When most photographers set up shop, they focus on becoming better photographers, naturally. Few photographers, however, develop even the most basic skills they need to run their own business. They hope to hang on long enough to be discovered before they sink under their own lack of knowledge. That’s like building an intricate jeweled house atop quicksand.
The reporter, Maziar Bahari, who holds both Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was picked up Sunday at his mother’s home in Tehran by government security officials who seized videotapes and a laptop computer. Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group, estimated that 26 journalists had been arrested in Iran since the presidential election on June 12.
When I was growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area my father always said, “You can’t beat fun at the ol’ ballpark.” He was right. I grew up a San Francisco Giants fan and I have capitalized my love for baseball into a career as a sports photographer, specializing in shooting the Grand Old Game.
The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.”
That focus control is one of the reasons the camera has improved so much. Autofocus lenses don’t have to be sharp front to back. This means that there is less of a compromise between flexibility and quality, and the lens can be designed to be sharper. And any focusing, auto or manual, means that you can achieve a shallower depth of field for differential focus and blurred backgrounds. That the iPhone also has touch-to-focus control is just gravy.
Here is a close inspection of the project Leica and Hermes recently unveiled with a look inside the box and all the accessories that go with the obviously impressive m8.
Don’t let the term “summer intern” mislead you — if it brings to mind a novice in need of basic schooling. The three young photographers who are working at The Times this summer have already accumulated a lot of professional experience. And it shows in their work.
Work by Jenn Ackerman, Jessica Ebelhar, Justin Maxon.
Your front page photo (June 18) shows Trejon Fite’s mother and friend weeping over the tragedy they are experiencing. Could someone explain why you continually print cruel pictures of weeping loved ones? Are such photos really news?
Among other adventures, Google’s motives were called into question after it scanned in millions of books without permission, prompting the Authors Guild and publishers to file a class-action suit. The proposed $125 million settlement will lead to a book registry financed by Google and a huge online archive of mostly obscure books, searched and served up by Google.
So is that a big win for a culture that increasingly reads on screen — or a land grab of America’s most precious intellectual property?
Both images signify the emergence of a new type of wartime reporting. Today, a 40-second clip shot on a tiny camera or cell phone can go online in minutes, and be influencing worldwide opinion within hours. The more significant it is, the more people will share it, and the faster it will spread.
An experimental firmware modification for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II that adds audio meters, fixed audio gain, live audio monitoring via the A/V jack and more is now available to try in public beta form.