Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Camera suggestions for Fall, 2011.

Walmart

Target

Ritz

Best Buy

National Camera

National Camera is in the Twin Cities and has been very good to students in the past. I would have no hesitation about ordering used equipment from them, and the advantage is that you could drive up if there were any issues and deal with them. Remember, you will need both a camera body and a lens that is manufactured for that brand of camera - in this list, Nikon lenses should work ok with Nikon bodies, Canon with Canon, etc.

Nikon Camera Body

Nikon Lens

Canon Camera Body

Adorama

Adorama is a camera store in New York City that sells new and used equipment nationally. I have bought used equipment from Adorama and have only had good experiences with purchases from them. Adorama sells camera bodies and lenses separately, remember that you will need both a camera body and a lens that is compatible with it.

Canon Camera and Lens Packages

The prices in this section include both the camera and the lens.

Canon Camera Body

Canon Lenses

Nikon Camera Bodies

Nikon Lenses

Keh.com

KEH deals exclusively with used gear. I have bought from them several time, and have always been happy with the results. I am only going to list camera and lens packages for KEH, because this list is getting out of hand, but you are welcome to have a look for bodies and lenses separately, there are good deals to be found.

Canon Camera and Lens Packages

Nikon Camera and Lens Packages

Sony Camera and Lens Packages

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Web Work 9


This web work was about Minnesota Photographers and I went with Gary Ness. When I looked at his photos I got a sense that he was going for people having two lives or the photo I picked tells me this woman is a great mom and can also be a good model. You would never think the person could be a mom or a model (depending on what photo your looking at) and for the most part this is true about all of us today. We can be in our mid 30's having three kids and also be a full-time college student, though it is getting more common.

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Web Work 8

With WW8 I decided not to look at a photographer, but a whole series of breath taking photos, Life Magazine has been supplying the public of amazing photos since 1936, that in it self, tells the story. Life is famous for getting amazing photos during World War II, Marlyn Monroe, 9/11 attacks, and much more. Life also
gave birth to the the photo magazine and was a
weekly magazine until 1972.
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Web Work 7


Okay this one is I went with Sandy Skoglund, all I can say is "Wow", looking at her photos made me scratch my head and think how the heck did she do this, I know how one could go about doing this in photoshop or something, but I don't think their altered, so someone has to teach me this trick. Look at the photo and judge for yourself.

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Web Work 6


For this one I went with Bill Brandt, now looking at his photos I see that he did a lot we optical illustrations. Looking at this picture, it almost looks like he is taking a picture of a painting, but really it just another room, but it lacks depth in the photo and I think thats how he was able to do this, with a little help from some backdrops.

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Web Work 5


This web work I went with Ansel Adams, we all heard about him and seen his work in class, so I don't believe the man needs no introduction, lol. Now Adams did a lot with landscape photos and had AMAZING detail. Take a look at this picture to the left, this was taken in the aftermath of the San Fransicio earthquake and fire of 1906. Look at how detailed the image is, it almost looks like it in HD. I look at this photo and I can Imagen myself there, its that good.

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Web Work 4


For this web work I chose to look at the photographer Anne W. Brigman. Her images to me are stunning, this was the turn of the Century (1900's) and were silver prints.

I chose this image because I like the highlights vs shadow and blacks in the photo. Also look at the shape the trees make, looks like a big "V" which is actually the accent symbol for a woman, I believe it was called the ch-alas, watch the Di Vinci Code, its explained in the movie. Anyways, here you have a big "V" and two women in the center, I think this represents woman and if you look closely it appear the photo was taken on top of a hill or mountain, which tells me there power in here and the naked women says: kind, caring, and elegant.
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Friday, May 13, 2011










apparently the blog hates me because, as you can see from the dates I put all these on here on May 11, but for some reason they didnt save, there were also pictures with all of them as well...

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011
web work 9: Beth Dow


Beth Dow is from Minneapolis Minnesota and her work focuses on using historical references and old style photo development to draw awareness to current issues of how land is used. Many of her photos have a kind of fantasy feel to them, but they are also all real images (a lot of the things she takes pictures of are landmarks around the Minneapolis area). I really like how she has this foggy, hazy, magical kind of feel to her work it also has this unnatural, is this a mirrage kind of feel to them. They remind me of like... a real world version of alice in wonderland or something. I also love nature photography, and while I would prefer these to be taken in a more wild setting, I think what she is doing here is really cool.

a link to her official website
http://www.bethdow.com/
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web work 8: Look Magazine


