Two Major Contests and Two *You* Can Enter!

Amateurs can not only learn something about the craft by participating in a photo contest, they can 'measure' themselves.  So why not enter one?!  You may not win it even if you follow the guidelines I had posted our BPro sister site in National Geographic's Traveler Contest – How to Win it! but an honourable mention wouldn't be too bad.

Let's look at a few contests, two that have just...

Weekly Weird and Whimsical Photography News

See the Earth from the Sky . . .

PETA and the SPCA ain't gonna like this but if you want some nifty 'birds eye view' photographs, all you need to do is tie cameras to pigeons!  That's what was done back in 1907, reports Jamie Condliffe.  

You see, back in those days they didn't exactly have recon jets, let alone satellites, so a clever German named Neubronner devised this...

Eye Versus Camera. And the Winner is . . .

In a direct face-off, which is superior: the Camera or the Human Eye?  That is actually the question Cambridge in Colour seeks to answer – even the title reveals that this is a adversarial contest: Cameras Vs. The Human Eye – note the 'versus'!  

Given that a photographer has at least a tangential interest in sensitivity to, and perception of, light, and issues of optics, this article is quite...

Craig Semetko: Where Leica, America, and Street-Shooting Come Together

Here's the second part of our exhibition double-header, following up from yesterday's post about the exhibition of The Hyland Collection.  I had mentioned that we'd look at "a virtual" exhibition "about street photography” "on a 'name' website." 

That 'name' website happens to be the Leica Blog.  In their interview with Craig Semetko published a few days back, they feature a one-man virtual exhibition of a kind, America: E...

A ‘Must-See’ Exhibition: The Hyland Collection

We'll look at two very different exhibitions today and tomorrow starting with The Hyland Collection Of American Photography: At The American Museum In Britain.  Today we're talking about a 'real' exhibition in a museum; tomorrow, a virtual one a 'name' website.

The first exhibition makes one reflect about the art of photography; the second enables one to learn about the practice of (street) photography.

Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Robert Mapplethorpe, and...

Ten-Hut! Photography Boot Camp for Beginners

Brilliant Prints is pleased to announce a new weekly series for beginners, 'Photography Boot Camp'.  Anyone who has been taking point-and-shoot snapshots but has been put off by some of the mystery or complexity surrounding serious photography and who has been content to 'Instagram', is sure to benefit from our 'Boot Camp'.

Using simple language with a minimum of fancy words and a step-by-step approach we'll present key photography concepts so...

Exhibitions and Images; Eerie and Intriguing

Living in Mexico, born in Congo, father from Belgium and mother from Hungary.  And now featured in a solo exhibition, Alice in the Land of Zapata, at the Hungarian House of Photography, is Nadja Massun whose photographs bespeak sensitivity most of all, a sensitivity probably heightened and refined by her peripatetic childhood.

"I am especially intrigued by faces and their expressions," explains Massun, "the gestures and the movements of the...

The Camera Brands’ Melting-Pot

    The camera market is in a bit of a tumult – credit (or blame) Leica and Fuji for having started all the ruckus.  Indeed, it's become like a melting point with new brands arriving and old brands blending and melting into one another.

    How about Samsung and Google (with its Android O.S.) entering the camera market?  Samsung announced a Galaxy camera (to go with its Galaxy tablet and...

Painting qua Photography – Photorealism

    Is it a photograph or is it a painting?  While so many photographers attempt to introduce 'painterly' effects to their photographs (say 'thank you' to Photoshop), artists who possess advanced technique have eschewed Post-Modern Art and practice ‘Photorealism’ – a style of painting which aims to be both true to life yet expresses the subject from the painter's perspective, i.e. realism through the medium of the painter.  

    Earlier...