China Photographer Works Tour - 青花漫漫

Qinghuamanman (青花漫漫）is a Chinese amateur phtoographers who focus on bird and butterfly photography.

Here is a serie of his butterfly works with Nikon D3X and Canon 1D MarkIV:

It's all about the Squinch!

Do you still remember about the "It is all about Jaw" of Peter Hurley? Now the season 2 "It's all about the Squinch" is coming. Learn portrait photogrpahy and how to be a good model from Peter Hurley.

Things You Should Know When You Get Interest in Headsets

August 18, 1937, the first dynamic headphone was appeared at the hand of Eugen Beyer. Since that, people can enjoy the music as the way we do today. In the 76 years latter’s today, this small invention almost become necessity for every people.

Different people have different cognition: some of them just need to listen the music, which is the majority of us; the others are enthusiasts on HiFi. Recently years, all the consumer electronic products have a great leap in development. The big situation also decrease the average price of headset and create a group of people that need better music but not as fanatical as the HiFi fans.  You should know the price of $68.99 is impossible for monitor HiFi headphone several years ago. In fact, this group is always that but they become the leading role these days.

 

Named from the shape, it can be divided into headphone and earphone. You can know the difference from the word of head and ear. Category with the principle of sound, it can be divided into dynamic, moving iron, and electrostatic. Dynamic is the main stream way of current headsets. The working principle is some like the normal speaker. Technology of dynamic has been very mature and relative cheaper in cost. The best advantage of moving iron one is the sound insulation. Even a soft silicon case can effectively keep the voice away.

In the use part, there are 4 kinds: home use, portable, monitor, and mix. Home use one put more focus on the voice quality and sacrifices on the appearance and flexibility. It also needs a higher capacity front end. As contrast, portable headset pays more attention on appearance and flexibility. After all, no one would like to take an ugly one on the road. Monitor headphones has the most original voice quality and widely used in the music studio, dubbing room, television, broadcasting station, and MIDI studio. Mix one is a type of monitor but application to the DJ music monitoring.

There are several most important parameters of a headset: impedance, sensitivity, frequency response. Generally, I won’t recommend the beginners to take too much care on these parameters as they always bring you to some misunderstandings. Consumers should know what they really want, and then make out the choice. For example, if you want to freely enjoy music at home and need to speak with others, a wireless headphone with microphone is much better than others.

Created Equal of Mark Laita

Photographer Mark Laita, was born at Detroit in1960. His mother is a model and father is working at GM. When he was 10, his family moved to Chicago, where Mark began to become interested in photography, and later get the Colombia University Bachelor's degree in photography.

He spent the last 8 years in traveling through the 48 States of United States for a variety of portraits shooting. The final works are thousands of pictures. In 2009, he rearranged the photos and published a collection of works that called Created Equal. Can you guess out the occupations of them?

Fold the Studio Into Your Backpack

If you had the experience of studio shooting, you may impressed by the professional lighting and outstanding photo. But, after all, only a small proportion of photographers have access to the professional Studio and camera, and studios are relatively constant, unable to meet the demands of many people.

In order to solve this problem, Orange Monkie Studio from Los Angeles, California announced a portable Studio that called Foldio. From the combination name of Fold and Studio, we can see the aim of the designer. Of course, Foldio portable Studio is equipped with a white light, which can mimic the professional studio lighting and are not affected by external ambient light limit, so that users with an ordinary smart phone can shoot professional product photos. In addition, the Foldio is also equipped with a variety of color settings, users can simply change the demand.

It is benifit new to the online shop owners or the second hand retailers.

Taylor Wessing Portrait Photogrpahy Prize

United Kingdom National Portrait Gallery has just announced the 2013 year Taylor Wessing Portrait Photogrpahy Prize winners, United Kingdom photographer Spencer Murphy obtained the first prize this year and 12,000-pound bonus with the photo portrait of an Ireland equestrian athlete (Katie Walsh) .

Award-winning photographer: Spencer Murphy

Film works: "Katie Walsh", "Katie Walsh is Ireland's most famous female equestrian athlete, I want to be able to show her feminine and tenacious spirit rider, using a large format camera to photograph. ”

Other works:

"Mamta Dubey and infant" from Glies Price


"Kofi Annan" from Anoush Abrar

"Twins" from Dorothee Deiss

"Holy Mother" from Erik Almas

“Harajuka, Tokyo" from Julia Fullerton-Batten

Beauties of Yunnan Wenshan In the Camera of Westsea

Yunnan is one of the most beautiful places of China. Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is a county of Yunnan province that reserves a lot of local traditional culture and scenes.

Not long ago, photographer westsea went to this place and recorded series photos of the local scenes and people. You can view more works of him at http://my.fengniao.com/8341311, (the posts are written in Chinese).