The new $2 app lets you refocus images after capturing them: PetaPixel writes, Unlike Lytro’s light field camera, which uses innovative new technology that actually captures entire scenes sharply i…
Surreptitious street photographers like quiet cameras. Certain other photographers like loud ones—I remember how surprised I was to learn that a fashion-photographer acquaintance didn’t like the then-new Nikon F4 when it came out, because the shutter was
Link: reThinking photography | Thoughts of a Bohemian
We are on the footsteps of a new photography landscape that is or will be affecting everyone who intends to draw substantial revenue operating a camera. While we can see and feel the changes, how to adapt is not evident. Mostly because we are trying to apply or adapt old models into new rules and it just doesn’t fit.
Link: Image Authentication and Forensics | Fourandsix Technologies – Blog – On the Wisdom of the Crowd
In short, crowd-sourced photo and video footage will no doubt be a valuable tool to deploy in many future investigations, but it is a tool to be approached with an abundance of caution. The potential for a distortion of the truth is very real, and the consequences can be serious and heartbreaking
In the midst of the national struggle for civil rights, James Karales, born into an immigrant Greek family in Ohio, turned his camera on the individuals fighting for rights and respect.
A little over a year ago, five friends and I had lunch together. All photographers, we discussed our journeys, the difficulties of working in isolation, and talked about a project that would not only connect us, but connect our images. And so, Six Shoote
Aptina announced a new 1″ 14MP sensor (AR1411HS) that can output full 14MP resolution at 80fps and is capable of shooting 1080p at 120 fps and 4k video at 60 fps. The official press release (attached below) describes a “strong interest from several top ca
Judging is underway today right now in NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism contest in the competitions final two categories for this year, Still Photojournalism and Photojournalism Editing, and you can watch it live online.
Why would anybody have any question about the scenes in Watertown? There was a terrorist on the loose, one who had physically and emotionally maimed the city in the midst of one of its most cherished rituals. But in terms of scale, how much was shutting d
Johannes Hirn, the former Boston University journalism student who shot a photo essay about one of the Boston bombing suspects, has removed the images from a PhotoShelter website and is referring licensing requests to Barcroft Media. The images, comprisin
A picture story shot by Boston University student Johannes Hirn of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was done as a final project for BU photojournalism professor Peter Southwick’s class, the teacher told News Photographer magazine today.
During our pre-trip briefing the night before leaving for Cuba, David Hobby talked a bit about how he was going to approach the week photographically and what he hoped to see in the quick edit of six photos that we all would present at the end of our time in Havana
Link: Nordic Light 2013 House of Cuba | Le Journal de la Photographie
Cuba’s president Raul Castro has relaxed the travel restrictions for Cubans, and Nordic Light has therefore taken this opportunity to invite a group of Cuban photographers to Kristiansund. Adrián Fernández Milanés, Pedro Abascal, Leysis Quesada Vera, Raul Cañibano Ercilla, Irolan Maroselli Vilasuso, Liudmila Velasco and Nelson Ramírez de Arellano will all exhibit their pictures.