In a move that is likely to impact photographers, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will ask his government to review the country’s copyright law to allow for the “greater use of copyright material without the owner’s permission”
Link: Government to review UK’s copyright law – British Journal of Photography
via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/11/fresh_stuff_from_jr_in_shanghai.html
In a move that is likely to impact photographers, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will ask his government to review the country’s copyright law to allow for the “greater use of copyright material without the owner’s permission”
We sometimes sneer at cellphones equipped with Adobe’s Flash browser plug-in: On tiny, energy-efficient mobile processors, the plug-in spikes CPU-usage, causing a big drain on battery life and often making the poor host browser so stuttery and unresponsiv
In a move that is likely to impact photographers, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will ask his government to review the country’s copyright law to allow for the “greater use of copyright material without the owner’s permission”
How do you follow up on an almost perfect camera? If you’re Panasonic, and that camera is the mirrorless, lens-swapping GF1, then you forget about incremental updates and just ruin everything. The new GF2 tosses many things that were good in the compact,
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/panasonic-falters-with-button-light-lumix-gf2/
How do you follow up on an almost perfect camera? If you’re Panasonic, and that camera is the mirrorless, lens-swapping GF1, then you forget about incremental updates and just ruin everything.
Olivier Zahm has become a mascot of the fashion world with his magazine, Purple, and his blog.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04ZAHM.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
Generally shot in highly stylized black and white, the Diary, which began in 2009, follows Olivier Zahm through a fantasyland populated by the artists, socialites, models and celebrities who regularly appear in his magazine — enthusiastically abiding by its ethos of creative and sexual freedom, as evinced by many nude portraits of female lovers.
“Even in the bedroom I have my camera, I sleep with my camera, I have lunch with my camera,” he said. “I go to dinner with my camera and I’m recording my experience.”
It has now been nearly ten months since the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble and claiming over 300,000 lives. In the time since, Haiti’s government, the United Nations, and many other aid agencies have struggl
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/haiti_ten_months_later.html
It has now been nearly ten months since the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble and claiming over 300,000 lives. In the time since, Haiti’s government, the United Nations, and many other aid agencies have struggled just to keep the population healthy and fed as it tries get back on its feet. Recent weeks have seen an outbreak of cholera, which has killed more than 300 people. The cholera strain is not native to Haiti, and reportedly matches strains found in South Asia, placing suspicion on U.N. personnel from that area who were stationed nearby. Some 1.3 million people are still crammed into thousands of makeshift camps dotted around the capital, leaving them vulnerable to both disease outbreaks and the elements – of particular concern as Tropical Storm Tomas now approaches, and may grow to Hurricane strength by landfall on Friday. (42 photos total)
A street shooter in the tradition of Cartier-Bresson, his Leicas capture classic images that reveal the moment
Link: Craig Semetko: A Comedian With an Incisive and Ironic Eye, Part 2 « The Leica Camera
Covering politicians in the state capital, Nathaniel Brooks gets blindsided, misled and stage-managed. What’s not to like?
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/some-clarity-in-albanys-heavy-haze/
Usually, it’s a press conference. It’s all very stagy. They come out for 10 minutes, and you get 10 minutes to photograph them. My job — day in, day out — is making the incredibly mundane interesting. A lot of times, it’s just a person standing in front of a podium in a not-very-well-lit space. There’s often not much to work with. That’s the challenge and, in a way, that’s what makes it fun. It’s so hard to take a meaningful photograph. What they force-feed you is their version of what you should be photographing.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110203290.html?wprss=rss_world
The Iraqi Interior Ministry inspector general recently determined that wands used by police as the frontline defense in the country’s fight against bombs are worthless.
Norway is my favorite country on Earth, but life near a warm sea with fresh octopus hanging on racks has its perks as well
Link: Corey’s Fishing News » Blog Archive » Greece is the new Norway
With the U.S. troop surge now nearing its peak in Afghanistan, more than 150,000 US and international troops are now on the ground. 64 of those troops lost their lives this month, as forces pushed hard into the southern Kandahar Province, traditionally th
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/afghanistan_october_2010.html
Norway is my favorite country on Earth, but life near a warm sea with fresh octopus hanging on racks has its perks as well
Geoffrey Crawley, the world-esteemed former editor of British Journal of Photography, has died.
London? Funny? If you are as practiced — and as patient — as Matt Stuart, the answer is yes. Christopher F. Schuetze explains.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/london-very-dry-with-a-twist/
It wasn’t until he was 22 years old, after a successful career as a street skateboarder in London, that Matt Stuart took up photography. He was inspired by the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
And Buster Keaton.
It’s been a long, long time coming, but OnOne has finally gotten around to making an iPad version of its handy DSLR Camera Remote for the iPad. The app, previously available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allows you to remote-view what your SLR sees on th
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/dslr-camera-remote-hd-for-ipad/
It’s been a long, long time coming, but OnOne has finally gotten around to making an iPad version of its handy DSLR Camera Remote for the iPad.
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Were you lucky enough to attend one of the MLB playoff games this month? Then you’ll want to check out TagOramic, a nifty feature on MLB.com that was built to celebrate the Fall Classic. Over the course of the playoffs, MLB has taken some absolutely massi
via TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/mlbs-tagoramic-lets-you-stare-into-the-face-of-each-and-every-fan-at-the-world-series/
high enough resolution that you can zoom in and see each and every fan.
The site has also integrated support for Facebook Connect, so even if you didn’t get to attend one of the playoff games, you can sign in and see if any of your friends have been tagged in the photo. It sounds silly, but it’s surprisingly fun to see a shot of your friend mid-hot dog, surrounded by a sea of other fans
A lot of people who make pictures have said some version of this: “Nothing was happening, there was nothing to photograph’; or more specifically, “I couldn’t make an interesting picture because nothing was happening.”
That’s generally a copout
Link: Making pictures of nothing? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
It’s hard for me not to sound a bit overzealous about the GH2 and these two new lenses. I was predisposed toward the GH1, and now with the GH2 Panasonic has mostly fixed those few deficiencies that the GH1 had
Link: Panasonic GH2 First Look
via: dvafoto
In covering narcotics trafficking and use, photographers work hard to bring back pictures that almost never show their subjects’ faces.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/when-drugs-ruled-new-york-streets/
In a week when public attention has refocused on the dangers of being a war photographer, it’s worth recalling the risks taken by photojournalists much closer to home who set out to document drug dealing and drug use. The territory is every bit as treacherous, the enemy every bit as implacable, the peril every bit as real.