Through Their Lens: Michael Mullady – CALIBER
February 8, 2010 (10 hours ago)
Haiti has been like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. The things I’ve witnessed—I hope all of you reading this—will never have to go through. I’m still here at the moment, so it’s difficult for me to really understand everything. I think once I get home and have time to reflect, it will sink in and I’ll begin to fully comprehend what happened. It’s a horrific tragedy. When I first arrived, bodies lined the streets and the smell of death pierced the air. I immediately did what I came to do and began documenting my surroundings. It’s challenging, but I believe most photojournalists have to put up a shield when doing this kind of work. You become numb to what you’re seeing. It’s crazy to think about light and composition when you’re shooting dead bodies or being shot at in police/looter crossfire, but that’s the reality of what we do. What I’ve witnessed will be sure to haunt me. My work takes a huge emotional toll on me and that’s something I think most people don’t understand.
Link: Through Their Lens: Michael Mullady – CALIBER
Filed under Editor's Choice, Interviews.
Rebel T2i Announced. | Canon Rumors
February 8, 2010 (11 hours ago)
newly-developed 18 Megapixel (MP) APS-C CMOS sensor, coupled with Canon’s advanced DIGIC 4 image processor and the ability to shoot Full HD movies
Link: Rebel T2i Announced. | Canon Rumors
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The Online Photographer: Kodak Tri-X Professional (TXP) Discontinued in 120 and 220
February 8, 2010 (12 hours ago)
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7 Tips To Get Better Video from a DSLR Camera
February 8, 2010 (13 hours ago)
About a year ago, I bought a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and I’ve been trying to shoot great video with it ever since. People like Vincent Laforet and Robert Caplin, who have produced amazing videos with this camera, made it look so easy. Immediately, on my very first attempt, I realized that I needed to take my old still-photographer habits and start seeing and thinking like a video person.
Link: 7 Tips To Get Better Video from a DSLR Camera
Filed under Video & Multimedia.
On Assignment: Haiti at the Homefront – Lens
February 8, 2010 (13 hours ago)
“Of course, all of us would like to run to Haiti and photograph,” said Michelle Agins of The New York Times, “but some of us have to stay here and cover it on the local level.”
Link: On Assignment: Haiti at the Homefront – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Filed under Video & Multimedia.
Damon Winter – Images from Hell – Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
Filed under Editor's Choice, Portfolios, Essays & Galleries.
Shaul Schwarz – Images from Hell – Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
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Hell on a Small Island – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
Damon Winter and Shaul Schwarz are veteran photojournalists, and have seen more death and misery in foreign lands than most professional soldiers and aid workers would see in 10 lifetimes. But they were both unprepared for the catastrophe they found in Haiti in early January.
Link: Hell on a Small Island – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Photojournalism.
Ethics: Coach’s Ground Rules Were Out of Bounds – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
First, no live coverage of the event.
Second, no video recording of his initial remarks – only his final statement. Audio recording, and of course note-taking, were to be permitted throughout.
Third, no questions from the news media.
When reporters balked, Ford sternly reminded them, “You’re in our building – you know that. You’re in a university building.” The counter-argument that a university building is public property – and that Kiffin, at least until he quit, was a public employee – didn’t seem to have an effect on Ford.
Link: Ethics: Coach’s Ground Rules Were Out of Bounds – The Digital Journalist
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E-Bits: Haiti, Up Close From a Distance – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
Here is a sampling of images that strike me as the best from the aftermath in Haiti. In them you can see the way events have evolved from a stunned people in the initial confusion and makeshift rescue efforts with few tools or supplies, to the spontaneous self-organization of survivors and caregivers, the relatively hasty collection and burial of the dead, and finally to the arrival of international response teams offering sophisticated relief.
Link: E-Bits: Haiti, Up Close From a Distance – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Portfolios, Essays & Galleries.
An Interview with Tim Cothren: A TV Cameraman in Haiti – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
I’ve worked in Haiti twice before, and have seen horrible things including the freshly bullet-riddled body of an anti-Aristide lawyer, mother of three, and someone whom I had spent days filming on a previous trip. But the scale of this destruction went way beyond anything photographs could capture. We traveled 50 miles south towards the epicenter following a caravan of refugees out of the city, just to find their village of Petite Goave in total ruins.
