• Leica M9 – Field Test and Hands-on Review – DigitalRev.com

    World’s first video of a field test of the Leica M9(http://bit.ly/Leic-M9), the first full frame rangefinder with a groundbreaking Kodak sensor and improveme…

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    Chang W. Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, aspires to a 1.000 average. “In the playoffs, you have to succeed 10 times out of 10,” said Mr. Lee, 42, who has covered all of the New York Yankees’ postseason games since 1996.

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    So, how do we as artists balance our pursuit of perfection with our drive to produce? The answer is, quite simply, functional perfectionism.

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    The NPPA Student Clip Contest will be re-launching on Monday, November 15, with simplified online entry, multimedia categories, and live winners’ galleries on NPPA.org.

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    In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret things] I am a bit careful with books). If I want to see an image, I go and open the book, and then… there it is. It’s almost a bit like as if it was newly revealed, and I can look at it again.

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    ‘Going to bed at 2 or 3am was the norm. It was exhausting but incredibly refreshing…’

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  • Timeless Stories in 1970s New York

    Paul McDonough’s photographs immediately evoke the New York of the 1970s. But a second glance, and a third, reveal so much more.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/timeless-stories-in-1970s-new-york/

    Forget the ‘fros and the saffron robes and the 60-cent taxi meter drop; the Horn & Hardart, the Doubleday and the showroom on Broadway with Chevelles for sale.

    Paul McDonough’s “New York City, 1973-1978” summons all these memories instantly for anyone old enough to recall when city buses were green. But the pictures are really not about memory.

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    the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself.

    You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to market yourself and make sure the business is making money. People graduating today find themselves swimming in a vast pool of freelancers, and a good photo education is one that teaches photographers a lot more than how to shoot pictures.

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    the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself.

    You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to market yourself and make sure the business is making money. People graduating today find themselves swimming in a vast pool of freelancers, and a good photo education is one that teaches photographers a lot more than how to shoot pictures.

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    On November 1st, Army Pfc. Andrew N. Meari of Plainfield, Illinois, died in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.
    Today, Maeri’s remains were escorted through the streets of Plainfield and Joliet.

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    Due to technical difficulties with the audio recording, there will be no screencast for Sports Action. However, the problem was fixed and the Sports Feature, Spot News and General News screencasts from Monday were posted.

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  • DxOMark tests the Nikon D7000 – Nikon Rumors

    DxOMark released their test results of the Nikon D7000. The overall score of the D7000 is 80, which puts it on second place in the APS-C category after the Pentax K-5 with 82 scores: From all measured sensors (full frame, medium format), the D7000 is currently ranked #10. Pentax K-5 is $400 more expensive than […]

    via Nikon Rumors: https://nikonrumors.com/2010/11/08/dxomark-tests-the-nikon-d7000.aspx/

    Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new Nikon Professional Services (NPS) global website today, November 9, 2010. The new NPS Global site will serve as one of the measures in which Nikon reinforces its services for professional photographers.

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  • Invader Bombs Tinseltown

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    Mary Shannon Johnstone is doing the hard work. She’s taking a look a something none of us want to see, so if the subject of euthanized animals is more than you can visually tolerate, then best not continue.

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    new podcast! from photographer alexander bartsch, jamaican vinyl styles mon!

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  • Bonding With Subjects in Harm’s Way

    The divide between journalist and subject can often blur in the combat theater, especially when the subject is under fire. Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters explains.

    via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/bonding-with-subjects-in-harms-way/

    But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan policeman patrolling with the Marines accidentally hit a power line and exploded near the sergeant, briefly knocking him unconscious during an intense firefight and giving him a concussion.

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    Generally shot in highly stylized black and white, the Diary, which began in 2009, follows Olivier Zahm through a fantasyland populated by the artists, socialites, models and celebrities who regularly appear in his magazine — enthusiastically abiding by its ethos of creative and sexual freedom, as evinced by many nude portraits of female lovers.

    “Even in the bedroom I have my camera, I sleep with my camera, I have lunch with my camera,” he said. “I go to dinner with my camera and I’m recording my experience.”

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    the finalists:
    Sohrab Hura
    Julian Roeder
    Rasel Chowdhury
    Patryk Karbowski
    Nicolas Wormull
    Nathanael Turner
    Lucia Herrero
    Jiri Makovec
    Jenn Ackerman
    Rob Hornstra
    David Walter Banks
    Linda Forsell
    Irina Rozovsky
    Yvonne Venegas
    Cedric Van Turtleboom
    Bepi Ghiotti
    Arthur Bondar
    Anastasia Taylor-Lind
    Alfonso Moral

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    It has now been nearly ten months since the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble and claiming over 300,000 lives. In the time since, Haiti’s government, the United Nations, and many other aid agencies have struggled just to keep the population healthy and fed as it tries get back on its feet. Recent weeks have seen an outbreak of cholera, which has killed more than 300 people. The cholera strain is not native to Haiti, and reportedly matches strains found in South Asia, placing suspicion on U.N. personnel from that area who were stationed nearby. Some 1.3 million people are still crammed into thousands of makeshift camps dotted around the capital, leaving them vulnerable to both disease outbreaks and the elements – of particular concern as Tropical Storm Tomas now approaches, and may grow to Hurricane strength by landfall on Friday. (42 photos total)

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    The important thing to remember, is that if you want to obtain the highest possible quality inkjet prints, you need to experiment beyond just setting the printer to the standard settings.

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    Norway is my favorite country on Earth, but life near a warm sea with fresh octopus hanging on racks has its perks as well

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    The Keynotes at PhotoPlus are always highy anticipated events and today’s presentation by Albert Watson, in conversation with Laurie Kratochvil, was right up there as being one of the best. 

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