Libor Kriz

iPhone Flickr LOMO wallpaper [1.]

I found LOMO-like picture made by Flickr user called Eloquator (you can see it here). I changed (lightly) the resolution and prepared iPhone wallpaper. Many thanks to Eloquator (hope so everything is clear :)

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Finicky Me: Nice blog about lomography + 10 rules of lomography

Today I found nice blog about LOMO cameras and lomography "Finicky Me"; made by girl called Mia (twitter account @finickymia). If you are interested in lomography, try it.

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BigPicture: Earth Day 2009

More @ http://bit.ly/mNt1Z

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Digital Pinhole: Photography without lens

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These photographs may be the first of their kind, shot by using a wide angle digital pinhole camera. The motives were selected from a larger series of photographs representing artistic experiments with shadows, coincidence and reflections of light.

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Nexto announces NVS2500 backup storage device

Dpreview. Nexto, a manufacturer of portable backup storage devices, has announced the NVS2500 backup device claiming to offer back up speeds of up to 80MB/s. Primarily designed for video professionals, it is compatible with Compact Flash, SDHC and MemoryStick Pro, though its fastest speeds are reserved for SxS media. Built around a 2.5” SATA hard drive, it offers eSATA/USB and FireWire support. It also allows simultaneous backup to both its internal HD and an external USB hard drive. It also features a 2.4" preview LCD, rugged construction and a free-fall sensor for maximum drive protection. The NVS2500 is available in 160GB, 250GB, 350GB and 500GB storage capacities.

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Bio: Patrick Farrell - The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Patrick Farrell, 49, has been a staff photographer for The Miami Herald since 1987. His assignments have taken him to Turkey, Haiti, Cuba and throughout Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean. He was part of the Miami Herald staff that won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the coverage of Hurricane Andrew’s devastation in South Florida. He graduated in 1981 with a bachelor of arts degree in television and film production from the University of Miami. A native of Miami, he grew up in a family of 12 children and discovered photography at age 13, when he destroyed a bathroom in his parents’ home by turning it into a darkroom. (His five sisters still haven’t quite forgiven him.)

Farrell started his career working for several small community papers in Florida. He has twice been named the National Press Photographers Association’s Region 6 Newspaper Photographer of the Year (in 1992 and 1993). He also was named Southern Photographer of the Year in 1989 and again in 1993 at the Southern Short Course in Photography, the country’s longest-running photojournalism seminar.

In 2008, the Herald repeatedly sent Farrell to Haiti, which bore the brunt of the year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season. He was there the night Hurricane Ike - the fourth storm to hit Haiti in a month - reflooded the overwhelmed country, swallowing homes and lives. In all, more than 800 Haitians died and more than 1 million were left homeless by the unrelenting series of storms. [source]

More @ photos, 2009 Pulitzer Prize 

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Bio: Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn (born May 20, 1955) is a photographer and director from Strijen, the Netherlands. He is well known for directing music videos, including Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" (1989) and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), as well as directing the Ian Curtis biopic Control. He is widely acknowledged by the music industry, mainly for being the creative director of the visual output of prominent bands like Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade.

Corbijn decided to move into directing music videos, more or less accidentally. Palais Schaumburg asked him to do one, which he reluctantly accepted. After seeing Video, Propaganda insisted that Corbijn would direct Dr. Mabuse. After that, David Sylvian, Echo & The Bunnymen and Golden Earring asked for his services. Front 242 was presented Corbijn's artwork and accepted shooting a video with him, it resulted in a very strange version of "Headhunter" (which he understood as "Egg Hunter") due to Corbijn's rather limited knowledge of the English language at the time. Nevertheless, it became a milestone in Corbijn's career. 

More @ http://bit.ly/10UAcW and http://www.corbijn.co.uk/

L!bor

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Bio: Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.

Born Dorothea Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 26, 1895, she was the daughter of Joan Lange and Henry Nutzhorn. Dorothea developed
polio in 1902, at age 7. Like many other polio victims before treatment was available, she emerged with a weakened and wizened right leg, and a permanent limp. When she was 12 years old, her father abandoned her and her mother, leading her to drop her middle and last names in lieu of her mother's maiden name.

Lange was educated in photography in New York City, in a class taught by Clarence H. White. She was informally apprenticed to several New York photography studios, including that of the famed Arnold Genthe. In 1918, she moved to San Francisco, and by the following year she had opened a successful portrait studio. She lived across the bay in Berkeley for the rest of her life. In 1920, she married the noted western painter Maynard Dixon, with whom she had two sons. One, born in 1925, was named Daniel Rhoades Dixon. The second child, born in 1929, was named John Eaglesfeather Dixon.

With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. Her studies of unemployed and homeless people captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later
called the Farm Security Administration (FSA). 

More @ http://bit.ly/LtciN
 
L!bor

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Mistakes and misconceptions in professional freelance photography

I have found two interesting articles about professional freelance photography. Think so you have to read them. The first is about 5 misconceptions about professional freelance photography (more @ http://bit.ly/wUF7t), e. g. My photos are better than a lot of photographs I’ve seen from so-called “professionals”, I could be a professional too if I only got to spend as much time photographing as they do, How can she even be a pro?  My camera equipment is better/newer than hers!, That photo isn’t original!  I’ve seen tons like it before so how can he sell it?, If I had a camera like yours, I could be a pro too! etc.

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Nikon announces 10-24mm (competitor to Sigma and Tokina?)

Nikon has announced the AF-S DX Nikkor 10-24mm F3.5-4.5G ED, an ultra-wideangle zoom for DX format DSLRs. This mid-range optic offers a minimum focus distance of 0.24m through the entire zoom range, and includes a built-in AF-S motor that enables autofocus on entry-level Nikon bodies (including the D5000 also announced today). The optical formula consists of 14 elements in 9 groups, including 3 aspherical elements and 2 ED glass elements to combat aberrations. It will be available from May at a cost of €849.

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