Author: Trent

  • Can You Trust Autofocus with Your Digital Camera?

    I was testing the sharpness of a couple of Canon lenses the other day when I discovered something that blew me away.
    I got much sharper photos by manually focusing my lenses than if I used autofocus!

    Check it out here.

  • The story behind the Pulitzer picture | Reuters.com

    Reuters Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif tells how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Myanmar during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot.

    “Tipped off by protests against soaring fuel prices, I landed in Yangon on 23 September, 2007, with some old clothes, a Canon 5D camera, two fixed lenses and a laptop.

    Check it out here.

  • 2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

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    Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.

    Check it out here.

  • 2008 Pulitzer Prizes-BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, Works

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    Photo by Adrees Latif of Reuters. A wounded Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai, lay before a Burmese soldier yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar, as troops attacked protesters. Mr. Nagai later died. Published September 28, 2007.

    Check it out here.

  • Keeping His Eye on the Horizon (Line) – Sze Tsung Leong

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    THE soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red tiles roofs of Italy. But always the eye is drawn to the distinct line where sky meets earth.

    In Mr. Leong’s panoramic photographs of major cities and rural landscapes around the world, the horizon line consistently falls in the same place. So when his images are hung side by side — as 62 of them are now at the Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea — they create an extended landscape of ancient cities and modern metropolises, desert vistas and lush terrain.

    Check it out here.

  • Jury: Photogs Share Blame For Diana Death – PDNPulse

    A British jury has found that Princess Diana’s death in a car accident was the result of negligence on the part of the car’s driver and the paparazzi photographers who were chasing her.

    Check it out here.

  • New Website Celebrates 75 years of Nikkor Lenses

    Nikon celebrates the 75th Anniversary of its Nikkor lenses with a new global website: Nikkor.com. The new site showcases the best work from Nikon professionals across the globe through photographer profiles covering everything from weddings, sports, travel, photojournalism and more.

    Check it out here.

  • The Dauntless Spirit – Philip Jones Griffiths: 1936-2008

    Peter Howe:

    f you knew Wales, you knew Philip Jones Griffiths. To the end of his life he remained true to his Welshness, which defined him with a power that few environments exert. Both he and his birthplace are rife with contradictions. It is a breathtakingly beautiful land, and relentlessly bleak, a land of strong communities made up of fierce individualists, where physical poverty has produced spiritual richness. Philip’s personality reflected this duality. He was a cynical idealist; a serious man with a playful wit; his mind was analytical but his soul was passionate; profoundly moral he could be wickedly lascivious; he was opinionated but compassionate. The one area of his life that was without contradiction, and which dominated him to his last day, was his craft. He was without compromise, without hesitation and without deviation a photographer, one of the greatest photojournalists this profession has been proud to call its own.

    Check it out here.

  • A Good Day With No Hope – The Digital Journalist

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    by Carsten Snejbjerg

    Koba Kopaliani leaves the room. He closes the door quietly behind him and smokes a cigarette on the small balcony. Behind the door the family is gathered around the only meal of the day: potato soup and bread. Neither Koba nor his wife have jobs so they rely on what money they get from the government to support themselves and their eight children—right now that totals $17 per adult and $7 per child. For the majority of the people living in the city of Tskhaltubo, Georgia, this is the reality of life.

    I was in Tskhaltubo to do a story for the Danish NGO Cross Cultures Project Association

    Check it out here.

  • B: Lifeblood

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    During my last visit a few weeks ago to the Portland Art Museum I found myself captivated by this Eugene Goldbeck photograph. Perhaps it had been there before and I’d never noticed, or maybe it had been freshly circulated out of storage. In any case it held my attention for quite a while. There are 21,765 servicemen in the picture, each looking directly at the camera, and each face clearly visible. Not only were the logistics of such a theatrical shot unfathomable to me but the photo itself was very finely made, with beautiful tonality and clarity.

    Check it out here.

  • Man arrested with 3 human skulls

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    On where he got the human skulls, he claimed he got them from a cemetery, adding: “I did not kill anyone. I just got them from a burial ground. I swear, I did not kill them.”

    Check it out here.

  • redlights and redeyes: finding a lost marine

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    The camera allows us access to the lives of our community everyday – sometimes it’s the sidelines of a football game, other times it’s following a candidate around the country. Then there are the times we get to witness the worst day of someone’s life. I had that opportunity recently for The New York Times a few weeks ago when I met the Hall family and watched as they said goodbye to their son, brother, and Marine.

    Check it out here.

  • Contest season leaves an impression « Mastering Multimedia

    In the last month or so I have judged four multimedia contests. After watching a bushel newspaper-produced video, I began to see a lot of patterns in the productions. Unfortunately, not all of it was good.

    Check it out here.

  • In Search of a Lost Africa

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    Now, three decades later, I certainly couldn’t see what remained of our house. From the air, it was all bush and sea, like a set for some movie of Africa 100 years ago. My hands clenched into fists. For 23 years I hid in America, remaking myself into a nondescript black American woman. I polished up my American accent so that I sounded as if I were from New York. I dumped my Liberian passport, got a job as a journalist, covered the Florida presidential recount and the Sept. 11 attacks and even embedded with the Third Infantry Division to cover my country’s invasion of Iraq. And with each new accouterment of my ever-evolving image, I further shed Liberia.

    Until now.

    Check it out here.

  • Snapper stripped of top award – People's Daily Online

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    The Photojournalist Society of China (CPS) has stripped a photographer of a top award given for his picture of a vet vaccinating pigeons in front of Sophia Cathedral in Harbin, saying it was a fake, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Friday.

    Check it out here.

  • Not a Moment Without Comedy – Shoot The Blog

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    So our person-in-the-know this week is Åsk Wäppling. She is the Art Director (in addition to main muse and CEO) of Adland the commercial archive. So she looks at ads all day. In fact, she originally suggested a totally different ad campaign for this column, but couldn’t stop talking about this photographer Arthur Mebius; she wrote me back twice to sing his praises. So I decided to take a look at this fellow’s site, and I thought it was pretty fun. Here’s what Åsk says about him:

    Check it out here.

  • Alkaline Trio: "In Vain"

    Alkaline Trio have posted the first song from their upcoming Epic debut. The record is due out July 01, 2008 follows 2005’s Crimson.

    Check it out here.

  • Is Amit Agarwal a Photo Thief?

    Thomas Hawk:

    A few of my photos seem to be in Amit’s photostream as well.

    My response?

    Personally I could care less.

    My photos are routinely used without my permission all over the internet. I just don’t care.

    Check it out here.

  • Police raid Texas FLDS compound – ABC4.com

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    Police and state officials have been involved in a raid or a siege at the FLDS Church compound near El Dorado, Texas where polygamous followers of Warren Jeffs live.

    Several police and state agencies are involved in the raid which began Thursday night, including Texas child protection service workers. Witnesses say an armored personnel carrier vehicle is also involved.

    Check it out here.

  • Bra Boys – Trailer

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    “Bra Boys” is a film about the cultural evolution of the inner-Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth – the tattooed and much maligned surf community known as the Bra Boys. Central to the story is the true-life struggle of the Abberton brothers – Sunny, Koby, Jai and Dakota … one charged with murdering a Sydney standover man, another pursuing a professional surf career but charged as an accessory in his brother’s legal fight, another trying to hold the family together and a young brother whose inheritance is his siblings’ notoriety. The story is narrated by Academy Award-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe, and is told through the eyes of members of the Bra Boys.

    Check it out here.