Mostly Photography,

It’s long overdue. Time for a house clearing and some major reorganization of presence on the web.

The openorigins.com site will continue to function as is for the time being. I will continue to post in a somewhat regular fashion, but there will be significantly less new content being published. The new site, www.josephszymanski.com, will now host all of my personal work, while gradually the origins site will be phased out and re-vamped into something completely different. What that is I’m not quite sure, but I have a few ideas cooking.

The feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/MostlyPhotography. The origins feed forward here from now on. I encourage everyone who is subscribe to update to the new address. I’ll send out some more reminders on this over the next few weeks. If you wish to subscribe via email, visit the Subscribe page.

A good deal of the static content here is the same, with a few updates, additions and minor changes. The fine art prints section has been completely overhauled. Check out the print sets page for custom image sets.

Some notes on code. I have done very little debugging for Internet Explorer and make no promises that it will function perfectly, or even properly. If it doesn’t work, download a real browser instead of an over inflated piece of bloat-ware like IE.

As always, enjoy…

Mayhem through the medium of photography and the terrorizing of tourists. Brilliant…

“The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.”

Julius von Bismarck’s ‘Image Fulgurator’ projects an image into the photographs of random people on the street. The image projected is invisible to human eyes. This of course is almost never good or incredibly hysterical, depending on your point of view.

Rigging up a flash unit to project through an old SLR and hooking it up to an optical slave trigger, whenever someone takes a picture, the flash on their own camera trips the slave and fires the “Fulgurator”, projecting an image into the scene undetected.

Both Pop Photo and Wired did a writeup on this. Check out www.juliusvonbismarck.com for a more in depth explanation on this tool of terror.

After much deliberation and several rounds of voting, the members of the Fine Art Photoblog are please to announce the addition of three new photographers to the group.

Mathias Pastwa

With a flair for the industrial and an obvious technical command of the medium, Mathias brings a refined yet gritty edge to the group, with clean compositions and saturation of color giving his work a modern but nonetheless unique style.

View Mathias Pastwa’s Portfolio »

Dawn LeBlanc

A simple balance of light and shadow, coupled with her eye for crisp lines, Dawn brings her observations of smaller worlds into our group, a welcome addition to a circle of predominately outdoor shooters.

View Dawn LeBlanc’s Portfolio »

William Fawcett

Exhibiting both urban and natural landscape panoramas of an epic quality, William has strengthened our existing range of landscape photography. He shows a personal touch to wide format compositions that is all too rare in this medium.

View William Fawcett’s Portfolio »

Thank you once again to everyone who submitted work. The decision process was not easy, 44 submissions were made, the vast majority of which were outstanding. However in the end, we could only pick three.

I’d also like to thank Elizabeth Cecil, a fellow photographer, for helping us with the selection process.

Don’t forget to watch for posts from our newest members on fineartphotoblog.com in the very near future.

San Francisco comrade Jasper Sanidad has launched a new blog along side his photographic website.

For a consistently sideways view of pretty much anything you can think of, or can’t for that matter, have a look at http://www.jaspersanidad.com/blog/.

“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

I came across this secret on the Post Secret site the other day. I’m not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that a professional photographer doesn’t know what ISO and f-stops are, or the fact that you can actually work as a photographer without this knowledge.

Thanks to Brian Auer for the heads up on this.

Red Wings Win! Red Wings Win! (sorry, couldn’t help myself)