Author: Trent
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Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Begins Sunday
Link: Winners of each day’s categories will be announced daily here on the NPPA Web site. The Sports Photojournalist of the Year will be judged on Tuesday, and the Photojournalists of the Year (Large and Small Markets) and the winner of Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” will be announced at the end of the week.
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Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
Link: she was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.
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Getty's Quinn Rooney Named BOP's 2010 Sports Photojournalist Of The Year
Link: Judges for NPPA’s 2010 Best Of Photojournalism contest started picking winners in the competition’s first day of Still Photography and Web categories on Sunday at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and this morning they’ve announced their pick for the Sports Photojournalist of the Year.
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Editorial Photographers UK | Image manipulation – a five step scale of what is, and what is not acceptable.
Link: To retouch or not to retouch is not so much a question as an ethical decision all photographers take when they sit in front of their images on a computer screen. Neil Turner, who was one of the first photographers in Britain to embrace digital photography, clarifies what should be considered with regard to…
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l e n s c r a t c h: Ashley Gilbertson
Link: Ashley Gilberston is a name you will be hearing a lot of in the future. In case you missed it in the NY Times Magazine on Sunday, Ashley had a series of heartbreaking images that accompanied the article, The Shrine Down the Hall, written by Dexter Filkins, about the bedrooms of America’s young war…
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Johnnie Behiri shoots National Geographic “Earth explore” desert adventure on 7D « DSLR News Shooter
Link: When National Geographic approached and asked me to make a film about their “Earth explorer bag collection” I had no doubt that the Canon 7d was the right tool for the job.
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John Nack on Adobe: Lightroom 3.0 beta 2 arrives
Link: Outstanding new noise reduction technology & much more are now available in beta 2 of Lightroom 3.0, a free download from Adobe Labs.
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52 Selects | Collect Great PhotoJournalism
Link: 52 Selects is a unique photography gallery specializing in signed, original photojournalistic and documentary prints. Our contributors include some of the finest photojournalists in the magazine and newspaper business today.
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Ami Vitale – Tools for the Freelancer
Link: The changes in our business over the past few years are truly hard to comprehend. I am sympathetic to the difficulties for so many in our business as newspapers and magazines close, jobs are lost, and people struggle to see where the business of journalism is headed. While I read all the epithets, I…
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To Flash? Or Not To Flash? « Sports Shooter Academy
Link: Covering the Academy Awards backstage is the most pressure-filled and difficult assignment I get each year. Dodging huge set pieces, lines of dancers, camera booms, stagehands, “A List” celebs and their handlers all while staying out of sight of the audience and most importantly staying out of the monitors in the production room where…
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professional tourist | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job. A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story. In general, that is all…
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PDNPulse: Al Gore TV Challenges An Inconvenient Photographer
Link: Ken Light, the San Francisco photographer who won a judgment in February against Al Gore’s cable TV network for unauthorized use of an image, now has to fight to defend his rights again.
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The art of the caption | eyecurious
Link: Choosing words to go with photographs is a big issue for us photobloggers. Some of us avoid them, others use them with caution, and some, like me, can’t seem to hold them back. Choosing the right balance between words and images is a very tricky thing and this tightrope walk often makes me think…
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History, Rock 'N' Roll and The Many Lenses of Ethan Russell – A Picture's Worth
Link: I’m appalled by all of it. I hate the celebrity culture, and everything it implies. It’s a sickness that infects the people both behind and in front of the camera. And the audience. Talk about empty calories. I’m also aware that history is not being recorded – and after all these years – I think…