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Five different photography methods
Ranging anywhere from the common iPhone cameras to drone photography, there are many different methods people can use to take photos.
Here are five different photography methods that are commonly used by non-professional photographers.
Cell Phone Cameras
There’s one thing that has been constantly developing since the creation of the first smartphone — the camera quality.
Phone cameras started out as simple as snapping pictures and taking videos, migrating to phone cameras that now include features such as multi-cameras, panoramas, portrait mode, live photos, 0.5 selfies and multiple photo editing features.
There are also about a million different photo apps that can make pictures look a certain way and give users the ability to edit the photos after they’re shot.
Huji Cam and Dispo are two popular ones, to name a few.
Huji Cam acts as an instant disposable film camera that even looks like the classic green disposable ones seen in stores. In addition, users can magnify the camera lens, which can’t be done on an actual disposable camera.
Dispo is another camera app that mimics a disposable film camera yet develops the photos people take at a delayed rate — just as actual disposable cameras do.
It has several different types of disposable cameras included on the app. Dispo leaves photos with that grainy disposable feel and the date the photo was taken plastered in the corner of the picture.
Digital Camera
While digital photos nowadays are mainly taken on a cell phone, many people who enjoy taking pictures have gone ahead and bought themselves a little digital camera to take with them on the go.
Digital cameras are starting to make a comeback in the world of photography, from football games to fraternity parties.
These cameras allow people the joy of using an actual camera with the efficiency of the image developing immediately after it’s taken, whereas photos taken with film-based cameras have a longer development period.
Disposable Camera
Disposable cameras are also making a real comeback for everything from concerts to everyday hangouts with friends.
Disposable photo accounts have become very popular on social media sites such as Instagram, with many people making a separate account dedicated to their disposable photography.
Even though there are several different apps that mimic the style of a physical disposable camera, nothing quite beats that classic green and black camera.
Polaroid Camera
A polaroid camera, otherwise known as a self-developing film camera, takes photos and develops them almost instantly.
A little shake and a minute or two wait and a user has their very own polaroid frame with a cute little photo in it.
The polaroid camera trend, although it might be dated, has never gone out of style and remains a very popular way to take pictures.
While it might cost a bit more money than the average photography method due to purchasing film, polaroid cameras are a fun, instant and fresh way of snapshotting memories.
Drones
While this is a different one, drone pictures are so cool. They can take bird’s-eye view pictures and videos of an entire landscape in one fell swoop.
Drone photography is commonly used to capture cityscapes and landscapes but has also been used for weddings and real estate. I’ve also seen some cool drone-based photography from people’s vacations on Instagram.
Users would never have to worry about timer pics or awkward angle selfies ever again.
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Security alert: 10 arrested at Nairobi malls over suspicious photography
Police on Sunday arrested at least ten people who were accused of taking photos in malls.
Some were arrested at the GTC Mall while others were at a poolside within a restaurant at the GTC taking photos including selfies.
They were escorted to Parklands police station for questioning before being released.
Police were also called to the nearby Westgate Mall where they detained other visitors who were taking photos. Some of them were foreigners.
Taking photos at the sites is not deemed criminal as they are not gazetted as security installations but the security at the sites complained some of the visitors there were taking suspicious photos.
This came in the wake of the marking ten years of the Westgate Mall attack that left at least 71 dead and dozens injured.
Police say they have increased surveillance and patrols as part of efforts to tame terror-related attacks.
A senior officer said the move by the guards at the malls to call the police was a sign of alertness and vigilance.
“Some may see it as harassment but whatever they did was part of efforts to ensure our safety at large,” an officer said.
Areas where photos are prohibited
The areas where taking photos is prohibited include military installations, airports and government buildings, national parks, private property and sensitive government buildings including police stations, prisons, and other government facilities.
Some of the existing laws that regulate the taking of photographs include the Official Secrets Act, Cap 187 which prohibits the taking of photographs or making of sketches or plans of specified areas, such as military installations, government buildings, and other sensitive areas.
This law is intended to protect national security and prevent the disclosure of state secrets.
The Protected Areas and Wildlife Conservation Act, Cap 376 prohibits the use of photography in certain protected areas, such as national parks and wildlife reserves, without a permit. This is to prevent disturbance to wildlife and to protect the natural habitat.
The Antiquities and Monuments Act, Cap 215 prohibits the taking of photographs or filming in certain archaeological sites, monuments, and heritage buildings without a permit. This is to protect the cultural heritage of the country and prevent damage to these important sites.
The Children Act, 2001 prohibits the taking of photographs or filming of children in certain situations without the consent of their parent or guardian.
