The National Press Photographers Association has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring NPPA members a “Virtual Short Course” in an exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the first Webinar in the series is this Wednesday.
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A panel of distinguished judges has awarded The Denver Post team of Craig F. Walker, Meghan Lyden, and Tim Rasmussen the grand prize in Editor & Publisher’s 2009 Photos of the Year competition.
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To me a documentary photographer and a photojournalist are pretty much the same thing. If I have to make a distinction, I’m more a documentary photographer–I don’t think of myself as a photo-essayist in the sense that I always consider a magazine layout when I’m working. To be honest with you, I always try to think of the specific pictures. What’s important to me is to make strong, individual pictures.
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Homage to Abu Ghraib?
It may not be wise to question a photography project that was conceived of, and produced, in honour of the photographer’s father who was tortured in Stalinist labour camps. But, is not Anton …
via Prison Photography: https://prisonphotography.org/2009/10/26/homage-to-abu-ghraib/
It may not be wise to question a photography project that was conceived of, and produced, in honour of the photographer’s father who was tortured in Stalinist labour camps.
But, is not Anton Kratochvil’s Homage to Abu Ghraib obsolete?
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The Powershot G11, which started to ship in October, 2009, continues that trend, but it does so in a new environment. So, before looking at the G11 itself and how it compares to its predecessor the G10, let’s see where it fits into the current taxonomy of cameras.
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Advertising photographer Jeff Sedlik’s seminar, Strategic Estimating, was about how NOT to be a starving artist. And it boiled down to this: protect your copyright, negotiate strategically, communicate clearly, and get all of your agreements in writing.
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Baseball is the sports I grew up playing as a kid and a sport I
love to watch. But as a photographer it can be just as
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Georgian Spring – A Magnum Journal is a wonderful book for many reasons, one of them being the fact that it can serve as a good starting point for discussions of the nature of the beast, photojournalism’s imagery. Of course, it is a little bit unfair to use the book in such a way – shouldn’t I be talking about the topic of the book? But in this case, talking about the book almost inevitably involves talking about photojournalism itself.
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Adobe’s release of Lightroom 3 as a public beta is not the first time that the company has used this technique, nor is it likely to be the last. It has turned out to be a very canny marketing strategy as well as a means of getting wide-ranging user input into a new product’s features and robustness.
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As a professional photographer, you know that there is no substitute for top quality digital files. With the Mamiya DM22 and DM28, you can be confident that premium-quality 22 and 28 megapixel sensors, and true 16 bit/channel Raw files will result in richly detailed images that leave a vibrant and lasting impression for both you and your clients.
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A Drone Strike and Dwindling Hope (Published 2009)
The area of Pakistan where David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghan colleagues were held for months was frequently hit by missiles fired from American drones.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/world/asia/21hostage.html
TWO deafening explosions shook the walls of the compound where the Taliban held us hostage. My guards and I dived to the floor as chunks of dirt hurtled through the window.
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I haven’t done scientific testing. But basically I’d wager that you can expect a 2 stop improvement in terms of low light performance/image quality with the 1D MKIV relative to the 5D MKII.
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The emphasis in 2009 is on photography from Iran and the Arab world. But, as always, the works on display are rich with diversity — geographically, culturally, stylistically — and offer a unique opportunity to discover a wide range of contemporary and vintage photography never seen before in one location.
So, we’re pleased to present here a preview selection of 167 images to whet your appetite.
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Having arrived at the Chimi Lakhang monastery in Bumthang, I was glad to find two young novices lighting candle lamps, and asked them to pose in a certain way to take advantage of the light coming through the rather grimy window. It took quite a while to have them just right where I wanted, but as I was giving hand signals for minor adjustments in the novices’ stance, a bunch of European tourists had entered the room. Without a glance at my direction, or asking for permission, or even a smile of acknowledgment, out came a motley collection of cameras, ranging from DSLRs to compacts, and a paparazzi frenzy ensued with hundreds of flashes bathing the room in an ethereal light.
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A couple months ago, I was approached by blog reader and founder of a company called Trade Secret Cards, Zeke Kamm. He had a business proposition: He’d come to Seattle, pick my brain about various different pictures in my portfolio and then he’d put together a pack of 22 glossy, high-end cards that illustrate “how to” re-create each picture. Soup to nuts. Diagrams, equipment used, what I was thinking, etc. He sells ’em and gives us cut.
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In the glory days of film recording, every one knew that Kodachrome had a different color pallet than Ektachrome or Agfachrome and you had to choose your film according to the required color reproduction. And when you needed a fine grained film with high resolution, you accepted a limited dynamic range. Now we want everything in one camera: accurate colors, high dynamic range, high resolution, high speed and every possible combination without losing anything.
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