Hi friends. Lots of requests to re-post this episode of chasejarvisLIVE with Jasmine Star to my YouTube channel. So here ’tis. Those of you in the USA on the 3-day weekend celebrating Labor Day should find some time to take a peek. Reminder that her EPIC 5 day Wedding Photography course is downloadable for a
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This will likely read as an even more rambling blog entry than usual ;-) but there is simply no easier way to fuse the three ostensibly unrelated themes posited in the title than by the words I'm about to type into my iPad stream of onsciousness style....
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A couple of indispensable blogs were posted this week. First, John Loengard’s guest blog on Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider. This I would suggest as a must read for photographers and picture editors alike. Tremendous economic pressures over time have fractured and adversely affected the historic and important relationship good picture editors have with the photographers they
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Once again Canon have pulled a further rabbit out of the hat with the BBC approved 50Mbs 4:2:2 handheld camcorder but lets be honest these camcorders may be to the BBCs specifications but most self respecting DPs are not going to buy one of these, this...
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This years IBC is possibly the most anticipated video show for a long time as we await the price and availability of the Panasonic AF101 and a similar version form Sony. The Panasonic AF101 is the HDSLR killer and shares the same sensor as the Panasoni...
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Photography I have two little girls.  They love butterflies.  Often they’ll sit next to me as I peruse my feed reader looking for great articles and photographs to share with you.  They said I have to show you this great photograph of a couple of butterflies.  It’s really nice. You really should check out this
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New York City-based photographer Zack Seckler’s Less than Ordinary series is composed of beautifully captured photographs that have clever twists and creative concepts that make you look twice. Seckler tells us, My Less than Ordinary series adds a playful and sometimes wondrous hue to the color palette of everyday human experience. To see more photographs
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For whatever reason, Vimeo user Aniebres decided to combine the bulkiness of an SLR camera with the lowly sensor of a phone camera. Taking an old Canon film SLR, he gutted it and created a space for his iPhone to snap into place. What’s sad is that the SLR acts as a completely useless shell,
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Q: what do these five things have in common? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Click past the break to see the answer, if it's not obvious... ...they're all replicas. In order: 1. US M1873 Old West Pistol by Denix. $61.95....
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Japanese website sankeibiz.jp is listing September 9th as the date Hoya will be announcing new DSLRs, presumably under its Pentax brand name. Here’s what the line looks like when translated by Google: Word is that the DSLRs will be the Pentax K-r and Pentax K5. We’re also expecting Pentax to announce a new EVIL camera
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Christoph Bangert, Sgt. Mohammed Bashir, 22, Afghan National Army, Karamguzar, Imam Sahib District, Kunduz Province You want to know what this guy is thinking? He's thinking, "What the hell kind of camera is that?" At least he doesn't think the...
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Gossen Digisix, twice actual size. NEW: Gossen Digisix Review.  
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£4000 is the price quoted by HD Magazine for the new AG-AF101 to be officially launched at IBC 2010. Now if this price is correct we are going to see an influx of DPs ordering this camcorder. The AF101 is due out during December 2010 but will be avail...
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Just in case you get a call from the BBC you may like to know the approved HD camcorder list as from September 2010. You may notice the lack of Sony EX3 or PMW-350 camcorders even although the EX3 is widely used by the BBC for filming HD material at 35...
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