POYi judging begins in the morning. Live streaming returns through Adobe’s system with a lot more hours to be streamed than last year
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The D800 appears to be slowing down web servers right and left today, as photographers clamor for more information on the new Nikon digital SLR. Here are links to stories, pictures and videos on and from the D800 and its near-twin, the D800E.
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Ben Wilson
I came across the mini-spectacularity of Ben Wilson’s jewell-like paintings on chewing gum mere days ago, though I’m a little slow on the uptake (he’s been doing them for nine years).
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Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L II Announced
Finally Announced! London, UK, 7th February 2012 – Canon today adds to its world-famous EF lens series with the launch of three new lenses for photography
The new EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM professional zoom lens is an update to the popular EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
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Canon EF 24 f/2.8 IS USM & Canon EF 28 f/2.8 IS USM Announced.
Introducing the world’s first wide-angle primes with IS Canon today also launches the new EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM and EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM – the world’s first 2
Canon today also launches the new EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM and EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM – the world’s first 24mm and 28mm fixed wide-angle lenses to feature optical IS technology
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Nikon D800 press release – Nikon Rumors
In case you missed the Nikon D800 press release (Google translated): Sao Paulo, February 6, 2012 Nikon introduces its long-awaited release, the HD-SLR D800, which offers resolution never seen before, amazing picture quality and valuable video resources, s
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2012/02/06/nikon-d800-press-release.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NikonRumors+%28NikonRumors.com%29
Nikon has unveiled the D800, a new camera whose headline feature is its 36.15 million image pixel full-frame sensor which, as of this writing, makes it the highest resolution available or announced for a digital SLR camera, ever.
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Photo Manipulation Scandal Follows Same Old Script | PDNPulse
Surely we all know the script by now: A newspaper photographer gets caught manipulating a photo, the paper runs an apology with a statement about the newspaper’s zero-tolerance policy and a notice that the photographer has been fired; a trade organization
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/photo-manipulation-scandal-follows-same-old-course.html
The contrarian this time is On the Media host Bob Garfield, writing for The Guardian. He satirizes Patrick as “the Great Satan” and says “let him suffer the fate of the frog!” He then raises that pesky question: “Don’t all journalists alter reality?” Finally, he asks this rhetorical humdinger: “[d]id he [Patrick] misrepresent the story, or did he perhaps just make it clearer?”
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Chances Are, You Suck
Not sucking is worth the effort. Seek out great photography. Devour it, and be suspicious of any undue praise.
Do you know that feeling? The one when you’re showing images to someone (perhaps an editor that you were hoping to work with) and you get to that picture, the one that looked perfectly acceptable moments before, but as soon as you show it, you’re filled with regret.
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Christophe Negrel
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One hears this a lot; “photojournalism is changing and even dying.”
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Today readers of The Bee learned that editors investigating Patrick’s archives found two additional images that had been digitally altered, also a violation of The Bee’s ethics standards
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Betweenlands is part of a project born from the trip that three independent professionals have made in the months of February and March 2011 in these countries, chasing the fall of the Arab regimes. Here they met with the amazing actors of Arab riots and asked them to express on camera their reasons for dissent.
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This weekend, Doug Mills will be in a familiar spot: on the sidelines of the Super Bowl. As a seasoned sports photographer — first with The Associated Press and now with The Times — he is the envy of the masses who have to watch from their La-Z-Boy recliners.
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I’ve recently moved to a digital medium format system and I thought I’d blog about the process of choosing a system and why making this jump was worth every hard earned penny to do so.
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Tom Paiva
Los Angeles photographer, Tom Paiva, often finds himself working in another reality, creating his photographs long after our heads have hit the pillow. Tom received his BFA from the San Francisco Academy of Art, and for the last 15 years has worked as a f
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/02/tom-paiva.html
Over the past year I have been working on this project of the closed auto dealerships in Los Angeles. Well over 3500 dealerships have closed nationwide, laying off an estimated 200,000 people. This presence is felt in these acres of empty asphalt and boarded up buildings
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Friday Happy Hour: Lady Gaga Owns Your Photos & More – PhotoShelter Blog
The photo industry never ceases to surprise us. This week Allen posted his so-called rant, “Why I Love Photography“. The post has attracted over 1k Facebook likes, 1,200 tweets, and 120 comments. Clearly he hit a chord. Other topics this week that were wo
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/02/friday-happy-hour-lady-gaga-owns-your-photos-more/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
Sure, one look at Lady Gaga and you can tell that she’s a little ridiculous. (A dress made of meat? Really? We still can’t get over this.) Now her latest media stint is hitting the papers – that is, Lady Gaga demands that photographers surrender ownership of their photos of her.
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Photography is a small attempt at immortality — a way to preserve some aspect of your identity, your time and your consciousness; communicate it to others and bring it forward into the future. You can say that about virtually any art form of course, but photography is unique in being able to do more with less by employing an effective lever, a technologically based visual recording medium
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On the Beat: With a Gun and a Camera
Antonio Bolfo was bored, so he became a police officer. To relieve the stress of patrolling South Bronx housing projects, he took a camera on the job. It led to a new career.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/on-the-beat-with-a-gun-and-a-camera/?pagewanted=all
There are all sorts of reasons why people become New York City police officers. Tradition. Family ties. The pension. Antonio Bolfo’s reasoning was simple.
“I was bored,” he said.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/03/charles-teenie-harris/#1
“One Shot” Harris freelanced for the Pittsburgh Courier, chronicling the life of black neighborhoods throughout the city.
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When published on the Bee’s front page on Sunday as part of a two-picture combo, the images carried a byline for longtime Bee staff photographer Bryan Patrick.
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