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Merry Christmas to all …

Ziv — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:11:06 +0000

Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you have a wonderful day with family and friends.

Ziv

Joe McNally Interview at The Candid Frame…

Ziv — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:19:58 +0000

Ibarionex Perello, from The Candid Frame has a great interview with Joe McNally. Streaming audio is here. Ibarionex also has interviews with Dan Winters and Jay Maisel that you don’t want to miss.

Nikon D700 Disassembled … the hard way.

Ziv — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:23:23 +0000

Mark Rebila has been setting up remote cameras on drag strips for about 8 years. He has snapped some great images in the process.

This year, while shooting at the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield, CA, a parachute snapped his rig from the wall at the top end of the track.

The REALLY bad news…. there was a 400mm f/2.8 attached to the camera.

A little good news. The Magic Arm holding the rig survived. Go figure.

Read Marks story, with lots of images, here.

TSA depicting photographers are terrorists…

Ziv — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:06:33 +0000

“The Transportation Security Administration has published new posters that explicitly insinuate that if you are taking a picture of an airplane, you must be a terrorist and be reported to the authorities.”

via Carlos Miller here.

Maybe we should have baggage tags made up with this logo.

baggage tags

Dan Winters has updated his site…

Ziv — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:39:41 +0000

I don’t know if I am behind, or ahead, of the curve but it appears photographer Dan Winters has updated his web site. Lots of the old favorites and some images that I have not seen on his previous site.

Do not miss the sections “Friends and Neighbors” and “Dylan“. There’s some love in these images that you don’t always see in Dan’s work. As I looked through these, I didn’t feel that these images were for you, or me, or a magazine, or an exhibit. I felt Dan had kept these photographs for himself … in a shoebox in the closet.

Enjoy.

Photographer Marc Feldman screws the pooch …

Ziv — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:15:23 +0000

Dallas Morning News photo editor, Guy Reynolds, alleges that Feldman doctored a photo of golfer Matt Bettencourt after Bettencourt’s Reno-Tahoe Open win. For Marc Feldman, this is not the list you want to be on.

Full story here.

On the Road

Ziv — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:27:43 +0000

I’ll be on the road all next week. My daughter and I will be taking a bike trip to central California, then over to the coast near Cambria, up the coast road to Big Sur, Golden Gate, Yachats, Newport. Will then take a right and head back over the Cascades to Bend, Oregon. Overall, about 1,750 miles.
Needless to say, email and phone responses may be a bit slow, but I will get to them each night.

Keep up on the trip through Facebook

Later,
Ziv

CompactFlash 5.0

Ziv — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:25:18 +0000

“The new CompactFlash 5.0 standard promises a ridiculous 144-petabyte theoretical maximum storage capacity for newer CF cards. Finally, you’ll be able to store your media library and the libraries of your closest 70,000 friends in your pocket!” … PC World Read more here.

Cigs, Suds & Stigmata

Ziv — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:43:35 +0000

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In the Indian state of Meghalaya, the government has confiscated textbooks showing pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette and a can of beer. The Catholic Church has asked the government to take action against the publisher and to ban “objectionable publications” from all schools in future. I guess my only question is why would a text book publisher put beer, cigarettes… or Jesus … In a cursive handwriting text.

I kinda like the image. I’m mean, really, after a long day of feeding the thousands with loaves and fishes, who wouldn’t want a smoke and a brewski?

Full story is here.

OctaMonster

Ziv — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:15:16 +0000

A few months ago I purchased a 200cm soft box that I have lovingly named The OctaMonster. At over 6 feet in diameter, the thing is a beast. One of the immediate problems that I discovered was that the octa would not fit securely to the monolight. I have several of Paul Buff’s UZ1600s and the 4 prong fitting was not strong enough to hold the octa. Actually, it would hold, but a butterfly fart could knock it off. So I designed a bracket that allowed the octa to hold the light rather than the light holding the octa. Works great.

The softbox in the image is only a 32″ octa… I just didn’t want to drag the OctaMonster out of the bag. You can click on any image for a larger view.