Congratulations to the winners of The 6th Annual Altpick Awards!
We want to acknowledge and thank all of the entrants, voters, judges and sponsors for their participation in this year’s show. This year’s submissions were amazing and it has been reported that the voting was challenging. See the winners and all of the entries for yourself!
The Canon EOS 7D – The Camera We Want to Love By Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou Note: To see all future reviews please note this blog is no longer active, please visit us over at oop…
via Darwin Wiggett: http://darwinwiggett.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-canon-7d/
Again to our eye the 7D files look soft and mushy compared to the snap in the other two files. Of course we expected the flagship Mark III to outperform the mid-priced 7D but we did not expect the entry level Rebel to better the 7D especially when the Rebel’s 12MP files were interpolated to 18MP!
Yes, it’s a bad time for aspiring photojournalists. But it’s not the worst of times. And David Alan Harvey is among those who are trying to make it better.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/showcase-76/?src=tw
On the other hand, it’s a wonderful time to be a young photographer. Multimedia storytelling allows you to be the author of your own stories. You can publish your work on your own Web site and on sites like Burn, Visura and 100 Eyes, for the world to see.
With summer internships and graduation looming six months away, assembling a portfolio is the essential piece in applying for internships and jobs. But it’s hard. Photographers constantly wrack their brains looking through bodies of work. Which images should they use? In what order? What does this image convey? What does the portfolio, as a cohesive unit, say about the photographer as an artist and a photojournalist?
The countdown begins The manual usually arrived about a month before the camera will be in the hands of the eager (that’d be me). Happy reading! http://w
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2009/11/1d-mark-iv-manual-online/
Getty Images will award all five of its $20,000 Grants for Editorial Photography at once next year
Link: PDNPulse: New Getty Images Grants Schedule: How to Apply
[slidepress gallery=’dhirajsingh_mynameisdechen’] Hover over the image for navigation controls Dhiraj Singh My Name is Dechen play multimedia I was in Manali for the Foundry Work…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/11/dhiraj-singh-my-name-is-dechen/
I was in Manali for the Foundry Workshop. We had to find a subject for a multimedia photoessay as part of the workshop. Walking around the streets of Manali I was looking for something that I could connect to. And then after two days of aimless wandering around, I stumbled upon this monastery. There I saw this window which had scribbling and doodles etched with perhaps lipstick on it.
Hi and welcome to the new luceoimages.com. We created this site in large part to help grow our photographic community and to encourage participation from those of you that have been frequenting the old Luceo site, our collective blogs and personal portfolios over the last two years. This update is the next step in that trajectory, something that’s a little more user-friendly, a little more centralized, and full of new stuff to explore. So get yourself a cup of coffee and make yourself at home. Click away and comment away. We’d love to hear from you.
Link: Luceo Images
To get a better idea of these patterns, CPOY took the in-camera data for all 636 of the images entered in sports action and crunched it according to aperture, shutter speed and focal length (we added camera make and model just for fun).
Bieke Depoorter was born in Kortrijk and graduated from KASK in 2009 with a series on Russia, which won the Magnum Expression Award and the Photo Academy Award for GUP magazine. Of this series, Oe Menia, Depoorter writes: ‘For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room
Over the course of two days with the S2, I took about 700 pictures. The first day was half in studio and half outside. The following day was all outside. I shot mostly handheld as well as on a tripod, during the day and at night. I did my best to test out as many different shooting scenarios as possible to get a feel for the capabilities and limits of the system.
Link: David Farkas Photography Blog: Leica S2 Review: Test Shooting in Germany
Evelyn Hofer searched for an “inside value, some interior respect” in the people she photographed. She has died, at the age of 87.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/parting-3/
Evelyn Hofer, 87, was a flawless technician and a much sought-after teacher, who searched for an “inside value, some interior respect” in the people she photographed.
The details are sketchy at that point, but the word on the street is that Leica will be coming up with a new Leica M design. It will be a film camera (not sure whether M7 or MP). Also, not clear if this will be a limited edition (probably not) or a regula
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2009/11/10/a-new-leica-m-design-coming-soon.aspx/
Photographer Chris Livingston was hit by a car Monday while bicycle riding on a trail near Cleaveland Road, and he died from his injuries after being transported to the Orlando Regional Medical Center, according to police.
Link: Photographer Chris Livingston Dies After Bike Hit By Car
Photographer Eugene Tanner covered his first natural disaster in American Samoa.
Link: Not A Typical Morning
Ms. Hofer was a photographer whose portraits imparted a grave serenity to her subjects and who collaborated on a renowned series of travel books in the 1950s and 1960s.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/arts/design/10hofer.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Those who choose life as transients often face prejudice and risk death, but a group of self-proclaimed hobos embrace these hardships as they travel the country on one of its last free rides: the freight train.
Link: Philip Scott Andrews: Steel Frontier at Pangea Photo Blog
A report published this week by the American Society of Media Photographers examines the terms of service (TOS) for Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter.
Link: PDNPulse: Warning: Facebook and MySpace Strip Photo Copyright Data
Related posts: Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson from the 1950s Henri Cartier Bresson – Just Plain Love (documentary) Leica Camera interview from the Stockholm Photo Fair Rankin interview on S-Magazine (video) Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson (vide
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2009/11/10/interview-with-leica-s2-product-manager-video.aspx/