Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Feb 6, 2012, 11:01 pm
The long awaited D800 is launching shortly and the rumors mills will finally be able to check some things off of their lists. Yep, with 36.3 MP, you will now have a studio quality camera in a smaller size than a medium format camera. At an MSRP of about $3000., you’ll save some dough as
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Feb 3, 2012, 5:53 pm
There is a new category of video camera that has sprung up in recent years. It’s the sports camera that boasts a tiny footprint and delivers HD video. Put these pups anywhere and you have a point of view like you never had, and always wanted. A few years ago at CES the 2 main
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 31, 2012, 11:14 pm
At CES 2012, Nikon had some hardware to satisfy all of the attendees. From the D4 flagship to some more affordable photo solutions, soon to be available. Yep, they hit em high, and hit em’ low. The New COOLPIX P510: Setting a Higher Zoom Standard Now this camera has the craziest, longest zoom with...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 30, 2012, 9:04 pm
One of favorite new photographers tells a tale of the US, with a Hunter S. Thompson ferocity, and a deep rooted love of the inhabitants. Wyatt Neumann lives the life he captures, and, while tempered in recent years with the birth of his children, the intensity continues to flow through his photograp...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 30, 2012, 7:43 am
The latest top of the line from Nikon brings out the best in HD Video capabilities, while maintaining it’s excellence in the pro still market. With 1080p @ 24,25 and 30FPS being the standard, one of the biggest features on this camera is the ability to export full, uncompressed video out to an ext...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 26, 2012, 10:58 pm
It’s one we find ourselves using everyday. And it’s an energy savor. Looks cool, too. From Visible G, it’s cable to charge your iPhone, iPad, etc. It’s a simple, great, product. What more could you ask for? Charges your iPad showing you visually the charging process, the shut off the current...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 23, 2012, 10:37 pm
It was tethered to its perch at the Fuji booth, just waiting for the eager hands to explore it. The rumor mills had been heating up for months, as photographers clamored for a professional digital viewfinder with interchangeable lenses. The Fuji X-Pro1. Perhaps as an alternative to the Leica M9, whi...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 22, 2012, 11:45 pm
(some images in this article are presented in 3D. If you have Red/Blue anaglyph glasses, please have them ready) Since the beginning, the human condition has been the focus of the Annenberg Space for Photography. And whether you knew it or not, even if the images exhibited were shot on film or not, ...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jan 22, 2012, 8:39 am
“You spin me right round, baby Right round, like a record, baby Right round, round, round” and so on. We are now seeing some pretty cool panoramic tools come into the marketplace, where, instead of shooting multiple images, and stitching, you take one and done. Those are mainly video though, lik...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 31, 2011, 11:46 pm
On the last day of PhotoPlus Expo 2011, a storm blew into NYC like none since 1952 at least. The slushy sleet was filling the streets outside the Javits Center. It didn’t stop the photographers who came to see the latest gear. This year saw a seemingly larger show, with more exhibitors, and higher...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 28, 2011, 12:42 am
The crowds came out despite the rain today at the Javits Center in NYC. It seemed like there were more booths/exhibitors, and honestly, a lot more quality of gear being shown. Maybe because everyone can get a head start on the goods online, both to see AND to react. Today they came to touch. And
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 18, 2011, 1:20 am
This just in: Canon U.S.A. Introduces The New Canon EOS-1D X Digital SLR Camera, Re-Designed From the Inside Out Featuring a Completely New 61-Point Autofocus, Fast Shooting up to 12 fps, 18-Megapixel Full-Frame CMOS Sensor, Full HD Video Recording and Much More LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., October 18, 2011 ...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 17, 2011, 11:19 am
OK, maybe the branches out was an easy mark, but it’s true. Known for years as one of the best music/celebrity/sport portrait photographers around, Mark Hanauer has found another part of his photographic passion: flowers. From the series Personal Nature © Mark Hanauer We spoke with him as his fir...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 16, 2011, 12:14 pm
One Camera • One Click •One Moment – Presenting The “Focused Project” by Fred Bonilla Imagine a project where 200 photographers,both celebrated individuals as well as those who never have shot a roll of film in their lives are participating with the results culminating in print sales,a tra...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 15, 2011, 2:16 pm
By now, the iPad has become a huge boon to all photographers and any image makers. Not only does it act as a lightweight, 10 hour battery life computer, but the apps available that have been designed to make our photographic lives easier is growing daily and we are fully immersed in the system, and
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 11, 2011, 7:35 pm
If you’ve ever been to London, a trip to Abbey Road Studios is no doubt in the cards. You may stand at that famous street in front where the 4 Beatles walked across to create the cover of the Abbey Road album. Of course you and your mates/family will recreate that shot hopefully standing in
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Oct 10, 2011, 12:47 am
On our last trip to NYC, we made a stop at one of our favorite buildings in Manhattan: The Fuller Building. Stocked pretty full with some great galleries, a standout for us is the Howard Greenberg Gallery. His sensibility speaks to us in the consistently high grade shows, and yes, we have purchased ...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 28, 2011, 2:53 am
