A hard-fought career as a military photographer brought Stacy Pearsall honors. A medical discharge made her confront a more challenging battle for herself and fellow veterans.
The FBI has launched an investigation into the beating death of a man by sheriff’s deputies in Kern County, California. Two cellphones that contained video evidence at one point no longer con…
Canipre, a Canadian company that helps the entertainment industry send legal threats to people alleged to have infringed copyright, has been caught using several infringing images on its website. I…
Over the last few days I’ve seen numerous questions about what data, exactly, is backward-compatible when opening a Photoshop PSD file in an older version of the app. The Photoshop team has w…
Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Google Unveils Cutting Edge Photography Tools to Make Your Photos Look Better and the World A More Beautiful Looking Place
Google unveiled significant new innovation in the world of online photography this morning, continuing their rapid development pace on Google+. All in, Google+ pushed out 41 new features today.
In a new oral history of the Iraq war, Peter van Agtmael discusses what attracted him to photographing the American-led invasion — his roots, ambitions, experiences and reflections.
by Jonathan Blaustein I sat in the back row for orientation, flanked by two friends. The large conference room at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism was buzzing. To my left sat David Emitt Adams, an Arizona photographer who prints on oil drum lids. To
Let’s review: On Monday Paul Hansen, a veteran photojournalist and two-time newspaper photographer of the year award winner was accused of “faking” his World Press Photo award winning image. An analysis by independent experts recruited by the World Press
The Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award, named for a photographer killed in Libya, is given to photographers who not only make strong images but commit to their subjects and colleagues.
Link: Image Singulières 2013: Ad Van Denderen | Le Journal de la Photographie
With this new project “So blue, so blue” in color this time ,the method is the same even though it is very different aesthetically Ad Van Denderen spent 5 years travelling around the Mediterean to show the absurdity of globalisation.
Link: Margaret Sullivan to look into Times photo policy following questionable Photoshop comment | Poynter.
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has promised to examine Times photo policies after T Magazine editor Deborah Needleman made an offhand reference about wanting to Photoshop a model on the magazine’s cover.
Lines are being crossed in all directions, with the government seizing journalists’ phone records, and Bloomberg reporters monitoring the actions of their clients.
“We have reviewed the RAW image, as supplied by World Press Photo, and the resulting published JPEG image. It is clear that the published photo was retouched with respect to both global and local color and tone. Beyond this, however, we find no evidence of significant photo manipulation or compositing. Furthermore, the analysis purporting photo manipulation is deeply flawed, as described briefly below.”
Daniel Hernández-Salazar’s life has been shaped by his quest — as an artist and Guatemalan — to see justice for the crimes committed during that country’s civil war. Last week, his vigil ended.
Even top news photographers have their work digitally enhanced these days. Mounting competition in the market for news images is forcing photo-journalists to make their output as dramatic as possible. But where are the limits of cosmetic improvement?
The strategy hasn’t worked too well for Beyoncé; news outlets, frustrated about the limitations on their photographers, have used the original offending photos, from Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show, in lieu of the provided photos. The Manchester Evening News ran one of the unwanted photos with a review of her concerts in the city.
All over the country, rest areas are losing the fight to commercial alternatives: drive-thrus at every exit and mega-sized travel centers offering car washes, wi-fi, grilled paninis and bladder-busting sized fountain drinks. Louisiana has closed 24 of its