News Corp photographer Brett Costello was robbed of $40,000 in camera gear at a cafe in Rio a few days ago. Then yesterday, while covering an event at the
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/08/07/robbed-olympics-photographer-spots-thief-posing-venue/
“Looking at their faces, or knowing their names, in no way is an affirmation of their lives or their deeds, but only an acknowledgment of what unfortunately exists.”
The IOC has a lot to worry about this Olympics: making sure the athletes are safe, making sure the media is safe, making sure the press knows they are NOT
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/08/05/ioc-bans-press-sharing-gifs-olympics-internet-amused/
…the use of Olympic Material transformed into graphic animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others, is expressly prohibited.
The opening ceremony hasn’t even kicked off yet, and olympic photographers are already having a hard time in Rio. Case in point: News Corp photographer
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/08/05/olympic-photographer-robbed-rio-40k-gear-stolen-10-seconds/
As he explained to The Courier Mail, a young woman came up to him in a coffee shop asking for help, and in the 10 seconds it took him to converse with her, his camera bag was snatched, taken to a nearby getaway car, and spirited away to God knows where
The guide, which originally compared correspondents to spies, now lauds “independent reporting,” but leaves unchanged other sections scholarly critics called inaccurate.
But the Defense Department’s overhaul of its Law of War Manual left unchanged other disputed sections that scholarly critics have called inaccurate and dangerous — including rules for weighing when it is lawful to fire on a military target even though civilians are present.
New technology to block photography at concerts hints at an alarming future for smartphones.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/what-if-cameras-stopped-telling-the-truth/491150/
New technology to block photography at concerts hints at an alarming future for smartphones.
With live video of shootings, social media platforms must grapple with their own power.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/face-it-facebook-youre-in-the-news-business/2016/07/10/cc53cd70-451a-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html
“There’s clearly an editorial process in which Silicon Valley companies are deciding what to put back up,” often in response to protests from viewers, said Zeynep Tufekci of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. This sometimes happens after users have flagged an item as offensive, resulting in its being removed in the first place. She thinks that is what happened with Reynolds’s video. Facebook has called it a technical glitch.
Social media firms’ response to violent live videos, like the killing of Dallas policemen and the aftermath of a fatal traffic stop in Minnesota, shows the pitfalls of introducing a new feature without the means to police it.
via WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-challenge-for-social-media-policing-violent-live-videos-1468199203
Inconsistency in handling clips like the fatal shooting of Dallas officers highlights monitoring difficulties
Footage vanished on command, not by a tech gremlin
Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/08/castile_shooting_police_deletion/
On Thursday, Facebook said a “technical glitch” caused the recording to be pulled from its social network. However, Reynolds claimed officers seized her phone and took over her Facebook account to delete the evidence.
One of the things that really spoils live concerts these days is that half the people there don’t seem to want to watch it live at all – they’d rather watch it through their phone screen, holding the device up and blocking the view of those behind them. T
via 9to5Mac: http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/28/apple-patent-infra-red-block-photos/
The patent describes the camera detecting an infrared signal and interpreting the data. One signal could be used to disable both still photography and video recording.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
Anytime there was a new Speaker of the House, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb would make a formal request to privatize the operation or otherwise shift control and expand converge.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/how-c-span-thwarted-the-gops-move-to-block-a-house-protest/418266/
Under rules agreed to long ago, the majority party essentially controls the cameras used by C-SPAN. The practice is to turn them off once a session is gaveled to an end.
The FAA’s long-awaited regulations for commercial drone use have finally arrived. Finalized and posted yesterday, the “Part 107 Rule” explains how old you
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/06/22/faa-released-official-rules-commercial-drone-use/
Finalized and posted yesterday, the “Part 107 Rule” explains how old you have to be, what kind of certification you need, and how you’re allowed to fly your drone if you’re using it for commercial purposes.
After last year’s drama in the European Parliament about “freedom of panorama”, the EU is consulting on how the law should change.
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/you-can-tell-europe-to-help-protect-street-photography-6d4b6c4f3442#.tffrw97ol
After last year’s drama in the European Parliament about “freedom of panorama”, the EU is consulting on how the law should change.
According to Torrent Freak, Axl Rose is attempting to rid the Internet of a photo which has gone on to inspire a slew of “fat Axl” memes.
The GUNS N’ ROSES singer issued a DMCA takedown notice t…
via BLABBERMOUTH.NET: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/axl-rose-wants-picture-of-him-looking-bloated-removed-from-internet/
“We can gladly confirm that all official / accredited photographers at [Axl Rose] shows sign-off on ‘Photography Permission’ contracts / ‘Photographic Release’ agreements which A. specify and limit the manner in which the photos can be exploited and B. transfer copyright ownership in such photos to [Axl Rose’s] relevant service company,” the company told TorrentFreak in a statement.
It’s the most inward form of photography writing to critique another writer’s thoughts, but reading a recent piece by the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones on the work of White House photographer Pet…
via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/schmaltz-and-secrecy-the-obama-legacy/
As it was with Regan, so it is now with Obama. If Jones wants a true picture of these last two terms then by all means he is welcome to include some of Souza’s official schmaltz, but if he wants that chronicle to have a grain of truth in it Jones will need to look beyond the photographs on Whitehouse’s Instagram feed. He’ll need to look for photographs which for the most part are still waiting to be taken, or daresay I say it, constructed. Photographs which wait to be given voice in the cells of Fort Leavenworth, amongst the server racks of the NSA’s massive data centers, and in the remote mountains of Waziristan
For the first time, the Secret Service now has authority over which journalists are issued credentials for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions
FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-face-recognition-app-end-public-anonymity-vkontakte
FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability
Instagram blocks or censors the search results of hundreds of hashtags. We have assembled a list of the banned tags, and it is both strange and hilarious.
The man, shot, had been agonizing on the ground, his face full of blood, with the commotion still going on around him. The photojournalist had been shooting all night, trying to make sense of the events as they were unfolding, trying to keep composure as
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/blaming-the-witness/
In this particular case, the claim is that dignity of the deceased is being degraded. But quite frankly, who in their right mind would think poorly of that person? In fact, it is more pity, pain, empathy that is felt.And a frustrated urge to help.
Imagine for a moment that you are on assignment somewhere and you hear the deafening sound of a fleet of fighter planes; they are coming in to attack that place in order to destroy everybody there. This threat looms day and night, without respite. Your stomach is tense with fear, but you walk on, preferably at night so that no one can see you. You try to reassure yourself — you are neither an attacker nor a member of the armed resistance. Your weapon, your reason for being in this place, is your desire to provide witness to what others cannot see. You are a messenger.