Photos By John L. White
I went home for vacation a couple of weeks ago and instead of hauling around a bulky SLR camera, the kind I use every day at work, I decided to give the camera on my iPhone a try. Normally, cellphone cameras produce grainy and unusable in real life photos but with help from the Camera Bag application, downloaded from the iTunes store, I was able to take a lot of really fun photographs.
The year-end portfolio of the OMAHA WORLD HERALD’s Matt Miller is really a nice body of work.
Feature Shoot is a resource for photo editors, art directors, and other industry professionals to discover new photographic talent. We interview and showcase the work of up-and-coming American photographers alongside that of established photographers who have completed a project or whose work has taken on a new direction.
Check it out here. Via Tim Gruber.
it’s the time when photo editors compile collections of their staff’s best work of the year. At stltoday.com, we’ve organized our work into five different categories. Here are examples of each category, along with links to the full galleries.
Following my earlier request, Suzanne Revy kindly sent me some comments about getting your work reviewed at a portfolio review.
Walking through the streets of Oaxaca or its countryside, I felt a strange emotion in seeing the moments of daily life of “campesinos”, artisans, workers, old and young people. There was an incredible power, nearly like that of magic, to their faces. In spite of the heavy work, there was a serenity and a limpid hope in their eyes.
we’re talking to photographer Donald Weber who is based in Eastern Europe and is with the VII Network
You can now rate the links posted at The Click. Have at it.
On a recent morning, a 27-year-old skateboarder who goes by the name Josh Peacock peered into a swimming pool in Fresno, Calif., emptied by his own hands — and the foreclosure crisis — and flashed a smile as wide as a half-pipe.
“We have more pools than we know what to do with,” said Mr. Peacock, who lives in Fresno, the Central Valley city where thousands of homes, many with pools behind them, are in foreclosure. “I can’t even keep track of them all anymore.”
Each year the staff photographers at the Austin American-Statesman pick a few of our favorite photos and videos of the year for a special presentation
The Nikon D3x is in a class by itself – the most full featured, the most robust, and need I add, the most expensive of the three by a factor of nearly 3X. The Canon 5D MKII is probably the all-around champ, offering a combination of image quality, features and especially price that is very hard to top. On the other hand, the Sony is comparably priced, has the best viewfinder, in-body stabilization, and access to some fantastic Zeiss lenses. Decisions, decisions.
CLICK NOTE: It’s only appropriate that The Click’s best of the year list be something posted on another site and we just link to it. Here is our list, tailored for the photojournalism crowd, at SportsShooter.com:
So Bert asks me to avoid the gloom and doom of the industry and list five cool things from the previous year. FIVE?! By my count, there were more than 3,000 cool things in 2008. Let me narrow it down to some that are worth your time. We’ll go chronologically.
Here we present, in the tradition of Casey Kasem, a countdown of the Top 40 most popular stories on PDN in 2008.
Using his Leica like a shotgun fired from chest level, the wide angle of his lens gathered information wholesale as he navigated the crowds attempting to work without notice. Usually zeroing in on one or two subjects within his direct path, the photos also collected information on the periphery that often prove more interesting and unexpected.
For one, I physically get close to my subjects. I tend to shoot more wide-angle photos. I really try to develop a rapport with the people I’m around when I’m shooting. It lends itself to being able to capture the more intimate moments that would seem like the photographer is invisible.
Check it out here. Via APAD.
Reza Deghati is considered among the world’s great photojournalists.
He has traveled the globe for nearly 30 years, bearing witness to wars, unrest, great leaders and the courage of ordinary people trapped by history. He has won countless awards, working for publications such as National Geographic, Newsweek and Time.
