Author: Trent

  • Sun shooters bag awards Edmonton News- Sun shooters bag awards

    Edmonton Sun photo editor Tom Braid couldn’t be prouder of his staff.

    “I’m just proud to be part of the team,” Braid said yesterday after Sun shooters walked off with an armload of hardware at the News Photographers Association of Canada’s second annual national pictures of the year awards in Vancouver.

    Jason Franson won first place in Feature/Enterprise category for his entry entitled “Swinging soldier.” Colleague Darryl Dyck placed second in the category with “Trees and skaters” and Tim Smith earned honourable mention for “Swimmer.”

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  • Detrick Wins Top Honors in Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest

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    Chris Detrick’s photograph of a Pepperdine University basketball player gouging the eyes of an opponent, won top honors in the Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest.

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  • John Nack on Adobe: New Photoshop scripting tutorials

    If you know some JavaScript and have thought of applying your skills to Photoshop automation, you might check out Trevor Morris’s Intro to Scripting Photoshop and follow-up practical example.

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  • Tension Over Sports Blogging – New York Times

    The dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over issues like how reporters cover teams, who owns the rights to photographs, audio and video that journalists gather at sports events, and whether someone who writes only blogs should be given access to the locker room.

    The explosion of new media, especially with regard to advertising income, has made competitors out of two traditional allies — news media and professional sports.

    At the heart of the issue, which people on both sides alternately describe as a commercial dispute and a First Amendment fight, is a simple question: Who owns sports coverage?

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  • The Papal visit | Blogs | Reuters.com

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    An interesting challenge is how to tell the story without including the subject in the photographs. It’s interesting because, by avoiding the obvious and familiar, sometimes a greater sense of the occasion, and the emotions involved,  can be conveyed.

    For example, take the current visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States.  Clearly the Pope was the centre of attention, and there are very good photographs of him that were taken and published in newspapers and on websites around the world. Photographs of him bring pleasure and comfort to millions.

     The fact that he is in the States is of interest too, and it is important to take photographs that locate him there. On the other hand we are familiar with photographs that show the Pope in person, and what strikes me when looking at the Reuters coverage of the current visit is just how much the passion, reverence and joy felt by so many, can be conveyed in photographs that don’t show him in at all.

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  • SportsShooter.com – Contest: 2007 Winners

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  • A Bee photographer's work garners more honors

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    Bryan Patrick picked up another Photographer of the Year trophy the first weekend in April, and a few days later The Bee’s front page reminded us why.

    Patrick’s photos from the Olympic torch relay and protests in San Francisco on April 9 stood out as they often do: for storytelling and technical excellence, but even more for showing the news as you would have seen it had you been on the scene.

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  • The Face: Robert Knoth | The Australian

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    DUTCH photographer Robert Knoth describes himself as a sissy, then laughs.

    If Knoth is a sissy, he is not the sort of sissy most of us would recognise. His travel resume is a catalogue of the bleakest, most dangerous places on earth: Afghanistan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, to name a few. It seems he is drawn back time and again to suchplaces to document the suffering of theforgotten.

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  • Findings – Hiroshi Watanabe « Eat The Darkness

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    I recently received Hiroshi Watanabe’s new book “Findings” in the mail. It’s been a while since a body of work has moved me and inspired me so much. Enough to at least write about it here, not as a review, but as a brief ramble to celebrate Watanabe’s vision and to hopefully inspire a few of you reading this to invest some time with his work.

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  • SATANIC IMPOSTOR

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    Man who poses as pastor to rob churches in police net
    By Vincent Ukpong Kalu

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  • Confession of a mermaid – Woman initiated into demonic circle by her lesbian lover

    “We had convenant. We caused evil wherever we go. I had four powers.There were hidden in my hand, heart, vagina and legs. I used to do evil. If I come to your house and cross my hands, something bad will happen. I used my heart for negative thoughts. Any evil thing I wish for comes through. I’ve destroyed so many men with my vagina. Any man who makes love to me must suffer. I still remember how I dealt with one man. He was good. He used to help me in school but he left me for another girl. I cried for him at night and the man died.

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  • How to make your video editing easier

    Here are some of the things I do to make my video edit easier

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  • More Canon 5d Mark II Rumors at CameraPorn

    it seems Canon’s German site posted some information for a short period of time, and though its in German, looks like 16 MP and due in June. We’ve been expecting an announcement around April 22nd or 24th from other rumors. More details as we get them. Check out the story and more screenshots here.

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  • 'NYT' Reveals Pentagon's 'Expert' Media Campaign

    A major article by David Barstow in the Sunday edition of The New York Times rips the veil off a Pentagon effort to promote its views, and those of the White House, via the press by the use of so-called “military experts,” usually retired officers.

    “To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as ‘military analysts’ whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world,” Barstow writes.

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  • Remain in Light / Photography Unbound

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    Remain in Light is a new print publication of photographs by contemporary photographers. The final selection of twenty photographs are printed on separate cards and presented unbound in a specially created slipcase with a small booklet of accompanying text. The final images are selected by co-editors Shane Lavalette (Boston, MA) and Karly Wildenhaus (Chicago, IL).

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  • Trade Secrets: A little help from my friends.

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    Photo by Jamie Squire / Getty Images

    Ryan Newman, driver of the #12 Alltel Dodge, celebrates in victory lane after winning the 50th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 17, 2008 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
    It is rare these days in the individualistic field of sports photography that photographers collaborate, rather than compete, to come up with exceptional images. While photographing this year’s Daytona 500, I was fortunate enough to come away with a truly magnificent image… with a little help from my friends.

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  • 3 New Prints from Andy Kehoe » Robot Walrus

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  • How Jessica Dimmock got to the Ninth Floor – Shoot The Blog

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    Jessica Dimmock has been a whirling dervish since graduating from the Photojournalism program at ICP in 2005. A project she embarked upon while still in school, The Ninth Floor became a three-year intense documentation of the lives of 20 to 30 heroin addicts who lived in a run-down apartment in a well-appointed building in a fancy Manhattan neighborhood.

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  • Wooster Collective: Invasion Map of Kathmandu

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    Space Invader’s latest invasion map of Kathmandu is now online and on sale on Invader’s website. All the benefits from the sales of this map will be given to charitable organizations who support the Tibetian cause.

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  • Is the Nikon D3x Coming Soon?

    Via Engadget, Crunchgear and DPReview… it seem some super code geniuses have dissected the just-released Nikon D3 firmware update and found some information that led them to believe that a 24.4 Megapixel camera, presumably the D3x is on the way.

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