INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES: Simply -
Photography, perhaps more than any other medium, seems inextricably linked to an increasingly complex modern world constantly unfolding in new and unexpected ways. Its ability to capture our cultural changes, the environments we inhabit, and the thoughts we keep play a vital role in giving us greater insights into our world and ourselves. In the 2012 Center Forward exhibit we are interested in exploring this unique quality of photography, therefore the theme is open and all subject matter is welcome.
[video]
life:
Sophia Loren plays with her son, Carlo Ponti Jr., at her home in Rome in 1969. This little guy will grow up to be an orchestra conductor. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image)
See more photos here.
Happy Mothers Day. Love, LIFE.
Happy Mothers Day!
LIFE Celebrates Artists and Their Models
The Center for Fine Art Photography: INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES -
Illusion: A false idea or belief, a deceptive appearance or impression, something that betrays by producing misleading impressions of reality. Synonyms: delusion – hallucination – phantasm – phantom - mirage.
Aaron Siskind Foundation: 2012 Individual Photographers Fellowship -
The Aaron Siskind Foundation (ASF) is offering a limited number of Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for individual artists working in photography and photo-based art.
Enterprise over The Intrepid.
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” —
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Minds Eye
See Cartier-Bresson’s rare color photographs here.
(via life)
1. Open document
2. Image-Adjustment-Invert
3. Image-Adjustment-Levels
4. Auto
5. Image-Adjustment-Curves
6. Apply CURVE
8. Image-Image Size
9. Width & Height smaller than media size-Resolution 300 Pixels
10. Image-Canvas size
11. Width & Height to equal media size-Canvas extension color-Black
12. Drag step tablet onto negative creating a new layer.
13. Position step tablet
14. File-Save as
15. Photoshop
16. Layer-Flatten Image
17. Save as-TIFF
rgolding1 asked: Hi, I am a student at Utah State and I am hoping you can give me a few tips. I have been looking at your workflow for negatives and I am wondering where you got the files for your registration marks and the step tablets? I have been having a hard time with registration and I am looking for a better method. Second, I am using a NUARC machine for exposure, do you have any experience with those units? I am trying to nail down a good exposure time for each layer.
I found the registration marks I use online years ago and I make my own step tablets in Photoshops by combining layers of rectangles filled with different percentages of black ink to correspond to the outputs of my curve. If you send me an email agonzale@qc1.qc.edu I can send you TIFF files of the registration marks and step tablets. I haven’t used a NUARC machine for exposure for gum printing. However, I tell my students to test and base their exposure times on the steps on the step tablet since everyone’s exposure unit and development method is different.
life:
What makes color photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson so rare?
There’s a reason, it turns out, why coming across his color photos can be so jarring; not only did Cartier-Bresson infrequently shoot in color, but he destroyed virtually all of his color negatives, leaving an almost exclusively black-and-white legacy to future generations. Finding out that Cartier-Bresson shot professionally in color — and sometimes worked on major assignments in color — is a bit like reading Just Kids and learning that Patti Smith is not only a poet, but a thrilling, moving, utterly masterful writer of prose. One has a sense of happy surprise and, somehow, of enlargement.
One of Cartier-Bresson’s most significant color projects was a 1958 assignment for LIFE: a four-month, 7,000 mile tour through communist China during that country’s convulsive “great leap forward,” when the huge, ancient nation was being alternately pushed and pulled, dragged and harried by its leaders to leave its past behind and to embrace industrialization, collectivism and the precepts of Chairman Mao.
See the layouts from this photo essay here.
http://gizmodo.com/5903160/garbage-men-take-amazing-photos-with-giant-dumpster-cameras
life:
Rest in peace, Dick Clark.
(Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2012 CCNY Annual Juried Photography Competition -
The Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce an open call for applications for its Annual Juried Photography Competition. Photographers and photo-based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply. Applicants are encouraged to submit a cohesive body of work.
The iPhone Shutter Grip: