Painting, Silhouettes, and Sony CF
By Brian Auer • January 16th, 2007Painting With Photos
A post on Photocritic.org called “Think of photos as paintings” takes a really good look at the artistic side of photography. With business stock photography becoming ever more popular, photographic artists are becoming less popular in the eyes of beginner photographers. Personally, I would love to make a living selling fine art photos to be framed and hanged in a gallery or art lover’s home. This form of art is very difficult to make a descent living off of, especially in the eyes of the beginner or amatuer. Even so, it doesn’t mean we should forget about taking photos just for the sake of taking photos.
Silhouette Tips
The Digital Photography School blog is one of my favorites to read. There is an updated post called “How to Photograph Silhouettes – Updated” that takes a look back at one of the posts from a while back. This one is pretty good, and it’s filled with great tips and inspiration on taking silhouette photos. Aside from black & whites, these are one of my favorite types of photography. With that said, I can’t really make the claim that I’m very good at either of them — but I do enjoy trying.
Sony CF Cards
I saw a couple of announcements today on Sony’s decision to enter the CompactFlash card market, obviously to supplement their new A100 dSLR. DCViews has a post called “Sony announces its entry into the CompactFlash market“ and Photography BLOG has a post called “Sony CompactFlash Cards”. Both of them lay out pretty much the same information on the upcoming card release. Here’s a short exerpt from the press release: The initial line-up will include CompactFlash Type I cards with 66x and 133x transfer speeds and capacities between 1GB and 4GB. Hopefully they’ll be cheap enough to compete with the ever-dropping prices of existing cards, but I have little doubt based on the outstanding prices I’ve seen on the A100 camera.
Photo of the Day…
Photo by Brian Auer
11/15/05 Washington DC
Silhouette of statue and Washington Monument
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3
134mm equiv * f/7.1 * 1/320s * ISO50
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from North Idaho. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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Thanks for the plug
-Haje
(that dude who runs Photocritic)
No problem, your post was just great to read. Very in-depth and very thoughtful.