photography

Martin Parr, the photographer has died, aged 73. I never rated him much, but plenty of others did - iirc he was a Magnum Photos member.

So after a long absence (back when there wasn't even digital photography) I got back into the hobby. Buying a mid range camera and eventually a few lenses. (I specifically will not reveal brand names or model numbers - more on that below). I got really heavy into it, then kinda burned out. I'm...

Hello, a friend just sent me this link to a collection of photographs from the war time. They are Kodachrome 4x5". The colours, the imagery. It looks so realistic, one is tempted to just try and grab "into" the image to pick something up: [ETA: Thanks to Gawdzilla Sama, here is another source...

This is a picture taken by a photographer which is being shared everywhere on social media. He swears it's not 'shopped or retouched in any way. If he's telling the truth (and from his FB posts and the title he's given it, he's a little bit of a woo apparently) then it's clearly some sort of...

Cindy Sherman Print Sells For $3.9 Million At Auction, The Highest Ever For A Photograph. Can someone explain to me why??

Got a new Canon 5D Mk2 21mp DSLR camera months back, and have been using it mainly for shooting HD video. However, it is a superb still camera as well (one of the reasons I bought it), so after being woken up after three hours of sleep and not being able to get back to sleep, I grabbed the...

Remarkable set of photos (from the Library of Congress) re-done from early color slides. This is from the dawn of good color photography, and these are like a little window on the past.... http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

Given the almost universal progression from film photography to digital, leading to the impressive but fake images that one sees almost daily in social emails circulating the globe, mostly generated by some imaginative Photoshop afficionado, it got me wondering today: is it now generally much...