Look Magazine
Was published in Des Moines Iowa from 1937 to 1971, and focused, unlike other magazines at the time, on the actual photographic aspect of the magazine instead of the articles. I think that this magazine changed how people look at periodicals because and that’s is how it is now; photos are more important than articles. Originally, Look magazine was a big magazine, 11 by 14 inches, which made it all the better at displaying photos. At one point Look was even more popular than Saturday Evening Post which isn’t exactly surprising because both of those magazines seem to be knock offs of the other, they both have that Norman Rockwell moment kind of feel to them. Stanley Kubrick worked as a staff photographer for a while, and supposedly this helped his career as a director this^ is one of the photos he took... Its easy to see how he went from this to Full Metal Jacket

Here is an article about the many different types of photos Look took, many current events:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/look_coll.html
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web work 7: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol
is known as a pop artist of the 1960s. His work is of many different mediums, but his most famous style is done by screen printing; this is how his famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe, and Jackie Kennedy are done; he used a picture to make the prints. He would also film people, like Niko (the model) using regular film for recording movement, but then he would use that film like photo film so he would get a bunch of pictures that showed slight amounts of movement as a person looked from one to the next [eerie]. He also used to take models into photo booths and just keep doing picture after picture to the point where it was hard for the model to keep thinking up different facial expressions. Anyway, he changed art permanently and he has sold paintings for as much as 100 million dollars, that’s up there with Van Gogh and Picasso.

This is what I was talking about with the photobooth stuff:
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/warhol/photo_booth_portraits.html
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web work 6: Jacob Riis


Jacob Riis
was a Danish American who known for his photojournalistic talents, as they led to social reform. During the late 1800s and early 1900s Riis sought to help out the poor and draw attention to unsuitable living conditions and people stuck living in the slums and impoverished areas of New York. He wanted to illustrate these people so that society would stop ignoring them and realize just how bad conditions were. Riis sympathized with the poor because he himself had once been poor in the New York area, but then got a job working as police reporter, where he also wrote about life in the slums. Riis did a lot of work sneaking into dark corner bars with his flash camera, set off the flash, take the picture and then get out of there.

For his full Bio, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis
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web work 5: Hurter and Driffield

Ferdinand Hurter and Vero Charles Driffield were 19th century scientists who are responsible for first really making film that had certain exposure times and methods of development and how silver changed under different conditions and variables, this is known as sensitometry. They also worked with densitometry, which is the measurement of optical density in light sensitive materials, such as film. They are the people responsible for developing the predictable/easy to use film and exposure times that we use in photography nowadays. It has to be some of the most intense science done for an artistic purpose…

check out the wikipedia article for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurter_and_Driffield
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web work 4:Pinhole photography





Pinhole Photography
Typically, a pinhole camera is something that someone has constructed out of makeshift items (seashell, pop can, shoe box) in order to get a “camera” that has no lens; it is a boxlike shape with a hole on one end, and on the other appears film or photopaper. Its like a little camera obscura! Pinhole photos have a different appearance than photos taken with a camera and a lens (obviously if you construct a camera out of an empty Pabst can and photo paper its going to look slightly dirtier than a film+lense+camera print). This is what makes it interesting.

very long article to check out if your intrigued by this:
http://photo.net/pinhole/pinhole
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web work 3: Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism
was a movement that happened in the 1800 , it was caused by a group of people who would become known as transcendentalists when they decided that people need to be in touch with nature (they thought nature was a necessity for human beings {and they were right}), it goes hand in hand with romanticism (which was a movement in literature at a similar time where people started to incorporate nature into their work more [Mary Shelly: Frankenstein]) To get an idea of what a transcendentalist is like, think of a Victorian era hippie; Henry David Thoreau is the exemplification.


Alfred Steiglitz, untitled,1923 transcendental influence^^^^^

Click on this giant link to see an online book that discusses transcendentalism and its connection to photography:

http://books.google.com/books?id=HNBSmv5ZcPkC&pg=PA453&lpg=PA453&dq=alfred+stieglitz+transcendentalism&source=bl&ots=9vpMq0eiFG&sig=wI8PheSa1XIf2UWDLjkUo6hEH0E&hl=en&ei=5APLTaSOB8a-0AGkuIDtBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=alfred%20stieglitz%20transcendentalism&f=false
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Minor White

Minor White is an american photographer who was born on July 9, 1908 in Minneapolis Minnesota!! He was originally interested in poetry, but later moved to Portland, Oregon where he began his photography! He has done different varieties of photographs, from doorways, the sky, water and other simple subjects to nude men, and photographs that had more of a spiritual meaning. His ideas has influenced several other photographers and his style can be seen in photographs done by John Daido Loori for example.

