Author: Trent

  • Three Months Of Silence In Bilal Hussein Case

    March 9 marks three months since a judge in Baghdad placed a gag order on the hearing of Bilal Hussein, the Associated Press photojournalist accused of being a security threat.

    Check it out here.

  • State of the Art: Friday Photos in the News

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    The day after Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama in the Ohio and Texas primaries, the New York Times ran this image, by Win McNamee for Getty Images, showing Obama talking to reporters on his campaign plane. The Times unfortunately cropped out the best part, which is the reporter at right holding a bunch of cell phones or tape recorders or something. Gawker happily showed the entire image. What in the world is she doing?

    Check it out here.

  • Winners List | Sixty-Fifth Pictures of the Year International Competition

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    Check it out here.

  • Smart Image Resizer — Shifting Pixel

    One of the challenges that comes with maintaining a graphic-intensive website like Shifting Pixel is finding a way to get high quality images throughout the site with as little effort as possible. To tackle this, I developed the Smart Image Resizer and have been using it around the site for the past few months. I couldn’t be happier.
    The major advantage of this script is that it allows me to resize and crop any image on my website without touching the actual image or writing any code. I upload each image once at a high enough resolution and can then reuse it at any size I want, anywhere I want. It doesn’t matter if the images are in a post, on a page, or in a template file–it just works. All of the magic is done through the query string part of the URL in the src attribute of the img tag.

    Check it out here. Via John Nack.

  • Complete Digital Photography » Photoshop Automator Actions v3.6

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    The Photoshop Action Pack provides 87 Actions (86 in the CS2 version, and 85 for CS) that allow you to control a tremendous number of Photoshop’s functions. In addition, the Action Pack includes special filter operations that let you sort images based on various criteria including EXIF and IPTC tags, color mode, size, orientation and aspect ratio. With the Photoshop Action Pack, you can execute complex batch operations that are impossible with Photoshop’s own internal Actions. In addition to filtering by file properties, you can create branching logic for more complex functionality. While Adobe Bridge provides a simple interface for launching batch processes, it limits you to only operating on the files within a single folder. Automator has no such limitations, and provides are more ways to launch a batch process.

    Because Automator can control much more than just Photoshop, you can automate entire photography and graphics production pipelines. For example, you can use Automator and the Photoshop Action Pack to batch process the manipulation of your images and then automatically upload the results to a server, or archive them to a CD or DVD.

    Check it out here. Via John Nack.

  • China:Photojournalist Got Fired for a “Political Incident”

    Wang Lili, a 52-year old photojournalist, received his pink slip from Tongzhou Newsletter where he had been working more than 3 years and the only reason for the dismissal was an incomprehensible “political incident” that in one of his picture reports for the local People’s Congress, the warden of Beijing Tongzhou District “bowed the head with closed eyes, presenting an off-colored image”, Southern Metropolis Weekly Reported last Friday. The problem photo taken by Wang was concluded as a picture report which biased its readers against the government, exerting extremely bad political influence.

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  • Esko Männikkö wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008

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    Esko Männikkö (b. 1959, Finland) documents the lives of those who inhabit the periphery. Initially a hunter, his passion developed from this to shooting photographs in the early 1980s.

    Männikkö became widely known for The Female Pike, which featured bachelors living isolated lives in the Finnish countryside. In this series, as well as his work Mexas (1999), produced on the border between Mexico and Texas, each photograph is instilled with the peculiarities and unique characteristics of the individuals.

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  • Scripps Howard Foundation: What's New

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    Matt McClain of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver receives $10,000 and a trophy for his portfolio of complex and memorable images, which chronicled the story of a town devastated by a tornado and helped make Colorado’s energy rush real to readers.

    Finalists: Sam Dean, The Roanoke (Va.) Times, and John Moore, Getty Images

    Check it out here.

  • Wooster Collective: Patrick Winfield At OPEN SPACE in Beacon, NY Tomorrow Night

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    If you’ve been following the Wooster website, then you know we’re big fans of the wonderful Polariod mosaics of Patrick Winfield.

