Remain calm. This whole recession thing just may be a great opportunity in disguise. Here are 10 things you can do to help power your photography business through these stormy economic seas:
Author: Trent
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Grover's Photographer Recession Survival Tactics – A Picture's Worth
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Canon posts firmware update for EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware v1.0.7 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, released today, addresses two image quality shortcomings: the “black dots” phenomenon widely discussed on Internet forums, plus a more rare instance of vertical banding when the camera is set to sRAW1. The new firmware “improves and mitigates” these problems.
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Photojournalists Not Allowed to Enter Gaza
The Australian newspaper reports that news photographers are playing cat-and-mouse with the Israeli military as they try to cover the fighting in Gaza.
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End Times – The Atlantic (January/February 2009)
If you’re hearing few howls and seeing little rending of garments over the impending death of institutional, high-quality journalism, it’s because the public at large has been trained to undervalue journalists and journalism. The Internet has done much to encourage lazy news consumption, while virtually eradicating the meaningful distinctions among newspaper brands. The story from Beijing that pops up in my Google alert could have come from anywhere. As news resources are stretched and shared, it can often appear anywhere as well: a Los Angeles Times piece will show up in TheWashington Post, or vice versa.
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Two Way Lens: Amy Stein
Today I find inspiration in everything. It could be a song, a painting or a parking lot in Queens. I feel very confident as an artist and want to explore everything. I am not interested in being pigeonholed by concept, format, subject or process. I will go wherever my curiosity and inspiration takes me. In some ways my photographic journey is like a bird building a nest. There are bits and strings and twigs everywhere and they all have stories. Through photography I collect and present these disparate pieces and gradually form them into a cohesive vision over my career.
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Audio interview with photographer Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen has been making disturbing photographs in South Africa for many years now. In an exclusive audio interview for Lens Culture, he talks about a wide range of topics, including how he found his “voice” as a photographer, his working methods and philosophy, why he uses flash lighting, the violence of nature in South Africa where he lives, the similarities between geology and photography (he holds a Ph.D. in Mineral Economics), and more.
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Christopher Anderson and the Delicious Foods
Seeing as four out of eight of my my favorite things (1/2!) involve food and photography, I appoint myself an expert on food photography. And as said expert, I crown Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson’s illustrations for New York Magazine’s Where to Eat story the best I’ve seen in 2009.
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Haiti's Beautiful Catastrophe
by Klavs Bo Christensenhen I went to Haiti I had no idea what it would be like. I checked out the homepage of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and found that the warnings about going to Haiti sounded the same as those for going to Iraq or Afghanistan. But I wasn’t going to a war zone, I was going to Port au Prince (PAP). I decided to give it a try but only if I could get in touch with Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Gonaives, Haiti.
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James Whitlow Delano – From the "Train of Death" to the "Wall of Shame"
Much has been made of the perils undocumented workers face crossing the southern border of the United States in search of work and a better life. For Central Americans, the U.S. border marks the end of one of the longest, most treacherous migrations on the planet. Still there has been a rise of 50 percent of undocumented Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras living in the U.S. since 2000.
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Photo Essay: Joy and Sorrow in 2008
The pairing of the song “How Many Christmases” and a slideshow of Chicago Tribune photos from 2008 is meant to jar the senses a bit.
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Don't Blame the Platypus
Reporters, it pains us to say, never got it. First, they weren’t used to, and didn’t like, carrying STUFF. The idea was a nightmare to them. Mark it up to left-brain, right brain. Therefore, the idea that you can command a reporter to take over the cameraperson’s job is wishful thinking.
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Pete Souza Named Obama's White House Photographer
Photojournalist and NPPA member Pete Souza has accepted the position of official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama, he told News Photographer magazine tonight.
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Career change: Banker-turned-photojournalist – Telegraph
Marcus Bleasdale swapped derivatives for a camera to document the horrors of war
Check it out here. Once again, via APAD.
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Retired Blade photographer's favorite work
There’s something magical about a camera, the way looking through it changes one’s view of the world and how with one click it can freeze time. Few know that better than Herral Long, a photojournalist with The Blade for more than 50 years.
Check it out here. Via APAD.
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'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart
“Your reputation is everything here at the Times, and if you want get known, you’ve got to deliver what readers want: differences between men and women, and photos of cats,” national political reporter Adam Nagourney said. “I suppose I could be most e-mailed, too, if I sat in front of my computer all day making up cutesy names for government officials, like some redheaded Wednesday and Saturday columnists I know.”
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JPG magazine closes its doors by Photocritic
I just received an e-mail from the editor over at JPG magazine, bearing a rather quite sad message: They’re shutting the doors for good.
