A story at Crunch Gear really caught my interest this week. It was of a photographer, Richard Nicholson who is documenting the last remaining photographic darkrooms of London. The work is titled “Analog – The Last One Out , Please Turn On The Light”.
Wired have an interview with Richard Nicholson on this series of his work which you may want to read as well.
This weeks Photo Website is Ilan Godfrey’s and provides an insight of what is coming in our February issue of the magazine. Ilan is a South African born and until recently returning home, UK based documentary photographer.
We will bring you more about Ilan in our Pro Portfolio for the February issue of PhotoComment Magazine.
Following my discovery of The Sartorialist in the post made yesterday, I checked out the site a bit further and thought it could make a fantastic website pick for this week. The images are fantastic and if you have watched the video from yesterday you will know how his approach is so simple. Do yourself a favour and take some time to check it out.
Today I thought to share two photographically orientated websites with you. The first is the the Encyclopedia Britannica Blog’s post “2010 in Pictures” which takes a handful of the international stories that made headlines in 2010 and shares an image for each.
The other website to check out is the BBC with their “2011 Around the World: Your Pictures” gallery that brings the images of the new year coming in from all over the globe. Again, its just a handful.
We hope you had a great New Year celebration and look forward to sharing in a great 2011 with you. Don’t be shy to share your favourite websites with us too.
Our favourite photo website for this week is Julian Goldswain’s site which we stumbled across recently. Julian is a Cape Town based photographer whose website is full of great images. He also has posts with news and the occasional photography tip as well. Well worth checking out for some inspiration.
This week I came across another fantastic resource site as our Photo Website for the week. The site, cameradojo.com. The sites slogan is a fund one and works as a great description of what they aim to do ‘GET YOUR BLACKBELT IN PHOTOGRAPHY.’
Of particular interest on the site are the tutorials where you will find a lot of information particularly around Photoshop. There is also a specific section dedicated to shooting and lighting tips. Be sure to check it out and perhaps even subscribe to the podcast.
This weeks Photo Website is the Ken Kaminesky blog. Ken is a commercial lifestyle photographer shooting for stock agencies like Picture Arts, Jupiterimages, Corbis and Getty Images. We have a portfolio and interview with Ken in the January issue of PhotoComment magazine.
This weeks photo website is Camera Club, a South African online photography or camera club. We have had a few of their members featured as portfolios in some issues of PhotoComment Magazine. With regular competitions, a classifieds section and galleries with inspirational images this is a great place to be.
Gerhardt Coetzee is one of the ELLE Samsung New Young Talent Photographer Search finalists and at the event shared with a great deal of excitement how he had been working on his site recently. It got the old curiosity going and that led me to think we should share it all with you. Gerhardt has some fantastic images and having met the man the images seem to convey his personality even more. Check out his site here.
This weeks photo website goes to the winner of the ELLE Magazine and Samsung New Young Talent Photographer Search, Freddie Child-Villiers. This 20 year old, self taught photographer was announced the winners of this new competition on Thursday night. His nexr goal, to win the Hasselblad Masters. Check out his site FCVPhotography.
This weeks photographic website is a fantastic project, ‘Help Portrait‘. Having spent 2 years in East Africa myself, I can relate to the value a photograph has for those who struggle to take their own photograph yet alone pay a professional for a portrait session. The power of a portrait in lifting the self esteem of those so frequently forgotten of by the greater majority of society is almost indescribable.
On 4 Dec 2010 is Help Portrait day for this year. We will be sure to bring you more details of how you can get involved but in the mean time you can also check out their site for South African events here. You can also follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/help_portrait
This weeks photographic website is Afripixel, a South African based user forum particularly aimed at Sony Alpha owners. With active forums, user galleries and regular news articles this is a great place to be for most photographers even if there is a large number of Sony users.
You can also participate in regular photographic competitions as well as be kept up to date with the regular Afripixel meet ups where the One Shot competition is done and informative workshops conducted. Be sure to check it out and enjoy.
Our Photo Website this week is a recommendation from Chris Munton whose new blog we recently featured in this same category. The site, Admired in Africa is a website “that is exclusively dedicated to bringing together the top wedding photographers in Africa.”
Membership is by invitation only with many of the members taking honours in prestigious events like the Profoto Awards sponsored by Sony.
A site with fantastic images, Admired in Africa is well work a visit.
Following Photokina we have been honoured to receive several mentions and referals from other fantastic websites. We would like to show our appreciation to at least two of these website by making them our Photo Websites for this week.
Sony Alpha Rumors.
There is a lot of talk on photography forums at the lack of conversation on brands other than Canon and Nikon, in particular a fair amount of noise comes from what appears to be a rapidly growing number of Sony users. So, if you are a Sony user and you are looking for a great Sony Alpha orientated website (and you don’t know about it already) then SonyAlphaRumors.com is the place to be.
Chris Munton is a wedding photographer that I have known for a few years and walked away with several awards at the 2008 Sony Profoto Awards. His site is filled with fantastic images and more recently, he has updated the design of his blog.
A great place to go for inspiration Chris’ new blog is our photo website of the week.
If you have been a reader of PhotoComment Magazine from its earliest days then you may have come across – in my Final Comment column – a reference to a Podcast called TWIP (This Week in Photo). It is a fantastic podcast filled with great advice, interviews and even humour.
A few months ago the website underwent a complete revamp and having been an avid listener to the show I quickly became an avid reader of the site and participant on the forums. It is a great place to be and makes it as our Photo Website of the Week. Why not check it out and even join in the forum discussions?
This weeks photography website is ‘Weekly Photo Tips” a blog that comes highly recommended by even some of the most prominent photographers like Scott Kelby.
A great resource for photography tips and ideas with the goal to make you a better photographer. There are some great images which as we mentioned in our Photo Tip this week, it is in browsing other photographs that we are often inspired.
Head on over to the site and enjoy.
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