Of course, the thing everyone wants to know right now is how the D800 stacks up against its closest rival – the Canon 5D mkIII. Again I have to thank Nikon for letting me pitch the two cameras up against each other as we travelled around the sights of New York. So how do they compare?
-
-
Marc Shoul – Brakpan
Marc Shoul Brakpan Brakpan is a small town that lies on the East Rand of Gauteng, sandwiched between Boksburg, Benoni and Springs. A once-prosperous mining community, today there are pawnshops, roa…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/03/marc-shoul-brakpan/
-
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
As a photographer I have been documenting underprivileged communities and social injustice in Bangladesh for the last 5 years. My reportage shows the horrors of acid attacks, while sensitively portraying the victims as survivors
-
Nearly half a century after her own prom night, Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, went to 13 proms across the United States from 2006 to 2009 for their project “Prom.”
-
Police Intimidation Watch: Photog Agrees to Community Service for Trespassing on a Public Street | PDNPulse
A freelance photographer arrested last fall while covering police action at the Occupy protest in Richmond, Virginia has reportedly agreed to complete 50 hours of community service in exchange for having prosecutors drop trespassing charges against him. P
-
In order not to waste time, to all those “clients” I am now sending to them a link to this video
-
In September of 2010, Arthur’s mother and only living parent passed away suddenly of cancer. With little keeping him at home, he set out to walk across the entire United States to raise awareness for breast cancer research, and to heal.
-
-
Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot: An Interview with David Burnett, Part II
Interview by John Camp (Part I is here) John Camp: David, on your days off, do you walk around with a camera under your arm? David Burnett: About four years ago I needed a carry around camera, and ended up…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/03/burnett-part-ii.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
-
Finding the Moments New Yorkers Ignore
While others try to lose themselves on their commutes, Dimitri Mellos finds his pictures. He’s trained himself to notice what others block out of their minds.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/finding-the-moments-new-yorkers-ignore/?pagewanted=all
-
10 Photographers You Should Ignore
Bryan Formhals lives and works in New York. He is the founder and managing editor of LPV Magazine, a thrice-yearly publication dedicated to contemporary documentary and fine art photography. Blake Andrews is a photographer based in Eugene, OR. He writes t
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03/10-photographers-you-should-ignore/all/1
-
This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 and receive mentorship for the project from one LUCEO member.
Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel of four judges presided over by moderator Michael Wichita, Director of Photography for AARP Bulletin, will narrow the decision to one winner who will be announced during LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph.
The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 10, 2012.
in Contests
-
The Weird World of Sports
What possesses grown men to dress like movie monsters and destroy miniature cities? Sol Neelman, the quintessential weird sports photographer, aims to find out.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/the-weird-world-of-sports/?pagewanted=all
-
How Come Nikon Beats Canon So Badly?
I got a press release yesterday from DxOMark that says the new Nikon D800 is “now the best camera ever tested by DxOMark in terms of image quality.” “Incredibly,” the press release goes on to say, “the Nikon D800 even…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/03/nikon-beat-canon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
in Equipment
-
Pete Brook, based in Portland, OR, is a freelance writer who focuses on the politics and social justice in photography. He writes about imagery produced within and about prisons on his own website Prison Photography. In 2011, Prison Photography was awarded a LIFE.com Photoblog Award and the British Journal of Photography recommended it among the Top Ten Best Photoblogs.
in Interviews
-
LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/28/promising-waters/#1
-
‘I think of them as parts of a novel I’m doing.’
These were the first words William Eggleston uttered when I asked what he felt he was accomplishing with his photographs
-
Mark Sherratt
Mark Sherratt’s terrific new project, Train, is intriguing on several levels. As foreigners, how do we enter into a culture that is not our own and describe it in a way that is authentic and unique? Mark has captured a way to create portraits of Indian co
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/03/mark-sherratt.html
-
Boston paying $170k for videography arrest – NPPA Advocacy Committee
The Boston Globe is reporting that the City of Boston has paid $170,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed against them after they arrested a man for photographing police activity on the Boston Commons. The underlying case was the subject of an earlie
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/03/27/boston-paying-170k-for-recording-arrest/
-
Confessions of a Veteran Spring Training Photographer
Guest blogger Brad Mangin details his 20 years covering spring training.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03/confessions-of-a-spring-training-veteran-photog/all/1
in Sports