White House photographer Pete Souza and his staff are taking plenty of pictures of the Obama daughters. You’re just not going to see them for a decade or so.
Link: PDNPulse: White House Photographer Talks About Covering Obama Kids
White House photographer Pete Souza and his staff are taking plenty of pictures of the Obama daughters. You’re just not going to see them for a decade or so.
Link: PDNPulse: White House Photographer Talks About Covering Obama Kids
Most photographers would now agree that proficiency with photo-editing software is also a critical skill. So we asked six photographers to tell us about their favorite image processing applications and add-ons as well as share their best tips for making and digitally refining images.
Link: 6 Pro Photographers Share Their Most Guarded Digital Secrets | Mac|Life
Link: Good News & A Bit of Deja Vu « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
The only bad news for me – is that this is a bit too much of Deja Vu – and that I did everything that I could to prevent a repeat of last year (when Reverie was also pulled down after it was initially posted – and then reposted a few days later on Canon’s site.) This kind of “excitement” is not something that I look forward to – and I had wished to have this video available to share with everyone for the week of the release of the Canon 1D MKIV. It was awkward to say the least to be presenting on stage this week at the Expo – and showing “Reverie” again – a video that was more than one year old.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102303709.html?wprss=rss_world
Link: PDNPulse: Tim Hetherington On The Documentary Hybrid
Tim Hetherington began his seminar, “The Documentary Hybrid: Photography & Filmmaking,” this afternoon with a statement he admitted was a little bit strange given the setting: “I’m not interested in photography, I don’t really care for it,” he said.
Link: BBC freelance cameraman Johnnie Behiri on DSLR video « DSLR News Shooter
Fast forward to the present time and I am a proud owner of the Canon 7d. This incredible camera for its price range is a game changer as far as I am concerned. Previous cameras like the Canon5dmkII and the extremely compact Panasonic GH-1, though producing beautiful looking images, did not answer my wish for a new VDSLR workhorse, the problems being the 30p frame rate restriction and lack of a clean low light capability respectively.
Link: The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 6) – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com
Often, direction on the part of the photographer is applied in the reenaction of a scene. In such cases, it becomes necessary to interrupt the natural course of action by stopping or repeating.
Ever wanted to quickly show an art director or client a work in progress in Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.? Here’s how to do it (1-minute demo): Be honest: you had no idea you could do this, ri…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/share_your_screen_for_free_via_cs4.html
via: Down on the Street
A shortish video of Japanese street photographer Daido Moriyama. Awesome.
Link: 100Eyes || Beware the Cost of War | 100 Eyes Photo Magazine
The photographers in this exhibition are some of the best in the world. Uriel Sinai and Amit Shabi have been awarded in the World Press photography competition, Jafar Ishtyeh and Mahmud Hams have won the Prix Bayeux war photography prize and all of the other photographers have received various awards and accolades.
This exhibition would not have been possible without their generosity and their help in suggesting and recruiting the other photographers – even ones from “the other side.”
I was disappointed today to read a report by my friend Troy Holden, who works on the Caliber blog over a run in that he and another photographer had with a group of security guards at 555 California Street. I’ve known Troy for a while and we’ve been out shooting alot together. According to Troy, security guards there objected to him and a friend photographing the building based on “safety” issues. When challenged on the photography ban, according to Troy, one of the security guards asked him if he’d like to be punched in the face and threatened to break his f***ing camera.
Link: Administration Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview – Political News – FOXNews.com
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included.
The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/2009_un_world_drug_report.html
Link: Stock Photography is like the Gold Rush. And that didn’t end well. – A Picture’s Worth
It’s been just over a year since we shut down the PhotoShelter Collection – our ill-fated attempt to bring diversity into the stock photography market while giving the photographer the majority of sales. At the time (and probably still), many photographers felt duped, and hurt that we didn’t give it more time to mature. But now that we’re many months away from that traumatic event, I can restate the following: Stock photography sucks. I’m not talking about the people who shoot it. I’m talking about the state of the industry. But let’s digress for a moment.
a film addicted photographer who doesn’t hate digital folk
via PhotoDino: http://photodino.wordpress.com/
In the fifth installment on Depression-era photography and photo-fakery, the focus is on Walker Evans.
via Opinionator: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-5/
Link: Showcase: Stirring Images, No Names – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
“Beware the Cost of War,” a show opening Friday at the Blackall Studios in London, will be conspicuous for many reasons — one of them being what it lacks: captions and credits next to the images, which were taken both by Israeli and Palestinian photographers.
Maziar Bahari’s ordeal inside Tehran’s Evin Prison.
via Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/219034
Link: PDNPulse: How News Works Today: VII Seminar at PPE:
This morning at Photo Plus, VII Photo director Stephen Mayes hosted “The New News: Redefining the News Agenda in the 21st Century,” a seminar that illuminated some of the new ways photojournalists are working to reach audiences who get their news not from print but through online channels.
Years ago, Joseph Rodriguez bought a used camera and a roll of Tri-X, Sandra C. Roa reports, and began documenting marginalized families. He’s still at it.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/showcase-67/