I just created a pipe (the little Swiss army knife of Web 2.0) that merges my most recent favourite photos in several photo galleries and bookmarking services: Flickr, Zooomr, deviantArt, vi.sualize.us, we♥it.
My combined photo “favorites” (in case the embed above hasn’t loaded properly).
I could copy this blog post and use it as my own, as the experiences are so similar, even if I think I haven’t done 52 photowalk this year. Really worth reading (the original post, that is).
A Good Camera Bag Makes a World of Difference
Very, very true (and I even use a similar “slingshot” bag). This is valid for longer walks were a comfortable bag makes the difference, plain shoulder bags just don’t work.
I Really Like a Wide Angle Lens
Throughout the year my Sigma 10-20mm was always in my bag, because there’s no better lens to tell a story than a wide angle. But I used it nearly to exhaustion, to a point where I could only “see” in wide angle, which leads to the next lesson.
I Also Really Like a Nifty Fifty
At some point this year I had to switch lenses to “reset my sight”, for being too much used to my wide angle lens: I could only see lines and perspectives. So I went back to my prime lenses more regularly and I remembered how much love them, how much I loved the narrow depth of field, the small f or how light and small those lenses are. I started with my Nikkor 50mm but ended up buying the new Nikkor 35mm DX (a true nifty fifty for digital cameras).
The Golden Hour is Where It’s At
Basic photographer rule. ‘Nuff said.
Composition Matters
Composition matters a lot, and this means looking, staring, seeing things and wait to get the best of the photo.
Nature is My Comfort Zone
For me it’s more street or urban photography, with some landscape photography in between.
Experimenting with Editing Can be Fun
This is a consequence of next lesson, shooting in RAW made me more comfortable in playing with light and colours, and this means now I’m having more fun in post-processing photos.
Shooting in RAW is Worth It
Nowadays I shoot exclusively in RAW, once you get there you won’t go back.
Mário Pires has an interesting challenge for the forthcoming Sunday: a #mobilephotowalk! It’s a simple challenge, inspired by Chase Jarvis “The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You”, and limited to something as ubiquitous as a camera phone (no fancy lenses or cameras). There will be a real photowalk at Óbidos, but you can take part everywhere in the world.
For more details on how to participate check the link bellow:
Let’s do a #mobilePhotowalk! [Retorta]
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O Mário Pires está a organizar um desafio bem curioso para o próximo Domingo: um #mobilephotowalk! A ideia não tem nada de complicado: inspirado pelo “The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You” do Chase Jarvis este projecto será limitado a telemóveis com camera fotográfica, não havendo objectivas, tripés e afins. Está agendado um evento real, com gente e tudo, em Óbidos, mas pode-se participar a partir de qualquer parte do mundo.
Para mais detalhes sobre os vários pormenores do evento ver o link em baixo:
I’m a big fan of Twitter, it’s a pretty simple service and a great way to share thoughts with the “cloud” and interact with people, is even useful for organizations to get closer to their followers/clients/etc. Magnum Photos is one of those organizations that seems to know how to use it, and if your were paying attention to their Twitter account last week you may had seen the tweet shown above, where photographer Larry Towell spared some time to answer the questions of all of those interested in photography and photojournalism.
You can’t get more live than that, but you can still catch up with the virtual interview right here.
Not long ago I wrote a little rant in this blog about the shallowness of Flickr’s “award groups”, today decided to be a bit more constructive and point some that give you more than shiny awards:
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One of the most interesting sides of flickr has to be the social and community features: anyone can create a group and build a small, or not so small, community around a given theme,feature,camera,etc. (just like I did for Nikon FM2 owners). Nowadays there are lots of groups available and eventually the rules for some have become more and more complicated, like: must comment/tag/favorite (any combination of those three actions) X photos for each Y photos added to the group’s pool.
The latest trend in flickr is “award groups”, where you “award” (add a corny, colorful, flashy and sometimes large image) an existing photo in the group’s pool or, much worse, invite a photo to the group’s pool. These “award groups” are a bit like candy: it may taste good but in the end candy will give you teeth cavities, become tired of all that sweetness (check the figure below) and get absolutely no nutritional value. In other words: these groups “pollute” the comments area, have almost no meaningful information and are useful only to feed someone’s ego.
PS- For a kick-ass, but not for the faint-hearted, group head to Delete Me Uncensored.
Throughout these years I’ve been in the digital photography world (four, since I bought my D70) one of the things that has been nagging my mind was the lack of a normal lens from Nikon targeted to digital SLR cameras. Something that’s almost mandatory the film world.
Until now the only option was the 30mm lens from Sigma, a nice lens but has the “problem” of allowing a f/1.4 aperture, which means it’s not that cheap. It seems Nikon finally woken up and released something with the same angle of view of those 50mm lenses in full frame film SLR cameras.
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Traditional social bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious are great for finding articles and other text that other Web surfers have tagged as interesting.
For the visually oriented, the pickings have been slim. Now, however, a handful of photo-oriented bookmarking sites are emerging to entertain the eye as well as the mind.
Tag That Image: Visual Bookmarking Sites Worth Browsing [Bits Blog]
I haven’t tried FFFFound (no invite for me) and only had a glimpse of what vi.sualize.us can do, most of my experience comes from testing we♥it.
Photo bookmarking, or visual bookmarking, it’s such a clever idea that you think “why haven’t anyone came up with this before?”. Nevertheless it’s a kind of service that’s still on its infancy and has some issues that aren’t solved:
Either way I’m very curious to see how visual bookmarking services will evolve, and what others that may appear in the future can add to those already around.
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When I went to this simple and isolated photowalk I couldn’t imagine it would grow beyond that sunny August afternoon, but the truth is it did, and now is becoming a blooming and exciting photography community that I’m very happy to be part of. If you live or take your photos in the Greater Lisbon area or the rest of the country, or even if you’re just nearby in one of the events, feel free to come along!
My plans for tomorrow are simple: a worldwide wide photowalk! Not taking photos across the whole world (I wish…) but a challenge from Scott Kelly to have a photowalk around the world. I’ll do my part here in the Lisbon and we’ll be around Alfama for a couple of hours.
Photo by luispedron
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