Now I know why Chase Jarvis has been grinning like an idiot for the last few months. He had, like, five pre-production, gaffer-tape-disguised Nikon D90 cameras to play with. And Mr. “Ironclad NDA” couldn’t say a peep about it.
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Author: Trent
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Strobist: Nikon D90 Kickass Video, from You-Know-Who
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Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe – NYTimes.com
“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” Malia’s mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. “It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.”
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Taliban Gain New Foothold in Afghan City – NYTimes.com
The Taliban bomber calmly parked a white fuel tanker near the prison gates of this city one evening in June, then jumped down from the cab and let out a laugh. Prison guards fired on the bomber as he ran off, but they missed, instead killing the son of a local shopkeeper, Muhammad Daoud, who watched the scene unfold from across the street.
Seconds later, the Taliban fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the tanker, setting off an explosion that killed the prison guards, destroyed nearby buildings, and opened a breach in the prison walls as wide as a highway. Nearly 900 prisoners escaped, 350 of them members of the Taliban, in one of the worst security lapses in Afghanistan in the six years since the United States intervention here.
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A documentary looks at prize-winning photographer Eddie Adams – Los Angeles Times
“An Unlikely Weapon” closely examines the life of Adams, who died in 2004 at age 71, having covered 13 wars, working for the Associated Press, Time and Parade, while enjoying private portrait sessions with such leaders and luminaries as Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II. He photographed the iconic image of Clint Eastwood in 1992 for his “Unforgiven” movie poster and in the ’70s shot nude pictorials for Penthouse.
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Behance Inspiration: Justin Melnick’s “Arm Me” – Josh Spear, Trendspotting
Justin Melnick is an avid photographer, digital artist, and has spent time oversees in the Middle East. All of these influences have come together in his latest project, titled Arm Me, Melnick imagines — quite vividly — what Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Pucci, and Chanel would add to standard ammunition.
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Short documentary celebrates plastic camera Lomography – lens culture photography weblog
The cult of Lomo plastic cameras extends from stoner amateurs to hyper-serious art photographers. Here’s a short video for and about these crazy enthusiasts.
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Canon EOS 50D: First Look – – PopPhoto
The large files don’t hinder the burst rate, either. Try 6.3 frames per second at up to 90 Large Fine JPEGs or 16 RAW files if you slip today’s fastest UDMA card into the CF slot. As faster cards come, expect this number to rise.
Shoot RAW? You’ll like new settings that let you choose from a large, medium, or small RAW file, expanding on the sRAW concept available in some current Canon models. And never fear, you can still set any of these for simultaeous RAW+JPEG capture.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon EOS 50D weighs in at 15.06 million image pixels, 6.3 fps
Canon has announced a new digital SLR that puts a 15.06 million image pixel CMOS sensor, DIGIC IV processor and 3 inch (diagonal), 920,000 dot rear LCD into the body of an EOS 40D, then mixes in a variety of image enhancement and minor functionality changes. Called the EOS 50D, the main attraction of the evolutionary model will be its new sensor, which is promised to offer noticeably better quality at upper ISO settings alongside its 50% bump in the number of pixels. The EOS 50D is to ship in early October 2008 at an expected street price of US$1399 in the U.S.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Photo by Daily Mail staffer helps overturn taekwondo decision
A photo by Daily Mail photographer Dave Shopland, depicting a crucial moment in Olympic taekwondo that was missed by judges scoring the quarter-final bout, was the impetus for reversing a judging error that had cost a British athlete the win.
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Wandering Light: Belgium beer
Surrounded with some of my closest friends and wonderful photographers, we debated about what made us tick. What drives us? What makes us successful? What is the most important part about photography?
Do you want to know what the secret to photography is? I mean really want to know?
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Sean O'Hagan meets photographer Josef Koudelka who captured the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague
Forty years on from the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, we meet Josef Koudelka, the man who captured the most startling images of that dramatic week, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists of our time
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The Times (and I) Have Designs on Ji Lee – Shoot The Blog
Weekend re-discovery: the designer and clearly awesome and brilliant Ji Lee. Here’s how it happened: I was reading The Times. Then I saw this clever image above, illustrating the article “The American Wanderer, in All His Stripes”, about Mr. Obama’s transitory background.
I googled Mr. Lee and realized I had written about him previously, not knowing about his editorial work. Looks like he’s had quite the partnership with this paper; when I went back and looked at these illustrations, I remembered almost all of them.
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An Uncertain Death Toll In Georgia-Russia War – washingtonpost.com
As they fled, rumors rose like smoke and clouded the air: Cossack, Ossetian and Chechen “irregulars” had razed Georgian villages, committed mass rapes, rounded up all the young people and marched them off to a concentration camp. Women vowed to drink poison rather than be captured alive.
On the other side, Ossetians and Russians said Georgian shells had leveled Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and targeted Ossetian villages for destruction, killing thousands.
Exaggerated claims from both governments fed the panic.
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Fall Fashion 2008 – Why Juergen Teller Thinks Fashion Photography Isn't Sexy — New York Magazine
Juergen Teller, the photographer, has spent much of this summer Tuesday editing a shoot commissioned by W Magazine about the art world in New York. The star of the shoot is the 47-year-old actress Tilda Swinton, who has been dressed up as everyone from an artist to a gallerist to an insecure collector mid–Botox procedure. She’s accompanied by artists like Rachel Feinstein and collectors like Renée Rockefeller. The whole thing looks fairly dark; the lighting is not gentle or flattering, and if any of the subjects has a pore, or a sagging breast, well, there it is.
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My Long War – Dexter Filkins – NYTimes.com
I pulled on my running shoes and stepped into the sweltering streets. It was a Thursday in July 2003, twilight, and well over 100 degrees. I was feeling a little reckless. If this ended badly, the only thing anyone would remember was how stupid I was.
We had set up the New York Times office on Abu Nawas Street. We lived and worked there: an Ottoman-style house with a gated yard and a veranda on the second floor that looked out on a boulevard that tracked the eastern bank of the Tigris River. In those first days, we didn’t fortify the place; no razor wire or blast walls, no watchtowers or machine guns mounted on the roof. Cars motored past our front yard on their way to the Jumhuriya Bridge a couple of miles up the road.
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New Agency on the Block: Wonderful Machine – Shoot The Blog
I heard today from the very cool Lou Mora about a new kind of photo agency that seems almost like a collective. I’m psyched about the name– Wonderful Machine (!), and I’m psyched about the very simple interface. Photo Editors- you know when you need a photographer in Missoula on one day’s notice?
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Tribune photographer handcuffed at crash scene sues Oakland police
An Oakland Tribune photographer filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against the city of Oakland, saying police illegally barred him from taking pictures at a freeway crash scene and handcuffed him when he persisted.
Ray Chavez, 44, said officers had interfered with his right as a member of the press to cover news, specifically a car crash and the emergency response time.
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China: The Unforgotten Past
Liu Heung Sheng (or HS as he is widely known) is a Pulitzer-prize winner who came to photography by a circuitous route, but one which has helped him produce the new book China: Portrait of a Country (Taschen), a remarkable study of the rich but virtually unknown history of Chinese photography since 1949.
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Henri Cartier – Bresson
“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.”
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