When the Clinch Game finally comes around in the World Series it means there are more meetings, more thought put into your coverage and generally speaking, things turn a bit more serious than in the earlier games.
The main topic: How to cover the jubo.
Link: The Clinch Game: It’s All About The Jubo « Sports Shooter Academy
A Nikon gathering in New York recently proved to be a fantastic opportunity to test out the high ISO capabilities of the upcoming Nikon D3S digital SLR, as well as try the new AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II for the first time
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: A first look at Nikon D3S high ISO image quality, plus the new 70-200mm f/2.8
Klavdij Sluban won the European Publishers Award for Photography 2009, for his book Transsibériades.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110501015.html?wprss=rss_world
The U.N. decision was another sign of the Taliban’s ability to use violence against civilians to curtail humanitarian and development work in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Congratulations to this year’s Critical Mass Top 50! in alphabetical order: Jenn Ackerman Jody Ake Leslie Alsheimer Jane Fulton Alt Carl …
Link: http://photolucidapdx.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-drumroll-please.html
Congratulations to this year’s Critical Mass Top 50!
Toyota U.S.A. has removed a photo feature from one of its Web sites and apologized to Flickr photographers whose images appeared on the site without their permission.
Link: PDNPulse: Toyota Apologizes For Using Flickr Photos In SUV Ad
Common Ground is a visual commentary on life in our community. Every 12 weeks a new Virginian-Pilot photographer will begin his or her series of photographs based on a topic of their choosing.
The current series, Greetings from Ocean View is a photo column aimed at exploring life in “OV,” a Norfolk neighborhood full of pride yet seemingly always teetering on the edge of change. Photojournalist Preston Gannaway hopes to tell some of the stories that make this community so unique
Link: Common Ground | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
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Newspapers are certainly in a state of flux, I’m not sure if they’re on their way out quite yet, but things are definitely not looking good. The Telegraaf Media Groep from the Netherlands has something new they want to try with newspapers. It’s a vertical newspaper, which unlike traditional newspapers you turn the page from bottom to top and vice versa.
Past and present ruminations about what is and isn’t a photograph have been a source of frustration for me. For one, people can draw whatever lines they wish to determine the point at which m…
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It is therefore, with some relief that an artist like Azzarella comes along using photo-manipulation as the tactic and purpose for his work.
Taking it’s name from a darkroom/photo processing technique, the Dodge & Burn Blog is dedicated to DIVERSITY in PHOTOGRAPHY. My posts reflect PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY as I would have loved to have learned it and CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY as I see and value it.
Dodge & Burn photography blog will highlight what is often “dodged” from the art scene and “burned” in art history: photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander and Aleutian heritage, women photographers and works of photography about these and other indigenous communities of the world.
Link: Dodge & Burn Blog – Diversity in Photography – History of Photography
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They say there are no second acts in Hollywood but there clearly are in the world of digital cameras. Less than six months after releasing the much-hyped but often criticized PEN EP-1 digital camera, Olympus has followed up that model with the EP-2 ($1099) which features an articulating electronic viewfinder, a new autofocus tracking feature, and a black paint job.
Link: Olympus Announces EP-2 Camera with Electronic Viewfinder and Autofocus Tracking Feature – PDN
Fixed! Firmware Version 1.1.0 incorporates the following fixes. Corrects a phenomenon that in images captured by continuous shooting, and under certain con
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Leica has placed an 18-megapixel full-frame CCD sensor designed by Kodak into a classic M-series rangefinder body. So what’s not to like?
Link: Leica M9
The main attraction at the Canon show was of course the 1DmkIV; I managed to have a pretty good look at the camera’s video functions and in the next day or two should have more for you.
Link: New gear and new friends at the Canon Expo « DSLR News Shooter
Paul Floyd Blake’s portrait of 13-year-old swimmer Rosie Bancroft wins Taylor Wessing prize at National Portrait Gallery
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/04/taylor-wessing-photography-prize
An image of youthful confidence and determination that was taken using Victorian photographic technology has been named winner of one the UK’s leading portraiture prizes.
Every photographer who enters a contest hopes his or her images are recognized. I can relate. Over the years, my photographs have won and lost in contests.
I have helped edit my husband, Randy Olson’s portfolio when he won magazine Photographer of the Year and another year for newspapers. On the other side of the fence, last year I judged both Pictures of the Year International as well as the College Photographer of the Year contests. With this year’s judging coming up soon, I wanted to give a bit of insight into the process.
Link: The Visual Student » Photo Contest Insights: Melissa Farlow
Francesco Giusti lives and works in Rome, Italy. He recently won 1st Prize in the Viewbook Photostory competition for his documentary series, SAPE. Of this series, he says, ‘In Congo-Brazzaville SAPE is an old passion that has never stopped, not even during war years. At the arrival of the French in Congo at the beginning of 9oo, the myth of elegance was born among young people working for the settlers. In 1922, Andre Grenard Matsoua, well-known for his resistance to the settlers, was the first Congolese to come back from Paris well dressed like a true French “Monsieur”, and greatly admired by all his fellow citizens. Today’s members of the SAPE consider themselves as artists and are respected and admired by the whole community.
This story was introduced to me as a child, watching the men in my family go in and out of prison as I grew up. I noticed there was very little support for ex-felons as they tried to re-enter society at that time.
Link: Joseph Rodriguez – Reentry in Los Angeles
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