Derry Brabbs is regarded as one of England’s finest published photographers within the spheres of heritage and landscape, with over 25 books to his credit. Known for his acclaimed collaborations with James Herriot and Alfred Wainwright, he has also written and illustrated several titles celebrating England’s rich architectural and cultural legacy, including English Country Churches, Abbeys & Monasteries, English Country Pubs, Landmark, and A Year in the Life of the Welsh Marches.
He is also the author and photographer of Hadrian's Wall, in which he charts the Roman frontier from west to east, from the Solway Firth to Wallsend on Tyneside, taking in places of historical significance along the way. Brabbs has been photographing the Wall since 1984, when he first shot it for a Wainwright book.
His other books include England's Heritage, a major work published in conjunction with English Heritage and containing 600 photographs. It progresses from the monuments of prehistory to those of the industrial revolution, the cathedrals, castles, battlefields and stately homes that form such an integral part of England's unique identity.
Submitted by Meral Crifasi on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:18
London-based photographer Herb Schmitz spends most of his time away travelling and photographing political figures, landscapes and fashion. It's more of a hobby now, but Herb has had a long and successful career in photography. Little more then a year ago, while working for a shipping company, Herb had a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to visit Libya's Roman city Leptis Magna. I met Herb Schmitz in his studio to create this video interview, shot by film-maker Samantha Newton, in which he describes his experience photographing this amazing site, and his cameras of choice.
Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. If the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer. Virtually all the features of the Stanford camera – focus, exposure, shutter speed, flash, etc. – are at the command of software that can be created by inspired programmers anywhere. “The premise of the project is to build a camera that is open source,” said computer science professor Marc Levoy.
Virtual worlds developer Ryker Beck teaches you on how to use your camera controls in this Heritage Key Tutorial, showing the basics of navigation in our Heritage Key VX - the virtual experience!.
Showing how to navigate when visiting such recreations as King Tut's tomb and the River Nile as well as our Cosmic Gallery, Ryker also shows how to retrieve your camera if it gets lost, and how to teleport back to your home location.
When you've watched the tutorial, be sure to visit Heritage Key VX!
Submitted by Jon Himoff on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 21:46
Actually the old iPhone camera is not so bad. The new iphone seems to be even better (finally). It isn't a digtial single lens reflex (DSLR)with a wi-fi memory card but it is quite handy and you can blast your photos across the internet and now even MMS! Check my iphone photos here on my flickr stream.
The discovery and investigation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter is possibly the most famous episode in the history of archaeology – and Harry Burton was the man who shot it.
Between 1922 and 1930, the English Egyptologist and snapper – a pioneer in his field – took 1,400 pictures of the boy king’s final resting place and the many treasures within. His dramatic and artistic black and white images tangibly evoke the excitement and tension of the work in the sweltering heat of the Egyptian desert, and many of the photos have gone on to become almost as famous as some of the finds made there themselves.
How did Burton get involved with the project? What was his specific role? What kind of techniques did he specialise in? And where are the famous photographs today?
Do certainly take along a large amount of recording equipment.
Especially when you're a large troop - or a very enthusiast couple - visiting Stonehenge, nothing is stopping you from taking along as many different recording devices as the total amount of arms can carry. Where as device X might be perfectly fitted for occasion Y, you could prefer device Z for situation N. An example:
We're about to leave for a field trip annex teambuilding annex day-away-from-the-computer-screens to Stonehenge - the one with the large rocks mounted somewhere between 2600 and 1600BC, should there be any doubt - and as we are already dragging along quite a few DSLR's, some laptops, a bag with cookies and walking shoes, but do want to shoot video, we had to find a "light weight" solution that for a not too large amount of money will get us good image quality and not too much backache when dragged carried around without any inconvenience in it's brand new LowePro bag. The solution we chose for:
Digital Camera
A Sony HDV camera, the HVR-A1E which uses DigitalMaster film for HD to store the footage. With it's 760 grams this digital camera recorder is one that's easy to handle & hold steady, without having to grow extra arm muscles.
Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. 
