The initiative has been launched by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) in London, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), with the support of trade organisations representing visual arts and photography agencies. It aims to establish the practice of applying descriptions and the copyright status of the content as metadata, and to embed it permanently during the electronic exchange of digital photo, text, audio or video files.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/14/person-of-the-year-2011-protesters-2/#1
more than a hundred protestors around the world photographed by TIME contract photographer Peter Hapak. From Oakland to New York, and across Europe and through the Middle East, Hapak and I traveled nearly 25,000 miles and photographed protesters and activists from eight countries
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The Photo Gear Pro Photographers Want for the Holidays – PhotoShelter Blog
You may have seen our list of photo gifts for under $50, under $500, and no spending limit (if not, go check them out for some great photo gifts ideas!). But what do the hardcore professional photographers want in their stockings this year? We decided to
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2011/12/the-photo-gear-pro-photographers-want-for-the-holidays/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
what do the hardcore professional photographers want in their stockings this year?
We decided to ask a few of our friends – here’s a hint: You’re gonna need that black card to help finance these goodies…
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China’s Abandoned Wonderland
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/chinas-abandoned-wonderland/100207/
In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn. Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be “the largest amusement park in Asia,” stopped around 1998 after disagreements with the local government and farmers over property prices. Developers briefly tried to restart construction in 2008, but without success. The abandoned structures are now a draw for local children and a few photographers, who encounter signs telling them to proceed at their own risk. Reuters photographer David Gray visited the site on a chilly morning earlier this month and returned with these haunting images of a would-be Wonderland
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Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw 6.6 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/13/pete-muller-time-picks-the-best-photographer-on-the-wires/#1
Of the millions of photographs moving through the news services—known as “the wires”—this year, the work of Associated Press freelancer Pete Muller, 29, stood out. His exceptional photographs—focused on Africa and particularly Sudan—take an individual approach to storytelling, one that combines a distinctive aesthetic with journalistic integrity.
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via dvafoto
VII have just announced a series of 5 free, online seminars with member photographers
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Trillion FPS Camera Captures Advancing Light Waves
How fast can your camera shoot photos? 60 frames per second? Pah. 1,000 fps? Puh-lease. What’s that? You have a Phantom camera that’ll shoot one million fps? Whatever. MIT’s new camera will shoot one trillion frames per second. Let’s put that in some pers
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/trillion-fps-camera-captures-advancing-light-waves/all/1
How fast can your camera shoot photos? 60 frames per second? Pah. 1,000 fps? Puh-lease. What’s that? You have a Phantom camera that’ll shoot one million fps? Whatever. MIT’s new camera will shoot one trillion frames per second.
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British Journal of Photography
François-Marie Banier, one of France’s celebrated artists, has been arrested, but has yet to be charged for defrauding an elderly heiress of more than £850m
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Top 20 Photobooks of 2011 by Alec Soth
While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year, I noticed that numerous selections could be classified as crime stories. So in creating this year’s list, I thought it would be an entertaining e…
via LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM BLOG: http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/top-20/
While reviewing my favorite photobooks of the year, I noticed that numerous selections could be classified as crime stories. So in creating this year’s list, I thought it would be an entertaining exercise to categorize all of the books by genre. Given the quantity and quality of books being published, it is now feasible to think of photobooks in much the same way as we think of literature and cinema. These genre pigeonholes are reductive, of course, but like year-end lists, they are mostly a lighthearted excuse to analyze and discuss quality work.
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Buy Books, Not Gear
You can check out a list of street photography books I recommend here: Inspirational Street Photography Books You Gotta Own Introduction: I was at Charlie Kirk’s apartment in Tokyo, when he turned …
my thesis is that we should quit wasting money on gear (lenses, bodies, etc) and more money on photo-books. I feel that the best way to improve your vision as a street photographer is to look at great photography (which is nearly impossible online) and readily found in photo-books
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Before Photoshop allowed image makers to bend reality to their will with a single keystroke there was Jerry Uelsmann. He created surreal images the hard way — not with digital shortcuts, but working in a darkroom with seven enlargers and multiple negatives.
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LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/12/time-picks-the-most-surprising-photos-of-2011/#1
Here, Lightbox looks back at a small selection of the underreported, improbable and astounding images that caught the attention of TIME’s photo editors
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In Part 2 of this series, we’ll discuss how to choose a template, modify it using basic HTML and CSS and add useful plug-ins. To quote Placeblogger C.E.O. Lisa Williams, “No journalism student should be intimidated by the process of setting up and managing a website — it is well within your ability, and it can all be learned and practiced before you graduate.”
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Some stories can be tough nuts to crack.
Girl Power, in this months issue (September 2011), was one such nut.
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It’s ok to run round acting silly, being stupid and gay. Phew. — duckrabbit
Met Commissioner compensates journalist arrested for taking photographs in public place and told to stop “running round acting silly, being stupid and…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/12/confused/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29
“You know what, I consider you a threat under the Terrorism Act young man. I’ve had enough.”
So have many photographers.
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On the Cliffs, a World Apart
The Spanish photographer Ester Jove Soligue spent several years documenting a ragtag collection of shacks tucked along cliffs in Union City, N.J.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/on-the-cliffs-a-world-apart/?pagewanted=all
The gleaming Manhattan skyline rising over the Hudson River is about as real as a stage prop to Cruz, Emilio and their friends. They can see this illusory panorama from their wind-swept perch — a collection of shacks tucked along cliffs in Union City, N.J.
In 2008, Ester Jove Soligue, 32, a Spanish photographer, began documenting this improvised neighborhood just inland from Weehawken Cove
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EF 35 f/1.4L II & EF 24-70 f/2.8L II on January 3, 2012? [CR2]
Finally Coming? Received word today that Canon has 2 lenses planned for announcement on January 3, 2012. That’s a week before CES. The 35 f/1.4L II and the
The gleaming Manhattan skyline rising over the Hudson River is about as real as a stage prop to Cruz, Emilio and their friends. They can see this illusory panorama from their wind-swept perch — a collection of shacks tucked along cliffs in Union City, N.J.
In 2008, Ester Jove Soligue, 32, a Spanish photographer, began documenting this improvised neighborhood just inland from Weehawken Cove
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Patry’s How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law
William Patry is no copyright radical. He’s the author of some of the major reference texts on copyright, books that most copyright lawyers would have on their bookcases, books like Patry on …
Bad copyright law, enacted on the basis of flimsy, cooked statistics (or worse, purely anaecdotal “evidence”) is not serving to enrich artists, though it is funneling enormous wealth to their corporate publishers, studios and labels (especially the executive suites in those firms, where compensation in the tens of millions is handed out by firms that are “dying of piracy”). These laws are dismantling our culture, criminalizing our children and neighbors, attacking our cherished institutions, and distorting the progress of poor nations around the world
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Jose Gaytan was the consummate salesman. How good was he?
He could persuade jaded Brooklynites to see the beauty of the Gowanus Canal. When he wasn’t selling high-end photo gear in Manhattan, he and his dogs Lola and Rudy explored Brooklyn’s decrepit urban waterway and shot lyrical pictures full of color, clouds, light and even love
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