I love photography and any thing related to it. Photo journalism is one of the many areas that I enjoy and the work of Michael Kamber (for New Your Times) just made me really thing about life. The work presents shoots taken during a USA military mission in Iraq, during which the 2nd Brigade Combat Team was attacked (suffering a casualty). The quality of the photos and the comments of the photographers made me think about how fragile is human life. I think one of photography’s main goals should be to make people think more often about that.
©Michael Kamber for The New York Times
Although loving photography, specially when focusing on nature, I tend to miss most opportunities to visit photo-exhibitions installed nearby. Usually I know about them just after they have finished or when it’s totally impossible to unschedule some other event. But this time I just passed in front of the entrance and could go without entering.
So, I spent almost two hours marveled with the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 exhibition, installed at Freeport. Visit online here.
Award Winner @ Natural History Museum § Ben Osborne
Along with photography, I think I have a new addiction! To blog… that’s my newest addiction.
I’ve taken three days of vacation, plus the weekend to rest. But I found myself in front of my home PC for the entire day. I did not spend the whole day writing posts. Still I manage to spend the entire day… creating new photo blog using Wordpress as blogging engine.
The new Photoblog is called Experiment, and you can visit at experiment.marcosbento.net!
Some of the content from the previous blog attempt was moved to the new location, but more will be available quite soon. Follow the news using the feed.
The acronym ISO stands for a lot of different things, but for this post ISO will be used to define Film Speed, as it is known in Photography.
Film speed describes the index of sensitivity of the film used by analogical cameras, and is also used describe the speed of light capture in most common digital cameras.
A film may have a low ISO index (called slow film) meaning that it is less sensitive, and thus, needing more time of exposure. On the other side, a high ISO index film (called fast film) is very sensitive needing less time of exposure.
Another thing to consider is that using a fast film your photos will seem to be more grainy. So I try to use the lowest ISO possible. As a rule of thumb: use ISO from 80 to 200, for sunny days outdoor photos; ISO 400 for usual indoor/shady photography; anything higher, from 800 to 1600 is used only if the lighting conditions make it necessary.
In practical terms, try the film speed simulator available here, and see for yourself the differences between using different levels of film sensitivity.
It’s raining… Today I won’t be leaving home with my SLR hanging in my shoulder, ready to take a couple of photos to add to blog! What can I do when raining?
Well, this post has 7 very good advises to be taken by anyone trapped at home in bad weather. The last advise is keep shooting, and for that you can find here and here a couple of suggestions.
To finalize, here are some great photos taken during rainy days.
