False reports persist. On Sept. 13, The Sunday Times in London
reported that $9 million was paid for our release. Then it issued a
full retraction.
Link: Times Responds on Reporter’s Kidnapping – At War Blog – NYTimes.com
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- After reading the post on “After Effects”, I wonder how much a photojournalist really needs it? The videos shown as examples were slick and, from a graphics standpoint, professionally done, but I think the effects tended to be OVERDONE and distracted from the storytelling. Much like CGI in movies, if it doesn’t add to the story, its basically “eye candy”. Nothing wrong with a little candy now and then, but it can’t make up for bad imagery or the lack of a coherent...
— Denny Montgomery on Why You NEED to Learn After Effects, NOW! – MultimediaShooter - I don’t think Photojouranlism is dead, it is more of an endangered species than anything else. I think that the photojournalist who can shoot stills and video to supplement the stills will find commissioned work. Then again I could be wrong. You can see the trend towards self funded documentries, and longer journalistic stories. Albeit I thought we would see some stories as a result of the earthquake in Haiti, yet nothing much has been published in a full feature that I have seen. If someone has...
— Ed Hamlin on Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask : The Picture Show : NPR - Interesting video at VII, Thomas has an interesting viewpoint in the story he is conveying. It would be interesting to hang out with him in the different regions over there to see how our vision differ and the stories we would develop. Thanks for the post Trent.
— Ed Hamlin on Storm in the Swat Valley – By Tomas van Houtryve / VII Network - I might listen to you if you used a real name to respond to. That said, I would NEVER assign or commission photography and not pay for it. This venture isn’t making money for me as the curator, or for the person who is putting out the online magazine. What we offer is a platform for someone who has work they would like to expose to a larger audience. I’d really like to know what is wrong with that. Thanks.
— Stella Kramer on Stellazine: Call for Photojournalism - Seeing that the new Canon 400 2.8 is 11,000 dollars, I wonder how much Canon will charge for these lenses
— JP on Rob Galbraith DPI: New 500mm f/4, 600mm f/4 in development, says Canon - “There is, unfortunately, no payment.” Despicable crooks!
— Fook Yu on Stellazine: Call for Photojournalism - No it’s not dead yet however we are at a stage where the public is more visually illiterate than ever. The respect for photography is at rock bottom. IMO Digital has devalued the image in some ways, turned many photos into pure illustrations and have convinced enough people that a bad image with alot PS is good enough. Great, natural documentary imagery bores most cause they would rather see Paris Hiltons “up skirt” shots on some tacky site and a long form essay. Photojournalism is not...
— david on Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask : The Picture Show : NPR - I’ve always been a Nikon fan. This is a wonderful camera, it is worth buying only for the 14 megapixels
— Rodir on Nikon D3100 with 1080p Video | Gadget Lab - Wow, that’s just weird of them to do forbid people that
— Proiecte case on FBI claims no one may publish its seal – Boing Boing - Oh, wow, this guy is hillarious! Some people just live in a different world where wars and violence is cool
— Marty on Will the real Rambo please stand up? - Like how stupid is that? Shows you what kind of intelligence we have got working thier.
— Ed Hamlin on FBI claims no one may publish its seal – Boing Boing - WOW! I think both parties gone overboard. There are standards and professional ethics that need to be adhered to. The freelancer shows a lack of skills and integrity, they can be resolved mentorship/counseling and extra effort to rebuild credibility in the relationship. However when you publically put the guy on the carpet humiliating him like you did creats a potential legal problem. But I guess it is okay to totally humiliate people with out regard for their life and how they make a living. Getty may have...
— Ed Hamlin on Getty Photographer Dropped Over Altered Golf Photo – PDN Pulse - It’s really not a surprise. I’m not knocking all of the residents of afgakistan but loyalties only run as deep as the laundry list of stuff you can give leaders and politicians down to the regional leader. This may seem a bit inflamitory, too bad it is history repeating itself with different players. Take a look before you beat me up. FYI, I am retired military and I am not in favor of an extended stay without quick results. and low loss of life except the bad guys.
— Ed Hamlin on The War Logs – NYTimes.com - Yes, he should have been let go. Not acceptable in any editorial context.
— JP on Getty Photographer Dropped Over Altered Golf Photo – PDN Pulse - I think this is a good decision by the Goverment. This section 44 should not have been used in the first place anyway – randomly checking anybody they like. I think it goes with previous Govt policy or police policy of increasing the number of checks and not looking at the quality of checks. I have been searched myself in London’s financial district where I work. Also I have seen many old people being checked which I thought is extreme waste of policing time....
— Dave on Home Office hands victory to photographers, restricts use of Section 44 – British Journal of Photography
- After reading the post on “After Effects”, I wonder how much a photojournalist really needs it? The videos shown as examples were slick and, from a graphics standpoint, professionally done, but I think the effects tended to be OVERDONE and distracted from the storytelling. Much like CGI in movies, if it doesn’t add to the story, its basically “eye candy”. Nothing wrong with a little candy now and then, but it can’t make up for bad imagery or the lack of a coherent...
