AlienShots, A Photographer’s Blog

Eye-Fi Geotagging with Hotspot Support

Posted by iShoot - 12/06/08

Eye-Fi has added geotagging and the ability to upload photos via WiFi hotspots to its line of WiFi SD cards.

Update to : Self-triggering cameras?… chicken

Posted by iShoot - 29/05/08

Phil and Lynne Richardson’s extraordinary courage and love for wildlife should serve as an example to various wildlife photographers and film makers, and to some acclaimed national geographic photographer’s too.
I would hearty suggest to all to watch their documentary filmed in northern Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley on foot ” walking with lions”. When I named my short story “walking with lions” I had no idea about their film otherwise I would have named it differently. Read article here

Don’t be a sucker!

Posted by iShoot - 27/05/08

So you took this great photo and would like the world to see it, there is nothing wrong with that, what’s the point in storing it somewhere where nobody can see it? but you would like the world to know its You who took that photo and not some lazy office Joe who will eventually be credited for it because its on his website.

When submitting your photos somewhere or for various competitions, always read the fine print:

An example from the National Geographic “Your Photo” submissions:
By submitting a photograph for consideration… you grant to National Geographic Society and its subsidiaries and licensees (the “NGS”) a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to display, distribute and reproduce the Photograph, in whole or in part, in any medium now existing or subsequently developed for editorial purposes without further review or participation from you. ( no credits that it is your photograph what so ever)….in plain language Sucker!

Read the complete article Stock photography for nothing

June 1st, Photographers’ Rights Rally

Posted by iShoot - 25/05/08

Photographers throughout Los Angeles will rally against the unnecessary treatment from security guards and police. Go out there and take a few shots naturally.
More info here

Self-triggering cameras?… chicken

Posted by iShoot - 25/05/08

Increasingly photographers are using infrared triggers, timers to help them get “The Shot”. They set if off, and retreat into their tents for a good sleep or a few cans of beer on a hot day. Ok, so where is the thrill here? For me its the scene, the shutter sound , the camera edges sliding from sweaty hands, the adrenaline rush from the fear of being attacked and all the little things that make taking a photograph such an exciting and thrilling event.
So they are scared? who isn’t. I am scared when I see a big dog for god’s sake. The most usual answer you will find is; ” we don’t want to intrude..” or ” the animal will change it’s behavior or be scared” or ” it cant be done otherwise” It’s like hiring someone to take pictures for you in difficult and dangerous terrains, while you are relaxing somewhere and then take the credit because it was your camera… sounds ridiculous I know. I don’t mind placing self-triggering cameras where its impossible to be, but to place such cameras to capture an animal passing by or an animal engaged in some activity, doesn’t impress me. No Sir.
That’s because I don’t see the final result as being the most important but the entire process, the entire experience. Like a football game, sure to win is important, but you go to watch football because its a trill, there is room of the unexpected and you don’t say “the result was beautiful” but say ” the game was beautiful ” and you celebrate the result . Thats one of the reasons I don’t shoot at the zoo, looking at locked up animals like that is pathetic. Am I boring? yeah right.
Be creative. An animal will smell you?, see you? thats not necessary true. First you can reduce being smelled by a carnivore covering your clothes with mud and plant extracts, you can also hide in the shallow waters of a water hole and wait for the perfect shot, if a crock doesn’t bite off your legs first. This was supposed to be a joke. This whole post today indicates that I am tried, I am tried…. remember that line from the movie One fly over the cuckoo’s nest ?

we are not that stupid… are we?

Posted by iShoot - 24/05/08

So Canon makes a nice commercial for a low-mid level camera using top level cameras to do the job. If you want to make a commercial for a EOS Rebel camera then use that same camera for the job or they think its not good enough for what the commercial implies?

No, I not a fan of only one brand maker, I use whatever comes into my hands. I usually compare my cameras to women, they are all beautiful and I love them all.

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