The product was recently featured on B&H’s youtube page and has received good reviews from other sources as well. I personally don’t have the need for such a device, but I can think of many reasons for those of you who do video.

The biggest “gotcha” for this device is the pricetag, at $699 it’s a little expensive for most people. If you need streaming capabilities and don’t want to be wired into a computer all the time then this is a great option for you, and is definitely worth the money. You can check out the B&H product review below and purchase from B&H here.

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About Dodge and Burn

A snippet from their website: “The sculpted mechanical beauty of vintage cameras, the legendary photographers who used them, and the iconic images they created are the things that fuel the Dodge and Burn brand … Each of the cameras illustrated on our tees is a classic. From the elegant and precise Leica rangefinders of the 1950s to the rugged war-zone-tested Nikon’s of the 1970s, these shirts pay homage to some of the best cameras ever made.”

Our Thoughts

These are a mix of camera geek and style, printed on a comfortable, high-quality T-Shirt. The designs are gorgeous and for any camera enthusiast, they represent a piece of gear history.

The Summer T-Shirt Giveaway

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A new player in the crowdsourcing trend launched earlier this month. Advertising creatives Cassandra Nguyen and Grazina Snipas are offering a new way to find custom photography with their site PicoImages.com. Pico Images will connect users looking for specific photographs with just about anyone that can use a camera.

“We believe the democratization of photography and technology has increased the quality of photos people take every day,” said Snipas. “You no longer have to be a professional photographer to take a great photo.”

The process is simple—users describe the photo they’re looking for, how they plan to use it, and how much they’re willing to pay. Anyone with an image matching that description can submit their photo. Upon purchase, Pico Images generates a custom image license between the two parties.

Nguyen and Snipas formed Pico Images, their first company, after becoming frustrated at the lack of quality images on stock photography sites. “We had the budget for photography but couldn’t find anything that looked good on the popular stock sites,” said Nguyen. “At the same time, we were seeing all of these great photos pop up on our social networks but didn’t have an easy way to contact the photographers or to license them. Pico Images plans to bridge that gap.”

As a designer myself, I totally get where these two are coming from. I have literally spent hours or sometimes an entire work day searching for the right stock image for a clients’ design project. In fact, one of the primary reasons I took my photography hobby to the next level was so I could provide custom photography for my clients.

Obviously, a professional or at least an educated photography enthusiast, is going to take a better picture than the average Joe with a cell phone, but I think the concept behind Pico Images is a good one. Since the buyer sets the budget, photographers from amateur to seasoned professional can benefit. On the other hand, will crowdsourcing sights like this one lower the stock photography standard and pricing expectation even further than the ever popular micro stock trend? What are your thoughts?

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Matisse is visually referenced in several of Gordon’s works including large scale still lifes and portraits, along with a selection of smaller works operating as isolated studies. In order to make these works, Gordon takes photographic images from the internet, prints them, then cuts and tears them to build 3D tableaus which he then photographs with a an 8 x 10 inch view camera.

Daniel Gordon, Portrait with Blue Hair, 2013, chromogenic print, 45 x 36 in, ed of 3

Gordon’s works are a melding together of fragmented elements from reality which come together to make a coherent whole, despite the fact that they are made up of a variety of perspectives, profiles and people.

Gordon’s process can be seen as a kind of physical form of Photoshop, as he slices, cuts, glues, stages, arranges and recycles before taking the photograph–a reversal on the digital process where a photograph would first be taken then edited.

Gordon told Slate:

“I’m interested in taking ideas that were radical in Matisse’s day (collapsing space through the blending of foreground and background, multiple angles viewed at the same time, and Fauvist color and expression, among others) and moving them into a contemporary photographic space. I suppose it’s a kind of physical version of Photoshop that’s playing with a big history and multiple mediums.”

An exhibition of Gordon’s recent series can be seen at M+B gallery Los Angeles until 29 June, 2013. Click here for more info.

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Vogue has a great article about Katy on their website today covering her first ever Vogue cover shoot. I’ve included the images from her cover shoot and spread below. I think that my personal favorite is the one I’ve featured just below this text, where she is holding a huge hat on her head and holding what looks to be turnips(?) or some other vegetable.

As would be expected Annie Leibovitz did a marvelous job on this spread. Lighting, composition, everything is great. Of course the photoshop is a tad much, but I wouldn’t expect any less from Vogue.

What are your thoughts on the set? How did Katy do for her first Vogue Cover? Let us know in a comment below!

[via Vogue]

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