Below is an image of Minor white himself!



This is a reinaction of White's well known
photograph called "Frost on Window"




This is simply another famous photo by White



Below is another blog I found that has a lot of reliable information on Minor White

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Web Work 9- Joanne Verburg






Joann Verburg lives in Minneapolis with her husband Jim who is a poet.
She says that her portraits evolved out of many years of photographing people, especially her husband.For 25 years she worked extensively with dancers and others in the time-based arts.
She made a name for herself in the the late 1970's with "The Rephotographic Survey Project." It's an exhibition and book on which she collaborated with Mark Klett, another photographer, and Ellen Manchester, a photo historian. They gathered more then 120 images by William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan and many others in a largely uninhabited Western landscape in the 19th century, the rephotographed each place.
She grew up in northern New Jersey, and first became aware of photography while watching slide shows of family pictures taken by her father. At the age of 6 she took her first roll of film and shot it on a polar bear at the Baltimore Zoo. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and The Rochester Insitute of Technology.
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Web Work 8- Life Magazine






After looking up some research on Life Magazine I found out that it was published for 53 years as a light-entertainment magazine, with jokes, social commentary and heavy illustrations. Being born on January 4th, 1883 in a New York City artists studio. Two men started this as a partnership. John Mitchel and Andrew Miller, Mitchell was a 37 year old illustrator who used a $10,000 inheritance to invest in the magazine serving as it's publisher
It featured some of the greatest cartoonists and writers of its era, which included Norman Rockwell, Harry Oliver, and Charles Dana.
The "Lucy" Life was the first all-photographic American news magazine. It sold more then 13.5 million copies a week at one point and was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages.
One of the best-know pictures printed in this magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedts photograph of a nurse in a sailor's arms. This picture was taken August 27th, 1945.
Life was a very highly rated and successful magazine for two generations before economics and changing tastes relinquished it to amount to not much. But the magazine has been reinstated as of 2007.
**Pictures were Life's most compelling feature!
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

web work 9: Beth Dow





Beth Dow is from Minneapolis Minnesota and her work focuses on using historical references and old style photo development to draw awareness to current issues of how land is used. Many of her photos have a kind of fantasy feel to them, but they are also all real images (a lot of the things she takes pictures of are landmarks around the Minneapolis area). I really like how she has this foggy, hazy, magical kind of feel to her work it also has this unnatural, is this a mirrage kind of feel to them. They remind me of like... a real world version of alice in wonderland or something. I also love nature photography, and while I would prefer these to be taken in a more wild setting, I think what she is doing here is really cool.

a link to her official website
http://www.bethdow.com/
Posted by JoKu at 9:05 PM 0 comments

web work 8: Look Magazine




Look Magazine
Was published in Des Moines Iowa from 1937 to 1971, and focused, unlike other magazines at the time, on the actual photographic aspect of the magazine instead of the articles. I think that this magazine changed how people look at periodicals because and that’s is how it is now; photos are more important than articles. Originally, Look magazine was a big magazine, 11 by 14 inches, which made it all the better at displaying photos. At one point Look was even more popular than Saturday Evening Post which isn’t exactly surprising because both of those magazines seem to be knock offs of the other, they both have that Norman Rockwell moment kind of feel to them. Stanley Kubrick worked as a staff photographer for a while, and supposedly this helped his career as a director this^ is one of the photos he took... Its easy to see how he went from this to Full Metal Jacket

Here is an article about the many different types of photos Look took, many current events:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awpnp6/look_coll.html
Posted by JoKu at 8:32 PM 1 comments

web work 7: Andy Warhol



Andy Warhol
is known as a pop artist of the 1960s. His work is of many different mediums, but his most famous style is done by screen printing; this is how his famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe, and Jackie Kennedy are done; he used a picture to make the prints. He would also film people, like Niko (the model) using regular film for recording movement, but then he would use that film like photo film so he would get a bunch of pictures that showed slight amounts of movement as a person looked from one to the next [eerie]. He also used to take models into photo booths and just keep doing picture after picture to the point where it was hard for the model to keep thinking up different facial expressions. Anyway, he changed art permanently and he has sold paintings for as much as 100 million dollars, that’s up there with Van Gogh and Picasso.

This is what I was talking about with the photobooth stuff:
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/warhol/photo_booth_portraits.html
Posted by JoKu at 7:47 PM 1 comments

web work 6: Jacob Riis



Jacob Riis
was a Danish American who known for his photojournalistic talents, as they led to social reform. During the late 1800s and early 1900s Riis sought to help out the poor and draw attention to unsuitable living conditions and people stuck living in the slums and impoverished areas of New York. He wanted to illustrate these people so that society would stop ignoring them and realize just how bad conditions were. Riis sympathized with the poor because he himself had once been poor in the New York area, but then got a job working as police reporter, where he also wrote about life in the slums. Riis did a lot of work sneaking into dark corner bars with his flash camera, set off the flash, take the picture and then get out of there.

