tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45667220274687561632024-03-20T04:51:11.939-07:00Online Photographycuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-84748335133721166732012-07-08T06:47:00.000-07:002012-07-08T06:47:07.621-07:00Developing the Best Radar DetectorIn military world, radar is the most important device to detect the enemy’s action. The military should have the decent radar that could give them the excellent ability to detect any kinds of enemy’s action. It would be important to secure their own perimeter from some enemies’ spying action. In some countries, the weapon makers have developed some radar detector that has been considered as the cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-2231033492559795972012-06-01T16:34:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:32:45.850-07:00Paul Raphaelson: Urban Disjunction <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-38298524965610718792012-05-24T22:38:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:32:45.868-07:00Sid Avery: Transforming the Hollywood Icon Screen stars during Hollywood’s first several decades were typically packaged and sold to the public in images that emphasized glamour, elegance and sex appeal. But it wasn’t enough to elevate them to mere star status. With an instinctive grasp of the power of hype, the studios’ publicity machines decreed that the industry’s most high-profile assets cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-64097645826731575842009-03-29T00:27:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.143-07:00We've MovedGreetings—you've reached The Online Photographer's old site, which was active from November 2005 to June 2007.To visit the new site, active from June 2007 until now (and adding new content daily), please click here.Of course, you're also welcome to browse around in the old site if you wish! There's still lots of content here. But do visit us at the new site when you get a chance.All best,Mike cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-28276275172309212472007-06-05T04:47:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.151-07:00New AddressWe have a new home!Please bookmark:www.theonlinephotographer.com (front page)http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html (Blog)(Note: If this does not work for you, please try:http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com)Mike J. and the TOP writers and photographerscuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-42078361358356963722007-06-04T12:25:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.159-07:00Laid Low by the Spam-Fighting RobotsWell, wasn't that fun.If you haven't heard, last Friday I got locked out of The Online Photographer. When attempting to post I got a dire Warning! message that informed me that Blogger's Spam-Fighting Robots had identified TOP as a spam blog (whatever that is...and please don't tell me, I'm quite sure I don't want to know). So for three days—thank the stars and the Blogger Team it wasn't more—I cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-60566372404265130592007-05-31T14:50:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.169-07:00Tripod ResolutionEvery now and then when the moon is almost full I grab my camera. I think it's because I love the phrase "waxing gibbous moon." Waxing is the opposite of waning; it means it's getting bigger. And gibbous is the opposite, or the complement, of crescent; it means a partial moon larger than a half moon. I've always wanted to title a picture Waxing Gibbous Moon.Two nights ago I took the camera out bycuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-2038957335742059452007-05-31T06:58:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.177-07:00Once in a Blue MoonToday is the Blue Moon—the second full moon in a calendar month.Blue moons happen about seven times every nineteen years.Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTONFeatured Comment by Doug (seconded by many other NPR listeners): "Based on a story on NPR last evening, it seems that this was not a Blue Moon and that people have been using the wrong definition since 1946 when it was incorrectly reported in Sky and cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-45676829332744288492007-05-31T05:02:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.185-07:00Random ExcellenceJan von Holleben's Dreams of Flying.Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON, with thanks to David A. Johnsoncuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-2449122391723206602007-05-31T05:01:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.209-07:00They Needed to TalkAnd family friend William Eggleston, his camera at his side, felt compelled to shootBy Emily Yellin, Smithsonian magazineThe details are a bit sketchy now, but everyone agrees the picture was taken in Memphis, Tennessee, on a late summer night in 1973. Karen Chatham, the young woman in blue, recalls that she had been out drinking when she met up with Lesa Aldridge, the woman in red. Lesa didn't cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-3010106163354665572007-05-30T13:55:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.249-07:00A Banner Year for Big Cameras?2007 is shaping up to be a banner year for top-end cameras. Not only is the new Canon EOS 1D Mark III now shipping, with its leading-edge high-ISO performance, but it looks like this year will finally see Sony filling out its fledgling line with two higher-end DSLRs—one paralleling the old Konica-Minolta 7D (right) and one situated above that, at flagship level (top)—which might or might not be cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-74191819264036131492007-05-30T13:14:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.255-07:00Glyph SupersaleEncore Data Products, one of this site's sponsors, is having a monster sale on two audio-production-quality Glyph hard drives—you can save 49% and 45% below retail on a 500GB or 750GB Glyph Quad drive, respectively. The sale only lasts until 3:00 tomorrow Mountain time, so move quickly if you want to take advantage!Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTONQuestion from Richard Sintchak: "What is it about 'cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-38803196143145752172007-05-29T15:04:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.261-07:00Random ExcellencePurple DayDamagedA comment from Nitsa the other day reminded me to revisit her site, nonphotography.com. There is also a book. Nitsa's non-photography non-rule rules:no special gear (too heavy).no instruction books (too boring).no calculations (too calculated).Nitsa, Self-portraitHer work has been on CD covers and in movies, featured on the web, in newspapers, on T.V., and in many magazines and cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-84812986444954903732007-05-29T04:58:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.353-07:00Needle ExchangeStephen Crowley's latest project.Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTONFeatured Comment by dyathink: "My brother died of AIDS from sharing a needle with a friend who also died of AIDS. My brother was not an addict. He was just a young guy looking for a thrill. Seven years later he paid with his life and left a 25-year-old wife and three kids under age five. Thanks, Mr. Crowley, for the compassion and cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-65435873345850451842007-05-28T15:18:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.443-07:00First Camera Makes $775,000Mike O'Donoghue writes to tell us that "the Susse Frères black softwood box (1839) went for 480,000€ Saturday at the Westlicht auction here in Vienna. That makes 576,000€ [about $775,000 or £390,400] with fees."Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON with thanks to Mike O'D.cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-83373228170328475592007-05-28T13:27:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.535-07:00'A Perfectly Beautiful Place'This nation's most hallowed burial ground for its war dead is Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery at Arlington Heights, a beautiful area high above the Potomac River across from Washington D.C. and not far from the Lincoln Memorial. Its centerpiece, Arlington House, was the beloved home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his family. It was built in the early 1800s by Martha Washington's cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-46060552922034732112007-05-27T12:24:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.627-07:00Nature Photographer Mauled by GrizzlyLast Wednesday, photographer Jim Cole, 57, of Bozeman, Montana, suffered an attack by a grizzly bear while trying out a new digital SLR in the Hayden Valley area of Yellowstone National Park. Jim was swiped twice across the head and face. Jim then had to hike two to three miles back to the road to find rescue. After being flown to a hospital in Idaho Falls, he underwent seven hours of emergency cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-29527652253931656622007-05-27T10:10:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.719-07:00Mark BrautigamIf you haven't seen Mark Brautigam's great "On Wisconsin" series online, have a look. Oren—who admits to having an attitude problem—points out that "self-conscious irony, in color, is all the rage these days," but these pictures resonate with me. In fact, I'd give a knuckle or two to be able to shoot like this guy.And, not at all incidentally, I found this series through Joerg Colberg's cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-62423976672173276512007-05-27T09:51:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.811-07:00Photographers at WorkThis is very funny. (Warning: the second picture down is not workplace/school friendly.)Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON, thanks to Sandy R.Featured Comment by Aleksander a.k.a. Alkos:Featured Comment by helge.nareid: "Back in the early '80s I spent a year or so doing quality control in a photofinishing plant. One of my tasks was to spool through rolls of prints as they came off the processing machine. cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-75478595368695287582007-05-26T10:41:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.902-07:00On Lens ReviewsI appreciate Erwin Puts' comments in his recent article "On Lens Reviews," and I think he's on to something. His clarification of the various approaches to lens reviewing is right on, and better articulated by him here than I've seen from other writers elsewhere.He's got me pegged, for one thing, when he says that my approach "takes the whole imaging and viewing chain as an integral process and cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-3611795163929335662007-05-26T08:38:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:25.993-07:00OTA*: Colorful CubeAt the risk of further enraging those readers who hate off-topic posts, here's a photo (does it count as on-topic for architectural photography?) of the fantastic new Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision building in Hilversum, by architects Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk. The brightly colored facade, which the Times says "draw[s] on everything from primitive temples to comic-bookcuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-76693028932434639732007-05-25T10:54:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:26.084-07:00James Clerk Maxwell's Big Mistakeby CteinContrary to popular opinion, this was not the first true color photographever made. It was experimental error.There's a certain type of error in judgment that we humans are all subject to. When presented with information that contradicts our beliefs, we tend to be nitpicky and skeptical and aggressively compulsive about every detail. When handed information that confirms our beliefs, cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-4053217935141026382007-05-25T06:25:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:26.174-07:00Feature Creep-The Financial Pageby James Surowiecki, The New YorkerTechnology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. This cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-6404275701365045402007-05-24T20:39:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:26.181-07:00Eye Heart CameraWhat the Duck's new "I Love Photography" merchandise. The design: Simple. Clean. Quirky. Communicative. Kewl! We like.Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTONcuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4566722027468756163.post-62531407107878927342007-05-24T20:05:00.000-07:002012-06-06T03:09:26.277-07:00Taxes: CodaeThere are a couple of codas to my "Taxes" post below (in which I tried to affect a sort of rueful tongue-in-cheek humor and evidently, for most readers, failed. Oh, well, I tried). Anyway, consider:• Photography isn't that expensive. No matter how much you spend on it, there are any number of other hobbies / passions / obsessions / pasttimes which constitute much more efficient ways to pee away cuzzzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643577185493352571noreply@blogger.com0