Link: An Interview with Tim Cothren: A TV Cameraman in Haiti – The Digital Journalist
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My Two Cents: Photos from Haiti – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
Have we become so squeamish as to not accept the tragedy depicted in the many sad images emerging from Haiti? We send our young men to war, but we run from the reality of war when we see these men in action, wounded and sometimes dead. The horror of war is inescapable. It does not go away if we ignore it. Similarly, we cannot escape the images from natural disasters. If we turn away from the pictures an earthquake or tsunami brings, does it mean they did not occur? It does not.
Link: My Two Cents: Photos from Haiti – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Photojournalism.
Nuts & Bolts: Some Heavy Thoughts – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
We worry about the weight America’s young people are putting on, but nobody worries about their DSLRs. Come on, folks, these cameras have a serious weight problem too.
Link: Nuts & Bolts: Some Heavy Thoughts – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Equipment.
Real-World Shooting With the Canon 7D: Making the Switch to HD-DSLR – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
Whether you shoot with the Canon 7D, 5D, Nikon or anything else, HD-DSLRs are now taking over a large segment of the videojournalism and motion picture markets. All are not really made to shoot video, but with various adapters and add-ons you can make it work and get results not obtainable in the past.
Link: Real-World Shooting With the Canon 7D: Making the Switch to HD-DSLR – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Technique & Workflow, Video & Multimedia.
Cappuccino and Cameras, in the Hands of a Master – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
I’d also seen samples of his work from a dozen stories, as varied as a LIFE photographer’s world could be, including one of the first sets of pictures of the ‘Great Cats of Africa.’ It was another time altogether from the world we know today, and so I was all the more pleased to be able to taste a great cappuccino made in the cozy kitchen of John Dominis. I’d known of John for a long time, arriving as I did at the end of the LIFE weekly, but it wasn’t until he became the picture editor of People in the ’70s that I really got to know him.
Link: Cappuccino and Cameras, in the Hands of a Master – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Photojournalism.
Why Not Images of Haiti — By Haitians? – The Digital Journalist
February 7, 2010
What was missing from this reportage—both still and moving—was the opportunity for Haitians to tell their own stories. One blogger stated on Internet site Newspaper Death Watch, “When Diane Sawyer arrived on the scene she got to practice her O-Level French but, apart from that, there was nothing she said that could not have been said better, more concisely, more urgently, by anybody whose house had been reduced to splinters and rubble and whose family members were buried under it all.”
Link: Why Not Images of Haiti — By Haitians? – The Digital Journalist
Filed under Journalism, Photojournalism.
Lens Testing – LensWork Technology Blog
February 7, 2010
You’ve mentioned in several podcasts and a few blogs that you test all your lenses to determine where they perform best. How do you go about doing your testing?
Link: Lens Testing – LensWork Technology Blog
via: The Online Photographer
Filed under Technique & Workflow.
Liquid Scale – Content Aware Image Resizing in iPhone
February 7, 2010
Filed under Software & Technology.
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Review | Canon Rumors
February 7, 2010
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Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin
February 7, 2010
“The day I came across that boy was a killer day for me. There were 800 dying children in that schoolhouse. The boy is near death. He is trying to support himself. And to see this kind of pathetic photographer appear with a Nikon around his neck…”
He falls silent again for a moment. “Some times it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It’s as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.”
Link: Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin | Photography review | The Observer
Filed under Photojournalism, War.
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Having worked as a TV news reporter I found Charlie’s piece very amusing – some of us have long believed reporting like this is a rubbish way to do things! But even if a journalist wants to tell stories in a more authentic and engaging way, the constraints of the so-called “house style” in many news organisations make it difficult to achieve. What’s needed is a massive culture shift and a complete re-think of what we understand quality broadcast news reporting is. And guess what?....
Winograd photographed, to paraphrase him, to see what the photograph would look like. Simple. This art critic is confused because of his western art critic approach. An eastern philosopher would have no trouble accepting Winograd’s koan like statement and the unity of his body of work under that concept..
Def some amazing work by some of these guys. The wedding work not so much but some of the more artistic work is very inspirational..
Spot on..
The elfpa is for bringing together the photographers from europe and it’s main course of non-profit work. Also, the elfpa is working wyth young people and showing them the beauty of photography. The elfpa was est. in 2006 and it has about 6000 members, from europe trying to make the LF more interesting for europe photographers..