Month: February 2007

Jim Cherry pinhole photography lecture, CA, US

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Back by popular demand! If you want photography stripped down to its absolute basics, then pinhole is it. Jim Cherry will explore the field whose enthusiasts have included luminaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler. Come down and see why you don’t need a lens to make a stunning image!

Freestyle Photographic and the Creative Center for Photography are pleased to kick off their 2007 Saturday Lecture Series at the Creative Center For Photography in Hollywood, CA. This series is a collection of free seminars, covering a variety of interesting and informative topics for creative photographers. The lectures will take place every other Saturday at 1:00 PM, beginning on February 10, 2007.

Full details about the Saturday Lecture Series can be found here on Freestyle’s web site.

[I’m leaving the following marketing blurb in because it’s informational and Freestyle do actually rock. —Nicolai]

Established in 1946, Freestyle Photographic Supplies is a leading international retail, mail order and internet provider of cameras, photographic equipment and supplies, as well as the exclusive United States distributor of Kentmere black and white photographic papers, Foma black and white photographic papers and films, Efke black and white films, Varycon/EMAKS black and white papers, Fotospeed specialty chemicals, Holga cameras and accessories, Cachet archival storage boxes, Image Mechanics fluid mount trays, LegacyPro accessories and Rollei/Maco black and white films.

The talk starts at 1:00pm on Saturday, 21 April, 2007, at Freestyle Photographic, 5124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, US.

The whole lecture series looks really good, with other talks on Holgas and other plastic cameras, platinum and palladium printing, and Polaroid manipulations. Check out the full line-up.

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Anne-Claude Cotty "Extolling Pinhole Cameras in a Digital Age" lecture, ME, US

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The Hancock County Cultural Network’s February Brown-Bag Lunch series will feature Anne-Claude Cotty of Stonington, who will present a talk titled "Extolling Pinhole Cameras in a Digital Age" at the Blue Hill Library on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at noon. As an active member of many community cultural organizations, Cotty will also address the artist’s responsibility to society in general.

Cotty produces prints, artist books, experimental photography and, recently, jewelry using photographic images. She will describe the process of making rudimentary cameras with household materials and the soft-focus and inadvertent effects they can capture on film. What many will recall as a science project in fourth grade, she elevates to a magical tool in creating multi-layered, poetic images. And the photographic darkroom, replaced by so many photographers with computers and printers, remains a vital place for making photographs by hand.

A studio artist and educator for over 30 years, Cotty received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta. She maintains her own gallery in Stonington and offers workshops for all ages in printmaking and pinhole cameras in her studios. She is also an art teacher on Isle au Haut and Frenchboro. Her work has been widely published and exhibited throughout this country and abroad and can be found in many collections including the Portland Museum of Art. She is the former executive director of the Hancock County Cultural Network.

The Brown-Bag Lunch is free and participants are encouraged to bring their lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. The Brown-Bag Lunch series is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council.

The talk starts at 12:00pm at the Blue Hill Library, 5 Parker Point Rd., Blue Hill, ME, US.

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How to make a Nikon D70 IR remote control

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John Wagner from Team Droid writes:

This is just the thing you need to have in your camera bag. I have one that I bought online but if your not in a rush and have the skills to solder this would be a clever little device to have around. Very handy for tripping the shutter when your doing macro work or your doing long exposures where camera vibration is a bad thing.

Check out the plans, source and schematic included!

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