For his full Bio, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis
Posted by JoKu at 6:29 PM 1 comments

web work 5: Hurter and Driffield


Ferdinand Hurter and Vero Charles Driffield were 19th century scientists who are responsible for first really making film that had certain exposure times and methods of development and how silver changed under different conditions and variables, this is known as sensitometry. They also worked with densitometry, which is the measurement of optical density in light sensitive materials, such as film. They are the people responsible for developing the predictable/easy to use film and exposure times that we use in photography nowadays. It has to be some of the most intense science done for an artistic purpose…

check out the wikipedia article for more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurter_and_Driffield
Posted by JoKu at 6:07 PM 1 comments

web work 4:Pinhole photography








Pinhole Photography
Typically, a pinhole camera is something that someone has constructed out of makeshift items (seashell, pop can, shoe box) in order to get a “camera” that has no lens; it is a boxlike shape with a hole on one end, and on the other appears film or photopaper. Its like a little camera obscura! Pinhole photos have a different appearance than photos taken with a camera and a lens (obviously if you construct a camera out of an empty Pabst can and photo paper its going to look slightly dirtier than a film+lense+camera print). This is what makes it interesting.

very long article to check out if your intrigued by this:
http://photo.net/pinhole/pinhole
Posted by JoKu at 5:30 PM 1 comments

web work 3: Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism
was a movement that happened in the 1800 , it was caused by a group of people who would become known as transcendentalists when they decided that people need to be in touch with nature (they thought nature was a necessity for human beings {and they were right}), it goes hand in hand with romanticism (which was a movement in literature at a similar time where people started to incorporate nature into their work more [Mary Shelly: Frankenstein]) To get an idea of what a transcendentalist is like, think of a Victorian era hippie; Henry David Thoreau is the exemplification.


Alfred Steiglitz, untitled,1923 transcendental influence^^^^^

Click on this giant link to see an online book that discusses transcendentalism and its connection to photography:

http://books.google.com/books?id=HNBSmv5ZcPkC&pg=PA453&lpg=PA453&dq=alfred+stieglitz+transcendentalism&source=bl&ots=9vpMq0eiFG&sig=wI8PheSa1XIf2UWDLjkUo6hEH0E&hl=en&ei=5APLTaSOB8a-0AGkuIDtBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=alfred%20stieglitz%20transcendentalism&f=false
Posted by JoKu at 4:52 PM 1 comments

Monday, May 9, 2011

Web Work 9 Minnesota Photographers

I didn't want to just choose a single photographer native to Minnesota so heres a few and some of their work:



Joanne Verburg:






Herself: 












Xavier Tavera: 
















Alec Soth: 




























Douglas Beasley:















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Web Work 8 Steve McCurry

I randomly picked a photographers name from a list and I choose Steve McCurry, and when I looked him up I was shocked to see that very famous picture of the "Afghan Girl".  This photo first appeared in Natoinal Geographic gaining McCurry his fame.  

McCurry studied cinematography and film making at Penn State University.  But he ended up getting a degree in theater arts in 1974.  This is when he began to be interested in photography taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper.  McCurry went to Afghanistan and disguised himself in native dress and hid his film by sewing it into his clothes.  He was photographing the Soviet war in Afghanistan when he took the picture of the "Afghan Girl" in a refugee camp.  The photograph was named the most recognizable photograph by National Geographic.


Eastman Kodak let McCurry shoot the last ever produced roll of Kodachrome transparency film.  The film was processed by Dwayne's Photo in Parson's Kansas and is housed at the George Eastman House.  
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Web Work 7 William Wegman

William Wegman received Bachelors and then a Masters in fine arts for painting, but his career ended up being in the field of photography.  His photography career started when he got a dog, a Weimaraner, he named Man Ray.  This dog became the subject of most of his photographs until he got a second dog he named Fay Ray.  

Wegman appeared on the Tonight Show in 1992 where he explained that he used a tennis ball to capture the dogs attention in the background in order to get the photos he got.  Wegman was also a artist in residence at Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts and the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where he received the colleges Distinguished Alumni Award.   Not only did he make an appearance on the Tonight Show, he was also on Animal Planets "Dogs 101" and Sesame Street.  His photos also hold permanents residence in the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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