This is to protect the privacy and welfare of children.
The Photography and Film Regulations, 2019 require photographers and filmmakers to obtain permits before taking photographs or filming in public spaces, such as streets, parks, and beaches.
They also provide for restrictions on the use of drones for photography and film.
The big sleep: a photography book captures subjects in slumber
Of her debut photography book, Like Someone Alive, published with Art Paper Editions, Dorothy Sing Zhang explains her unusual process: ‘I set the scene in the bedrooms of others. One is asked to be asleep, a squeeze cable release is placed under the pillow. The chance of one’s unconscious body rolling over and triggering the camera results in an exposure.’
Like Someone Alive by Dorothy Sing Zhang, published with Art Paper Editions
(Image credit: Dorothy Zing Zhang, Art Paper Editions )
The results are somewhere between haunting and peaceful, as unconscious figures are illuminated in various states of cocooning, or limbs sprawling. In a thoughtful accompanying dialogue with Nanda van den Berg, director of Huis Marseille museum for photography, Zhang describes this state as the ‘ultimate surrender’.
Like Someone Alive by Dorothy Sing Zhang, published with Art Paper Editions
(Image credit: Dorothy Zing Zhang, Art Paper Editions )
While these are all consensual subjects, it’s complex because they’re consenting to a release of control over their image, in a way perhaps all photographic subjects do, but to be asleep is a step further. Layer on further the complex question of what it means to observe our own unconscious self, whether that goes against nature, and you can begin to understand Zhang’s interrogatory approach of pushing the boundaries of what imaging making means.
‘About five years ago I was trying to realise a way where the approach towards the trigger would somehow be directly reflected in the image. How can the pressure craft the physicality upon the trigger that generates the exposure? I had this old exercise pull-up bar. I would physically pull myself up while squeezing the cable release to make an image. A step further was to somehow dismiss the awareness of the approach, so sleep became the plot but photography is the story.’
Like Someone Alive by Dorothy Sing Zhang, published with Art Paper Editions
(Image credit: Dorothy Zing Zhang, Art Paper Editions )
As Zhang notes, everybody needs to sleep, so other than a bedroom and bed that fits the physical requirements of her scaffold-like camera set-up, the subjects have no common thread. They are young and old, couples and singles, and some feline companions even make appearances. ‘The bed is a sort of uniform, it gave a certain strictness that I liked. Of course, it says a lot about one’s identity while retaining it as a sort of communist spectacle.’
For those observing these typologies of slumber, it’s unnerving. The abandonment of consciousness jars with the put-together sense of self we all seek in our waking hours. While undoubtedly an interesting photographic investigation, Like Someone Alive perhaps has its broadest impact as a reminder that each night, we all drop the performance as we share in the essential ritual of rest.
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Like Someone Alive by Dorothy Sing Zhang, published with Art Paper Editions
(Image credit: Dorothy Zing Zhang, Art Paper Editions )
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Prabhas, known as Rebel Star, gained worldwide fame for his role in ‘Baahubali.’ A wax statue of Prabhas was recently installed in a Mysore museum, sp
Art of Accounting: Your marketing sucks
Last week I wrote about Price Waterhouse being engaged to count the Oscar ballots and I mentioned a book by Mark Stevens, The Big Eight. Mark also wrote a follow-up titled The Big Six. I read them both (and also most of his other books).
One day I was browsing through a bookstore and saw a new book titled Your Marketing Sucks, which caught my eye. I picked it up and noticed the author’s name was Mark Stevens and was curious if it was the same guy who wrote the two books I read about the giant accounting firms, and it was. I then opened the book and happened to turn to a page that had the title “Lazy CPA Firms: The Case of Fifty CPAs.” I read that chapter and he described something we did that did not work at all, and then I bought the book. After I read it, I distributed copies to many clients. My interest in giving it to them wasn’t about the CPA firms’ experience, but his other tips and suggestions on marketing. I thought the book was great and wanted to share it with my clients.
I also gave books to my marketing coordinator, Kristen Ferrar Celii, to read, as well as my partners. Kristen, being resourceful, found out that he was speaking in Manhattan the following week and she purchased a ticket for her and me and we attended it. We also saw a couple of our clients at that presentation. He spoke even better than his book, and we became raving fans of his. A month or two later, we engaged him to speak at our annual Partners’ Network Power Breakfast.
