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Slow Slip – West Coast Canadian Landscapes

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Slow Slip is a photoblog featuring West Coast Canadian landscapes.

The kit consists of a Nikon D300, Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR , Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D Micro, Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5, a Sigma 10-20mm F/4-5.6, a Manfrotto 728B tripod, and a small stuffed monkey.

I’m always considering an upgrade of some piece of equipment or other. But I know, really, that it’s the photography skills which need upgrading. So I try to compensate by severely overprocessing. Hopefully, I will learn eventually…

Comments are very appreciated. Encouragement is great!

Taipei, Taiwan based photographer Neil Wade

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“Neil is originally from Philadelphia, Pa. He currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan where he enjoys photographing the beautiful people and landscapes. Neil’s photography has been featured in National Geographic, The Financial Times of London and Skateboarder Magazine. Recent clients include Microsoft, Acer, Sungard, and various travel magazines. He actively blogs about his experiences in Taiwan and Asia at his travel photography blog. He gives tips and advice and covers topics such as DIY photography equipment, inspiration and life in Taiwan.”

“If you’re looking to hire a freelance photographer for an assignment in Asia, look no further… Neil has experience working both editorial and corporate assignments. He has over 12 years of professional photography experience and has photographed famous rock and rap stars, remote villagers, CEOs and 4-year-olds.”

Taipei, Taiwan based photographer Neil Wade

Tom Holmes Photoblog

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My name is Tom Holmes and I was pretty much born with a camera in my hand. When I was born my father was a professional photographer. I have, therefore, always had a keen interested in photography.

I do not have a particular style, or I don’t think I do! Landscapes are the backbone of my photography. It is always a landscape shot I can ‘see’ and know how and why to capture it. I push myself to try other styles of photography, however, having success in some areas more that others. I am not what could be called a ‘pureist’. I like to play with my photos after I have taken them, I enjoy trying different styles of processing, from simple black and whites to HDR and tonemapping…tom holmes photoblog

All I’ve Seen | Richard Friedman

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sea scape All Ive Seen | Richard Friedman pictures

This website is an on-going, nearly daily, personal project to display a random selection of some of my 8000+ pictures taken since I started taking pictures, which was sometime around 1964. Rather than have these images rot under my desk, I thought it would be interesting to make them available. (More about my slide collection.)

Some of my images have turned up in interesting places: on record jackets, books, funeral memorials, even documentary films made for TV, and off-Broadway stage productions.

Some of the rules I set for myself for doing this project require that I spend no more than 10 minutes working the orignal scanned slide in Photoshop. The only adjustments I permit myself are some simple color balancing (many of the slides come out of the scanner too blue), brightness and contrast adjustments, and some sharpening. Some of the images are cropped, but most are full image.

I do not distort the images. In fact, I really dislike seeing images that are intentionally distorted for some artistic effect. I’d prefer to leave that to painting. What I want to see in a photo is a realistic image, but one that draws attention to things that otherwise might escape our view.

Of course, you will notice that many of these images were taken in Europe, or other interesting places. It seems that the times I am most actively taking pictures are when I’m on a trip or on vacation. I took my first trip to Europe (Ireland/Scotland/England, actually) in 1966. I was 22 years old, and I had a new Nikkormat camera. Being outside New York CIty and out of the US for the first time really managed to open my eyes. In the 1970’s I managed to spend two years living in working in London, and took trips to the continent and north to Scotland. And I took many pictures during that period.

I started shooting digital around 2003, and I like the immediacy of the medium, but I don’t think I’ve given up on film yet. Digital photography is very seductive .. it’s so easy to shoot, and cheaper than film. I still have my film Nikons, and plan to use them. But starting in 2007, more and more recent digital images start appearing on this blog. Now it’s a mix of past, current, and future.

If you were to ask me what interests me the most when taking pictures, I’d have to say that it seems that what I’m trying to photograph is stillness and a sense of place and position….all i’ve seen by richard friedman

G Dan Mitchell | California-based landscape photographer

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I started doing photography at a pretty young age. I can’t tell you what year, but I’m sure it was in elementary school. My father was a professor of instructional technology and a talented amateur photographer. He had camera gear (including a big old Graflex) and a darkroom he would set up in the bathroom. He taught me to print black and white and he gave me good advice – that I probably didn’t appreciate nearly enough at the time. For example, he always told me to step closer to my subject. What he was really suggesting was that I had to think beyond how cool my subject seemed to me, and to visualize what it would ultimately look like as a print.

In high school I shot a lot of black and white, developing the film myself and printing at home or (better yet) using the equipment at school.

By the time I was in my mid-twenties I had acquired a couple of Pentax 35mm cameras (MX and ME) along with a small set of lenses that I used a great deal on backpacking trips. On two-week trips my wife and I would often carry nearly 20 rolls of slide film.

As time went on I found that the camera gear was interfering with my backcountry experience. Eventually I stopped carrying the Pentax cameras and extra lenses. I gradually “slipped” to the point that I was carrying only a small Olympus Zoom camera and mostly just recording my experience, as opposed to making photographs.

Then came digital photography. I could take lots of photos and quickly see and edit them, learning quickly from the process. In addition, I could share pictures on the web. All of this rekindled my interest in photography...g dan mitchell photography

Marta Rocks

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m a r t a c o m browse Marta Rocks picturesMarta.com,created by photographer Marta Barceló, is a tremendous collection of portraits and landscapes…full of vibrant colours and striking imagery…I am a firm believer that it is very difficult for a photographer to be great at both capturing emotion evoking portraiture and timeless landscapes..however, Marta clearly displays this rare ability…Marta writes, “I’ve been taking pictures since I can remember, but I got my first SLR camera back in ’98 (A Nikon F70). I made the switch to digital in 2004 with a Nikon D70 and currently I mostly use a Nikon D200. Photography is a hobby but I also do it for work related projects. I pretty much take pictures of everything trying to save those special moments, details, colors, lights, situations and places from the world around me. Sometimes it works out better than others icon smile Marta Rocks pictures You can find a mix of my pictures on this photoblog, mostly children portraits and landscape shots but not only that.”