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A photographer I work with here at the paper recently asked me to send him “a couple portfolio tips” to share with his students at the local technical college. I began writing what was coming to mind and the next thing I knew, I was on #8 and I still wasn’t done. Because here’s the thing: preparing a portfolio and getting a job isn’t as easy as just making a good edit and attaching a résumé and cover letter.
Here are 12 things I think it takes to someday put together a solid portfolio and be the “whole package” an employer is looking for.
Link: The Visual Student » Summer’s the time to work on that portfolio… and yourself – 12 tips
In the summer of 2006, musician and web designer Matthew McVickar sent a camera in the mail from Massachusetts to Hawaii, with instructions to postal
via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/photos-shot-by-camera-that-was-mailed-through-postal-system/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+laughingsquid
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? JS My in…
Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2011/06/joni-sternbach.html
When a nearly three-quarter-mile-wide tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, around dinnertime a month ago, on May 22nd, it decimated thousands of …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/06/mathieu-asselin-portrait-of-a-tornados-path.html
TJ Johannesburg Photographs 1948-2010/Double Negative is a joint project by photographer David Goldblatt and writer Ivan Vladislavic. The result is an exceptional dialogue between Goldblatt’s 270 images taken over more than 60 years of photographing Johannesburg, a metropolis scarred by the consequences of apartheid, and Vladislavic’s narrative fiction.
Link: David Goldblatt’s Johannesburg (6 photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
Sometimes, I decide what to write about on TOP. Sometimes, my readers decide—I get so many “tips” about one item that I almost have to link to it—in self-defense, just to stop the avalanche. (Note that I do appreciate such…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/kind-of-screwed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
Copyright troll Righthaven told a federal judge Thursday that it has revised its contract with the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give it full copyright ownership over some of the newspapers’ content. It’s a bid to squelch a legal controversy over whether it
I know Andy Baio personally. We’re not BFFs or anything like that, but we’ve shared tasty beverages. I consider him one of the good guys. I’m also a fan of Jay Maisel’s work. He’s a great photographer. So, it’s with more than a bit of sadness that I watch the story about Andy’s costly incident with Jay’s lawyers spread around the Internet today.
Genius. Really. Only Leica and Porsche pull this nonsense off…pay more for less. At least with a posh Porsche you…
Link: Singles | Feature Shoot
A Florida state court judge has ordered the city of Ft. Lauderdale to quit barring photography in public places around a Hollywood film set. The emergency order, issued on Tuesday, was in response to a lawsuit filed last week by the Society of Professiona
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/judge-orders-ft-lauderdale-to-allow-photos-near-movie-set.html
I was disappointed this morning to read about a legal settlement of $32,500 that Andy Baio chose to pay to photographer Jay Maisel. Do you know Jay Maisel? Apparently, he’s the photographer that owns and lives in the 35,000 square foot $30-$50 million mansion in New York City (according to wikipedia). Apparently if you mail him a check for $5,000 he’ll actually let you come inside the mansion for one of his photography workshops.
I thought I’d put a quick little video up on the blog showing how you can roundtrip back and forth between both apps via XML. If you have an FCP 7 project and want to use Premiere or After Effects – you can do so in seconds. If you then want to send that project back to FCP 7 and grade it in Color for example – again, you can do so with a few keystrokes via XML. I didn’t know this until a few months ago, and I also wasn’t aware of how similar both editors are to one another. Doing a basic with either tool is extremely similar in fact – Premiere even comes with both FCP and AVID keystroke sets to make those going back and forth more “at home.” The video below serves as a quick intro to Premiere as well.
Link: Workflow: Adobe Premiere Intro and FCP 7 roundtrip « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
My post on google’s new search by image feature (Google Announces New Image Search) had a few photographers wondering what to do after discovering images of theirs had been used thousands of times online. You can refer back to the primer called Photograph
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/06/23/your-images-are-stolen-now-what/
Last year, Waxy released Kind of Bloop, a chiptunes tribute to Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. He meticulously cleared all the samples on the album, and released it for $5 (backers of his Kicksta…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/23/why-fair-use-doesnt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
After buying his first digital camera, Ren Ng tried to snap a shot of his vivacious 5-year-old daughter. Like many young, active children, it was incredibly difficult to focus the image properly and capture her fleeting smile in just the right way. And th
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/ren-ng-lytro/
I decided to put together a list of things that I thought made PhotoShelter cool, unique, special, different – and then built a presentation around it.
I was surprised by the reaction it got. It turns out, the smart people who were running the SB3 seminar knew exactly what they were talking about. A huge number of people attended each presentation in every city, enthusiastically firing off questions as I made my way through my list of favorite things.
Link: What’s So (damn) Special About PhotoShelter? – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
Following Magnum Photos’ annual general meeting, held this year in Paris, Magnum Photos has announced that it didn’t take on any new photographers
Link: No new nominees for Magnum Photos [update] – British Journal of Photography
In this installment of my ever-sporadic photo column, I simply wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Thanks to all the wonderful people I had the good fortune to come across at LOOK3; thanks to everyone at my dear friends Kathleen and Austin’s wedding this past weekend for being so open and warm; thanks to all of you I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with as of late. I couldn’t be more thankful for my lady, my family, my pets and all the wonderful people in my life for lifting me up even in troubled times. If you made it this far through my sappy rant, then please take a moment to think about those you’re thankful for in your own life.