There have been recent discoveries of photographers work, which during the artists lifetimes, went somewhat unnoticed. Like Vivian Maier, whose vast body of work was uncovered via an estate sale, or the personal work of Saul Leiter, who, although still with us, had found boxes of his transparencies ...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 27, 2011, 1:59 pm
One of the photographic jewels in Los Angeles is the Annenberg Space for Photography. Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, and led by Wallis Annenberg, this unique edifice is dedicated to the art and power of photography, and remains a free place to visit for all. We have been fans since before they ...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 26, 2011, 8:40 pm
Well, not cover up so you can’t see it! OK, you’ve gotta love CS5 as your best main digital darkroom, right? There are so many tools at your disposal, that it boggles the mind. Sometimes literally. Now if you work in Final Cut Pro, you’ve seen keyboard shortcut covers before. Why go to the dro...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 25, 2011, 11:06 pm
Film is not dead. And it won’t be going away real soon. OK, it may become a more expensive commodity, but it’ll be here. And honestly, I’d like to shoot it now and again. But the labs are disappearing, and those jugs of chemical won’t be living in my house anytime soon. This is a
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 21, 2011, 3:19 am
The info on a very cool, new camera system from Nikon was released tonight. the Nikon 1 system. They have gone into the mirrorless category. Not just the size, but the features offer capabilities into a sweet spot of the market: The folks who communicate with photos and videos and don’t want to ch...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 20, 2011, 11:27 am
Always the big question: what to charge for your photographic expertise? We’d like to thank reader Elvis Castillo, for submitting this article on the subject. Let us know what you think! Gimme… gimme… gimme… There’s a lot of buzz going around right now about how much to charge for your pho...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 19, 2011, 11:44 am
In the second part of the interview, Moby gives you a bit of his photographic history, the gear, the book, the influences, and the point of it all. Enjoy. Plus, he gives some advice for the young photographers. No, this is not about how to start a business, but becoming a better photographer. The ex...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 17, 2011, 10:29 am
We sat down with Moby right before his exhibit was opening in Los Angeles. We promised to talk only about photography, and he was right up for all of that. First memories, initial subjects matters, and an excellent description of the medium. One smart, talented, dude. The conversation was thick & ri...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 12, 2011, 1:16 am
You know Moby. World renown musician. Sold over 20 million records. (albums? collections?) Did you know he is also a photographer? Not the kinda of photographer rock star, been taking digital snaps for the past coupla years, but a real shooter who started shooting film on a Nikon F at age 11. We had...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 11, 2011, 9:39 pm
One of our frequent New York contributors, Fred Bonilla, sent us this article: It was 1974 and I was a senior at Seward Park High School in Manhattan. I was with Richard Concepcion who was my sidekick and fellow shutterbug at the time. We would shoot loads of Tri-X film as we traveled around Metropo...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 7, 2011, 4:47 pm
A little Catcher in the Rye reference, but it relates to this new product from Adobe. The just announced Carousel image management system essentially lets you put ALL of your jpeg images into a subscriber based cloud and lets you access this complete library via multiple means: iPhone, iPad, laptop ...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Sep 1, 2011, 10:50 am
You know we are huge fans of the products from ThinkTankPhoto. It’s not just because they are all nice folks. They just happen to produce, what we feel are some of the smartest, well built, products on the market for the working and enthusiast photographer. And practice Kaizan. From the Pixel Pock...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Aug 30, 2011, 12:32 pm
Local Studio Photographers Encouraged to Help Deliver 10,000 Family Portraits to Deployed Military Personnel in Time for the Holidays; Online Registration for Participation Begins September 1 Woodbury, NY, August 29, 2011 – The PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA), a resp...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Aug 29, 2011, 10:37 pm
You may know Joe McNally from his speedlight adventures on the Strobist, or teaching his methods for getting some great photo journalistic shots. Quite honestly, our first encounter with Mr. McNally’s work was an exhibit at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles of his massive over life sized, Polaroi...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Aug 26, 2011, 8:18 pm
This past week, heavy metal band Mötley Crüe founder, Nikki Sixx, showed a softer side at the Annenberg Space for Photography. When we first heard about his extreme passion for photography, we could only guess at the imagery. Recently seeing a repeat version of Behind The Music, the story of t...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Aug 24, 2011, 12:01 am
Well, you can’t be shocked as the manufacturers have always been updating their compact cameras around this time of year. We’ll try to help separate what to pay attention to, and what to maybe skip for right now, just in case your current pocket models are in good working order. Wait til you see...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Aug 23, 2011, 12:37 pm
While shooting a model a while back, we found that the constant looking, or “chimping” at the LCD was a distraction, both for us and the talent. Couldn’t help it. In the days of film, you shot a bunch of polaroids to confirm your strobes were firing and lighting the way you wanted them to.
