US photography icon Avedon dies Richard Avedon, one of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 81. Avedon helped create the era of supermodels with sensuous photographs of fashion icons such as Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. And his portrait work, often stark, unflattering black-and-white images of the stars, was regarded as setting a new level in photographic art. Avedon died in Texas where he was working for the New Yorker magazine. Towering reputation He worked first for Harper's Bazaar and later for Vogue, producing pictures that were ground-breaking and credited with redefining the concept of fashion photography, moving from rigid poses to more candid, less formal representations. Avedon was seen as among the best in the business "He's the most wonderful man in the business because he realises that models are not just coat hangers," model Suzy Parker said of him. Avedon also developed a towering reputation for portrait work. His austere images of subjects such as Brigitte Bardot, Charlie Chaplin, and Marilyn Monroe, were intense studies that set the benchmark for artistic photography. "No to exquisite light, not to apparent compositions, not to the seduction of poses or narratives. And those no's force me to a yes," said Avedon of his technique in 1994. He captured the essence of dancer Rudolph Nureyev by simply photographing one of his feet."The results can be pitiless," Time magazine critic Richard Lacayo once noted of the black-and-white portraits which highlighted "every wrinkle and sag". Gritty images Although his work could be unflattering, at times brutally honest, there was never a shortage of subjects willing to be photographed by a man regarded as among the very best in the business. The 1957 film Funny Face about a fashion photographer and starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, was loosely based on his life. But he also sometimes left the glitzy world of fashion to capture gritty images of the civil rights movement in the US and the anti-Vietnam war movement. Avedon was born in New York City in 1923, of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents He died after suffering a brain haemorrhage while on assignment for the New Yorker magazine in San Antonio, Texas.
</font><blockquote>引言:</font><hr />原留言人 打字手: 如何這麼近的拍他頭？？移動速度不快嗎？</font>[/QUOTE]就跟牠溝通一下，請牠爬慢一點。不過一拍完，牠竄的倒是挺神速的。
</font><blockquote>引言:</font><hr />原留言人 monk: 掌門最近常拍照喔，夜景系列畫質不錯。像電腦製作的。 有些人會刻意縮光圈來讓燈光出現星芒，也許您下次可試試？</font>[/QUOTE]那兩張的確很 digital，但圖倒沒特別做過。 我好一陣子沒拍，直到夏天過了一半多才又開始。沒想到天不從人願，相機今天自動陣亡 (Nikon CP 的 software 或是伸縮鏡頭的機械好像有問題，web 上有看過類似的 subjects)。所以小弟又從攝影退休去，您反而多貼點 用D70 拍的作品。
回應掌門的夜景，我也來野人獻曝。硬要把女兒拍進去的結果，低速快門手持，失敗率很高。 順手拍了張靜物，看看iso 1600 D70 的雜訊抑制。我現在不太拍風景，以前是拍了一堆，看來看去好像雜誌上的風景照，有點無趣。人物到是比較有意思的題材，可回憶當時的情形。
</font><blockquote>引言:</font><hr />原留言人 monk: 回應掌門的夜景，我也來野人獻曝。硬要把女兒拍進去的結果，低速快門手持，失敗率很高。順手拍了張靜物，看看iso 1600 D70 的雜訊抑制。</font>[/QUOTE]D70 的雜訊處理能做到這樣，真的很不錯。我的到 ISO 400 就已經完全不能看了，所以最多開到 ISO 200 而已。Monk 兄用 D70 有沒有發現特別滿意的優點，和特別不滿意的缺點？ </font><blockquote>引言:</font><hr />我現在不太拍風景，以前是拍了一堆，看來看去好像雜誌上的風景照，有點無趣。人物到是比較有意思的題材，可回憶當時的情形。</font>[/QUOTE]拍人物是比較好玩，但 Monk 兄應該看一下像 "國家地理雜誌" 的風景照片，立刻會發現我們都差一大截。
掌門， D70 我最不滿意的是白平衡，用自動WB 連拍幾張，居然會出現色溫不一樣的情形。另外，EV 值有時也會上下有0.3EV 的差距。照理同一個畫面應該有相同的結果。這些情形尤其在高速連拍時會發生。而WB 的選項也類似消費機過於簡單。 畫質部分，只有看到友站faust 的Olympus E1，會覺得在動態表現明顯遜色。但在這價位與功能比較，沒啥好挑的。我覺得除了動態表現 E-1 較突出之外，其他大廠都差不多。未來各廠應該會在這個表現上有明顯的進步。因為這是數位相機與傳統底片機的主要差距。 國家地理雜誌的風景照很美啊，但有出景而我們剛好在現場當然我們也可有類似的作品。只是一般人不太可能一天到晚背著相機拍，大自然出美景常常時機稍縱即逝。pro 跟amateur 主要的差距是，pro 有許多 "練習" 的機會，而且還有錢拿。如新聞攝影師，他們工作是跑現場，題材自然就很明顯、震撼。 哪天掌門當專業攝影師，作品不美才奇怪哩。
monk 兄： D70 被你講的只剩缺點，買東西常會這樣- 好的是理所當然，不優的還待改進。 我上次和 Faust 兄喝茶時有玩一下他的 E-1，感覺蠻不錯的，不會像 D70 有點笨重。Lens 有比較輕巧，出門帶兩個鏡頭還不會太重，我覺得很吸引人。Faust 倒是有點誇張，隨身不論到哪裡都有帶攝影該帶的裝備，精神非常可佳。不過 E-1 用 4/3 的 CCD，要塞那麼多畫素在這樣的面積，雜訊自然大。 這幾天 camera 又掛了，剛送場回修。我最好不要談太多相機，要不然可能會忍不住買一台 DSLR。
呵呵，Faust 真用功啊，這樣拍才不浪費錢。 我覺得要避免雜訊最好的方法是：少拍光線不足的場合。哈哈... 因為暗處本來就應該減EV值拍，不然就是過度。如深夜拍成黃昏。 而且真的很暗的地方，拿啥相機都一樣啊。 當然不可否認高階機種雜訊低，但這也是放大比較後的結果。我上面那張夜景主要是現場光還夠，不然也是慘不忍睹。太介意低雜訊表現的結果，反而不能專注於攝影本身。 光線充足的場合，同樣的size，我有時都分不出消費機與專業機的差別。
monk, that was a good friend of mine "古皓". He's best known as a "walking dctionary" of early Chinese pop songs. Your baby is really charmingly cute.
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41a6cee3z8aa5a9ff/30e1/__sr_/b0d6.jpg?phe1ktBBXYSXRZ0S 很久沒人貼圖了. 這張是我家今年滿十歲的西施Teddy. http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41a6cee3z8aa5a9ff/30e1/__sr_/be47.jpg?phe1ktBBr_mr5gWR "母豬與豬母"