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Dec 9 / 12:57am

Great lessons from Canon - including 'How to Create Limited Edition Art Prints'

Framing snapshots and creating calendars and coffee mugs with your images can be fun, but have you ever considered producing your own limited edition art prints? An art print conveys quality and creativity and by limiting the number of prints produced, you establish value to your series.

Art Prints are a great way to share your photos. They make beautiful personal gifts, lucrative crafts to sell, or eye-catching decoration.

It isn’t necessary to be a professional artist, photographer, or print maker to produce professional-looking results. All you need is a digital camera, computer, printer, special paper, a pencil and a desire to express your creativity.

In this tip you’ll learn how to create your own limited edition art prints the easy way. We won’t be tackling anything too technical, just a few basics about choosing a subject, setting up your camera, taking a great picture, adjusting your image with computer software, and then successfully printing and displaying your image. Are you ready?

CHOOSE A SUBJECT

Whether it’s a person, place or thing, choose something to photograph that is meaningful and beautiful to you. If you intend to sell your prints, consider locations and objects as your subjects and think about creating images that evoke a human emotion or convey a concept. For example, a new spring plant signifies growth and fresh new beginnings, a calm lake at sunset represents serenity and peace, a group of pears in a bowl may suggest togetherness, while the vast expanse of a landscape could be interpreted as freedom or loneliness. The list is endless, so explore, unleash your creativity, and experiment.

A foggy day at the beach gives this image a mysterious, yet intimate feel. The horizontal composition and the diagonal of the water line directs your eye through the scene. Taken at ISO 200; f/1.4; 1/1600 sec. with a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens (image © Erin Manning)

To read this article go HERE

To see what learning opportunities are provided by Canon go HERE

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Dec 9 / 12:45am

Beautiful article by Peter Howe on Cartier-Bresson

The Death of a Famous Unknown

August 2004

by Peter Howe

One of Henri Cartier-Bresson's favorite quotations was from the French painter Degas, who declared that it was "wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown."
That Cartier-Bresson was famous is apparent from the length and position of the many obituaries that have appeared since his death at the age of 95 on Aug. 3 at his house in the Luberon region of southeastern France. The New York Times ran a 3,400-word version that started at length on the front page; BBC.com had no less than five articles on him, plus a page on which readers could post their personal tributes; regional newspapers across the United States, including the San Jose Mercury News, The Indianapolis Star, the Seattle Post Intelligencer and The Miami Herald carried extensive obits; Google News, the section of that service which searches for news-related items, turned up a total of 367 articles pertaining to his death.
Henri MATISSE, French painter. Circa 1943-44. France. Alpes-Maritimes. Vence. At his home: villa "Le Rêve".
© Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'm not sure how happy he would have been with such extensive coverage, for throughout his long life he jealously guarded his anonymity. He gave few interviews, regarding them as interrogations, was rarely photographed, and frequently derided his photography — and indeed photography in general — as a "truc mechanique" (a mechanical trick). Indeed, the phrase "famous photojournalist" is almost an oxymoron. You cannot be a celebrity and a fly on the wall at the same time, and if the presence of a photographer in any situation is liable to alter it, then the aura shed by a world-renowned, household-name photographer will likely paralyze all those in front of his lens.

via digitaljournalist.org

To see photographs and read the essay click on link

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Dec 8 / 11:47pm

Source: Graduate Photography Online - 2009 - Index of Colleges

Check out this website I found at source.ie

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Dec 8 / 11:16pm

Rory Bremner's genius tested on TED - hooray!

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Dec 8 / 11:09pm

If you love photography that clicks outside of the usual 'boxes' - check out the blog by chris orwig

last time i went surfing i brought along the blackbird (mentioned in the previous post) and stashed it in the bushes. i took some photos before and after surfing. it was a great way to combine two of my passions. i wasn’t too sure how they’d turn out yet when i got the film back i was pleasantly surprised. here’s one of my favorites from that day.

via chrisorwig.com

Earlier postings explain the materials he used.

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Dec 8 / 11:04pm

Great sites on early UK TV and Radio programmes - nostalgia IS what it used to be

Children's Favourites, Worker's Playtime, Housewives Choice, Mrs. Dales Diary, The Archers, Dick Barton, The Goon Show, Beyond Our Ken, Take it from Here, Life with The Lyons, Listen with Mother, Family Favourites.......and lots more!

BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London

There were three main BBC Radio stations broadcasting in Britain in the 1950s. The most widely listened-to service, the "Light Programme", brought us popular music as well as mainstream light entertainment in the form of variety shows, comedy, and drama. The "Home Service", whilst it also had its share of general entertainment programmes, was the main channel for news, features, and drama of a more demanding kind – and was the home too of regional programming. The "Third Programme" meanwhile was unashamedly highbrow in character: broadcasting in the evenings only, its output consisted of classical music concerts and recitals, talks on matters scientific, philosphical, and cultural, together with poetry readings and classic or experimental plays. In 1957 its weekly hours were cut by 40%.

Also, The General Overseas Service (previously The Empire Service, now the BBC World Service) was an international service which was beamed around the World from London with its news prelude Lilliburlero, famous since 1943. Every news bulletin was preceded by this strict sequence: at 59.32 the announcer would say "This is London". At 59.35 Lilliburlero was played, followed at 59.55 by the Greenwich Time Signal. The continuity announcer would then give the time - e.g. "Thirteen hours Greenwich Mean Time" and the news studio would be cued and the newsreader would say "BBC World Service. The news, read by....".

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/index.htm

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/index.htm

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Dec 8 / 12:30am

Looking for songs for the family to sing in the car? - from the days of BBC's Uncle Mac

You can get the CDs from Amazon eg HERE

The words to scores of songs are HERE

For more senior citizens who want to explore the days of Uncle Mac and BBC Radio see HERE

and HERE

QUESTION: Was 1967 the year when children ceased to have a childhood - and parents had to share their children's souls with evil money-grabbing capitalists?

"When Cliff and Elvis started to replace teddy bear's picnics and runaway trains in the affections of the audience, the programme (Uncle Mac's Children's Hour) couldn't continue to be safe and square and it died with the Light Programme in 1967."

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Dec 7 / 12:30am

Give peace a chance - Iran as you have never seen it - music by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam

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Dec 5 / 10:24pm

John Lennon, Hafiz, Jane Bown & photographing the light of the soul

Two items came my way today - one portrait, following on from yesterday, and one quotation.

Jane Bown brought out the beauty and sensitivity of John Lennon exquisitely;

The Persian poet Hafiz said;

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

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Dec 5 / 1:49am

Jane Bown – great simplicity, great empathy, great photographs

The following video is a wonderful interview showing a range of Jane Bown's work and recollections about her work and the great and good who she photographed;

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Jane Bown worked for the Observer newspaper from 1949.

Many of her portraits are so wonderful that you feel you are in the presence of the subject - and that the essence of the character of the subject is being revealed via the photograph.

For example her portraits of John Lennon are exquisitely sensitive and beautiful - so many of the photographs of him had veneers of stupidity. I suspect that this was often John fooling to cope with the stupidity of many of those with whom the four had to deal.

Photo from Wikipedia