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Photographer Justin de Villeneuve is best known for having launched the career of iconic supermodel Twiggy. An exhibition of his work opening at Proud Galleries tomorrow includes some of the best examples from his portfolio and is an album of faces of the Sixties. Born Nigel Jonathan Davies and taking the name of Christian St [...]

A selection of previously unseen images of London taken by unsung photographic talent Frederick Wilfred go on display at the Museum of London next month. Capturing the British capital when it was emerging from post-war austerity into the swinging Sixties, the black and white images are remarkable documents of city life. Although little known, Wilfred [...]

Impoverished children must earn money to help feed their family.Cambodia’s impoverished send their children of all ages wander barefoot looking for cans and bottles. The family makes a difficult investment: For impoverished children to attend school just one hour each day diminishes the time available to earn money. One hour in school means the family has less to eat. Education is a difficult investment [...]

Only 12 of the Leica 0-Series cameras survive Related Stories Camera obscurer? A prototype Leica camera has sold for 2.16m euros (£1.74m), setting a new world record for a camera. It was one of just 25 models created in 1923 as a prototype for the groundbreaking Leica A, which was the first commercially successful compact [...]

How do I sharpen an image? Seems quite an innocuous question and one to which most new photographers would expect a relatively brief and clear answer. There is however much more depth to this than many imagine and first we need to be clear what sharpening is and why it is needed. The camera senor [...]

Fujifilm Warns Of Film Price Hike Effective May 2012, you’re going to be paying more for Fujifilm films BY TIM BARRIBEAU ON APRIL 25, 2012 : PPhoto.com It’s a tough road out there for film users, and it’s about to get harder. Fujifilm has issued a notice that prices are expected to go up on all [...]

Canon has added IS to a couple of its popular wide-angle prime lenses: The EF 24mm F/2.8 and the EF 28mm F/2.8. Canon claims they’ll combat motion blur by four stops. Both use new aspherical lens elements and have seven-blade circular diaphragms for smooth blur. They also both have Ultra-Silent Motors, so you can use [...]

By Sarah Maria Williams 1 – You Can Use Your Own Digital Photo Collection The advent and continued improvement of digital cameras means that many of us have a large collection of photos of ourselves and those closest to us. A personalized photo calendar is a great use for this collection and it allows you [...]

1. Try and get a sense of the mode of transport you are travelling in or on 2. Don’t forget telling details, even small things like bus tickets or timetables 3. Introduce some movement? Try panning with or the use of a tripod and a slow shutter-speed 4. If your journey is after dark, do [...]

Posted by Priya Elan Wednesday 25 April 2012 11.21 BST This naked photograph of Madonna is expected to sell for £5,000 at auction. It seems a good time to review her approach to sex A photograph of Madonna by Steven Meisel, 1990. Photograph: Steven Meisel. Courtesy of Bonhams A photograph taken in 1990 of Madonna by photographer [...]

The Science of Photography refers to the areas of science, such as chemistry and physics, that makes photography possible. The mechanics of a camera, the dynamics of the shot and the chemical development of the film must be properly balanced and played out for the photographer to be able to take and develop his pictures. [...]

Photographic composition is a subject that all beginners and many intermediate level photographers find difficult and I thought Id start this blog by discussing my own approach to composition in some depth in a series of articles. The main things that I look for myself when Im composing an image in the viewfinder of my [...]

  Brian Duffy, one third of the “Terrible Trio” along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, who revolutionised 1960s British fashion photography, has a surprisingly limited archive.This is because in 1979, after a particularly testing day in his studios, Duffy tried to burn all of his negatives in a bonfire. Only a number of images [...]

Four decades of photo shoots with royalty and film stars, musicians and, well, everyday people left Patrick Lichfield with a wealth of stories as well as a pile of Polaroids. Visitors to Nunnington Hall in North Yorkshire can now catch a glimpse of those shoots with the first exhibition of the behind-the-scenes shots that formed [...]

  It is said that ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’. What we cannot express through our words can easily be conveyed through mediums like photos or paintings. Photography is a part of your daily life and is just an extension of watching something through your eyes. B e it newspapers or magazines, TV or [...]

What happens when some of the world’s preeminent photographers put down their DSLRs and pick up a smartphone? You get iSee: The eyes of VII in the hands of Hipstamatic, a new exhibit from the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston. iSee features a number of photos taken by members of the VII agency — [...]

Talk Urbex is the global resource for urban explorers. We have combined our passion for exploring abandoned architecture with advanced photographic techniques to showcase many of the amazing locations around the world.The world is full of abandoned architecture, all you have to do is open your mind… via Talk Urbex – Exploring decaying abandoned architecture….

The Modules of Adobe Lightroom By Chase Guttman on 14 Mar 2012 in Featured, Polls, Post Production[ 4 Comments ] Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an essential component of any digital photographer’s toolbox. As with all post-processing software, Lightroom is a program that photographer’s can use to improve and organize their visual art. Yet, Lightroom is unique in many [...]

The human capasity for rationalization is nearly limitless as he demonstrates. Truly terrifying.

Events Heading to the Invitational! Once again, our friends at the American Invitational will be hosting a JustWorld Horseless Horse Show!  We will be jumping for a just world on April 7 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida during the Mane Event Kick-Off Party in Parking Lot 6. >> READ MORE   Ambassador Asado If [...]

by Ellen Wilson                 Photo by Mark Brecke War photographers are accused of being adrenaline junkies. But they bear a terrible burden for witnessing the worst. A photographer is a witness. Witnessing war is one of the ultimate human tragedies. But what if you held a camera and [...]

