• CPOY

    The College Photographer of the Year Competition was founded by Cliff and Vi Edom in 1945. The University of Missouri administers the contest with continuing support from its co-sponsor, Nikon Inc., whose generosity allows CPOY to offer free entry to college students worldwide.

    Link: https://cpoy.org

    Entry is free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. and promises to easier than ever now that the photographer friendly online entry system CPOY debuted last year has been fine-tuned.

    The deadline to enter is 11:59 pm Central Time, Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011. But please help yourself and us, by entering early and preventing a last minute logjam on the CPOY servers.

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    Gannett Blog’s Jim Hopkins notes that US Presswire contracts with scores of freelance sports photographers, many of whom work on spec, with no promise of getting paid, and “that allows it to sell images at bargain-basement prices. Gannett has been turning to more low-cost content syndicates over the past year.”

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    For ten years he photographed, in black and white and in a square format, the sudden appearance of Western clothing in Sichuan Province, a style instantly adopted by the population as an escape from the uniforms formerly imposed by the Maoist regime

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    This new Mount A12 – which is designed to take Leica M–mount lenses – may well be the most interesting and promising development in the Ricoh GXR system to date. In fact – and in particular – the GXR with Mount A12 may currently be, overall, one of the best and most versatile medium–sensor, compact camera options on the market for photographers who work seriously using zone focus

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    On September 1 Steve McCurry was awarded with the Leica Hall of Fame Award 2011. During this year’s Art Masters in Switzerland the Director of Leica Gallery Salzburg, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, awarded Steve McCurry with a specially engraved Leica M9-P.  We also had the chance to speak with Steve McCurry about his life and experience as one of the most renowned photographers.

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     Given that other brands are continually increasing their megapixel size, will Leica be following the same trend?

     No, no more megapixels. It is enough we think. Future development will be concentrating on shooting rates, lower noise, higher Dynamic Range and higher ISO abilities.

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  • LightBox | Time

    Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

    via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/

    As a Danish transplant living in New York, photographer Peter Funch began creating a series of panoramic, composite images on the streets of his adopted city in 2006. The result is his project Babel Tales Redux, now on display at the V1 Gallery in New York. The 40 photographs represent a five-year meditation on human behavior, coincidence, repetition and the interstitial area between fiction and reality.

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    First up is  The Big City, a show opening in Ludwigsburg, Germany on 23rd October at Kunstverein Ludwigsburg. The solo show, my first in Germany, will feature a combination of past work and installations as well as some new work shot on the streets of Berlin, Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg.

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    If you couldn’t make it to his live presentation in St. Louis or if you just said to yourself, “What the heck is SEO?” (we just cringed by the way), then check out the slideshow below for an excellent introduction to and review of SEO for photographers – tips and tricks for getting your website found by Google.

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    I recently sat down with Todd Bigelow, a freelance photojournalist based in Southern California. I wanted to talk to him about his approach to photo projects. Bigelow is best-known for his long term project on immigration and the border between the United States and Mexico.

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    Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.  These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.

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    The Mobile Photo Awards were founded to promote and harness the global phenomenon of mobile, or cell- phone, photography and art. The awards are committed to presenting the art-form in galleries and exhibits and are designed to celebrate and bring more attention to the creatives working in the medium.

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  • Nikon 1 test results from DxOMark are out – Nikon Rumors

    DxOMark results are always controversial, but here we go – the first Nikon 1 tests are out. I could not do a comparison with the latest mirrorless cameras because they do not have test data yet. Here are 3 quick Nikon 1 cameras comparisons: Nikon 1 J1 vs. Nikon 1 V1 vs. Nikon P7000: Nikon 1 V1 […]

    via Nikon Rumors: https://nikonrumors.com/2011/09/28/nikon-1-test-results-from-dxomark-are-out.aspx/

    DxOMark results are always controversial, but here we go – the first Nikon 1 tests are out

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    Alex Schneideman is a photographer living in London. He has been visiting Taroudant for fifteen years and will continue to monitor the ‘tone’ of the city as the Arab Spring matures and achieves its many objectives.

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    The Committee to Protect Journalists recently published its 2011 Impunity Index, which ranks the perceived danger of the world’s nations based on the number of unsolved journalist murders. After the report came out, we were not surprised to find many that PhotoShelter members had photographed in these places. And we wanted to know, did they risk their lives to be there? Surprisingly, not everyone said ‘yes’, and many were quick to draw attention to the more severe danger faced by local journalists. Read below to see our photographers’ stories firsthand, in order of “most dangerous” to “least dangerous” countries.

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  • The EOS 1D X Sensor Demystified…

    What’s in a sensor? [ISW] has given a nice and concise breakdown of the technology inside the new full frame sensor for the EOS 1D X. Below is a direct quote o

    via Canon Rumors Buyers Guide: https://www.canonrumors.com/eos-1d-x-sensor-broken-down/

    [ISW] has given a nice and concise breakdown of the technology inside the new full frame sensor for the EOS 1D X. Below is a direct quote of the breakdown.

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    When Magnum Photos’ members met last June, they voted to become the sole distributor of Tim Hetherington’s work – a decision that has since sparked intense debate and sometimes bitter critiscism in the photojournalism community. Olivier Laurent asks Hetherington’s former colleagues and friends what happened in the months following his death.

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    Moises Saman, Spain, 1974, Spain, is a very productive photojournalist based in New York City

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