Product Review: Hands on with the Gigapan Epic 100:
No larger than a lunchbox, the Gigapan system is super-easy to use, and is comprised of a single unit that mounts on a tripod and automatically orients a camera and trips the shutter (thanks to a small robotic arm) with just about no attention from the user.
SFGate: Daily Dish : Beyonce sweats over gig photos:
“Beyonce’s costumes are so tiny and her choreography is so complicated that inevitably she sweats. It looks pretty gross, so no one is allowed to shoot her from that particular angle any more.”
Urban Camouflage Against Crime – Josh Spear, Trendspotting:
Bags and purses that look like newspapers to not get mugged.
PDNPulse: Swedish Papers Boycott Britney Spears Over Photo Restrictions:
“Sweden’s four national newspapers, Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet boycotting Britney Spears concert at the Globe July 13. The organizer needs to press photographers must sign a contract that gives her the copyright to the images, and the right to decide which images may be published. ‘If they do not tear the contract we will not shoot,’ says DN’s image manager Roger Turesson.”
Is a Touch Screen DSLR Inevitable? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
The iPhone, of coure, is entirely touch controlled, but the whole interface would be welcome on a compact camera. There are already touch-screen compacts, but so far SLRs have escaped the treatment. Why? Well, for one, they are usually used held up to the eye — live-view can be useful sometimes but I’d bet that most DSLR users compose and shoot with the viewfinder. This would, it would seem, make touch-to-focus almost useless, something which could slow things down more than speed them up.
A Photo Editor – Flashes Of Hope:
“Flashes of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating powerful, uplifting portraits of children fighting cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.”
Creative Commons comes to Google Image Search – Boing Boing:
Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside their Image Search tool
Amazon Kindle contract sucks – Boing Boing:
Publishing contracts are generally kind of bogus to begin with, but this is a real pinnacle of bogosity.
European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright – NYTimes.com:
The publishers said widespread use of their work by online news aggregators and other Web sites was undermining their efforts to develop an online business models at a time when readers and advertisers are defecting from newspapers and magazines.
35 Beautiful Photography Websites | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine:
photographers are finding new and exciting ways to showcase their best work online. We took a look at some of the beautiful photography websites that we could find, analyzing the design trends and the reasons why these websites work.
Fighting Ghosts And Selling The Good War Or Why Are The Toy Soldiers On The Front Lines! « The Spinning Head:
The silence is deafening. As American troops are dropped in on Afghanistan to fight their fantasy war, there is no sound from our defenders of truth and checkers of power i.e. the media, about the operation, its objectives, our continued presence in the country, our blood thirsty allies, our ‘pretend’ Afghani democracy, our support of drug lords and genocidiares, our consistent killing of innocents and our blind faith in our own righteousness and unquestioned right to trample on another people and bend them to ‘our ways.
The glory of war is being sold on the front pages of our newspapers, none of which have the courage to ask what they know is in fact a fake war, aimed at a poor and defenseless people, fueled by the ‘intelligence’ and advice of a group of venal, corrupt, blood thirsty and power hungry clique of Afghani warlords, drug barons and oil huckster!
Wanted in Iran: The Photographs – insig.ht:
Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” has done substantial work covering the protests against the election in Iran. His post this morning “Counter-Targeting the Protestors” led to a site controlled by the Iranian government, where the regime was posting candid photographs of Mousavi supporters demonstrating in the streets, and using the site as a plea to the public to help with identifications.
Nikon roadmap leaked | Nikon Rumors:
It appears Nikons 2009-10 schedule for release of cameras and lenses has been leaked. At least that is the claim. But it can of course just as well be fantasies or a wish list created by someone having to much time to spend!
Showcase: The Walls Speak – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
In 2000, a U.N. combat unit entered a deserted village near Shegbwema in eastern Sierra Leone — territory then held by the Revolutionary United Front, a rebel group infamous for its use of child soldiers and widespread amputations. The abandoned buildings were covered with cryptic and deranged drawings. Here and there were sentences, names, questions and statements — all of which made no sense to me at that time. Empty of life, the village was an eerie and suffocating place, and the drawings hinted at a deeper psychosis.
Q&A: Liz Wolfe, Toronto – Feature Shoot:
Born in the Canadian prairies, Liz Wolfe studied photography at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto. Since starting out in 2004, Liz has become known for creating colorful, fantastical worlds out of everyday objects. In 2009, she exhibited her work at the Architecture + Design Museum (Los Angeles), the Gladstone Hotel (Toronto) and Project Basho Gallery (Philadelphia). She has also exhibited at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Pikto Gallery, and other locations in Canada, USA, Portugal and Australia. Liz currently lives in Toronto.
A Photo Editor – NYTimes Magazine Pulls Photo Essay After Questions Of Digital Alteration Are Raised:
The New York Times commissioned Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins to travel around the United States and take photographs of abandoned construction projects left in the wake of the housing and securities market collapse. They pulled the online piece (here) after questions were raised over on Metafilter (here). Initially everyone was happily debating the economy and then suddenly someone commented “I call bullshit on this not being photoshopped” and everyone suddenly started debating the veracity of the images.
How To Bring Documentary Images to Decision Makers – PDN:
After spending two years documenting the work of hospice volunteers inside the Angola Penitentiary, photographer Lori Waselchuk wanted to show administrators, doctors and guards at other prisons how much prison hospice programs can benefit inmates—both those who volunteer to provide hospice care, and the dying inmates they comfort.
Nikon Digital SLRs | D-Movie Screening Room:
The Nikon D90 and D5000 deliver stunning HD-quality movie clips with beautiful image quality and sound. Both accept a wide range of interchangeable NIKKOR lenses, providing outstanding optical quality allowing for a variety of cinematic perspectives. Nikon’s D-Movie function can open new channels of creativity for everyone. In the hands of a professional cinematographer, D-Movie has the power to move and inspire.