Keyword: photography

"BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AND HER CIRCLE" By Adam Yamey A chance encounter with an inventor of photography led to JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879) becoming a pioneering artistic photographer. Her work transformed photography from the straightforward, unimaginative copying of nature into a creative artform. Born in Kolkata (Calcutta) with British, Bengali, and French ancestry, she was educated in France, married in India, worked in England, and di…

Photography does not come with a set of rules, it comes with an aspiration to capture the unusual. Found on > 500px.com/im_sagar_official ""He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." A.E. (1879 - 1955)

…. but a necessity. Because society needs images …. through works of Art. …. That are examples of Goodness and Hope. …. That share the Love of God in the World. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Photography is a major force in explaining man to man -- Edward Steichen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For this reason, I believe in the universa…

Pictures that tell a story in situations that call for you to be like a fly on the wall.

What makes Ipernity an online photo sharing community that works? Read my take on this important and timely subject.

To begin with, you can use any tethering software -- only later will you use the advantages of solutions tailored to astrophotography. Here I'll discuss both options.

The Moon not only is a stepping stone for humankind's exploration of the universe. The Moon also is a good stepping stone for your astrophotography and often the first distant target people shoot.

Well I should begin from the beginning. Back in 2009 I got a descent bridge camera, the Panasonic FZ18, a nice little camera for the money. I knew my main interest was nature photos, so I got well into using my Raynox Macro Conversion and taking photos of insects. I began posting on Flickr and a local person Andy Phillips noticed my stuff, well I noticed his as well. He had amazing photos of the most incredible moths!! How does he do it, I had to know. So we began by going to a well lit foot b…

A standardized image format is something most users take for granted -- JPG, GIF, PNG and even TIFF are household names when it comes to (web)-images & editing. If you use a dSLR, you have gotten used to adding a tool or two, to process the Nikon or Canon RAW formats. With the astronomy cameras, the formats & necessary conversions become a real mess -- especially if you use a one-shot color "OSC" camera.

At one of the Ipernity groups, a somewhat lively debate has developed. How it will evolve remains to be seen. On one side of the discussion is the notion that people’s commenting on others’ photos is excessive and essentially not very constructive. There is also the complaint that some of the photos receiving comments are “far-from-perfect.” Of course, if perfection is truly the standard required for one to express appreciation for another’s works, there is probably no danger that people wi…

For this article, I use the eclipse on April 15th 2014 as an example and as a location I have picked San Francisco. The path of the moon & the timing is dependent on your own location and you will have to make adjustments for that. Here are some examples and a bit of background of the various attempts : www.ipernity.com/doc/stargazer95050/album/389379

Supernovae are among the most powerful events in our universe and they emit unimaginable amounts of energy. And long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away that has happened but it took 11.5 million years and only now does this energy reach us, some of it visible to our eyes. Look up at the sky & search for the M82 "Cigar Galaxy" -- it will be over in a few weeks.

If you're like me, when you move house you pack everything into labelled boxes so you have some idea of where things need to go when they reach their new home. Of course, it takes some time to unpack everything and, again if you're like me, years later you find some odd box that you never got round to unpacking and start to wonder why you even wanted the things you put in it... But things were not so organised when I moved here from f****r. Over there, in a way, my photos were already packed i…

All my spare time over the past few days seems to have been consumed by my migration from flickr. There's still a bit of sorting out left to do but I'm ready to start moving forward here now and posting pics that were never part of my flickr photostream. Some of these will be the backlog that I was going to get round to posting there but today it was a beautifully sunny bank holiday Monday and I went on an outing with a friend and took the first photos I have taken since moving to ipernity. Ha…

Yes, like most other flickr refugees, I'm setting up a new home on ipernity because I don't like the changes flickr has made or the way they were implemented. Yes, ipernity is a lot like the 'old' flickr and perhaps that is why it has attracted so many of us. But it is not flickr, and I hope never will be. I hope the site won't become a victim of its own success and be made an offer it can't refuse from some faceless corporate entity. What I like about ipernity so far This blogging f…

I'm starting to feel at home here already! Going back to flickr, as I still do while I'm sorting things out there, feels like a visit to an alien planet. Discovered two more random faves on oldish photos last time I was there. Again from a newly signed up member with a twee coloured camera icon (yuk, the sort of thing you'd buy a 2 year-old!) but no pics at all, which is at least better than the porn... Yet another addition to the block list. It will be nice to leave all that behind me soon.…

I am a refugee from the Great Flickr Disaster of May 2013. The first I knew of it was when I was checking facebook on my phone over breakfast. A friend had written: "Have you seen the hideousness that's the revamped Flickr? no no no no no NO!" I discovered what she meant when I opened my flickr page. It was like being parachuted into a disaster zone. My home page was a jumbled mosaic of seemingly randomly sized pictures - a latest upload from one of my contacts was so huge that it filled a…

OK, Yahoo as an awful lot of money. They took Tumblr yesterday for 1.1 billion U.S.A. dollars. But. They did also put some effort into Flickr . Yesterday redesign was a major move for a prominent player. That also did involve a certain dose of courage that - to me - seems to have been missing in the recent (and controversial) ipernity update. What's your feeling on the topic ?