IF YOU ARE WORKING FOR FREE – simply to get “a” job – you risk destroying the entire business for everyone. In fact – your dream job – that you do for free – will be a job that some qualified person will no longer be getting paid for. And you’ll hurt that person’s chance of feeding their family in accepting to do that job for free. It’s quite that simple
Author: Trent
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Work for Free? « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
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SuperTouch » MIAMI///ART BASEL: DAY ONE IN PICTURES
Despite dire sales predictions, this year’s seventh annual installment of the hedonistic visual extravaganza known as ART BASEL is off to a well-paced, if not running, start with eye-popping offerings from artists like BARRY McGEE, TONY OURSLER, SHEPARD FAIREY, SWOON, OS GEMEOS, KARA WALKER, BASQUIAT, KEHINDE WILEY, and FENG ZHENGJIE, to name a few, around every turn.
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German lenses dissected: Glad it's not mine
German optics are famed for their precision engineering and beautiful lens coating that can affect the sharpness of pictures. But have you ever wondered how the insides of a Leica or Carl Zeiss lens look?
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lens culture: Leonard Folgarait book review
Professor Folgarait explores the work of four photographers — and their critical and different roles — as they each helped to define a national identity for Mexico during 25 tumultuous years of revolution and post-revolution, from 1910 to 1935.
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Q&A: Damon Winter on Covering Obama
Less than two years after joining The New York Times staff, and having never covered a presidential campaign before, Damon Winter won instant praise from fellow photographers for his photos of Barack Obama’s historic run for president.
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poster public project on the Behance Network
22% of people read the text on street posters like this one. 28% – try to read, and without having understood any sense of it, go further. The rest don’t pay it attention. But what if the secret of happiness has been written here?
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dvafoto – What Photojournalists Eat
in case you missed it. The New Yorker has posted an audio slideshow of “Tea And Wallaby: Photojournalists talk about memorable on-the-job meals”.
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Countdown to Brütality – Offworld
DoubleFine’s black metal adventure Brütal Legend, the sophomore game from the studio behind Psychonauts, headed by former LucasArts designer Tim Schafer.
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too much chocolate / photo portal gallery collective collaboration
Too much chocolate specifically aims to serve and connect young emerging photographers all over the internet.
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Living with bombs: Laos and legacy of war | World news | guardian.co.uk
Photographer Matt Sutton reports on the work of MAG (Mines Advisory Group) in Laos. The country was hit by an average one B52 bomb-load every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, between 1964 and 1973. Of the 260m “bombies” that rained down, particularly on Xieng Khouang province, 80m failed to explode, leaving a deadly legacy. These photos were taken over the past 12 years and are part of an ongoing book project. The book, Legacy of a Secret, was runner-up for the Leica European Publisher’s award
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Do I stay or do I go?
Tim Clayton decided to leave his staff photographer job at the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Multimedia Muse
We at the Muse don’t believe that what works for TV works for the Web. We don’t believe in the inclination to make multimedia bigger and more flashy, but rather smaller and more personal. More precise. With craft. We also don’t believe that posting amateurish imagery, no matter how cheap to obtain, is going to help publications to balance their books. Readers have a high degree of visually literacy; it’s the pictures that are going to sell a story. If you agree, and if your hard-earned project isn’t getting the play you think it deserves, don’t allow it to go under-noticed. Fight the power. Stick it to The Man. Send it to the Muse
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Sony A900 Field Review
The Sony A900 is a very serious undertaking for that company, and is a camera to be reckoned with. Sony plays to win, and it becomes a dominant force in virtually every segment of the consumer and professional electronics industry that it chooses to participate in. (One of their only failures was with Betamax, but they then transformed that format into a professional product and went on to dominate the broadcast industry with it for the past 20 years.) So, as we look at the A900, think of it not just as a new high-end DSLR, but also as Sony’s stake in the ground – claiming their intention to become a major player in the DSLR marketplace.
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Building Trust (and No Fear Of Heights) Key To Gaining Access
After spending three quarters on the A-ring catwalk at the Georgia Dome, I received nearly 30 e-mails from readers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking how I got photos of their beloved Falcons from overhead. Some wanted them for Christmas presents, some just wanted to know how I did it. Well most if not all of you know I was standing on a catwalk. Quite a few of you have navigated catwalks for basketball, setting up remotes, et cetera. Standing about 200 feet over the field of play for four hours is slightly different, however, and requires additional precautions.
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'Just Improvise': Covering the Montecito and L.A. – Area Wildfires
Basically wherever you’re told to leave, you go, wherever the line of traffic or people are going, you go the opposite way. It’s kind of an eerie, almost lonely feeling as your passing by people and they’re screaming “wrong way buddy!!!” and I’m saying “I know, I know, I’m nuts to be doing this but I’m press”. Then you get to another police checkpoint, flash the press pass, and the cop gives you that “I ain’t responsible for you” lecture. After that, you’re basically free to do go wherever you want.
