Fotografiska Tuesday June 21, 2022
“At the age of 26, Aindrea Emelife has already made a name for herself as one of the most important new voices in art curation,” notes AnOther, which recently spotlighted the exhibition “Black Venus curated by Aindrea Emelife,” on view at Fotografiska New York through August 21. The exhibition surveys the legacy of Black women in visual culture, from fetishized, colonial-era caricatures to the present-day "reclamation of the rich complexity of Black womanhood" by 19 artists of numerous nationalities spanning the years 1942 to 1997. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday June 21, 2022
Ricoh has announced the second-generation global positioning system (GPS) unit for its DSLRs that it says provides reliable, high-precision positioning data and promises to simplify tracing for astrophotography. The new Pentax O-GPS2, a followup to to the O-GPS1, promises to provide more reliable and higher precision positioning data, notes PetaPixel. Ricoh says that when mounted on a compatible Pentax camera body, the O-GPS2 enables the Astrotracer feature, which couples the unit with the camera’s Shake Reduction system to allow it to trace and photograph celestial objects. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday June 21, 2022
If you're a sports photographer and you want to capture more emotion in your pictures, look for losers. The emotions of someone losing a big game is, in part, what sport and sports photography is all
about. "You gotta get up close sometimes, you gotta get right in there," notes sports photographer Jean Fruth in a recent PhotoShelter conversation about sports photography. Fruth is … Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Monday June 20, 2022
What constitutes a savage sports shot? “The saliva spewing out, as a fighter gets the decisive knockout blow. The sprinters desperately leaning forward in to gain the winning inch as they cross the finish line. The water tracing the swimmer's face as they come up gasping for air,” notes Fstoppers, which has a tutorial on the art of creating sizzling sports pictures. It's all about angles, composition, and emotion. Read the full Story >>