    Check it out here.

  • Teaching Online Journalism » The elements of storytelling

    I spent the past two days playing host to Ken Speake, a master storyteller and a longtime journalist. We put him in front of as many students as we could without completely wearing him down to a nub, and it might have been the most valuable 50 minutes each of those students has spent all year.

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  • A Photo Editor – Seamus Murphy

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    Sometimes I get tired of talking about marketing and business because the reality is I really just like looking at pictures and I get a real buzz out of sending photographers off to take pictures and wish I didn’t have to deal with any of the other shit and I know photographers just want to take pictures so I thought I’d take this opportunity to say that if you want to be like Seamus Murphy and work hard to develop your craft then go do it.

    Check it out here.

  • Behance Inspiration: Japanese Moleskine – Josh Spear

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    The Saint Petersburg, Russia design team Indeepop demonstrates their expertise in character design with their Japanese Moleskine Project. The team presents a unique set of characters, meticulously depicted from cover to cover in a traditional Moleskine notebook.

    Check it out here.

  • R.I.P. User-Generated Content: 2005-2008? – PDNPulse

    What went wrong? Could it be that audiences simply don’t enjoy sifting through heaps of un-vetted garbage? The Newsweek story declares “the expert is back,” then quotes an expert saying the following: “People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information.”

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  • NOTIFBUTWHEN #2: This Is Gonna Be One More Night (I Miss)

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    Craig Doty 12×12 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Craig also is a young photographer churning out great ideas for some time now. This new work features portraits of unsettling moments of frustration, awkwardness, and vulnerability.

    Check it out here.

  • John Nack on Adobe: No, seriously, you *do* suck at Photoshop…

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    Heh–in the vein of sites like AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, now we’ve got the Photoshop Disasters blog–chock full of image manipulation mishaps

    Check it out here.

  • Sports Shooter Academy V kicks off in Southern California

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    Themed “See Better Shoot Better,” the five-day hands-on shooting workshop offers participants an opportunity to make pictures in the field at a variety of sporting events and on location for portrait sessions and lighting classes.

    “I’m here to see different and look for new ways to shoot the sports I’m familiar with,” participant and Washington-based SportsShooter.com member Richard McEnery said during participant introductions.

    Check it out here.

  • PictPicture.com / Published Pictures

    PictPicture.com is the place to find and share the best pictures online. Click on the up and down arrow to rank the pictures! This is your community; by uploading your content and voting on your favorites, you influence the latest trend in photography.

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  • World Press Photo = Dutch TV Game Show?

    Two of the photographers who participated in the 2008 World Press Photo judging, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, have written a fascinating article for foto8 about the judging process.

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  • Brothers Under the Skin

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    A man stands in a darkened room, shirtless, his body all muscles and ink. His left shoulder is adorned with an arc of onion domes and an icon. On his lower torso is a Russian Orthodox priest. His tattoos mark him as a former zek, or prisoner, and an “honest thief.”

    The man is one of the subjects of Canadian photographer Donald Weber, who has immersed himself in the world of Russian and Ukrainian ex-cons, visiting them at their homes and documenting their elaborate tattoos.

    “What intrigues me about the zeks is that their life is very rich in nuance and consciously layered with meaning,” Weber said in a recent telephone interview from Kiev. “Russian criminals take their tattooing very seriously, because whatever’s on their body defines who they are or what they are going to be. They can never escape it.

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  • Paper's redesign includes why-are-you-smiling? photo feature

    “Re-inventing anything is tough,” notes Andrew Analore, editor of the Freeport (Ill.) Journal-Standard. But the GateHouse paper’s staff has tried. Page one includes a picture of a local person who is asked why he or she is smiling. “One idea we borrowed, a Sunday ‘Brag Book’ of reader-submitted baby photos, has proved to be a huge hit with readers,” writes Analore.
    Posted at 4:25:31 PM

    Check it out here. Via Romenesko