Author: Trent
-
The Visual Student » Internship Q&A: The Virginian-Pilot
Link: Randall Greenwell is the Director of Photography at The Virginian-Pilot. Greenwell has been Director of Photography for almost two years.
-
Shooting China’s 60th anniversary parade with the 7D, 5DmkII and Nikon D700
Link: The challenge was to come up with something different with so many different Chinese and international media covering the event from every angle. After waiting half the previous night for a pass and then catching only 3 hours sleep in the press centre lobby, I got put on a stand with a hundred odd…
-
Momenta Workshops Channel on YouTube
MomentaWorkshops Witness the world with Momenta’s documentary workshops. Visit us at http://momentaworkshops.com. via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6BXtVzgak6ouA6evu2Rh7g Momenta is proud to announce the launch of our YouTube site featuring our workshop multimedia slideshows. Our first piece is online from our Project Uganda workshops. T photography of Eva Russo, Robb Quinn, Thom Feroah, Jamie Rose and Christian Bobst…
-
Intern Diaries: The Danville Advocate-Messenger
Link: Never have I loved being a photojournalist more, even while walking off the pain of smashing my knees into a propane tank as we hit the ground and rolling out of the basket as we tipped over, and never have I been more certain that this is what I want to do for the…
-
lenscratch: Jacob Pritchard
Link: Sunday is a day of rest, and that’s exact what Brooklyn photographer, Jacob Pritchard has been doing. But he’s been doing it on other people’s couches. After recieving a degree in journalism, Jacob worked at a number of newspapers in the West, including the Pulitzer Prize winning team at the Rocky Mountain News.
-
NPPA: Robert Capa, The Action Film?
Link: The tale begins in Paris in 1935, according to Variety, and will be a “snapshot of a torrid two-year romance with Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War.” According to Fortes’ novel, Taro and Capa, both refugees fleeing the Nazis, had the shared intention when they met of becoming photographers and that the outbreak…
-
Patrick Smith | His crash, my rise
Link: I mentioned it in recent previous post, but I wasn’t shooting very well for two weeks.
-
Cyberball Robot Player's Union Says Lockout Likely In 2073 Season
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/cyberball_robot_players?utm_source=onion_rss_daily “I am unable to detect any gratitude from owners of magnesium wide receivers and titanium running backs who continually execute, on command, motion-based operations with…
-
PDNPulse: ASMP New York's New Rallying Cry
Link: What’s even worse, it appears that the IOC is trying to argue with Giles that even using the *word* Olympics in his photostream is somehow some sort of violation.
-
PDNPulse: Detroit Photojournalist: Police Erased My Pictures
Link: The photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure. When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent.
-
Shooting video with the Nikon D3 | Nikon Rumors
Shooting video with the Nikon D3 – Nikon Rumors Nikon D3 can already shoot video. Stop motion video that is and the results are worth seeing. I wanted to publish this post before the Nikon D3s is released next week. Here is the explanation from Andrew Kornylak (blog): I’ve been doing this over the last…
-
A Reporter's Life: Morale/Are You Happy Now? – The Digital Journalist
Link: In a recent piece by David Carr in The New York Times, he details a nerve-wracking, agonizing management move, where everyone at a newspaper in New York’s Westchester County was made to reapply for their jobs. Some got rehired. Some didn’t. That is, they were fired in an around-the-bend manner. Obviously, for those let…
-
photo-eye | Magazine — Why Not
Link: My first reaction to Dutch photographer Otto Snoek’s new book, Why Not, was that Rotterdam was off my travel list. Even so, it’s immediately evident that Mr. Snoek is a master of urban street photography, and after further consideration, Rotterdam represents many contemporary urban centers that draw residents from all over the world. Snoek’s…
-
Thomas Boyd Photography
Link: Full-resolution photos taken with the D3S by photographers Bill Frakes, Vincent Munier and Shigeo Gomi have been posted for download
-
Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date
Link: “These are sick, sick individuals,” Ridell added. “God bless them for saving our industry.”
-
Massimo Vitali, Lucca, Italy – Feature Shoot
Link: Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. He moved to London after high school, where he studied Photography at the London College of Printing. In the early Sixties he started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. His series of Italian beach panoramas began…
-
photo-eye | Magazine — Shoot
Link: Shoot, Photography of the Moment is a compelling look at a wave of photographers who deliberately present seemingly offhand images in a fine art or editorial context, and thus strive to create “perfectly imperfect” images.
-
Showcase: Infernal Landscapes – Lens Blog
Showcase: Infernal Landscapes Lu Guang, a Chinese freelancer, has won this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project, “Pollution in China.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/showcase-65/ Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W.…
-
Chris Jordan – current work
Link: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like…
-
Held by the Taliban – A Five-Part Series by David Rohde
7 Months, 10 Days in Captivity (Published 2009) A Times reporter, David Rohde, and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in Pakistan. This is the first installment in a five-part series offering his account. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned…