A. TONS. I’m sure you already know about Camera Raw 7, and you’ve probably seen bits about selective blurring & adaptive wide-angle lens correction–but what about Skin-Aware M…
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A federal court judge in Chicago has refused a textbook publisher’s request to dismiss a photographer’s claim of massive copyright infringement, saying Robert Frerck’s allegations that Pearson Education infringed about 4,000 of his photographs “are suffic
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/04/judge-refuses-to-let-book-publisher-weasel-out-of-copyright-lawsuit.html
A federal court judge in Chicago has refused a textbook publisher’s request to dismiss a photographer’s claim of massive copyright infringement, saying Robert Frerck’s allegations that Pearson Education infringed about 4,000 of his photographs “are sufficient to put Pearson on notice.”
“The Connecticut state senate approved a bill Thursday that would allow citizens to sue police officers who arrest them for recording in public, apparently the first of its kind in the nation…
Link: British Journal of Photography
One year ago, photographer Anton Hammerl was killed in Libya, leaving behind a wife and three children. Now, legendary photojournalists are coming together to raise funds for Hammerl’s family in an unprecedented print auction. Olivier Laurent reports
What Photo Buyers Want: Newsweek’s Senior International Photo Editor, Jamie Wellford Tue, May 1st, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Once focused primarily on politics and world affairs, Newsweek has shifted its direction in recent years to cover all current eve
In this live webinar on Tuesday, May 1st, Jamie will discuss:
What separates an average photo from a compelling one in the news industry, and examples of photo stories that have made it into the magazine.
How changes in the editorial industry have affected photographers and the business side of photojournalism.
How photographers can gain the confidence of photo editors and score assignments.
Plus, the best way to pitch your photos and story ideas to major news publications like Newsweek.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
It is impossible not to be fascinated by Farzana Wahidy. If the fact that this is an Afghan war photographer is not enough to impress you, consider that we are also talking about a young woman. She is just 27 years of age and was the first female Afghan journalist to work for an international news agency in Afghanistan.
Back in the car, MacMillan is already iPhone-editing video he shot of pulling up to the scene. In a few days, he’ll post the video to GunCrisis.org, an “open-source journalism experiment” he launched last month that aims to explore the city’s homicide-by-gun epidemic and possible solutions while carefully, purposefully, avoiding slipping down the rabbit holes of the gun-policy debate.
Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs
When I landed in Caracas, I had only just gotten the Fuji X100 camera a couple weeks before and I’d gotten it specifically for that trip in mind because I didn’t want to be afraid to take my camera out in an area where I already stuck out like a sore thumb. I also have always been a photographer who never cared about gear — 95% of my shooting is done with one camera with one lens.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/25/opc/#1
The Overseas Press Club of America has just announced the winners of its annual awards. LightBox presents the work of the photojournalists who were honored by the OPC, and who will be further recognized tonight at the organization’s gala.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/25/david-guttenfelder/#1
Although he is accompanied by a guide wherever he goes and has to request in advance where he wants to go, the daily life photographs that he has taken—often one-off shots made on the way to or from an event—provide a stark contrast to the highly orchestrated government news-agency photos that are more commonly seen out of North Korea.
David Doubilet says it’s much more difficult to make a perfect photo underwater than on land. “When you put your head in the water,” he said, “everything changes.” His work will soon be featured at Look3.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/photos-that-move-and-flow-underwater/?pagewanted=all
“You’re after a feeling, a moment, almost a wistfulness,” Mr. Doubilet said. “You have to think poetically.”
Mustafah Abdulaziz is surrounded by the same landscape, lit by the same saturating afternoon light as the rest of us, but sees things differently, capturing “the scene that strives to appear one way but looks to me another.”
For the past 10 years, professional photography assistant and Los Angeles-based photographer Shawn Corrigan has traveled the world assisting and shooting. So in that decade-long time span, has Shawn gained much street cred? Don’t take our word for it – ad
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Shawn Corrigan is just one of four photography assistants that we profiled in The Photo Assistant’s Handbook. Get more insights on how to succeed as a photography assistant in this free guide.
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2012/04/afrikaner-blood-multimedia.html
White South African teens wrestle with an uncertain identity. An extreme right-wing group is teaching young Afrikaners to eschew Nelson Mandela’s vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The fringe group Kommandokorps organizes camps during school holidays where Afrikaner teenagers learn self-defense and how to combat a perceived black enemy. The group’s leader, self-proclaimed ‘Colonel’ Franz Jooste, served with the South African Defence Force under the old apartheid regime. The teenagers are taught (brainwashed might be a more accurate term) that they are their own people — not South Africans but Afrikaners — and that they shouldn’t integrate in the new democratic South Africa.
This disturbing multimedia production about the racist, right-wing organization was awarded 1st Prize in Multimedia by World Press Photo. The story was made by Dutch journalist/videographer Elles van Gelder & Dutch photojournalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien in conjunction with their production company froginatent.com.
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
His photographs are imbued with the strange atmosphere of a deserted stage; someone forgot to turn off the lights and the actors have gone home.
Wide angle lenses are some of my favorite. Imaging resource has identified the widest of wide angle lenses for sale at a bargain price: $160,000. According to Amateur Photographer, the jumbo fishey…
“I enjoy cooking, dogs, cats, kids, soccer, and living here.”
“No one would have predicted I would succeed at anything.”
Interview by Robert Hirsch of Light Research
Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1972) is a quintessential photographic study of suburb
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RH: What about Photoshop?
BO: Photoshop is not in my vocabulary. I don’t need it because I have content. You need Photoshop when you’ve screwed it up.
