"Unlike the writer, once I unpack my bags, there is no chance for another draft - either I have the shot or I don't. This is what drives and hauntes the professional photographers, the gnawing sense that 'this is it'."

Steve McCurry

Image by Steve McCurry

John Cyr

Developer Trays





Check out his project where he has been photographing developer trays belonging to different photographers.

Image by John Cyr

The Julie Project by Darcy Padilla

An incredibly personal and involved project over 17 years photographing Julie and documenting her struggle with HIV/AIDS and poverty in America.

Click below for the link:
http://www.darcypadilla.com/thejulieproject/intro.html

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 11

A range of studio lighting set ups.

Remember, remember the 5th November!!!

How to Photograph Fireworks

Summary on a digital compact camera:

Use a tripod (one of those mini tripods is ideal for this - Poundland currently doing them for a bargain £1!!

Use Fireworks option if you have it

If not - use the lowest ISO you can, the longest shutter speed you can and a two second self-timer

Summary on a digital SLR camera:

Use a tripod (not a Poundland one)

Use Manual mode (M)

Select 5 second shutter speed (you can try others)

Select the lowest ISO you can - 100 or 200

Use an aperture of f10 or smaller (eg f11, f16)

Use a remote release (if you don't have one use the 2 second self-timer)

Summary on a film camera:

Use a tripod

Use a slow film (FP4 for example)

Use 'B' mode for the shutter speed and expose for approx. 5 seconds

Use an aperture of f11 or f16

All cameras:

Framing and viewpoint

Try and get above the crowd.

Think about having a foreground interest - crowd, building etc

Lens

Use a wide angle lens to ensure that you can capture the area of the sky that the fireworks exploding

Flash

Turn off!!!

If you don't have a tripod

Then use a surface to rest your camera on - bench, wall etc

Using the self-timer will help to ensure that the camera is as steady as possible

"Daylight is the most delicious of the several kinds of light available to a photographer."

Irving Penn

Image by Irving Penn

Ex-students feature in Velvet Magazine

Marcus Barnes and Rachel Abraham both have work featured in Velvet Magazine.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 10

This video explains lighting ratios - essential if you wish to use studio lighting.

"It is a creation myth; how things came to be as they are. In this constructed place - our classroom - we revisit the past, the students examine the facts, and will participate in the construction of history, a history that had been told to them by others. Now with their own bodies, they engage their own dark truths. The age of innocence has past, they are now responsible for the future."

Carrie Mae Weems

Image by Carrie Mae Weems

The Month in Photography

Bit slow of the mark on this one ... so apologies ... this series has been running since March in The Guardian.

The first link is for the current one ..... previous months then listed further down the post.

Click and enjoy - for info on the images click the 'show captions' option on the bottom right of the video.


OCTOBER
Welcome to the Observer New Review's monthly guide to the 20 best photographic exhibitions and books, with images by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Chris Killip, Alixandra Fazzina, Philip Jones Griffiths, Tim Hetherington, Paul Strand, Mary Ellen Mark and many more.

SEPTEMBER
Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, Nadav Kander, Alixandra Fazzina, Philip Jones Griffiths, Tim Hetherington, Paul Strand, Sally Mann and many more.

AUGUST
Robert Capa, David Seymour and Gerda Taro, as well as from Nadav Kander, Mary Ellen Mark, Philip Jones Griffiths, Robert Doisneau, Paul Strand, Sally Mann and many more

JULY
Sebastião Salgado, Sally Mann, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nadav Kander, Philip Jones Griffiths, Tim Hetherington, Bruce Davidson, Richard Avedon and many more

JUNE
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Helen Levitt, Don McCullin, Man Ray, Sally Mann, Bruce Davidson, Ansel Adams and many more

MAY
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesca Woodman, Ryan McGinley, Helen Levitt, Don McCullin, Man Ray, Sally Mann, Robert Frank and many more

APRIL
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stanley Greene, Don McCullin, Richard Billingham, Eve Arnold, Nadav Kander, Simon Roberts, Craig McDean, and many more

MARCH
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Don McCullin, Eugene Richards, Irving Penn, Paul Graham, Simon Roberts, and many more

Eadwaerd Muybridge Exhibition at Tate Britain.

Just for iPhone users.

Free app to Muybridgizer your images!

For more info - click here.

Cambridge Camera Club Exhibition
at Guildhall, Cambridge

From Monday 25th October - Sunday 31st October 2010
Free admission

Opening times :
1pm - 5pm Monday
10am - 5pm Tuesday - Sunday

For more info click here.

Images of the Islamic Revolution

The recent protests in Tehran have been both passionate and violent, but this is not the first time such scenes have unfolded.

In 1979, photojournalist David Burnett captured the Islamic Revolution that toppled the Shah in Iran.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8283726.stm

Half Term

Going out and about over half-term?????

The following exhibitions are on over the UK and are well worth checking out:

London
National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square.
Camille Silvy - Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910
On until 24 October 2010
Entrance fee applies

An Englishman in New York: Photography by Jason Bell
On until 17 April 2011
Entrance free

From where I stand: Photographs by Mary McCartney
On until 13 February 2011
Entrance free
Twentieth Century Portraits Photographs by Dmitri Kasterine
On until 3 April 2011
Entrance free


Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington
Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography
On until 20 February 2011
Entrance fee applies

Photography Gallery, Room 38a
Selection of images from the V&A collection of images.
Entrance free


Tate Britain, Pimlico
Eadweard Muybridge
Until 16 January 2011
Entrance fee appllies

Photofusion, Brixton
Edmund Clark
On until 26 November 2010
Entrance free

Various locations in East London
photomonth East London Photography Festival
On throughout October - check website for more details

Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex
De La Warr Pavilion
Myth, Manners and Memory Photographers of the American South
On until 3 January 2011
Entrance free

Eastbourne, Sussex
Towner Gallery
Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe
On until 21 November 2010
Entrance free

Brighton
Various locations
Brighton Photo Biennial 2010 - curated by Martin Parr
Exhibitions by a variety of photographers all over Brighton - see the website for further details
On until 14 November 2010
Entrance free

Bradford, West Yorkshire
National Media Museum
From Back Home - Anders Peterson and JH Engstrom
and
Fay Godwin: Land Revisted
On until 27 March 2011
Entrance free

Impressions Gallery
Bringing the War Back Home
On until 14 November 2010
Entrance free

Southend-On-Sea, Essex
Focal Point Gallery
Anna Parkina 'The Ticket is For Today'
On until 6 November 2010
Entrance free

More exhibitions are being added to the list ..... so keep checking back!

Student Photography Competition

For more information: http://www.harman-inkjet.com/competitions/studentcomp10t.asp

Controversial pictures go on show in Paris

A former news photographer has produced a series of controversial pictures which draw on the paintings of the Old Masters to make searing comments about the big issues of today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8392226.stm

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 8

Using a light meter to balance ambient and flash.

World leaders photographed 'up close and personal'

A photographer has attempted to capture world leaders, including Barack Obama and Robert Mugabe, in a more personal light.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8393318.stm

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 7

The difference between wide angle and telephoto

Capturing disaster through photography

During wars and natural disasters it is often one searing photograph that captures the raw emotion and drama better than anything else.

It is those iconic images that photographer Matt McDermott has taken around the world and most recently in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8586266.stm