Haiti at Night

Ok, here is a story... Haiti is experiencing a lot of difficult problems, including energy issues especially in low classes of population. here is some "views from window". Night pictures of places around Petionville. (click to picture for better view).

Petionville at Night

Some of Telecom...

Petionville Downtown at Night

And now interesting part...

Rich

Border between Rich (upper) and Poor (lower)

Border between...

Poor

Poorest

And neutral topic... Montana hotel... Found in 1974 but damaged so badly in 2009 by earth quake. Still in business, but not so nice as was before.

Montana Hotel

If you think this is good place for vacation, you are wrong. Daylight pictures will be in next post.

Links in topic:
1. Music For Relief - Linkin Park band initiative to help Haitians to have light at houses.
2. Haiti travel Album - everything I uploaded about Haiti

Black and White Carnival?

"The task is not to go somewhere where you never been and take a great shot, but to see around you by different angle and show it to others."

Curacao Carnival 2011 in B&W

by Caroline Castendijk

Yes! And this is beautiful. Pictures from Curacao are really impressive.

Caribbean are full of carnivals in February this year. What people are seeing on different islands is colourful and loud parades, all is emotional, impressive and BLACK and WHITE.

Different world at all and piece of art of Curacao community was exposed in B&W by Caroline Castendijk today


See and enjoy full album here.






This exposition shows carnival moments from different and outstanding point of view. Impressive and emotional.

it is one of the best examples I ever seen of event photography.  Most of photographers, watching this album looks like started to thing to go to Caribbean next year, but... Did you think ever, that something similar is hidden around you? Can you change angle? Can you see different way what you have seen millions times? Here is not difference is this Carnival in Curacao or party on next street of you house, or parade, or whatever. Just what you need, see it by another angle.


I've heard a lot of complains about poor photographer's life, limited ability to travel, and impossibility to access to famous hotspots and events worldwide. But... Did you ever think to change your point of view, and come with camera to you home town as stranger? Can you?

Bottom part of this story not carnival itself, but understanding and seeing world different way, showing something what others couldn't see somehow. It is one of the point to be photographer.



PS: I am appreciated for this kind of show to Caroline Castendijk, processional photographer from Curacao.


PSS: 
Caroline Castendijk's personal website http://www.carolinecastendijk.com
Page in FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CarolineCastendijkPhotography?sk=info

16 times in same award list

Amateur Photographer Magazine just release AP 2012 awards. And here you can find some of nominations shown. Word "Sony" appeared in this page 16 time what is twice more than Nikon or twice more than Canon :)

Additionally to listed nominations online, you can find in February 25, 2012 AP magazine issue nominations of "Power of Photography" (winner is Steve McCurry), "Exceptional Achievement in Photography" (winner Terry O'Neill), as well as detailed explanation why and for what from AP's point of view all of nominated awards are granted.

But again... Word "Sony" is appeared in search in this page 16 times. :) Ringing anything?

B&W with no PhotoShop

I mentioned about art-features in Sony SLT-A77 from manual mode in this article. One of amazing art modes to make your images touching, with warm filling about good old B&W photography (what I am really thinking about with nostalgia), and save time in non existing post-processing. Literally, you will see alive your picture in B&W before you click a shutter.

So, Eleonora Orlova, art-photographer, with long term Nikon cameras experience made creative pictures in B&W by Sony SLT-A55. B&W images with nice compositions are showing small creative photo-story here. By the way, you can compare there B&W pictures made by Nikon and post-processed with pictures made by Sony SLT-A55 in B&W art-mode. 

Evening in winter. Odessa, Ukraine. Something what we felt about 70s. Just download from camera to Facebook. No Photoshop, no waste of time.

So, Art-modes are available in manual mode in Sony SLT-A55 with firmware version 2.0, same way like on Sony SLT A77. 

...Let's see how helpful will be A99 (son of A900)...

SE with no E

Old news are old news, but now it is very near. No Sony Ericsson anymore :)

Noooo.. I am not jumping to "apple" or "tea" products, just SE will be S. here is email I got today:

Sony Ericsson is becoming part of Sony*

	Dear Nikolay,
	I wanted to give you some more information about Sony’s intended purchase of Sony Ericsson and what it means for you.
	Some things won’t change at all. For example, your existing warranty will remain completely valid and you’ll still get the same great service and support that you’ve been used to. But you will see some important new benefits.
	Your Sony Ericsson phone already features great Sony technology. But in future, you can expect even more leading-edge Sony capabilities – and easy connectivity with other Sony products including TVs, PCs and tablets to allow you to share content seamlessly across multiple screens. There will also be more opportunities to enjoy premium entertainment content from Sony including music and film services from the Sony Entertainment Network.
	The first smartphone product from Sony, available this Spring, will be the new Sony Xperia™ S Click here to find out more about this exciting new Android handset.
	We’re really excited about the future and we’d like to keep in touch with you as we become part of Sony. To help us with this, you can update your profile info as usual. We look forward to sharing the journey with you.

Thanks Steve Walker, Chief Marketing Officer, Sony Ericsson

Thank you Sony(Ericsson) I will be with you :)

Smart Interactive Tutorial from Sony: DSLR - Exposure

Why do we need redo what already done and done very smart way and easy way for understanding?

Most of started "professionals" just bombing by different type of tutorials what actually makes amateur photographers much more confused than understood some topics.

Why not look back to camera vendors and read and follow what they are thinking and what advising in key "how to use our product better"? Sony UK popup with nice interactive tutorials about photography basics under name "DSLR: maximising quality".

I suggest to read and "play" those tutorials not to beginners but for professionals too. Sure, this material provided by Sony - inventor of "mirrorless", but correctly saying, translucent cameras, what influenced competitors such Nikon and Canon to make bogus "something-like-this". this can be a reason of most of Nikon and Canon influenced photographers to avoid to review these articles, but... Guys, you will lose a lot :)

So, here is one of those articles started:

Exposure

The core of quality

Auto-exposure systems are extremely accurate at calculating the right amount of exposure for images. However, cameras cannot read your creative mind. To suit your taste or for special effects, you may want to override the camera’s settings.

 

Or you can take over the controls completely to set exposure manually. Even in this case, your Sony DSLR camera will guide you.

Continue is here (including interactive tutorial)