POTTER, KENT B. Remains returned 07/15/96, ID 05/29/03 Name: Kent B. Potter Rank/Branch: CIV/UPI Photographer Unit: Date of Birth: CA 1948 Philadelphia PA Home City of Record: Date of Loss: 10 February 1971 Country of Loss: Laos Loss Coordinates: Status (in 1973): Missing, Presumed Dead Category: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Uh-1 Missions: REFNO: X001-0-03 Other Personnel in Incident: [...]

Saigon Quartet Four of the Vietnam War’s finest combat photographers—Larry Burrows, Henri Huet, Kent Potter, and Keisaburo Shimamoto—were shot down in a helicopter over the Ho Chi Minh Trail on February 10, 1971. After nearly three haunted decades, the author joined the search for his colleagues’ final resting-place. by Richard Pyle read more via Saigon [...]

In January 1966, Associated Press war photographer Henri Huet was on assignment in An Thi, in Vietnam, when he came across a young, wounded Army medic named Thomas Cole in a muddy trench. Cole’s eyes were wrapped almost entirely in bandages, yet he was tending to fellow injured soldiers of the First Cavalry Division. Moved [...]

Modern cameras are truly wonderful devices, every time a new one comes out it’s seems to be packed with more and more cool stuff to temp you into parting with your cash. Of course many of these features can be quite useful in certain situations but for the most part a good proportion of functions [...]

Academics see in our undying fascination with the undead symptoms of political and economic unrest. Zombies, for instance, are an expression of guilt and dread regarding the lack of affordable care for the aged. The vampire is a vehicle for racial and geopolitical agendas. Ghosts, too, can be demystified, explained away in the light of [...]

Hard copy photographs seem to have taken somewhat of a back seat in these days of digital photography but a good printer, using high quality inks, can produce excellent results.

Annually the KIDS team (Kids International Dental Services) visits Cambodia to deliver a service to some of its poorest communities. They come to build on the work started by Robert Renner a retired professor of Dentistry and the originator of KIDS. Cambodia is a very poor country with regard to services like dentistry for those [...]

Newsletter March 2012 (UK) Welcome to the latest Canon Professional Network (CPN) Newsletter. Canon has announced the new full-frame EOS 5D Mark III DSLR and CPS members will get their first chance to see the camera during the Focus on Imaging event at the Birmingham NEC from 4-7 March. You can discover everything you need [...]

The last photographs taken by Captain Robert Scott on his doomed journey to the South Pole have been bought for the nation in time for today’s centenary of the expedition. The 109 images, documenting the first part of Scott’s Antarctic journey, were thought lost for almost 70 years because the negatives had been misplaced and [...]

Cristina Mittermeier’s passport has a lot of stamps in it. Her photography has taken her to the furthest reaches of the world, especially during her tenure as president of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Her photographs capture people in their natural environments, offering unique looks into people’s lives and the cultures that shape them. [...]

Historically, Olympus had two popular lines of film cameras – the Pen series and the OM system. When it first unveiled its Micro Four Thirds system in 2008, Olympus promised that it would go back to its roots – which it did when the Pen E-P1 compact interchangeable lens camera was released. The Pen series [...]

Less than a month after announcing that it would seek bankruptcy protection in the US, Kodak has announced that it will stop the production of digital cameras and picture frames, as well as pocket-size video cameras. “For some time, Kodak’s strategy has been to improve margins in the capture device business by narrowing our participation [...]

A British photographer exposed for using copyrighted images without permission is up to his old tricks three years on, reports Simon Barber. (Additional reporting by AP’s Chris Cheesman) A professional photographer who in 2009 was accused of passing off other photographers’ work as his own – and was investigated by police for alleged fraud – [...]

At its launch, last Tuesday, Nikon said it had removed the D800E’s anti-aliasing filter, a move Nikon conceded risked the appearance of ‘false colour and moiré’ in photos. Speaking at CP+ a few days later, the company’s general manager for marketing, Nobuaki Sasagaki, explained that if Nikon had completely removed the low pass filter the [...]

As Myanmar emerges from 50 years of military rule, the Yangon Photo Festival showcases a previously suppressed journalistic profession to the outside world “This is exhilarating. For the first time in 50 years it’s possible to produce and show politically related stories inside the country. These are sure signs that we are experiencing the first [...]

REMARKABLE images of a 96-year-old woman and a teenage superstar have won awards for the Irish Independent. Staff photographers Mark Condren and Steve Humphreys were last night hailed at an international competition for the originality of their photographs. The prestigious 2012 Photographer of the Year title was won by photographer Julien Behal of Press Association [...]

Dr.Bob Renner and his volunteer dental team hit the road again in Cambodia, providing much needed dental care to some of the poorest kids in Cambodia. The team consist not just of Dentists but also the very important ”support” volunteers who are lay people from all walks of life, Teachers, Mums, Dads, Antique dealers, photographers. [...]

Events If you happen to be in Wellington, we have a couple great events right around the corner! Tonight!  Horseless Horse Show Returns to WEF! One of the most entertaining charity events of the season returns to the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, on Saturday, February 18 in the DeNemethy Arena. >> READ [...]