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Parker Fitzgerald is a talented Portland, Oregon based photographer with a love for the great outdoors and Polaroids. He’s got a nack for getting friends, models and musicians outside in the weeds, rocks and twigs of nature and they make beautiful and dreamy images together.

Here’s a sampling of Parker’s work and be sure to visit his various sites below:

Visit:

Parker’s Portfolio
Parker’s Blog
Parker’s Flickr
Follow Parker on Twitter

Be sure to Contact Parker for assignments of all kinds.

All Images © 2012 P.H. Fitzgerald.

Takeshi Suga (pronounced like Take -esh-ee) is a talented film-luving Japanese photographer currently living in Glasgow, Scotland. When he’s not shooting bands for the British music magazine NME (New Musical Express) he’s toting around a Diana Mini and a Contax Aria camera, making beautiful portraits and landscapes, many of which are lovely double exposures.

Enjoy a sampling of our favorite dreamy images from Takeshi’s portfolio and be sure to visit his various sites and social networks below:

Visit:

Takeshi’s Portfolio
Takeshi’s Blog
Takeshi on Flickr
Follow Takeshi on Twitter
Takeshi on Facebook

Be sure to Contact Takeshi for questions, commissions and collaborations.

All Images © 2012 Takeshi Sugo. Used with permission.

The Philadelphia-based Design duo The Heads of State have created some prints exclusively for sale on Fab and this Camera print (8×10) is available now for $14. Get yours today!

The Grand Rapids, Michigan based Ryan Pavlovich is a life-long music lover and recently fell in love with motorcycle culture.

“I think everyone should experience a great rock concert, and a ride on a motorcycle at least once in their lives, those things can change your thinking sometimes.”

He uses a variety of cameras like the 5DmkII, but is loving the new Fuji X-100 and has it with him at all times.

“I can’t say I have a favorite camera per say, but if I had to pick only one to have it would be my Canon FTB 35mm with a 50mm … that camera is a tank.”

Ryan loves environmental portraits and capturing people and the true life around them. He aims to keep the equipment simple to not overwhelm his subjects. His ongoing artist portrait series began with artist/designer Drew Melton (thepraseologyproject.com) and continues now as he meets new and inspiring artists like designer Chuck Anderson and a host musicians in his local community.

When he’s not traveling Ryan also likes to give back to his community by volunteering with organizations and events like Help-Portrait.

“You can’t really describe how it feels to take part in such a great event, but getting to help out families, hear their stories, and meet new people is a really cool thing. My hats off to Jeremy Cowart and all the people who originally created the event. So much goes into making something like that happen, so its awesome to see so many people involved each year.”

Ryan turns 30 this year and wants to challenge himself and others stay inspired, travel, take lots of pictures and Keep Living. Enjoy a selection of some of our favorite images from his portfolio.

Visit:

Ryan’s Portfolio
Ryan’s Blog
Follow Ryan on Twitter
Ryan on Facebook
Ryan on Flickr
Keep Living on Tumblr

Be sure to Contact Ryan for your next portrait, lifestyle or music shoot.

All Images © 2012 Ryan Pavlovich. Used by permission.

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and the camera kids at Lomography have released a new batch of cameras for the animal-loving camera-lover in you.

From the Roarrr series:
The teal Diana F+ Zebra
The pink Diana Mini & Flash – Leopard
the green Fisheye No. 2 – Python

The Snakeskin Sardinas:
The orange La Sardina – Orinoco Ochre
The blue La Sardina – Sapphire Serpent

Feeling a void out there with photographers not getting the credit they deserve for their images, photographer Tim Mantoani set out on his own personal 5-year long project now titled Behind Photographs. He has now photographed over 150 of the most iconic living photographers with the images that made them famous. One unique aspect of the project is that Tim used the mammoth 20″ x 24″ Polaroid Camera to capture the images and allowed the photographers to write a short story about their iconic shots at the bottom of the huge prints.

The final result is a beautiful 220 page, 11″x14″ book, Behind Photographs in 3 versions—Standard, slip-case and special edition (150 cloth bound book blind embossing and case.) If you buy 3 of the standard books ($60) from his site he’ll even upgrade one of them to the slipcase edition ($99).

Via @SamSpratt @Joeyldotcom Wired

Photographer and author Michelle Bates first discovered the Holga camera back in 1991 and has been playing with them ever since. She’s an advocate for analog toy cameras and claims they are:

“the Antidote to the tyranny of Technology.”

This clip from TEDx explores her work and some of her toy camera contemporaries who are using Holgas to capture amazing images from around the world.

Via @holgajen

If you’ve ever wanted to know about photography and camera history, The George Eastman House museum has a ridiculously drool worthy collection of cameras. In this video, Todd Gustavson, (the curator) talks about the Museum’s awesome new book, 500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation.

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Lomography finally puts their photos on the move with their new retro-inspired crank-driven LomoKino-Super 35 Movie Maker camera. By using any of your favorite 35mm films you can create roughly 45 seconds of footage with 144 or so little images (24mm x 8.5mm). Then all you LomoMovie makers need to do is load it up into their new LomoKinoScope, point it at a light source and enjoy the fruits of your directorial labor. Lomography is also allowing people to upload and share their movies online.

Here’s one of the first released silent short films using the LomoKino, Ghost of the Beach by Satomi Sugiyama.

Tech Details:

Retail Price: $79 for the Lomokino, $99 for the Lomokino + lomokinoscope
Film type: all kind of 135 roll film
Lens: 25mm
Exposure area: 24mm x 8.5mm: 144 images/film
Continuous Aperture: f/5.6 – f/11
Shutter: 1/100
Hand-cranked: approx. 3-4 fps, 36-48 sec. movie per roll
Focusing: (normal) 1m~infinity,(press button for) 0.6m close up
Tripod mount: yes
Website: www.microsites.lomography.com/lomokino


Update: If you’ve been wondering how it works, our friend @xo_azuree found the Lomokino production notes.

Producer and camera operator Matt Stanley of L.A. shoots some behind the scenes footage of photographer Ian Ruhter at work capturing some skateboarding shots on wetplate (really old photography tech.)

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