Some time ago, if you were lucky enough to have created an image that all wanted, you could easily sit on it and wait for your phone to ring. Not really anymore. The center of the business gravity has shifted. To those who create value around the content.
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It seems to me that the main reason why these photographs got so widely seen is because all those newspapers and websites that distributed them turned the trees into the story
Link: Conscientious | What pictures do the public get to see?
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via Engadget: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/12/final-cut-pro-announcement-at-nab-supermeet/
The new version includes improved media management and improved image quality built on “modern foundations,” with top-to-bottom color management and a new look. FCP X features resolution-independent playback all the way from SD up to 2K and 4K formats. It now leverages Grand Central Dispatch to take advantage of all cores on the Mac plus the GPU. The crowd goes wild, especially as Steinauer suggests that the ever-popular render bar will now be a thing of the past.
The Huffington Post is the target of a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of thousands of uncompensated bloggers.
via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/huffington-post-is-target-of-suit-on-behalf-of-bloggers/?partner=rss&emc=rss
“The Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern-day slaves on Arianna Huffington’s plantation,” Mr. Tasini said in a conference call with reporters. He vowed to picket Ms. Huffington’s house and turn her into an outcast in the liberal circles where she made her blog so prominent.
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To create these pictures, photographer Gregg Segal collaborated with Civil War re-enactors to construct scenes at historic battle sites that have been compromised by modern development.
After discovering a work of Diane Arbus, Polixeni was first drawn to photography. Much of her work is inspired by her own childhood in Melbourne. Her surreal images explore dreams, adolescence, and nods to literature such as Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Her work is that of a child’s imagination and reminds the viewer of a time when all was possible if you could dream it. The work is staged in the Australian landscape, children take on characteristics of animals, and fanciful beings–she sees children straddling the line of play and imagination, but also forming their identities in the adult world.
Eye-Fi has launched yet another Wi-Fi SD card to coincide with the debut of Direct Mode, which is probably the most exciting thing to happen to SD cards since Eye-Fi first started putting tiny radios in them in the first place. (Head over to our products
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/eye-fi-mobile-x2-with-direct-mode-beams-photos-to-your-ipad/
Charlie Kirk describes himself as “a 37-year-old English guy, working as a lawyer in Tokyo.” Based in Japan’s capitol for 9 years, he was educated at Sussex, Cambridge and Nottingham, and notes wryly “It’s a long process to become a lawyer.” A talented and avidly committed photographer with a knack for capturing the surreal quality of everyday life with his Leica MP and M9, he hopes to turn his newfound photographic passion into something more than a fulfilling avocation. Here, in his understated and commendably straightforward words is the fascinating story of his photographic adventure.
“Light,” photo editor Mike Davis said, “is about more than just the six hours a day that National Geographic photographers work in.” He was joking when he said that, but his…
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And next, he said that strong photographs are built around adjectives and adverbs. Not verbs. It’s a strange concept written out as a sentence, sure. However it became clearer once we saw photos, even a frame before or after, where a quality, a mood or an essential feeling were highlighted — rather than showing things just as they happened.
On Sunday, March 20th, BagNewsSalon is hosting an online panel looking at the media’s visual framing of the Egypt uprising. We encourage you to listen in, recommend the discussion to colleagues and also recommend students to view this lively deconstructi
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The most recent BagNews Salon, held on March 20th in collaboration with Open-i, brought together photographers and visual academics to analyze photos of Egypt’s 18-day revolution. Watch the full archive or read salient quotes from the conversation below.
War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3 , Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bruce, Davide Monteleone, Saiful Huq O…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/04/photo-eye-book-reviews-war-is-only-half.html
Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bruce, Davide Monteleone, Saiful Huq Omi, Ami Vitale and Donald Weber.
The Aftermath Project, 2011. Softcover. 132 pp., black & white and color illustrations throughout, 11×11
Goran Tomasevic has been covering conflict for nearly 20 years, here he talks about his latest work in Libya.
via BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-12998593
Photojournalists are under more pressure than ever to get the shots and to transmit them as quickly as possible, here Goran provides some of the back story behind a number of the pictures he took on the frontline
The boardwalk is one of my favorite places to visit when I go to Ocean City, Md.
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In Libya’s conflict, the Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly writes, the coastal road running to Tripoli from Tobruk is the only constant.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/on-the-road-to-revolution/
This series is intended as a step back from the daily rush of imagery: rebels charging to the front and getting shelled. I used a full depth of field to provide as much detail as possible and evoke a feeling of distance.
an extract from a conversation between the photographers Martina Hoogland Ivanow and Lars Tunbjörk as printed in the first issue of IMAG
Link: First Issue of IMAG Photographers talk | La Lettre de la Photographie
“It is what it is,” says Misha Erwitt.
Now 56 years old, he is beginning his 11th year in Los Angeles, a place that still seems like an alien landscape to a New York-bred street photographer. “Try to take a street picture in L.A.,” he says. “There are certain places you can go to accomplish that—a mall in Santa Monica or maybe downtown—but once you’ve been there do you want to keep coming back?”
Link: Misha Erwitt by David Schonauer | La Lettre de la Photographie
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Adobe plans to demonstrate three iPad apps designed to work in conjunction with the forthcoming Adobe CS 5.5 update. Rather than representing a standalone implementation of Photoshop running on the iPad (as demoed earlier this month), these apps are more like enhancements to the existing toolsets running in Adobe CS on a PC or Mac.
Altaf Qadri was safe and unhurt
Link: Nation & World | AP photographer located in Libya | Seattle Times Newspaper
There’s a dissonance between furloughs and layoffs for employees while chief executive compensation doubles.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/business/media/11carr.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Mr. Dubow had agreed to lower his salary by 17 percent through 2011, but then again, last month he received a cash bonus of $1.75 million for 2010 and Ms. Martore received $1.25 million. For 2010, they were also awarded stock, options and deferred compensation that would bring their combined packages to $17.6 million if the company and its stock hits certain targets.
For journalists cloistered in Tripoli at the invitation of the government, its management, or rather staging, of public relations provided a singular view.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/world/africa/11tripoli.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
“This is not even human blood!” the escort erupted to group of journalists, making a gesture with his hands like squeezing a tube. “I told them, ‘Nobody is going to believe this!’ ” he explained, as Elizabeth Palmer, a correspondent for CBS News, later recalled. His name was withheld for his protection.
I too am developing a real love / hate relationship with this camera. There’s so much to enjoy, yet also so much to frustrate one.
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