Moss lawns banish bald spots – MD photographer research

MD photographer moss lawn research

Solving years of MD photographer lawn care frustration,  cultivation of a moss lawn has filled in bare spots caused by shade and acid soil under pine trees. This picture was winter Maryland photography in January and the moss is still bright green. It’s been a mild winter without accumulating snow, so we’ll see how it goes, but your Baltimore photojournalist research has paid off–it’s way ahead of the bare soil of the past years. There are many posts on how to grow a moss lawn, some complicated. No buttermilk or blender required, just scrape as many types as you can find, lay it down intact without any prep and water every day.

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Washington DC photographer fall farmers market fun:yellow broccoli – http://washingtonphotographer.com

Washington DC photojournalist encounters photogenic DC portrait subject at a fall farmers market for a dc event photography fast upload test.

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DC Food Photographer Project: Bakery Photography

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DC food photographers project by DC corporate photographer Marty Katz

Baltimore Portraits: Sultry Sunflower Action

Baltimore Portraits: Baltimore Photographer Marty Katz documents sunflower activity at Waverly Farmers Market with classic Baltimore rowhouses:

Baltimore Portraits: sultry sunflower behavior at Waverly Farmers Market

Ricoh buys Pentax cameras – formidable foe for Canon and Nikon?

Ricoh just bought the Pentax camera division from Hoya, and it could spell trouble for Nikon and Canon.

Ricoh has been nearly invisible in the US the last few years, but was first to market with a sophisticated pocket camera that bested the compacts from Nikon and Sony. Using a CMOS sensor, the CX-1 shot stills in low light and video. Most Canon and Nikon compacts still use the older CCD sensors, which work poorly in low and mixed light.

Pentax has a historically respected brand name in the US, has a full line of both DSLR’s and compacts; the latter, though still using CCD, have unique market leadership in the outdoor waterproof niche.

The mashup could spell trouble for Nikon and Canon, already affected by earthquake-related delays and Sony rolling out CMOS point-and-shoots every few months lately.

Side note: Pentax, once a follow-the-Nikon-leader minor brand, was the best Japanese camera GI’s could buy in PX’s in the Vietnam era. Vast numbers came to the US and found their way into the hands of art students and young photojournalists who could not afford Nikons. Good will still exists in those film-era shooters.

Press release: http://www.hoya.co.jp/english/news/latest/d0h4dj0000001fv8-att/d0h4dj0000001fwi.pdf

DC Photographer warning: Twitpic sells our images

Fellow Washington DC photographers take warning–turns out Twitpic Terms of Service enables them selling our images through WENN or using in advertising. The TOS:

However, by submitting Content to Twitpic, you hereby grant Twitpic a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and Twitpic’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

Twitpic TOS allows them to sell our images.

ATF Head Kenneth Melson – DC Photojournalist coverage

Washington DC Photographer Marty Katz coverage of Acting Director of ATF Kenneth Melson. More images available: http://washingtonphotographer.com/DC_news_photography_atf.html

Sony releases cute NEX-C3, potential photojournalist pocket tool

Perhaps of interest to DC photojournalist types, Sony just announced the latest in their  interchangeable lens series, the NEX-C3 with 16 MP APS-C sensor, set at $650 with 18-55 zoom, shipping August. At eight ounces, it’s a little lighter than last year’s NEX-3, and with a three inch tilt screen may be handy for constricted shooting angles like overhead in DC photographer press mobs. CMOS-enabled tricks include three-shot HDR sandwiches, 3D sweep panorama–get those red-blue glasses ready–and HD video, but just 720p. A small directional mic (ECMSST1, $150) is available for this series, plus a little tilt-head flash, (HVL-F20S, $150) which might make decent bounce-flash portraits. NEX C3 is claimed to shoot up to ISO 12,800, i.e., at F/dark, and the larger sensor (now APS-C sized) can enable a shallow depth of field that can impart a cinematic look in video with de-focused backgrounds. We’ll see how good the images are; might be a work-worthy news and commercial photographer pocket kit.

Dance photography – Washington DC – Baltimore MD

New dance photography by Washington DC Photographer Marty Katz:

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Washington DC tango photographer Marty Katz

Baltimore MD Photographer documents arterati ennui

Baltimore Maryland photojournalist Marty Katz caught up with feigned ennui attempting to pass for coolness and managed some Baltimore arts photography as it struck a pose. http://baltimorephotographer.com/baltimore-maryland-photography-0510.html

Baltimore commercial photojournalist Marty Katz