Photographer Kenneth Jarecke offers an inside look at the world of photography and photojournalism.
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A great video of National Georgraphic’s Photo Director David Griffin giving a talk on photography at TED
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in Obituaries
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David Burnett and I were comissioned by a high-profile magazine to make a cover image of Michael Phelps. Actually it was David who they wanted. David to his credit and as a testimont to his experience suggested that both of us do the shoot at the same time. It was a pretty smart and somewhat bold idea. Two sets of eyes, two brains working togeather to make the most out of the five minutes that we’d (hopefully) get.
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These Olympics have put sports photographers in a good mood. Photographers and editors interviewed over the last few days universally praised the Beijing Olympics as the best-run games in years.
“It’s pretty amazing actually,” says Getty Images photographer Shaun Botterill, who is covering his tenth Olympics. “Volunteers have been unbelievable. . . . You walk around and people are opening doors for you.”
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in Sports
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A Londoner was stopped by a London Transport Police officer under S.44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and had the presence of mind to whip out his video camera and record the officers tearing through his stuff.
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The pace of doom and gloom stories for printed media continues unabated but I’ve noticed more and more that are offering brilliant insight into the problem and even a few solutions.
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in Journalism
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I am apparently the last blogger in the world to discover Cooliris. Formerly called PicLens, this is a lightweight browser plug-in that fills your screen with digital images displayed in a flying interface
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This year’s winners are:
Kurt Tong, China/UK
Mimi Youn, Korea/UK
Nigel Dickenson, France
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in Photography
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I am probably not the only one who has noticed Bradford Fuller’s beautifully lit bird photos in the Strobist pool. His artful mix of flash and ambient against a 2-D background gives the photos a lyrical feel. And the red stamps added in post at the bottom make them seem as if they came from faraway lands.
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REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.
Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.
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in Ethics
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BJ Papas may be the most legendary photographer of NYHC. Pretty cool considering the bad rap hardcore has always gotten for the lack of female involvement. Seemingly elusive and interview-shy despite still photographing bands and being connected to the scene which she grew up in, we were psyched as hell to be able to chat with her.
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An introduction to the strip camera, how Tom Dahlin made his, and how you can too.
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in Equipment
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the Age of Great Invention. is the world that my paintings pertain to. people loved inventions in olde timey times. here they are!
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in Art & Design
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A 360 degree high resolution panorama, shot by Kari Kuukka from a photographer’s corral about 30 minutes before the start of the men’s 100m final at Beijing National Stadium on Saturday, gives an up close look at the working shooters in attendance and the Canon and Nikon gear they were using.
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in Sports
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The technical sophistication of the Russian forces turned out to be inferior in comparison with the Georgian military. While Georgia’s armed forces operated Soviet-era T-72 tanks and Su-25 attack planes, both were upgraded with equipment such as night-vision systems to make them technologically superior to similar models operated by the Russian Ground Forces, said Konstantin Makiyenko, deputy director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
“The Russian forces had to operate in an environment of technical inferiority,” Makiyenko said.
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in War
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Every morning Paul Convery walks out of his front door to be confronted by piles of discarded coffee cups and sandwich wrappings. There is an unmistakable stench of urine. The pavements are filled with stocky, intimidating men with glowering expressions and the parking spaces have all been taken by battered 4x4s that have not paid or displayed.
‘The neighbours down the road are woken nightly at around 3am by the sounds of taxi doors slamming, shuffling of feet, shouting and excitement,’ he says. But this is no unexplained urban menace: this is the modern paparazzi at work. Convery has the misfortune to live on the same north London street as Peaches Geldof, the ubiquitous celebrity poppet whose picture is much in demand from tabloid newspapers and glossy magazines.
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Photo by Vincent Laforet/NewsweekI shot most everything from overhead today, either with the use of remote cameras or by physically shooting from the catwalks. Here is Andrei Rybakou of Belarus winning the silver medal and breaking the world record with an 185 Kg snatch in the men’s 85kg weightlifting competition. This was shot with an overhead remote camera–more on that later…
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in Sports
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So he was there and Joe Crucial gets on the mic and says “We’re happy to be here, we hear Ian’s in the crowd tonight. You’re so great and wonderful, but, why do you have to use the F-word so often?! That’s not very positive! This song goes out to you! Those Who Curse Are the Worst!” The thing was, I hadn’t talked to Ian yet that evening, but I looked over at him and he just thought it was hysterical, because he’s never taken it that seriously. It’s not this Rah! Rah! thing for Ian, at all. He pretty much said “This is no set of rules.” I don’t know if he’s, exactly still like that. The drummer for Uniform Choice got so upset, he went running to Bill the sound guy, who only occasionally drank, but at that time he wasn’t doing anything, and started yelling “Shut off the PA! These guys can’t play anymore! They’ve just blasphemed my God!”
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in Punk Rock
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The Department of Defense would be required to grant journalists access to ceremonies honoring fallen military personnel under a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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