My purpose in writing this is not my personal journey through memory lane, but to introduce you to an excellent, and short, marketing book. I purchased the Kindle version to reread it before writing this column. His “10th Anniversary Edition” was published in 2014 but is still as relevant and crisp as the original. Good marketing ideas do not wither with age, and as long as they are used, adapted to the ever-changing media and customer needs and subjected to market dictated iterations, they grow stronger and more significant. Of course, this is true some of the time. Your results, experiences, message, follow-through, creativity and imagination will determine the validity of your marketing.
I believe this book is a strong contender for your interest and attention. I also recommend using it to get started following my 2000 🡪 70 🡪 40 🡪 12 🡪 1 🡪 60 growth method. There are probably 2,000 ideas you can adopt or wish you could, but practically only about 70 are really relevant to you. Of those, there are likely about 40 that are just right for you, but doing them becomes too overwhelming of a project, so nothing is done for lack of deciding which to start with. My suggestion is to make a goal of learning and doing one new thing a month. That means you will have accomplished 12 new ways of growth over the course of a year, and 60 new ways over the next five years. That is pretty impressive and should greatly add to your success.
My takeaway is to pick one new thing a month to use, adopt, try or put in practice. This book has many ideas. Pick one for this month. Next month, pick it from some other source, or go back to this book, or maybe get it from one of my columns posted here, and you will be on your way to 60 new things over the next five years. Pretty cool!
Do not hesitate to contact me at emendlowitz@withum.com with your practice management questions or about engagements you might not be able to perform.
Ice house and art deco cinema among buildings to get £12.2m in lottery grants
A 19th-century thatched ice house that was an important staging post for fish between the sea and the nation’s stomachs is to be transformed into a circus training centre.
The quayside Grade II-listed Great Yarmouth Ice House, built as one of a pair between 1851 and 1892, was a key asset in the town’s once-thriving fishing industry.
It was constructed at the same time as a nearby railway station, allowing freshly caught herrings to be packed in ice and quickly transported to the Billingsgate fish market in London and beyond.
Now the National Lottery Heritage Fund is contributing almost £2m to convert the historic building into the National Arts and Circus Centre, a training and performance space due to open in 2024.
The ice house grant is part of £12.2m in funding to restore and transform historic buildings announced by the heritage fund on Tuesday.
The Strand Arts Centre in Belfast, an art deco jewel, will be restored with the help of a grant of £768,000.
The Strand opened in 1935 with a screening of Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple. The picture house had one screen and 1,170 seats.
Its design featured a curved end, like a ship’s prow, and porthole windows influenced by the nearby shipyard Harland & Wolff.
Once one of 40 picture palaces in Belfast in the prewar golden age of cinema, it is the last still in operation.
The grant will help transform the building into a living museum and preserve it for future generations.
Cardiff’s Grade II*-listed Victorian market will get a grant of more than £2m for restoration. It opened in 1891 on the site of the city’s jail and gallows, where the coal miner Dic Penderyn was hanged 60 years earlier for his part in the Merthyr Rising.
The market is now home to more than 60 independent businesses and traders. The restoration plans include repairs to the roof and the market clock, and the creation of a 70-seat eating area close to food stalls.
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Lowestoft town hall in Suffolk has been awarded £3.25m to transform the empty Grade II-listed building into a civic and community centre with a gallery and cafe.
The original council chamber contains three stained glass windows, the largest of which commemorates the Anglo-French alliance against Russia during the Crimean war.
The grants would help “revitalise and preserve the UK’s remarkable built heritage”, said Eilish McGuinness, the fund’s chief executive.
“We look forward to seeing these fantastic projects improving the condition and understanding of the important heritage they guard, reducing the amount of heritage at risk, and delivering transformational projects for communities across the UK,” she added.
The fund has also given development grants to a number of planned projects, including one at St Conan’s Kirk, a lochside church in Argyll. Considered to be one of the finest church buildings in the UK, its highlights include a Norman doorway, Gothic flying buttresses, a Celtic cross, Arts and Crafts carvings, a Saxon tower and a stone circle.
Galaxies, planets, and new discoveries: Here are the winning images from Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023
The spellbinding winning images from the world’s biggest space photography competition have been revealed by the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Now in its 15th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition aims to highlight amateur space photographers from around the globe.
This year’s winning image was taken by Germany’s Marcel Drechsler, France’s Xavier Strottner, and Yann Sainty.
Their image of a never-before-seen oxygen arc next to the Andromeda galaxy came up top among 4,000 submitted entries from 64 countries.
The photograph was taken in 2022 and — according to its authors — was an “absolute accident”.
“No one expected to see it and that’s why it’s called Andromeda, Unexpected, because we wanted to take a beautiful image of the Andromeda Galaxy,” Mr Drechsler said.
