Do you need fancy gear to make a feature film that gets screened at festivals and an international distribution deal? The answer, simply, is no, declares writer and director Dan Hasson at NoFilmSchool. Hasson has some expertise in no-budget filmmaking: His feature film When Are You Moving Out?was made for approximately $3,611— including food, equipment, and post-production. Read the full Story >>
Even in the digital age, the Shipping Forecast is still broadcast daily on BBC Radio 4, informing listeners of unruly swells and approaching storms in far-off places. “It occupies a deeply rooted place in our culture,” says Mark Power, whose book The Shipping Forecast features photographs from the 31 sea areas that are enumerated in the daily radio litany. For many of us there is an essential mystery to the shipping forecast that perhaps comes from hearing it in the background as a child,” Powers tells The Guardian. Read the full Story >>
Canon Marketing Japan has spelled the end for the “Kiss” brand of cameras. known in North America as a range of entry-level cameras from the EOS M series through the Rebel. The West has seen the last of new additions for these brands, too, notes PetaPixel. Canon Japan says that while the Kiss series is extremely popular, the company has recognized the need to adjust to the changing times and in order to “convey the appeal of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras to a wider range of people than Kiss users.” Read the full Story >>
The Royal Photographic Society has announced the winners of its inaugural Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition, which aims to celebrate scientific exploration and application in images made by female and female-identifying photographers. The top prize goes to Margaret LeJeune for an image titled “Wathershed Triptych”—a tryptich made by harnessing the light of bioluminescent dinoagellates to illuminate watershed maps from the United States Geological Survey Hydromap project. Read the full Story >>
