Visitors Enjoy The Wildlife At Farne Islands Canvas Floater Frame 3/4″ Matte Black 38×26 Photo On Canvas

Posted on August 21, 2016 by ShutterBug

Visitors Enjoy The Wildlife At Farne Islands Canvas Floater Frame 3/4″ Matte Black 38×26 Photo On Canvas


a Puffin standing on a cliff on Inner Farne, England. Photographer Bio Dan Kitwood began his photography career with South West News Service, a prestigious regional agency based in Bristol. After three years of interesting and eclectic assignments he was offered a staff position at Getty Images, and joined the team with five other UK news photographers. He’s based in London and covers news and features across the UK and around the world. His work has taken him to Dubai, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, Tunisia and The Vatican, and his images have appeared in publications around the world, including the New York Times, National Geographic, Geo, Stern, Time, The Guardian and Newsweek. Dan’s recent awards include Photo Essay winner at the UK Picture Editors Awards in 2011 the UK Picture Editors Awards News Photographer of the Year in 2012. Getty Images News Coverage of the biggest news events at home and around the world – whenever and wherever they happen. Every photograph tells a unique and remarkable story of an important moment in time that both informs and inspires us. It’s photojournalism at its best, and what makes it so good is the Getty Images staff photographers around the globe who are dedicated to documenting the important national and international issues we wouldn’t otherwise see. If it’s newsworthy, they’re there. Many are World Press Photo winners, some are Pulitzer Prize nominees and all of them are our eyes on the world.

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Truman Capote Portrait Session Paper Framed Print 1 5/8″ Natural Espresso Wood Grain 34×34 Photo On Paper

Posted on August 20, 2016 by ShutterBug

Truman Capote Portrait Session Paper Framed Print 1 5/8″ Natural Espresso Wood Grain 34×34 Photo On Paper


Truman Capote Portrait Session” is an art print by Harry Langdon from the Hulton Archive collection. Get photo prints of “Truman Capote Portrait Session” in a variety of frames, styles, and materials. Photographer Bio As a young kid Harry would visit his father, silent screen star Harry Langdon Senior, on the sound stages – watching intently as the crew built sets and prepared the cameras. Theatre and movies were in his blood, so his over 40-year (and counting) career as a highly sought-after portrait photographer to the stars comes as no surprise. But it’s his unique ability to keep his work fresh year after year that keeps him among the top commercial and glamour photographers in the world. Hulton Archive One of the world’s largest – and arguably greatest – photographic archives, “The Hulton” captures many of the world’s defining moments and personalities of the last two centuries. The vast and continually growing archive is unrivaled in its wealth imagery, covering of every aspect of mankind from the birth of photography to the present day in vivid detail. From the ordinary to the extraordinary, the unique to the every-day, the archive is a visual account of the human experience to date.

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Visitors Enjoy The Wildlife At Farne Islands Acrylic w/ Standoffs 30×21 Photo On Acrylic

Posted on August 20, 2016 by ShutterBug

Visitors Enjoy The Wildlife At Farne Islands Acrylic w/ Standoffs 30×21 Photo On Acrylic


a Moon jellyfish swimming underwater of Inner Farne at The Farne Islands, England. Photographer Bio Dan Kitwood began his photography career with South West News Service, a prestigious regional agency based in Bristol. After three years of interesting and eclectic assignments he was offered a staff position at Getty Images, and joined the team with five other UK news photographers. He’s based in London and covers news and features across the UK and around the world. His work has taken him to Dubai, South Africa, Nigeria, Benin, Tunisia and The Vatican, and his images have appeared in publications around the world, including the New York Times, National Geographic, Geo, Stern, Time, The Guardian and Newsweek. Dan’s recent awards include Photo Essay winner at the UK Picture Editors Awards in 2011 the UK Picture Editors Awards News Photographer of the Year in 2012. Getty Images News Coverage of the biggest news events at home and around the world – whenever and wherever they happen. Every photograph tells a unique and remarkable story of an important moment in time that both informs and inspires us. It’s photojournalism at its best, and what makes it so good is the Getty Images staff photographers around the globe who are dedicated to documenting the important national and international issues we wouldn’t otherwise see. If it’s newsworthy, they’re there. Many are World Press Photo winners, some are Pulitzer Prize nominees and all of them are our eyes on the world.

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Taking Digital Pictures

Posted on August 20, 2016 by ShutterBug

We are getting Photo crazy.

