Ira Glass who we all know to be a master storyteller breaks down a few things in this 30 minute speech he gave at the Gel Conference.
Author: Trent
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Ira Glass on storytelling | Waitin' On a Moment – by Tim Gruber
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enlightened by Chiara Tocci | burn magazine
In the Sunna, the other major holy Muslim book together with the Quran, the pictures of living beings are condemned. “Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allah. He (the picture maker) will be ordered to breathe life into the picture, but he will not be able to do so”. This is a piece that explores the relationship between photography and Islam.
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Why SEO Matters to Photographers – A Picture's Worth
It’s a common misconception amongst photographers that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) means that when you type in your name into Google, your own website comes up at the top of the results. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The goal of SEO is to increase unsolicited traffic to your website.
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Q&A: Justin Newhall, Minneapolis
Justin Newhall is a Minnesota-based photographer and educator. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (BFA, 1994) and the University of Minnesota (MFA, 1998).
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Photographer Paul Graham: fragments of life | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
Paul Graham was one of the very first British documentary photographers to work in colour. His first major series of pictures, made in 1981-2 along the A1 motorway in England, later published as A1 – the Great North Road, caught the country on the cusp of a new mood. In the motorway cafes of the industrial north, customers, mainly men, sat alone, detached from and somehow mocked by the brightly coloured, pre-formed plastic interiors, the brand names and neon signs.
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EOS 1D Mark III Autofocus Fix – For real this time. Seriously. « Fake Chuck Westfall
I am staying as far away from this as possible. Let Canon Inc. handle it themselves, it’s their mess after all. Suffice to say that I really hope that this new autofocus fix for the 1D Mark III is going to solve your problems.
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dvafoto › Newspaper Death Watch
somehow Newspaper Death Watch escaped my view. The site, created by long-time technology journalist Paul Gillin, chronicles the usually bad news about newspapers, and has been doing so since 2007
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Rob Galbraith DPI: PocketWizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 for Canon headed to dealers
LPA Design has taken the wraps off two additions to its line of radio remote flash and camera triggering devices. Called the MiniTT1 transmitter and FlexTT5 transceiver, they offer wireless TTL control of Canon (and soon Nikon) flashes with some clever twists, a way-cool technology dubbed HyperSync that allows for higher flash sync speeds, new compact shapes (the MiniTT1 is particularly small), user-updateable firmware, interoperability with existing PocketWizards plus superb triggering reliability.
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Mostly True: Asking Versus Answering
When it comes to editorial photojournalism there are two basic styles of photography, newspaper and magazine.
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John Nack on Adobe: Camera Raw 5.3, Lightroom 2.3 now available
Lightroom 2.3 (Mac|Win) and Camera Raw 5.3 (Mac|Win) are now available as final releases on Adobe.com
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Felix R. Cid Is For. Real. – A Photography Blog.
Felix R. Cid has been confusing me with his pictures for years, but lately the confusion has turned to a pleasant sort of perplexed awe.
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CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters.
