos of the flags [...]
Alex Koppelman writes in Justice Magazine:
"Even in our federal system of government, the law concerning obscenity is a legal oddity. A photograph that in New York would be considered protected speech under the First Amendment could in Alabama be considered obscene, making the photographer and distributors subject to felony charges. That’s a consequence of the [...]
Gerard Van der Leun writes:
"I’ve stumbled across an obscure trove of about 189 photographs by Ansel Adams of the streets of Los Angeles, out-takes from an assignment he did for Fortune Magazine in 1941.
I’ve made a set of about 90 cleaned up images at:
Ansel Adams’ Lost Los Angeles Found – a photoset on Flickr
along with [...]
The mind-bendingly awesome pinhole/lens photographer/camera hacker Katie Cooke of slowlight pinhole blog is currently the featured artist at f295, a pinhole and DIY photography discussion forum.
Katie writes, "…given that I still don’t have my gallery live, it’s a way of seeing 15 of my pinhole photographs without wading through my flickr stream. It’s a mixture [...]
I’ve been following Seattle-based photographer Jon Madison’s work on Flickr since I opened an account there about a year ago and have been consistently impressed by the quality and diversity of his work—I never know what’s coming next, but I know it’s going to be interesting. He’s also go the rare quality of being a [...]
Continue reading...interactivearchitecture.org writes, "Bitfall is an installation where water is being used to project images taken from the internet. A computer observes various news websites and chooses thereafter the images to be displayed. 128 nozzles are controlled by synchronised magnetic valves, and the water drops falling to the ground shape the images. The visual information [...]
Continue reading..."In the following article, I will demonstrate how to make your own flash mounted, home made softbox. You will need two good hands, and some patience, but your reward will be a nice softbox for the cost of only 3-4 dollars…"
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