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.”
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LightBox | Time
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“There are no more discoveries to be made,” Elisabeth Biondi tells me on the opening night of the fourth annual New York Photo Festival. “Anyone can take a picture now, so it’s forced documentary photographers to have a more personalized vision.”
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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.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: White House ends re-enactments for news photographers
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Fuji X100 vs. Leica X1 comparison review – Leica Rumors
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
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2011/05/12/fuji-x100-vs-leica-x1-comparison-review.aspx/
The Fuji X100 and Leica X1 are very similar and different at the same time. The Leica X1 is a more mature camera in terms of firmware stability. The Fuji X100 has several quirks that are widely discussed in various online forums. Hopefully Fuji will address those in future firmware updates.
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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.
Link: Yes Men hoax uses Twitter, Facebook to put Peabody Energy on the defensive | Poynter.
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Trailer for Zero Charisma – a movie about D&D players
[Video Link] Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews raised over $15k in preproduction costs on Indiegogo for their movie about Dungeons and Dragon players, called Zero Charisma. The trailer is funny! The…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/12/trailer-for-zero-cha.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews raised over $15k in preproduction costs on Indiegogo for their movie about Dungeons and Dragon players, called Zero Charisma.
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Close-Ups of Puerto Rican New York
Eight photographers captured what it meant to live in New York and call oneself Puerto Rican.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/close-ups-of-puerto-rican-new-york/
“Dia” embraces the period from the 1960s to the 1980s — when Puerto Rican New York was very much on the rise — with the work of eight photographers: Máximo Colón, Joe Conzo, Perla de León, Pablo Delano, Frank Espada, Ricky Flores, David Gonzalez (a Times colleague and frequent contributor to Lens) and Francisco Reyes II.
David Gonzalez, Francisco Reyes II, Frank Espada, Joe Conzo, Máximo Colón, Pablo Delano, Perla de León, Ricky Flores
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David Hilliard is an American photographer born in 1964 who lives and works in Boston (MA). His work is present in many large museums and in the principal galleries in the United States. For his first major solo exhibition in France, the Galerie Particulière will display until July 30th 2011 an important selection of his work focusing on the last ten years.
Link: David Hilliard Galerie Particulière | La Lettre de la Photographie
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The Three Biggest Mistakes Amateur Photographers Make
I don’t usually take to the bully pulpit to either disagree with or amplify something Ctein has written—his column, his topic, his bailiwick—but it seems to me that the insight in his most recent column could be extended to two…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/05/three-biggest-mistakes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
The unifying theme in all three of these things is that you have to learn to look at the end result and let go of everything you know about what did or didn’t go into it.
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All Your Pics Are Belong to Us: at image hosting services, Terms and Conditions always apply
Smartphone apps make it trivial to snap a photo, upload it to a host, and post a link to Twitter, sometimes in a single step. But by storing a photo on a hosting service to display via Twitter and …
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/12/all-your-pics-are-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
I’ve taken a set of scissors to collect the copyright section of the terms of service for many popular services below to compare. Many have quite similar language to TwitPic; others foreswear all rights.
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TwitPic is claiming a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license” on all images uploaded to the service, as the firm signs a deal with celebrity photo agency WENN
Link: Photo agency’s CEO addresses TwitPic controversy [update] – British Journal of Photography
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Panasonic G3 Adds Touch-to-Focus
Panasonic’s new G3 Micro Four Thirds G3 continues the trend set by its two predecessors: Not only is it smaller, but it continues to exploit features that aren’t available in DSLRs. First is a brand new sensor. Instead of Panasonic’s favorite 12MP sensor,
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/panasonic-g3-adds-touch-to-focus/
Panasonic’s new G3 Micro Four Thirds G3 continues the trend set by its two predecessors: Not only is it smaller, but it continues to exploit features that aren’t available in DSLRs.
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LightBox | Time
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Last night, Peter van Agtmael was awarded the prestigious Infinity Award for Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at TIME, reflects on the importance of his work as an editor firmly committed to his vision.
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In-depth B&W conversion video
Speaking of old friends, former Lightroom evangelist/PM George Jardine has posted a free 37-minute video that dives deeply into black & white conversion. He writes, In this video, I start by ta…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/05/in-depth-bw-conversion-video.html
former Lightroom evangelist/PM George Jardine has posted a free 37-minute video that dives deeply into black & white conversion
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LightBox | Time
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Magnum Photographers Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Mikhael Subotsky, and writer Ginger Strand are a bunch of friends going on a homespun adventure; a two week road trip, from May 11-26, across America. Rather than a super group on a stadium tour, the Postcards From America trip will be more in the spirit of a band going back to a small venue tour — a tour where they have to drive their own van and haul their own gear.
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The third mythical French agency, alongside Gamma and Sygma, will be sold to the German company DAPD.
Link: The death of SIPA? By Michel Puech | La Lettre de la Photographie
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TwitPic Plans To Sell Your Images So It Can Profit – A Photo Editor
A story in TechCrunch EU highlights a blowup over the ToS (Terms of Service) of Twitpic the photo sharing app for Twitter that many people use to share breaking news images from their phone–images like Daniel Morel’s Haiti images and subsequent lawsuit (h
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/05/11/twitpic-plans-to-sell-your-images-so-it-can-profit/
“The new licensing deal ensures that users retain the copyright but by uploading photos service, the company is able to exploit the photos for commercial gain.”
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The bullshit around photography and free — duckrabbit
It’s interesting how the photographers who are so anti doing work for free are more often than not People who…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/05/the-bullshit-around-photography-and-free/
Decided that since the Fuji X100 has been so popular, and because I get so many e-mails on it asking me about the “quirks” that I would write up a list of the top 7 coplaints on the camera, and what I do to get around them (well, they are not really issues for me in the first place as you will soon see).
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New Twitpic terms of service..and they’re not good… — duckrabbit
Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators…. “You retain all…
Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators….
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I’ve actually been taking pictures for as long as I’ve been making music. When I was 9 years old (around the same time I started studying music) my uncle gave me my first camera, a nikon F.