“And we looked at the first data and we spotted this hazy smudge on the edge of the image.
“We came to the conclusion no, it’s not an artefact. It’s real. It’s a new discovery.”
The image has captured the attention of scientists worldwide who are now investigating the giant object in a transnational collaboration.
Here’s the winning image alongside other category winners.
Galaxies and Overall Photographer of the Year
‘Andromeda, Unexpected’
Skyscapes Photographer of the Year
‘Grand Cosmic Fireworks’
Sun Photographer of the Year
‘A Sun Question’
Moon Photographer of the Year
‘Mars-Set’
Aurorae Photographer of the Year
‘Brushstroke’
Planets, Comets, and Asteroids Photographer of the Year
‘Suspended in a Sunbeam’
People and Space Photographer of the Year
‘Zeila’
Stars and Nebulae Photographer of the Year
‘New Class of Galactic Nebulae Around the Star YY Hya’
Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer
‘Sh2-132: Blinded by the Light’
Young Photographer of the Year
‘The Running Chicken Nebula’
The young photographer category is open to budding astrophotographers aged 16 and under.
Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation
‘Black Echo’
Lakota artist Dana Claxton, whose work subverts assumptions about Indigenous identity, wins one of Canada’s top art prizes
Dana Claxton received this year’s Audain Prize, one of Canada’s most coveted arts awards, during a ceremony on Monday (25 September). The C$100,000 ($74,000) cash prize honouring distinguished British Columbia-based artists was announced at a luncheon at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
When Reid Shier, executive director of the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, awarded the prize on behalf of the jury, he praised Claxton’s “multifaceted” practice—describing it as “as much [Jack] Kerouac as [Eugène] Atget”—and spoke of her “landmark” works as a First Nations woman—a group who are “systematically denied a place in the art world.”
Claxton, a Vancouver-based artist whose work spans film, photography, video and multi-channel installation, is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in Southwest Saskatchewan. Her practice investigates Indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual and has been widely exhibited across Canada and internationally. She is also a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and head of its department of art history, visual art and theory.
Dana Claxton, The Mustang Suite: Daddy’s Gotta New Ride, 2008 Courtesy the artist
In a statement, Claxton noted the Audain Prize’s history of acknowledging First Nations artists, saying, “It is a great honour to be included with this group, which includes esteemed BC artists like Susan Point, Jim Hart and Robert Davidson, all who have won the Audain Prize.” In a video played at the event, she spoke of the ongoing “criminalisation of Native culture”, saying that her work was ultimately about “not dehumanising people”.
A past recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2020, she had a solo survey exhibition, Fringing the Cube, at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2018 and her series Headdress (2018-19) had its debut at the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art in 2019.
“Besides having an outstanding international reputation, Ms. Claxton has had a considerable influence on younger artists and her UBC art students,” says Michael Audain, the chairman of the Audain Foundation, who founded the award in 2004.
Dana Claxton, Buffalo Bone China, performance at AKA artist-run centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1997. Courtesy of AKA and the artist.
Claxton is known for her video work like 1997’s Buffalo Bone China, evoking the animals’ slaughter for a European luxury item via mesmeric pixelated loops of phantom buffalo running through the plains, a white hunter shooting them and a native man alternately crying in pain and caressing fine bone china. Performance art is also a pillar of her work, like 2011’s The Elsewhere—an attempt to “Indianise space” through the use of gesture, music, and natural and man-made objects—which incorporates elements of Lakota ceremony. Her photographic work, like 2008’s Mustang Suite, employs ironic humour to defy stereotyped imagery of First Nations. As Shier put it, her work performs a “critical reversal” of “who might be looking at whom”.
In an interview with The Art Newspaper, Claxton cites a variety of influences including the multi-disciplinary artist Paul Wong and her experience in the early 1990s at Vancouver’s Video Inn media arts centre, to the Vancouver School and photo-conceptualists like Jeff Wall, First Nations filmmaker Loretta Todd, as well as her own family and Lakota traditions.
Dana Claxton, Headdress – Dana, 2019 Courtesy the artist
Vancouver’s simultaneous cultures of “artist-run centres and artist-as-curator” she says, as well as its “large indigenous contingency of cultural producers and image makers”, were formative influences. “It feels wonderful to win this award,” she adds. “It’s an honour, a privilege and a real blessing.”
Past winners of the Audain Prize have included the photo-conceptualist Ian Wallace, in 2022; and sculptor James Hart, the hereditary chief of the Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation, in 2021.
