Author: Trent
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The Curse of Digital Photography
The Curse of Digital Photography by John Shingleton | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo The Curse of Digital Photography by John Shingleton – His website is HERE I am convinced that digital photography is ruining the travel experience for many travellers. They are blindly snapping away and not taking in what they are looking at.…
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Emerging Talent – Samuel Wilson
Link: The most difficult part is being okay with not knowing what is going to happen in the future. Maybe I’ll be able to find people who want my work, maybe I’ll have to wash dishes and live in my car, but as long as I can keep meeting new people and listening to their…
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David Hobby – Conversation
David Hobby – Conversation Conversation with David Hobby David Alan Harvey: You are a force in the social media/blog world. You have hit it very big with Strobist. We both started out as newspaper photographers. David… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2013/08/david-hobby-conversation/ I don’t see it is a job so as much as a religion. And…
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A New Benchmark in Optical Performance, Design and Mechanical Excellence
Link: The 50 mm. APO Summicron ASPH is a new benchmark in optical performance, design and mechanical excellence. But beyond that, it is the first indication of a significant change in paradigm moving forward.
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India with the Leica Monochrom and 50 APO Summicron by Lee Sungsoo
India with the Leica Monochrom and 50 APO Summicron by Lee Sungsoo | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo India with the Leica Monochrom and 50 APO Summicron by Lee Sungsoo Hi , Steve My name is Sung Soo Lee from South Korea.(Just moved in California 3weeks ago) I am a big fan of SteveHuffPhoto.com. Unlike…
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» Tumblr restores ‘If iPhoneographers Replaced Photojournalists’ post JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/23/tumblr-restores-if-iphoneographers-replaced-photojournalists-post/ Fujifilm Japan’s recently-announced Instax Mini 90 is an instant film camera that wears the same retro styling seen in some of the company’s other cameras like the X-M1. It uses Instax film, Fuji’s instant film that measures 2.13 x 3.4 inches — about the size of a credit card.
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David Simonton Of This Place
Link: North Carolina has been my home and subject since I moved from New Jersey to Raleigh in 1989. I have now photographed in 365 cities, towns and small rural communities across the state.
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Moises Saman in Cairo
Moises Saman in Cairo via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/moises-saman-in-cairo “In the two years since I moved here, every milestone of the revolution has been marred by an outburst of street violence,” he says. “However, the events of the past week are unprecedented: rocks have been replaced by sniper bullets, city mosques transformed into front line…
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My content is your content
Link: This quick edit of images from Syria below was done in a few minutes using a free web app called Storify. All I had to do was type in keywords into a search that covers Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, G+ and many more, select the images I liked and publish it on my blog.…
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Kim Jong-un’s ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’
Kim Jong-un’s ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’ Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports. via The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html Hyon’s band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including “Footsteps of Soldiers,” “I Love…
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Marcus Bleasdale’s Zero Hour: From photography to the world of video games
Link: Marcus Bleasdale is always thinking about new ways to highlight the grim living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and our own complicity in its people’s troubles. In 2009, he co-produced a comic book based on his images, and now he’s working with a team of games developers to create an immersive…
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Alma wins Web-Documentary award at Visa pour l’Image
Link: Alma, a Tale of Violence, a web-documentary by photographer Miquel Dewever Plana and writer Isabelle Fougère, has won the 2013 Visa d’Or France 24 / RFI Web Documentary Award
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Sony’s Clip-On Cameras Give Smartphones the Photos They Deserve
Sony’s Clip-On Cameras Give Smartphones the Photos They Deserve The line between dedicated camera and smartphone camera just got a bit more blurred. Sony’s new QX camera series look less like traditional shooters and more like the lenses you would attach to them. In fact, they attach to smartphones. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2013/09/sony-qx-series-camera/ While the cameras…
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The Optimist: A profile of Aidan Sullivan
Link: As a director of photography, if you can convince the photographers you work with that you are 100 percent behind them in everything, they will give you 100 percent. I’ve always stuck up for my photographers – whether it was at the Sunday Times or Getty Images. You have to have that relationship with…
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The “Shame of Memory” Haunts a War Photographer
The “Shame of Memory” Haunts a War Photographer With the looming crisis in Syria as backdrop, conflict photographers and photo editors of multiple generations debate the value and power of the imagery that emerges from war. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/the-shame-of-memory-haunting-war-photographers/ A 13th-century church is a fitting location for the exhibition of war photographs by Don…
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Interview: Asim Rafiqui’s “Bagram: The Other Guantanamo”
Link: The project features portraits and interviews with family members of the nearly 40 Pakistani men still detained at the Bagram base in Afghanistan and is presented in a highly organized and internally referenced website that links the families, prisoners and their stories
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News Flash Fellow Photographers You’ve Already Sold Your Soul To Facebook
Link: Let me be blunt. If you’ve been using Facebook to this point everything you fear has already been realized… too little, too late
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Tailoring to Client Needs and Showcasing a Brand: The Photographer Perspective
Want to Land More Gigs? These Portfolio Tips May Do the Trick – PhotoShelter Blog Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks, based in L.A., are commercial photographers. They are also happily married. Though they maintain separate websites for their personal and editorial work, as a team they manage Brinson Banks—their joint portfolio and company website.…