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Chase Jarvis Photo Post Production Technique
Chase Jarvis play by play post production photoshop retouching techniques. Step by step better digital photography adjustments in aperture and photoshop layers.
via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/08/scotts-guest-post-play-by-play-post-production-on-this-popular-photo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29
We have received hundreds of questions asking how this shot was post produced, so we thought it would be fun–and a good use of this blog as a central conversation point–to do a post about it. A play by play. So let’s join our retouch guru Scott as he walks us through this popular shot of mine from the desert in Dubai….take it away, Scotty
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Aftermath $20,000 Grant: Applications Now Being Accepted | PDNPulse
Each year, the non-profit Aftermath Project awards two $20,000 grants to photographers exploring the lasting effects of conflicts on civilian populations, in order to encourage conversation about the value of journalism that goes beyond the headlines to
via PDNPulse: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2010/08/aftermath-grant-20000-applications-now-being-accepted.html
Applications for the 2011 grants are now available online on the web site of the Aftermath Project. Applications must be received by November 1, 2010.
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Detroit Agency Solicits Car Shoots on Spec | PDNPulse
A Detroit area ad agency has put out a call for photographers to shoot car beauty shots on spec. Latcha + Associates of Farmington Hills, Michigan has distributed an electronic brochure called “Shoot a Sample” that tells photographers they can “assist in
via PDNPulse: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2010/08/detroit-agency-solicits-car-shoots-on-spec.html
the fine print informs photographers that “by participating in this exploratory project, you are agreeing to do so without reimbursement from Latcha or Lincoln.”
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Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask
The topic seems kind of stale. But a few prominent voices have recently spoken up, so perhaps it’s time to rekindle the fiery debate.
via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/08/18/129284174/madagascar
To be honest, the debate is pretty stale. We’ve been brooding over this for months (or even years). What’s worse: No one really has an answer
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Nikon D3100 with 1080p Video
Nikon’s new SLR, the D3100, is an odd mongrel of a camera. On one side, it is the first Nikon SLR to shoot proper video, dropping the large file sizes and compromised quality of motion JPEG for full 1080p H.264 video in a tasty AVCHD wrapper. It is Nikon’
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/nikon-d3100-with-1080p-video/
14.2 megapixels shooting at up to ISO 3200, 11-point autofocus, and that great video again
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A complicated mix of politics, media and the freedom of both are colliding again in Venezuela after a national court ruled that “for the next four weeks, no newspaper, magazine or weekly of the country can publish images that are violent, bloody, grotesque, whether about crime or not”.
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Canon PowerShot G12 Leaked By CNET
We were wrong about the sensor in the G12, makes sense that it’s identical again to the S9x camera. cr
A complicated mix of politics, media and the freedom of both are colliding again in Venezuela after a national court ruled that “for the next four weeks, no newspaper, magazine or weekly of the country can publish images that are violent, bloody, grotesque, whether about crime or not”.
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Voja Mitrovic, Printer to the Greats (Part II)
(Continued from Part I) Voja Mitrovic, Montparnasse, Paris, 1982 By Peter Turnley I recently sat down and interviewed Voja Mitrovic for several hours about his experiences as a printer. Several important concepts emerged from this interview. He indicated
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I recently sat down and interviewed Voja Mitrovic for several hours about his experiences as a printer. Several important concepts emerged from this interview. He indicated to me that the three most important things involved in being a great printer are patience, developing a good dialogue and communication with the photographer he is printing for, and knowing how to read a negative.
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Voja Mitrovic, Printer to the Greats (Part I)
The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Printers in Photography Voja Mitrovic at the Coupole, Montparnasse, Paris, 1993. Photo by Peter Turnley. By Peter Turnley This is the untold story of one of the greatest printers of black-and-white photographs…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/08/voya-mitrovic-part-i.html
This is the untold story of one of the greatest printers of black-and-white photographs in the history of photography—Voja Mitrovic. It is time that this man, who has literally been in the dark since arriving in Paris from Yugoslavia in 1964, be acknowledged for his important part in the history of photography and his collaborations with many of the great photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The USA is often misdescribed as a classless society but Owens, the insider, clearly and categorically states that the subject of his interest was the middle class. The estate in the Livermore Valley was the USA in microcosm. It’s inhabitants had indeed never had it so good and were keen to enjoy, and to some extent show off their new found wealth; but Owens’ depiction of his contemporaries is far from fawning. On occasion it exhibits an almost surgical precision in its dissection of the minutiae of the late sixties American soul.
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Several agencies that supply celebrity photographs taken by paparazzi to People magazine have banded together to demand additional compensation for the use of photographs in People’s forthcoming iPad app, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Link: Paparazzi Agencies First to Demand Improved iPad App Compensation – PDN Pulse
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Nikon Digicam Doubles as Computer Projector
Nikon’s year-old S1000pj, a pocket-cam packing a projector, has just gotten updated. The new version improves the old in almost every way: it is smaller, cheaper and way more useful. It also comes in some pretty weird colors, like the lime-green seen abov
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/nikon-digicam-doubles-as-computer-projector/
The USA is often misdescribed as a classless society but Owens, the insider, clearly and categorically states that the subject of his interest was the middle class. The estate in the Livermore Valley was the USA in microcosm. It’s inhabitants had indeed never had it so good and were keen to enjoy, and to some extent show off their new found wealth; but Owens’ depiction of his contemporaries is far from fawning. On occasion it exhibits an almost surgical precision in its dissection of the minutiae of the late sixties American soul.
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Beach Modesty for the President
News photographers were upset over the weekend when they were not invited to capture President Obama’s swim — and chest — in the Gulf of Mexico themselves.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/business/media/16poolphoto.html?_r=1
The White House press office has made sure that won’t happen again. On a trip to Florida over the weekend, the president’s staff kept photographers at bay while he took a dip in waters off Panama City Beach.
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The Luz Gallery in Victoria, BC is exhibiting an exceptional body of work. Sena, by Canadian photographer, Devin Tepleski, is a fine art documentary project that “aims to raise funds for flooded African Communities”. What makes this project so special, is that the work, though exploring the devastating subject of being relocated by a hydroelectric dam in Ghana, is hauntingly beautiful.
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Doubtless, there are other accomplished photojournalists in Washington who have won an Eagle Scout medal with bronze palm. Luke Sharrett of The Times may be the only one who earned his just six years ago.
And he is almost certainly the only photographer who’ll be leaving the D.C. press corps on Friday to start his junior year in college.
Link: The Capital Was His Classroom – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Tale of Ansel Adams Negatives Grows Hazy
A dealer with a troubled past and an unknown photographer complicate claims of a found Ansel Adams trove.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/arts/design/14photos.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
And now, in the latest complication, court records reveal that Mr. Streets, who set the value for the negatives and is handling the related sales, is a convicted felon with a criminal record for theft and fraud in Louisiana and Kentucky. Though he says on his Web site, davidstreetsbeverlyhills.com, that he has 25 years of fine-art appraisal experience, two of Mr. Streets’s former employers say his true talent is in the embellishment of his credentials.
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The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such brazen exploitation of a woman’s suffering. It’s not the first time the plight of Afghan women has been used to manipulate public opinion. It’s a narrative we have become so accustomed to since the 2001 invasion, that many of my most intelligent female friends did not recognize it for the subversive emotional blackmail that it is. More important, they said, was the attention it brought to women’s issues. Well, let us talk about those issues in earnest, then.
Link: The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones? – The Vigilante Journalist
