Vivian Maier, Photographer Is A Beautiful Short Film About Her Life And Work

Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer who was born in New York but grew up in France, and after returning to the US, worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed worldwide. Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped and unprinted until they were discovered by a local historian, John Maloof, in 2007. Following Maier's death, her work began to receive critical acclaim.[1][2] Her photographs have been exhibited in the US, England, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, and have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the US, England, Germany, Italy, France and other countries. A book of her photography titled Vivian Maier: Street Photographer was published in 2011. SEE MORE PHOTOS: HERE

Canon Offers On-Camera Tutorials That You Watch on Your DSLR Screen

Want to learn more about your Canon DSLR without leaving the comfort of its LCD screen? Canon has a series of “on-camera tutorials” that you can load and watch on most of its latest DSLR models. The video tutorials, which cover everything from AF modes to multiple exposure shooting, are meant to be loaded onto memory cards and viewed on-the-go using your camera itself. To find your camera’s tutorials, find and click its model on this products page, and then select “On-Camera Tutorials” at the top. Be warned though: the downloads weigh in at over 150MB each. Canon have produced a handy set of video and pdf tutorials for you to download and keep as reference. These easy to follow guides explain with step by step instructions on how to operate the Canon 1DX DSLR camera and better understand the menus and features on it. The Time Code Custom Operation for DSLR video users and video compression methods options, allows the user to set readable time code for video editing programs and allow how video is stored and is compressed according to the needs of the user. This is in addition to spot metering, finder display, subject recognition and multiple exposure shooting ideal for HDR photography or combining multiple exposed images to create a composite. Others include: Audio Options AI Servo In-Camera Adjustments Drive Modes Manual Selection of AF Points AF Configuration Tool AF Area Selection Click Here to download the On-Camera Tutorials for playback on the camera’s LCD screen.

Timelapse Photography Tips From Start To End

Everything you need to know to get started in shooting and creating timelapse videos using a DSLR digital camera and Lightroom 3.

Gavin Hoey http://www.gavtrain.com passes on timelapse photography tips and tricks before moving into Lightroom 3 to edit and create the finished time lapse video. Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Gavin_Hoey Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gavtrain Website: http://www.gavtrain.com

FRIDAY 7-13-12 On A Foggy Day

This is essentially a slide show of flowers around my home in Eureka, Ca. I put the music of a nice song I made using Apple garageband loops. I just named it the date but Friday 7-13-12 is more fun then most dates. The music is like a Canon something Bach may have done, mostly strings, some french horns, bassoon and a nice Oboe lead. The camera was a canon (no pun intended) rebel XSI with a 100mm 2.8 lens at ISO 200 on a foggy day.

How Canon Camera Gear is Made

Here’s a promotional/educational video by Canon that explains both how digital cameras work and how it manufactures them. Interesting fact: lenses are so precise that if they were to be enlarged to the size of a sports stadium, the margin of error would be less than the thickness of a business card.

Understanding Ring Lights / Ring Flashes: A Lighting Tutorial by TheSlantedLens

 A great lighting tool is the Ring Light or Ring Flash. The Ring Light was invented in the 1950's as a light source to capture medical images. Fashion photographers and DP's soon found this great light source and used it to shoot people. It's perfect because it creates a wonderful highlight on the skin and allows the shadows to fall away from the camera. This video is a look at how to use a Ring Light or Ring Flash. Keep those cameras rolling and keep on click'n! by theslantedlens.com (Jay P. Morgan)

There are also passive light modifiers, which will shape the light from an ordinary (shoe mount) flash into that of a ring flash. The adapters use a series of diffusers and reflectors to "bend" the light in an arc around the lens axis. The light is then emitted from that arc. This maintains any through-the-lens (TTL) lighting functions that may be shared by the camera and flash, as the actual light source has not changed.

Ring flash as a lighting technique has enjoyed a strong resurgence over the last few years,^[when?] as photographers realize that it is far more useful than the one-look way in which it has been used for decades. Specifically, it is now being used primarily as a fill light to raise the illumination level of shadows created by other, off-axis lights. It is considered^{[by whom?]} to be a particularly good source of fill light, because it does not create harsh shadows.

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Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei’s arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained for 11 weeks.

Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous and politically outspoken contemporary artist.

Alan Yentob explores the story of Ai Weiwei’s life and art, and reveals how this most courageous and determined of artists continues to fight for artistic freedom of expression while living under the restrictive shadows of authoritarian rule.

Life and work

Ai Weiwei's father was Chinese poet Ai Qing,^[6] who was denounced during the Anti-Rightist Movement and in 1958 sent to a labour camp in Xinjiang with his wife, Gao Ying.^[7] Ai Weiwei was one year old at the time and lived in Shihezi for 16 years. In 1975 the family returned to Beijing.^[8] Ai Weiwei is married to artist Lu Qing.^[7] Ai Weiwei has a son from an extramarital relationship.^[9]

In 1978, Ai enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy and attended school with Chinese directors Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.^[10] In 1978, he was one of the founders of the early avant garde art group the "Stars", together with Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Zhong Acheng and Qu Leilei. The group disbanded in 1983,^[11] yet Ai participated in regular Stars group shows, The Stars: Ten Years, 1989 (Hanart Gallery, Hong-Hong and Taipei), and a retrospective exhibition in Beijing in 2007:Origin Point (Today Art Museum, Beijing).

From 1981 to 1993, he lived in the United States, mostly in New York, creating conceptual art by altering readymade objects.^[11] He studied at Parsons School of Design^[12] and at the Art Students League of New York.^[13] At the same time, Ai became fascinated byblackjack card games and frequented Atlantic City casinos. He is still regarded in gambling circles as a top tier professional blackjack player according to an article published on blackjackchamp.com.^[14][15][16]

In 1993, Ai returned to China after his father became ill.^[17] He helped establish the experimental artists' Beijing East Village and published a series of three books about this new generation of artists: Black Cover Book (1994), White Cover Book (1995), and Gray Cover Book (1997).^[18]