• Letter From Europe – Is Free News Really Worth the Price? – NYTimes.com, by ALAN COWELL:

    It may be tempting, perhaps, to argue that, finally, that oft-reviled beast — the mainstream media — has been left in history’s wake. After the demise of typewriters and Telexes, the time of the tweet has arrived. The view is not universal, even among tech-friendly journalists.

    “My zeal for Twitter knows a limit,” wrote Jack Shafer, editor at large of the online publication Slate, saying the welter of messages from the streets of Tehran was “more noise than signal in understanding the Iranian upheaval.”


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    Theme Friday: Birds – Feature Shoot


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  • Nikon D700x | Nikon Rumors:

    I have received several tips from stores, Nikon reps, Nikon authorized service centers, etc about the Nikon D700x. Those tips are coming from different parts of the world and the interesting thing is that they all point to a Nikon D700x release in the Fall of 2009


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    Q and A: What’s the deal with the new Micro Four Thirds format? — Photocrati:

    Can you explain the new Micro Four Thirds format? What is the point of a camera like this compared to one that fits into a shirt pocket like my Lumix FS25 with 29-145mm lens? I see that both Panasonic and Olympus are making Micro cameras now, but they’re not very small and they are very expensive. Why would anyone want one of those?


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    Gadget Lab | Wired.com:

    Hidden under a pile of bad, old fashioned marketing attempts we find this DIY gem: printable filter gels for your flashgun.


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    Jordan Murph – SportsShooter:

    I assist staff photographer John W. McDonough and we covered the Western Conference Finals with our partner in crime, Shawn Cullen, who was there to lend us a hand and the occasional smile. Staff photographer Bob Rosato covered the Eastern Conference Finals with his assistant Kevin Liles. We all combined our forces to form one super photography team to cover the Finals from every angle.


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    SportsShooter:

    Robert Seale compared the Nikon D3X vs. the Canon EOS1Ds Mark III.


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    TIME:

    Bruce McBroom, a photographer, snapped the image that made Farrah Fawcett an icon. He tells TIME how an innocuous photo shoot — in which Fawcett posed at her Hollywood home in a red swimsuit — resulted in the 1976 poster that wound up plastered on millions of bedroom walls.


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    lenscratch:

    Photographer Lucia Ganieva likes to photograph women. And with the three series featured below, working women. Born in Russia, Lucia now lives in the Netherlands and explores women in all walks of life. She still does much of her photographic work in Russia, and the images below reflect Russian factory workers, aging stars, and museum guards.


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  • Brian Smith – A Picture’s Worth:

    If you’re waiting to “raise your game” until you get your dream gig, you’ll never get it. I spent the first decade of my career and a newspaper photographer, and I put the same effort into my assignments for newspaper as I did on the freelance shoots for Rolling Stone.


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    Pentax introduces Optio W80 rugged camera: Digital Photography Review


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  • Cradoc Bagshaw – A Picture’s Worth:

    It’s possible that you might have to battle with one client to get paid $150 for the use of a photograph yet you might get $15,000 from another client for the use of the same photo. What makes the difference?

    The answer is image uniqueness, but this may not be what you think it is.


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  • RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:

    Ed Kashi sent me some notes last week from his recent trip to the Niger Delta about the creative differences between shooting video and stills. This is an evolution many photographers are going through right now, so I decided to ask a few other multitaskers to share their thoughts.


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  • Gary Knight :

    Like many French journalists and photographers Paul Marchand drove a small car – often liberated from a car hire company – at a time when many English speaking journalists were choosing armoured cars. As protection he had a handwritten sign on his rear window saying “Don’t shoot me – I am invincible”. Well, he was invincible, until he was – perhaps inevitably – shot. Shot in the arm by a 50 calibre machine gun at Sarajevo airport. He lost a few inches of arm but his enthusiasm remained undeterred and his behaviour was unchanged.


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    Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    Shawn Rocco, 37, is a professional photographer. He shoots a Motorola E815.

    Yes, that’s a cellphone.


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  • Photo Attorney:

    Many photographers are also authors. If you published a book before January 5, 2009, your work may be subject to a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights by scanning their books, creating an electronic database, and displaying short excerpts without the permission of the copyright holders.


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  • Korean Central News Agency of DPRK:

    Posters “Let All Turn out in Weeding Campaign!” and “Let Us Sincerely Help Farmers with Manpower and Materially through Patriotic Devotion!” depict an agricultural worker all out in the weeding campaign in the wake of the completion of the rice transplantation and the working people rushing to co-op fields, thus making an ideological and artistic representation of the elated enthusiasm of the Korean people to hit the target of grain production this year without fail.


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  • Doug Menuez:

    When most photographers set up shop, they focus on becoming better photographers, naturally. Few photographers, however, develop even the most basic skills they need to run their own business. They hope to hang on long enough to be discovered before they sink under their own lack of knowledge. That’s like building an intricate jeweled house atop quicksand.


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  • John Nack on Adobe: Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 Now Available


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