Author: Trent
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L-Camera TV episode 1 | Leica Rumors
L-Camera TV #1 – Does Leica still make MP and M7? from Andreas Jürgensen on Vimeo. via Leica Rumors
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Second hand, unconfirmed, raw Nikon rumors
Nikon Rumors says: In order to prevent future head banging, I will post some unconfirmed rumors I have been getting in the past few days/weeks. At that point I cannot establish any patterns or draw any conclusions – those are just rumors and this is what this whole site is about
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Shooting a prince’s photo book to fight global deforestation
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says: Conservation photographer Daniel Beltrá was named the winner of The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) Award on April 16 at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards Gala ceremony in Cannes, France. The award includes a three-month expedition to document threatened tropical rainforests in the Amazon, Africa, and Indonesia, all…
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Be Prepared When the Phone Rings
Strictly Business says: An extraordinary thing happened to me last Friday. A potential client called for a quote. My business, like many of yours, has been very slow for months and the call caught me off guard.
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The Morbidly Funny Game for Kids
grain edit says: Umm not sure what to think of this one. This has to be the craziest kid’s board game I’ve ever seen. Someone has to translate the text.
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Dima Gavrysh – uganda’s forgotten war
burn magazine says: For over two decades a sectarian rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its infamous leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging a war against the Ugandan people and government, burning villages, mutilating civilians, and abducting children. Based in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LRA has continued…
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Get Stimulated. PhotoShelter introduces local photography grants – A Picture's Worth
PhotoShelter says: We want to help with your local photography events, contests, and seminars.
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$50,000 Fresh M.I.L.K. Prize Winner Announced
PDNPulse says: The grand prize winner, who will receive $50,000, is Victoria Vaisvilaite Skirutiene from Lithuania, whose photo is seen above.
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Ellen Rennard
lenscratch says: Ellen Rennard’s series, The Downs at Alburquerque, brings the viewer into a world of horses and people that are disappearing in American culture.
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Some thoughts about the PSD format
John Nack says: Here’s what I think people want to know: Is Photoshop’s PSD format a goofy, antiquated piece of crap, and by extension is Photoshop slow, clumsy, and/or outdated? No. (Read on for details.)
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Panasonic Lumix GH1 first impressions and first footage
Philip Bloom says: It’s very compact due to the sensor being smaller and the omission of a mirror box. It has full manual controls for ISO. You can change the shutter and iris manually WHILST filming, no exposure lock needed. It has an autofocus that works pretty well whilst recording, both in centre frame mode…
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Clipstart
Riverfold Software says: Clipstart complements your photo application to give you a place that is designed for home movies. Import your movies, tag, search, and upload with one click to Flickr and Vimeo. You can even quickly upload a trimmed portion of a movie without needing to save a new copy. If you have dozens…
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Toilet Seats, Photography and SEO
Photofocus says: I have been very impressed by the research that PhotoShelter has done on photographer’s websites and SEO. Few if any companies are providing this kind of valuable information for photographers. I asked Allen to write a guest post for us that would get everyone thinking about photography and SEO. Whether or not you…
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Big-Screen e-Readers May Help Save Newspapers
NYTimes.com says: Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices with big screens.
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Newspapers Have Essential Strengths
David Carr says: Reporters like to think of themselves as essential to the national well-being, which might be just one more measure of how out of touch we are, but journalists are not the only ones who are suggesting as much.
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Courtney B. Wilson, Your Photo Policy at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum Sucks
Thomas Hawk says: It seems to me that this musuem’s policy is simply another example of a museum who lets some power hungry curator draft some totally daft policy that is both unenforceable and in direct conflict with it’s mission statement.
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A new coreyfishes.com is launched.
Corey’s Fishing News says: My friend JD Hooge of Portland along with his team at Gridplane have built a new website for me. Thanks, I hope ya’all like it. This is also the beginning of this blog (everything before this was old news).
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lenscratch: Reiner Riedler
lenscratch says: Austrian photographer, Reiner Riedler was at Photolucida to promote his new body of work, Fake Holidays. The series has been widely exhibited in Europe, and made the Critical Mass top 50.
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White House Photos — Does the Public Need a License to Use?
Electronic Frontier Foundation says: In posting the photos, the White House chose the least restrictive license available, a Creative Commons Attribution license — which means the public is free to download, copy, and re-mix freely, so long as the original photographer is credited. While this is certainly better than releasing the photos under the usual…
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Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview with Yana Payusova
From Prison Photography: Yana Payusova’s Russian Prison Series is a complex portrait with embedded cultural memes and fierce visual détournement. It is a strong and commited project. Russian Prisons Series, painted photographs of forgotten incarcerated Russian youth is Payusova’s most extensive use of photogaphy in her many series Check it out here