We worry about the weight America’s young people are putting on, but nobody worries about their DSLRs. Come on, folks, these cameras have a serious weight problem too.
Link: Nuts & Bolts: Some Heavy Thoughts – The Digital Journalist
We worry about the weight America’s young people are putting on, but nobody worries about their DSLRs. Come on, folks, these cameras have a serious weight problem too.
Link: Nuts & Bolts: Some Heavy Thoughts – The Digital Journalist
Whether you shoot with the Canon 7D, 5D, Nikon or anything else, HD-DSLRs are now taking over a large segment of the videojournalism and motion picture markets. All are not really made to shoot video, but with various adapters and add-ons you can make it work and get results not obtainable in the past.
Link: Real-World Shooting With the Canon 7D: Making the Switch to HD-DSLR – The Digital Journalist
What was missing from this reportage—both still and moving—was the opportunity for Haitians to tell their own stories. One blogger stated on Internet site Newspaper Death Watch, “When Diane Sawyer arrived on the scene she got to practice her O-Level French but, apart from that, there was nothing she said that could not have been said better, more concisely, more urgently, by anybody whose house had been reduced to splinters and rubble and whose family members were buried under it all.”
Link: Why Not Images of Haiti — By Haitians? – The Digital Journalist
You’ve mentioned in several podcasts and a few blogs that you test all your lenses to determine where they perform best. How do you go about doing your testing?
You gotta know
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/canon-eos-1d-mark-iv-review/
eyecurious is a blog written by Marc Feustel about photography and all thing related. My background is in Japanese photography, but eyecurious travels to as many photographic territories as possible through exhibition and book reviews, photographer interviews, random thoughts and a few experiments.
Link: eyecurious
This week showcases work from Rosalind Solomon’s book, Chapalingas, which Vince Aletti describes as “the first comprehensive overview of Rosalind Solomon’s work… a moving record of a 30-year journey of discovery by a photographer whose commitment to her own flinty, humanist vision places her, as Ingrid Sischy writes in the introduction, among an ‘endangered species.’ Organized poetically, Solomon’s book embraces her subjects with unusual warmth—a combination of candor, curiosity, concern, and almost helpless yearning.”
american society of media photographers new york chapter blog with guest editor Savannah Spirit.
What happens when photographers cannot sell images anymore ? What do they do if magazines do not pay for their coverage? Well, they turn around and start selling to other photographers. Not images, but workshops.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Photojournalism’s boutiques
I keep receiving those anonymous tips (three so far) about a new Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.2 lens: Nikon are working on an autofocus upgrade of the classic 50mm f/1.2. It is still rather far from production however the optical formula is very similar to the Ai
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2010/02/06/rumor-nikkor-af-s-50mm-f1-2.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NikonRumors+%28NikonRumors.com%29
Kathryn Cook (b.1979) is a freelance photographer represented by Agence VU’ and Prospekt Fotografi in Italy. Kathryn grew up in New Mexico and studied Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven
New York City-based photographer Alex Brown recently discovered that a pair of Glaswegian artists, Craig Little and Blake Whitehead, known as Littlewhitehead, had “appropriated” an image he made of a young boy in a Darth Vader mask sitting in a diner booth.
Link: PDNPulse: Sculptors Plagiarize Image; What Should Photographer Do Next?
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon McCullins autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour‘ in Dublin and couldn’t put it down. It’s an unflinching account of his life. I really had no idea about the man at all (indeed might be due a re-read). Truly gripping a life like his defies fiction you really couldn’t make up the reality. A lot of the book does deal with his combat experiences but he also deals with the changing face of journalism and his own demise along with that of the newspapers in Britain during the tumultuous 1980’s.
Photographers Chris Hondros, Timothy Fadek and Willie Davis will share images they shot in the first week after the Haitian earthquake and discuss press coverage of the disaster during a live chat hosted by BagNewsNotes, the politics and photography blog, this Sunday from 3 to 4:30pm EST.
[slidepress gallery=’rogerballen_boardingroom’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Roger Ballen Boarding House play this essay “It is difficult to expla…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/02/roger-ballen-boarding-house/
Gerry McCarthy has been doing some prep work for Vancouver that he has come up with all on his own, including gaff taping large storage bags of ice to his crotch.