Posted by Foto Care | Posted in Photography Books, Photography Students
Posted on December 19, 2010 at 11:11 am
Photography Students are jazzed about their new passion in life. Absorbing everything there is about style, technique, photographers past and present, and of course, being able to start their photographic collection of tools, gadgets, and necessities. Here is a list of items under $100 that will truly please your photographer in the making.
Fisheye, Macro, and Wide Angle Camera Phone Lenses- $40
Fish-eye and macro/wide-angle lenses for phone pics with a punch. Our high-clarity glass cell phone lenses are like pro lenses for your camera-phone, giving you crisp and clear shots every time.
These two small yet powerful and finely constructed lenses, one fisheye and one combo wide-angle/macro, attach to your cell phone transforming your standard flat phone photos into wide and up-close wonders. They work with any camera phone and attaching them is easy breezy! A detachable magnetic ring sticks to your cell, providing a sturdy, shake-free hold between the lens and your phone. Go with the combo wide-angle/macro lens for capturing sweet crowd shots at concerts or that awesome ally-way mural. When the same lens is set as a macro, you can really get in there to shoot a super-close-up detail! Meanwhile, the fisheye creates fun-tastic curved edges with its 180 degree angle whilst making everyone look like they live in a plastic bubble!
Fisheye No. 2 Camera - $75.00
From MOMA comes this fun little camera that is sure to get creative juices flowing.
With its 170-degree wide-angle view and fisheye barrel, this camera now has a bulb setting for long exposures, a switch for multiple exposures on the same frame and a built-in flash. Made of plastic with a glass lens. Uses 35mm film. Recommended for ages 12 and up.
Seat Car Camera Belts - $20
What better way to tote your precious camera cargo than with a retired lifesaving device? These handmade camera straps come straight from the benches of wreck yard automobiles!
It’s time you gave your camera the haltering strength it deserves, and the super funky style it’s been silently hoping for. Be the first person on your block to start wearing a seat belt around your neck! Trust us, this is a good thing.
FotoCare Student Rewards Program – stop by the Store and Enroll
As a student of photography you possess an insatiable desire to learn all there is about the history of the art, the story behind the masters of the craft, and the names and work of the top images makers of today. It goes without saying that a vital part of every great photographer is the equipment they choose to work with combined with their unique shooting style and perfected techniques. At FotoCare, we are committed to helping photographers learn and grow at every level. There are always new innovations waiting to be demonstrated and new techniques waiting to be shared. Simply visit FotoCare and enroll in our Student Rewards Program to begin taking advantage of what we hope will become a lifetime of benefits. As our industry continues to evolve, we will do everything we can to help you evolve as well.
Women by Annie Liebovitz and Susan Sontag
Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Leibovitz, who in her years working for Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Vanity Fair magazines has photographed hundreds of celebrities, turns her lens on a wide range of ordinary and extraordinary female subjects: coal miners, socialites, first ladies, artists, domestic-violence victims, an astronaut, a surgeon, a maid. What she creates is a reflection of contemporary American womanhood that mirrors both women’s accomplishments and the challenges they still face individually and as a group. Leibovitz demonstrates her own range as a photographer in this body of work, shooting in the studio and natural settings and working in both black-and-white and color film. She depicts model Jerry Hall wearing a little black dress, a fur coat, and high heels, staring frankly at the viewer from a velvet chair in a plush red parlor while her naked infant son nurses from her exposed right breast. Schoolteacher Lamis Srour’s eyes–the only part of her face visible behind her heavy black veil–illuminate a dark black-and-white portrait. Leibovitz frames actress Elizabeth Taylor and her dog Sugar by their shocks of snow-white hair. There are many more wonderful and unexpected images here, over 200 in all. The delight in discovering them awaits readers. –Jordana Moskowitz
Looking at Photographs (PB) – $39.95
100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. By John Szarkowski. First published in 1973, Looking At Photographs is a standard in the literature of photography. This 1999 reissue, printed from new plates, insures its continuing presence. Looking at Photographs is a treasury of benchmark photographs selected from the Museum’s collection, with commentaries which make it also an introduction to the aesthetics and the historical development of photography. Among the masters represented are Cameron, O’Sullivan, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Minor White, and Robert Frank. 100 duotone photographs.
STD-35mm Pinhole Camera Kit - $25
Make a Pinhole Camera. The STD-35 is the pinhole camera with an innovative light tight clamshell design. The STD- 35 is designed to be easy to build, use, and durable enough for lasting use. The kit comes with super tough 1mm thick black paperboard parts for the camera body and plastic spools to advance and rewind the film. It assembles in 1 to 2 hours without cutting or glue. Step by step illustrated English language instructions.
Spy Lens – $29.95
Let’s face it–when you first start out you might be too shy to approach your subjects up close. Or, you might enjoy shooting people when they are not aware of it, making them less self conscious. Well, here’s the lens for you. The Super Spy Lens: Point your camera one way and shoot the other with this right angle lens attachment. This lens will allow you to shoot directly to the right or left of where your camera appears to be pointing, so naturally people will think you are shooting somewhere else. This lens can be a valuable asset when shooting still pictures at the beach, pool, and other public places. This lens provides bright, crisp, distortion free images. It is sized to accommodate all viewing distances from near wide-angle to full zoom. Be sure to buy the right lens for your camera, they are specifically made for Nikon, Cannon, Sony, etc.
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