Author: Trent
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Mac OS X 10.6.5 improves Aperture processing, extends RAW format support
Link: the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself. You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to…
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Timeless Stories in 1970s New York: The Work of Paul McDonough – NYTimes.com
Timeless Stories in 1970s New York Paul McDonough’s photographs immediately evoke the New York of the 1970s. But a second glance, and a third, reveal so much more. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/timeless-stories-in-1970s-new-york/ Forget the ‘fros and the saffron robes and the 60-cent taxi meter drop; the Horn & Hardart, the Doubleday and the showroom on…
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WORKSHOP DIARIES: Eddie Adams workshop
Link: ‘Going to bed at 2 or 3am was the norm. It was exhausting but incredibly refreshing…’
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Inside CPOY: In & Out with Leah Beane
Link: In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret…
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Revamped NPPA Student Quarterly Clip Contest Opens Next Week
Link: The NPPA Student Clip Contest will be re-launching on Monday, November 15, with simplified online entry, multimedia categories, and live winners’ galleries on NPPA.org.
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2010 Mini Medium Format Shoot-out
Link: While the size of the Leica file is smaller than those of the medium format cameras, and therefore display smaller at 100% magnification on screen, we observe that the Leica files have the best sharpness and resolution of all compared here.
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open letter to newspaper photographers | Redlights and Redeyes
Link: Dear Newspaper Photographer, If you think you are safe in your job, you aren’t.
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Nieman Reports | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Link: They are identical mediums, sending different messages. By Antonin Kratochvil with Michael Persson
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A Dozen Promising Photographers: The World Press Photo Master Class – NYTimes.com
A Dozen Promising Photographers No one told 12 of the world’s most promising photographers that photojournalism was dead, so they gathered to chart their futures. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/a-dozen-promising-photographers/ By editing one another’s work, we become connected. We are all vulnerable. I have to trust people with my images. They have to trust me. We…
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Aevum » October Collection
Link: In WDC, on assignment. Down-time. Check email. Friend request. Wander to Facebook. Oh, it’s someone from Baptist Town. Confirm. A post on her wall makes me stop. It says “RIP Butta”. Confused, but not yet alarmed, I go to another person’s page. A post on Nikki’s wall says the same. My blood runs cold.…
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Kuwait bans DSLR use by non-journalists | dvafoto
Link: I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There,…
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with CPC 2010 Winner Oksana Yushko
Link: I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There,…
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Afghanistan's Agony – VII The Magazine
Link: In this report by Franco Pagetti we present an overview of the situation in Afghanistan as it stands today. It is obvious that much work lies ahead and that this war now heading to it’s tenth year is far from over.
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Do Damon Winter’s iPhone pictures make a mockery of New York Times policy on digital manipulation? | duckrabbit
Link: Once again we are talking about how ‘beautiful’ the photos are, or what a great device the iPhone is, but not about the war in Afghanistan (although many people do comment that the photos bring them close to the lives of the soldiers). Would we really be talking about these pictures if they hadn’t…
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The Trials and Tribulations of a Commercial Photographer in Austin – A Picture's Worth
Link: Following on the heels of my interview with Darren Carroll about using his iPad to supplement his printed portfolio, I asked him about the difficulties of living in Austin while trying to build more of a commercial business — and while most of the clients he’d like to work with are sitting on the…
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Claire Atkinson at 22: A Young Brit Reveals Us To Ourselves With Her Leica M6, Part 1 « The Leica Camera
Link: Claire Atkinson captures the human condition in her hometown of Manchester, UK. As a young photographer she as surprisingly distinct preference for film over digital capture, using a Leica M6 with 50 mm f/2 Summicron lens as her camera of choice. Perhaps it’s a little too soon to label her as a rising star, but her…
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Art & Photography: David Zimmerman | Feature Shoot
Link: David Zimmerman is an American born artist working in New York City and Taos, New Mexico. This work is from his ‘Gulf Coast’ series, large scale portraits of the people impacted by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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Newfound Colors for a Portrait of New York: Reuel Golden's "New York: Portrait of a City" – NYTimes.com
Newfound Colors for a Portrait of New York Does New York need another picture-book portrait of itself? Reuel Golden thought he could find a fresh approach for a tried-and-true format. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/newfound-colors-for-a-portrait-of-new-york/ A picture-book history of New York. Gee, there hasn’t been one of those since — let’s see, what day of the…
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Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible: Michael Kamber Returns – NYTimes.com
Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible How does it feel to be a photojournalist preparing for an assignment that’s left a friend of yours badly injured? Michael Kamber shares his thoughts. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/eyes-open-back-into-the-afghan-crucible/ The night before I leave Paris, Alissa J. Rubin, the Times’s bureau chief in Kabul, e-mails me to say…
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Now Streaming on Netflix: Restrepo
Link: Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, teamed with photographer Tim Hetherington to spend a year embedded with the Second Platoon in Afghanistan, documenting the hard work, fear and brotherhood that come with repelling a deadly enemy. Hunkered down with the soldiers in one of the region’s most strategic valleys, the filmmakers uncover the…