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Aug 14, 2011, 9:52 pm
The media cards keep getting faster, and you may ask yourself: Should I stay with the old slower cards? You know, in all of the commotion, I’m not sure if I put a slow card or a fast card into the camera. Do I feel lucky? Well, Do I ? (with apologies to Dirty Harry)
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jul 17, 2011, 11:22 am
The folks at 2D photography in Canada apparently had a lot of time on their hands. So they pulled out most of their gear and created this little gem: Enjoy. and how it came to pass: Some brilliant self promotion.
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jul 7, 2011, 8:18 pm
Our friends at Photojojo sent us a lovely email today, informing us that since we were special friends, we could pre-order this cool new lens adaptor for the iPhone: check it: and broken out (the housing, the middle tube, and your lens) Go to the Photojojo site and check out some of the snaps using
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jul 6, 2011, 12:10 am
Their is a very old story, originating in India, that tells a tale of 6 blind men put into a room with an elephant, and when they come out, are asked to describe what an elephant is like. The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 30, 2011, 12:06 am
We told you last week about the Cannes Lions Festival in France, which just ended on Saturday. All of the ways we communicate with each other, and sell products, were celebrated and honored. And toasted to, we will admit. Nowhere else but the Riviera will we drink Rose OK, not such a tough conferenc...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 21, 2011, 8:27 am
At the Cannes Lion ad festival, marketing folks from all over the world gather to attend seminars, award the best work, mingle, party, and share. In the midst of all this, CanneAlso Here is the concept: Designed by The Brand Union and Lambie-Nairn, and helped brought to life by Getty Images and Clea...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 19, 2011, 11:35 am
(This article was originally posted last year, and still holds true.) My dad and I never did talk about it much. That whole thing about being a dad, what you should know, best ways to bring up a child, teaching, discipline, etc.. He had plenty to talk about on every other subject, though. Photograph...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 15, 2011, 12:54 am
…….this weeks giveaway will be posted on our Facebook page at about 9:00 AM, PST, 6/15/11. Sure, the question for the secret word to enter with, will still be in this weeks free Newsletter. We’re just trying to mix it up a bit. And perhaps see where you prefer to go for a little photoinduced-n...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 14, 2011, 1:28 am
One of the best documentary photographers and filmmakers working today, Lauren Greenfield has shown us the dichotomy of disparate economic lives in Los Angeles, in Fast Forward, growing up female in Girl Culture, the ravages of dysfunction in Thin, along with a successful body of work in the world o...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 13, 2011, 1:44 am
One of the best documentary photographers and filmmakers working today, Lauren Greenfield has shown us the dichotomy of disparate economic lives in Los Angeles, in Fast Forward, growing up female in Girl Culture, the ravages of dysfunction in Thin, along with a successful body of work in the world o...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - Jun 6, 2011, 2:02 am
Yep, that is a 32GB flash drive. And a dime. Soon we’ll be using flash drives in all of our desktops and laptops, of course, but these little wonders are helping us move and share materials, like nothing else. Especially things that fit on a keychain. This is no doubt, the smallest drive we’ve s...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - May 31, 2011, 4:41 pm
Yep, we’re keeping it simple this week. With all of the media cards we get – faster, bigger, smaller, waterproof, we need a place to keep them safe AND know just where they are. We depend on ThinkTank Pocket Pixel Rocket and the Pee Wee PIxel Rocket. Well built, protects your cards, the clip hoo...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - May 30, 2011, 8:40 pm
Dipping into their incredible stash of Walker Evans photographs, the Getty Museum begins their most current exhibit, A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now, May 17–October 2, 2011. The Evans’ images have a mixture of a tale to tell, as they document a country by way of it’s peo...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - May 30, 2011, 4:37 am
We talk about a lot of photographic goods here and the main products have their jobs and we let you know when they have performed admirably or not. Just as having a DSLR, lens and CF card may not be all you need to get the shots you want (filters,straps, cases, chargers, tripods, monopods, card
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - May 24, 2011, 7:45 pm
Tomorrow morning, those of you who have subscribed to the free weekly Newsletter, will get a surprise Weds. morning. We’ve been giving away some pretty darn good items in the past months, and this week will be no different. Trust us. You’re gonna like it. Not a subscriber? Click here and sign up...
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Damon W. posted an article on Photoinduced.com - May 24, 2011, 1:20 am
We see photo contests all of the time, and are asked to help spread the word to keep up the entries. Happy to do so, as we always feel it is a win-win situation between a photographer getting exposure (ouch) and perhaps some prizes, and the contest folks raising some funds. Heck, we did it
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