Archives » September, 2008

Marylin Monroe Photos

Photographer Bert Stern is suing Michael Weiss and Donald Penny over allegations that they are unlawfully holding Stern’s Marylin Monroe images.
Stern hopes that the legal action will force Weiss and Peeny to return seven photographs of Marylin Monroe the images were taken 6 weeks before the star overdosed, they are irreplaceable images and are [...]

Feel Good Photography

Sometimes you can look through all your photos of yourself and not one of them looks good! I’ve loads of me on nights out trying to strike a ‘charlies angels’ pose or caught with a kebab in one hand and drink in the other.You wish you just had a nice picture to put in a [...]

The World’s Fastest Lens

Leica has given us a glimpse at the future of lenses and unveiled the world’s fastest asphercial lens so far! The NOCTILUX-M 50 mm f/0.95 ASPH is due to be released February next year and boasts to have broken the ’sound barrier’ of the optical lenses. The lens is even faster than the SUMMILUX-M 50 [...]

99 Designs upped their game

Since I recently abandoned the crowdsourcing site of 99 designs because of the way people could put briefs up then not pay out even after giving great feedback 99 designs has taken heed of this.
I recently went back on the site to have a browse at the contests that were being held and saw that [...]

Carl Zeiss Making Canon Lenses

It has been revealed that Carl Zeiss has gotten the ball rolling to start producing their ZE lenses for Canon cameras. The lenses will be fitted with a compatable fixture for the Canon EF.Carl Zeiss will begin with its Planar T*F1.4 manual focus lenses available in 50mm and 85mm. These are expected to be released [...]

Photography Teacher Faces Porn Charges

A photography teacher based in Phoenix may face criminal charges for looking at porn during his class and accidently projecting it onto the class screen.
The 62 year old Forrest Martin had worked at Arcadia High School in Phoenix for the past five years until complaints forced him to resign is position in disgrace. Apparently the [...]

Lara Jade Photography

I’ve recently come across a very young photographer called Lara Jade, although she is young only 19, she is already a force to be reckoned with in the photography world. She specialises more in high fashion and editorial images and has such imagination and creativity combined with technical ability that you would think she had [...]

Photography Competition For Non Photographers

A Photography competition and exhibition open to enthusiastic photographers who take pictures in their spare time.The competition the Blue Ridge Overview Juried Photographic Competition and Exhibit is running for its 29th year in a row and begins on the 28th September until November the 7th at the Wilkes Art Gallery.The idea is for photographers whose [...]

Malaysian Pop Idol Sings Photography’s Praises

The winner of Malaysian Pop Idol Daniel Lee is singing about how good Photography is! He loves taking photos and has done ever since his father first introduced the hobby to him.
Daniels father owns a photography studio in Changlun near Alor Star in Kedah where Daniel grew up, and Daniel spent a lot of his [...]

Sony A900

A Danish photography magazine seems to have been the first to advertise the new Sony DSLR the Sony A900, is it for real as so far I have heard nothing about any press release or anything?
Well it looks real enough! The advert is well done and stylised like many Sony Adverts and shows images [...]