[EV +/-] Exposure Compensation of photography and photographers

from Music Boxes © Luis Díaz Díaz

Luis Díaz Díaz is a photographer from Spain that will participate at the 3rd Biennial of Photography and Architecture in Brussels, where he will be exhibiting the project “Music Boxes”, selected under this years theme “Spaces of Celebration”. It should be an interesting event as the list of artists exhibiting is worth of attention.

“Music Boxes” is a series of images of small stages that are used for music events at rural locations, in this case towns and villages in the north of Spain, in Galicia. The project itself is interesting for the cultural connotations that represents. While you look at his site take the opportunity to visit some of his other series. “Ropa Interior” is a project where he shows the “naked” self of men embracing objects that drive their passion.

from Ropa Interior  © Luis Díaz Díaz

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dpBestflow

Even when most of us are used to work digitally as the primary method to handle photographs, it is clear that the complexity of building an optimal flow can be quite dounting. Developing, and having the discipline to adhere to a process that takes into consideration the different steps to minimize time spent, increase effectiveness and improve quality while assuring safe storage and handling of digital files is not trivial.

The American Society of Media Photographers with funding from the Library of Congress, has crated an impressive website, dpBestflow – and published a companion book – that provides extensive information towards an optimal digital workflow. The video provides a walk around tour of the information that can be found at the site.

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Interesting workshops from Cesuralab …

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A new decade is upon us and we want to make sure we start it well. This spring Cesuralab will host The Dutch Masters Series. 5 Weeks with 5 different photographers all coming from the Netherlands. We would like to give photographers (aspiring and professional) the opportunity to explore new boundaries through the teachings from some of world’s groundbreaking photographers working today.

Over the last two decades the Dutch soil has been raising a large breed of exceptional artists who use a camera as their medium. Every one of them having their own individual style and visual language. Five of them will be coming to Italy.

The Dutch Masters Series will start mid April and ends the third week of May. Art, fashion, portraiture, bookmaking, documentary photography, editing, and much more will be subjects of discussion and assignment. Each photographer will have their own specific way of teaching their workshop, but all will be promising and full of content and insight. Spring in this village in northern Italy is sunny, quiet and carefree, to be enjoyed with delicious food and wine.

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© Nacho Alegre

Nacho Alegre is a spanish photographer that works in the commercial world … usually I don””t refer much to commercial photography but I have to say that the aesthetics of his work is very captivating. The diaries are quite intriguing.

© Nacho Alegre

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The Musee de lElysee in Lausanne, a museum purely for photography run by the writer and curator William A Ewing, is currently showing an exhibition titled Lasting Impressions The Fine Art & Craft of the Steidl Book. In collaboration with the ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne, the museum organized an international colloquium on the future of the Photobook that took place last February … (via sevensevennine)

There are as many ideas of what constitutes the ideal photography book as there are photographers wanting to make them! This unique event brings together a wide range of highly experienced specialists representing all aspects of book production: publishers, printers, production experts, packagers, graphic designers, art directors, typographers, booksellers, historians, curators, critics, journalists and, of course, photographers! (pdf)

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Cesuralab: lots of interesting photography and workshops from a collective with the great Alex Majoli as the artistic director.

We are a photographers collective representing projects online. These projects include photography, video and art. The art director is Alex Majoli.

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Amadelio films is an independent film company working on documentaries about photographers, artists and inventors (more about them here). There are three documentaries already released. I have not watched them but they look quite interesting (there are trailers for each film). The also publish video interviews that you can see here.

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THE GALESBURG SERIES

© Chris Verene

The more you see something the less you actually see it. In ways, it is like sensory sensitization, similar to the process that eliminates the cutaneous mechanical sensation of wearing clothes over the body, you feel it at the start but very soon your brain ignores it. Visual information follows the same path, with a distinctive ability of the brain to reduce attention to the things you see every day, your common surroundings, your family, your lifestyle. It is challenging to find the amusing out of things that have become routine, it is like an impossible exercise to see what you see everyday in a different way.  For this reason I find remarkable when a photographer is able to create art out of his/her place or his/her people.

Chris Verene has been creating art out of his hometown and has been doing it for decades.   THE GALESBURG SERIES (1984-present) is is more than a wonderful series of photographs, it is an example of how to find beauty and charm out of mundane subjects.

THE GALESBURG SERIES

© Chris Verene

THE GALESBURG SERIES

© Chris Verene

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© Marikel Lahana

Take a look to the work of Marikel Lahana and you will find excellent portraits, among other work. Her work can also be seen here, in a page that is easier to navigate.

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Fujifim INSTAX

Fujifilm Instax: this is not a new product as I think it was released to the market more than 1 year ago, but this first time I had seen it was last week when I stopped by at the PMA 2010 conference in Anaheim, California. It is basically like a polaroid system, instant film that comes out of the camera after you take the shot and develops within few minutes. The look and feel is quite similar to the polaroid, and the quality also is comparable, although the range of film types is probably limited.

by hey_juliek

There are a couple of camera and film formats, one that prints business card size images and a larger format that doubles that (see many examples at the flickr INSTAX group). The Fujifilm INSTAX 210, that is the camera that uses the large format INSTAX film, runs for $99 with a close up lens, not inexpensive given that the film cost is about $1 per shot. But for the polaroid fans, this could be al alternative until “The Impossible Project” comes alive … by the way I noticed that The Impossible project has a press event coming March 22nd, 2010 … maybe some great news will be announced then.

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