I love the craft of creating. That something can affect so many people is a great feeling of accomplishment. It happens so quickly that we tend to take it for granted and it’s really very special. 40 million people will see these pictures in the Geographic, that’s terrifying.
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Why bother buying a pricey selective focus or tilt-shift lens when you can just “work on it later in Photoshop”? Well hotshot, it ain’t always that easy and you know it. That is, it wasn’t always that easy until now.
If you like offering the “beautiful blur” look in your portraits but don’t have the time or the knowhow to “work on it later in Photoshop,” onOne Software unveiled their new Focal Point 1.0 plug-in today at the WPPI 2008 show in Las Vegas.
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In her short life Alexandra Boulat photographed the innocent victims, especially the women, caught up in conflict on the front lines of the world.
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Reuters and MediaStorm collaborated to create Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War.
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“It is absolutely DISGUSTING that the L.A. Times had the audacity to put a picture of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr.’s open casket on the front page. Shame on you, Times. He deserved more respect.”
So wrote Tracy Goldych, of Brea, about the main photo on Wednesday’s Page A1. Other readers left similar criticisms about the large photo.
I met Ofer Wolberger in the Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2003. It was all too apparent at the time that he was headed for great things, while I was headed for Crown Heights and a cabinet full of ramen. Ofer was shooting lustrous and large 4×5 and 8×10 imagery at the time, and had few commercial clients.
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DataRescue has released PhotoRescue 3.1.3 Build 10708 for Mac and Windows, a new version of the company’s powerful photo recovery and memory card maintenance application.
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EPUK, the mailing list and website for professional editorial photographers, has launched Copyright Action, a website community and educational resource that wants to become the intellectual property equivalent of Crimestoppers.
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By the end of the year, a trio of promising juniors had emerged- Kevin Davis, Sean LIggett and Chris Dillard- and Coach Nelson, who worked tirelessly to teach not only basketball skills but life lessons as well, had the Titans pointed in the right direction for next year.
Throughout the entire campaign, I was quite impressed with the way Lamont Nelson went about his business as coach and mentor. Nelson, who drove in daily from Bolingbrook for practices and games, was tough but fair and always put the team before any one individual.
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The Death of Russian photographer Dmitry Chebotayev.
In my nightmares, the helicopters still come out of a dark sky, two black spots barely visible against the backdrop of night.
Their swirling blades grow louder until they finally touch down on earth and fall silent. They look like giant steel bugs from another planet, bulbous robots with eyes of glass coming to take away their prey: seven human beings who woke one day in Iraq not knowing they would be dead by noon.
Six American soldiers. One Russian photographer.
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Painter Mike Davis has a new show of work opening at San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery tomorrow.
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When photography is your business, you need to know more than about shutter speed or aperture. Consider this quick checklist of 10 important legal issues before you next click your shutter.
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I see tremendous energy going in to breaking new ground in gathering news, telling stories, and creating community. What I don’t see is an equivalent amount of innovation occurring around the business models that will support journalism going forward. What I tend to see, over and over, is people experimenting wildly on the content side, and then falling back on the same old business model: Selling ads.
This model is dying.
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Some Canadian Global news reporter thinks the bottom of a sledding hill is a great place to do his broadcast. He was wrong.
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I spoke with Robert Whitman to see what his thinking was.”My approach was to shoot it with old cameras. We shot mostly with an old Brownie Hawkeye, and found a lab in Colorado that still processes C22 film”.
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