Author: Trent

  • Photos You Can't Print in China – PDNPulse

    Newsweek’s “Countdown to Beijing” blog has this amazing piece of reporting about the tense business of editing photos at Chinese newspapers.

    Check it out here.

  • Martin Parr: Why Photojournalism Must "Get Modern"

    British photographer Martin Parr, whose work straddles documentary and fine art photography, argues that photojournalism “has to get modern” to regain the attention and support of mainstream magazines. In this month’s “State of the Art Report: Photojournalism Survival” (PDN August), Parr asserts, “You have to disguise things as entertainment, but still leave a message and some poignancy.” In a recent interview, we asked him to elaborate on his theory.

    Check it out here.

  • Teen needs 300 stitches after knife and battle-ax attack – Salt Lake Tribune

    Two men were booked into the Salt Lake County jail Tuesday on suspicion of aggravated assault after they allegedly attacked a teen with a knife and a four-edged medieval battle ax.
        The pair attacked the victim at his Kearns home around 4:30 a.m. after a text-messaging squabble over a woman, according to probable cause statement filed with the jail.

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  • Rob Galbraith DPI: Nikon D3 Buffer Memory Expansion Service announced

    Nikon has announced a service modification for the D3 that more than doubles the number of frames that can be shot in a single burst. The number of FX Format 14-bit Lossless Compressed NEFs, for example, jumps from 16 to 36, and most other file format options see a similar increase.

    Check it out here.

  • 2point8 » Street Photography’s Killing Me Softly, With Its Song (Part 1)

    Docu-photography’s greatest gift is to show the world as it is, but it’s also docu-photography’s greatest failing. Photographing on the street becomes the goal – and once that goal is reached (having the nerve to do it, with verve) the quality of the pictures somehow falls to the backburner.

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  • IOC Allows China To Limit Reporters' Access to Internet – washingtonpost.com

    The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese government acknowledged Wednesday that reporters covering the Olympics will be blocked from accessing Internet sites that Chinese authorities consider politically sensitive.

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  • B: It's about the process

    The choice to use a darkroom instead of printing digitally probably made things harder on myself. Instead of printing in the comfort of my own home I had to live out of my car for a week while spending my daylight hours immersed in pitch black. Also, I hadn’t much experience in a color darkroom. Up until last week I’d spent all of about 3 hours printing color. But I got up to speed quickly, and at the end of the week I was glad I’d chosen to make C-prints. The richness and separation of the colors was really spectacular. I think it would be very difficult to get similar prints from an ink jet printer.

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  • Times of London Photojournalist Dies in Zimbabwe

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    Richard Mills, a contract photographer for The Times of London who followed British troops to the front lines in Afghanistan, watched fighters train in Somalia, and documented suffering children in Zimbabwe, was found dead July 14.

    Check it out here.

  • Palestinians capture violence of Israeli occupation on video | World news | guardian.co.uk

    In a graphic and hard-hitting film Peter Beaumont speaks to Palestinians filming abuse from settlers and Israeli armed forces

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  • German Officials Dig Up Neo-Nazi Grave to Remove Swastika Flag | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 30.07.2008

    German officials said on Wednesday, July 30, that they had dug up a neo-Nazi’s grave to remove a swastika flag that had been draped over the coffin.
    The Nazi-style burial of Friedhelm Busse on Saturday in Passau in south-eastern Germany ended in violence at the cemetery and a mid-town rampage where neo-Nazis punched a Mongolian woman in the face.

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  • Beijing Olympic Predictions

    Sports Shooter asked members of this site that are going to the Olympic Games in Beijing, China for their predictions, insights and observations as they count down the days until the Opening Ceremony on 8-8-08. Below are the comments of those members that responded:

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  • MediaStorm: Common Ground by Scott Strazzante

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    On July 2, 2002, Jean and Harlow Cagwin watched as their home — the last remnant of their 118-acre cattle farm in Lockport, Illinois — was torn down clearing the way for a new housing development. Several years later, Ed and Amanda Grabenhofer and their four children moved into the new Willow Walk subdivision, their house just yards from where the Cagwin’s home once stood.

    Common Ground introduces us to the lives touched by this land, as photographer Scott Strazzante takes us on a visual journey exploring the differences and similarities of these two families while simultaneously asking us to look at what is common among us all.

    Check it out here.

  • PDNPulse – China Blocking Journalists' Net Access

    The Associated Press reports that journalists covering the Beijing Olympics have access only to a censored version of the Internet. According to the AP: “On Tuesday, sites such as Amnesty International or any search for a site with Tibet in the address could not be opened at the Main Press Center, which will house about 5,000 print journalists when the games open Aug. 8.”

    Check it out here.

  • The 10 Best Things About the New Adobe Lightroom 2.0

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    Adobe’s Lightroom 2.0, which launched today represents a major breakthrough in the field of digital photo processing. I’ve only just begun to play with the software today, but it is clear that Lightroom 2.0 will be my new imaging software of choice. Prior to using Lightroom 2.0 I did my photo processing using Adobe’s Bridge and Photoshop. Lightroom represents a significant leap forward in the power of processing digital photographs. I thought I’d write up a post documenting my 10 new favorite processing tools that Lightroom 2.0 brings to the table.

    Check it out here.

  • Shoot! Interview: Dan Saelinger Self-Promotes – Shoot The Blog

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    I received an introductory email from Dan Saelinger the other day (that’s him, above). Turns out he shot the cover of July’s Self-Promotion themed PDN, and was using some newly-inspired guerilla tactics to get himself out there; he sent me some promos and said some humorous things. And you know what– it worked! Saelinger turns out to be an incredibly affable guy, and was kind enough to share some knowledge about his journey through the wilds of this industry we call photo.

    Check it out here.

  • Adobe DNG Profiles and Profile Editor

    Till now both Camera Raw and Lightroom have provided a means for calibrating ones own camera, or for creating a custom look, but this has always been a tedious processes (aided by scripts, such as those by Thomas Fors), and so not many people bothered. Therefore, whereas some people choose their raw processing program for reasons of workflow, convenience, or features, others choose a particular program because they believed that the colour rendition that it produced was superior, or at least more to their liking.

    But – as they saying goes, that was then, and this is now.

    Check it out here.

  • DNG Profiles:Editor – Adobe Labs

    This page contains tutorials and documentation to help photographers get started with using the DNG Profile Editor.

    The DNG Profile Editor is a software program designed and implemented by Adobe. Its purpose is to enable photographers to edit camera profiles and it is being offered as a free download to the photographic community. Please note that while we welcome all photographers to try the DNG Profile Editor, this tool is intended for advanced users.

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  • Lightroom Journal: Lightroom 2 Now Available

    Lightroom 2 is now available on Adobe.com. We’ve been very pleased with all of the feedback during the public beta and we’re happy to provide the finished version.

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  • Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2

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    Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software, the photographer’s essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. With new enhancements such as dual-monitor support, radical advances in non-destructive localized image correction, and streamlined search capabilities, Lightroom 2 is a compelling upgrade that simplifies photography from shoot to finish. As Adobe’s first application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers with Intel processors and Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit operating systems, Lightroom 2 also provides improved memory performance for dealing with large scale images.

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  • Sarah Becking, 1972-2008

    This post has been slow in coming, because I don’t know what to say.

    Sarah Becking, one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, died on July 7th. She was a photographer in Columbia, and was working for the Sports Info department

    Check it out here.