One thing is certain – Facebook keeps on getting bigger with over 600 million users and counting. As they do so, they keep rolling out more exciting promotional tools for businesses. Lately we’ve been tinkering with Facebook’s newest Fan Page tools, looking for ways to help photographers better harness the social network for marketing purposes. Today we’re happy to make that happen with the launch of a new free guide, Facebook Fan Pages for Photographers. This guide is available only to PhotoShelter’s Facebook fans. If you’re not one already, head on over to Facebook, “Like” us, and you’ll see a form where you can get a the free guide.
Working as a staff photojournalist has its challenges. How do you stay inspired, happy, and passionate about photographing a white guy in a suit standing in front of a building? How can you make compelling images that give your photo subjects a voice in their own community when you can only stay for only 10 minutes? Why am I photographing this plate of food that barely resembles food? How do you make a picture that says “ribbon-cutting” without literally shooting the ribbon being cut?
Let me preface, I am not a camera reviewer and never do this sort of thing here. In addition, I don’t like reading lengthy articles about new cameras. But I recently got my hands on the new Fuji X100 and thought I could share some insight on it for the other photojournalists out there eager to get their hands on one.
Few days ago a dpreview forum member mentioned about an upcoming Leica M9-P camera. The camera is expected to be released in June. So far those were all rumors and nobody has really seen such a digital MP rangefinder… until yesterday when the Dailymail
View the 2010 National Newspaper Award winners in all photography and cartooning categories.Voyez les gagnants et gagnantes de l’édition 2010 des catégories de photographie et catégorie caricature.
Why does photojournalism addict us and make us want so badly to do this even though there are better ways to make more money?
The answer struck me when reading this recent book by Jane McGonigal. In Reality is Broken she describes the four defining traits that make a game a game. They are a goal, rules, a feedback system and voluntary participation.
More than a thousand relatives, friends and colleagues paid their last respects to photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington today, in a requiem mass held in London.
Mr. Melcher misses the mark when he asks what gender has to do with the photojournalistic process. I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his post is attempting to say that photojournalism transcends gender, and gender should not be relevant. I think he meant that in the best possible way, but saying that is like saying we’ve transcended race in America. I don’t live in a fantasyland where racism doesn’t exist and I certainly don’t live in a society absent of sexism. Sometimes gender has nothing to do with the photojournalistic process, sure, but sometimes it has everything to do with it.
In “Close to Earth,” Elizabeth Moreno captures the culture and life of Baja California’s rancheros, focusing on the particular fusion between past and present that they experience-a fragile equilibrium that is about to be broken by the forces of globalization.
If the White House moves to a pool, said Doug Mills, White House photographer for The New York Times, “we are taking one step forward — we get live coverage — and four steps backward — we will lose four photographers from the room. “
He continued, “We clearly lose out in terms of perspective. There will be no wide shots or risk-taking, for that matter.”
An Associated Press story reports that the U.S. White House has announced the end of the longtime but little known practice of re-enacting portions of live presidential addresses for the benefit of news photographers.
There are many good Fuji X100 reviews online. In this post I will concentrate on the Fuji X100 vs. Leica X1 cameras comparison. Unfortunately, I could not publish this online earlier because I just got my Fuji X100 last week. You can click on most of the
Peabody, which launched a “Coal Cares” website to advertise the campaign, hoped to tackle the stigma associated with asthma by giving away a variety of colorful and hip inhalers to dignify the use of asthma medication.
“For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler,” the website reads, “Coal Cares lets them inhale with pride.” Above all, the empathetic hearts behind the “Coal Cares” initiative are seeking to make what they have deemed “Asthma-Related Bullying (ARB)” a thing of the past.