We are now so used to taking digital pictures, and looking at images everywhere, in advertising, shop-windows, billboards, newspapers, magazines, everywhere. In fact, we have images telling us to take images.

The danger is that images will become meaningless.

Capturing an image years ago was seen as something special, nowadays, taking digital pictures is so routine that we do it almost without thinking, and digital photography makes it even easier. We are now seeing cell-phones with 12mp cameras and built in flashes, so we could ask, is it a PHONE with a camera, or camera with a phone.

Respect the Image

Taking digital pictures should be seen as something special, the ability to capture a moment in time, a snap-shot of life, whether it’s your life or indeed someone else’s, we can even look back in time. An image that can stir the emotions, of loved ones now departed, or a childhood now gone, all of these and more are held forever as an image on paper, or images on a disc, to be viewed on a big screen, or on your PC, or as prints.

Take care shooting

And yet we just click away, pointing our camera, or phone, at whatever is plonked in front of us, digital making it easy to store on a disc or card, waiting for a future generation to reveal the memories again. Well, just spare a thought of what images you want people to see, just snaps or pictures that stir the imagination and bring back vivid memories.

Yes, we can take snaps to record something quickly but we also have a responsibility to take pictures that are worth looking at, and pictures that are worth leaving behind, so that future generations can look back and have their soul stirred.

So whenever you are taking digital pictures just take that extra second to have a second look, don’t be too hasty to shoot and move on, you may never return, either to the place or the person, so make the picture count.

It’s not just the camera.

Taking Digital Pictures is like any art-form it starts in the imagination, and getting the shot you want takes perseverance and experience, as well as knowing how to use your camera.

If you would help to get the shot you want, without wasting valuable time (and shooting opportunities) then read my blog at http://www.squidoo.com/taking-digital-pictures

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Aliens Among Us

Posted on August 19, 2016 by ShutterBug

Photographers have the power to reveal the origins of alien life on earth. All we need do is grab a camera, lens and some extension tubes (or a macro lens or close focusing filter) and ‘the truth’ will be revealed!

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NIKON 1 J5 + 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 49.3mm, ISO 1000, 1/160, f/9.0, MOVO extension tubes

From what part of the solar system did this creature evolve? Perhaps those residual red markings are an indication of a Martian heritage.

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NIKON 1 J5 + 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 64mm, ISO 1600, 1/250, f/8.0, MOVO extension tubes

Bright yellow in hue…camouflage from a hot, bright planet? Mercury?

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NIKON 1 J5 + 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 44.2mm, ISO 3200, 1/250, f/8.0, MOVO extension tubes

The thick coat on this beast may reveal that it travelled to earth from a distant, cold planet. While it is no longer classified as such, Pluto comes to mind.

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NIKON 1 J5 + 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 57.2mm, ISO 1000, 1/250, f/8.0, MOVO extension tubes

Frosty white with fur…perhaps beyond Pluto and still thawing out?

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NIKON 1 J5 + 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 83.2mm, ISO 3200, 1/250, f/8.0, MOVO extension tubes

As humans, do we mimic and copy alien visitors? Those rakishly curved antennae perhaps inspired mankind’s first attempts to fashion ‘ape-hanger’ handlebars for their choppers.

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NIKON 1 J5 + 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 51.2mm, ISO 720, 1/80, f/5.6, MOVO extension tubes

Hmm…same thick fur that we have seen on other specimen. But wait…the colouring is different…brighter…highlighted ends! Could the origins of your local hair salon be alien?

All kidding aside, it can be a great, creative experience to grab your camera and head off to a butterfly conservatory in your local area. Go beyond capturing typical butterfly images of complete individuals. Take your extension tubes, macro lens, or close focusing filter with you. Try to get up close and very personal with the butterflies. When you do you’ll discover how surreal and alien they can appear. But be forewarned…you may no longer sleep well at night! These will not be ‘visions of sugar plums dancing in your head’.

All of the images in this short article were captured hand-held in available light with a Nikon 1 J5, 1 Nikon 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 zoom lens, 21mm and 10mm MOVO extension tubes during a visit to the Niagara Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls Canada. Manual camera settings were used along with Auto-ISO 160-3200. Single point auto-focus was used for all images. Photographs were produced from RAW files using my standard process of OpticsPro 11, CS6 and Nik Suite.

Article and all images are Copyright 2016 Thomas Stirr. All rights reserved. No use, adaptation or reproduction of any kind is allowed without written consent. Photography Life is the only approved user of this article. If you see it reproduced anywhere else it is an unauthorized and illegal use.

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