Rob Galbraith DPI: Software allows HP Z3200 series printers to create large format negatives
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Panasonic LX5 coming soon with m4/3 sensor? – Leica Rumors
Rumors surfaced today of a new Panasonic point and shoot camera with m4/3 sensor, fixed 3x zoom Leica lens (starting from 24mm f/2.0 on the wide angle) and some kind of a built-in optical rangefinder with wide and tele markings. They also mentioned that L
An editor at The Economist insists the decision to Photoshop a news photo for its June 19 cover was made for the sake of design, not politics.
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During 2009, 71% of freelance respondents said they had been asked to give copyright to their clients, and 62% said they were pressured to give clients a more extensive licence for no increase in the fee.
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In Sadness, an Indomitable Humanity
As a photojournalist, Ruth Fremson has witnessed a lot of suffering. Does it affect her? Of course, it does.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/assignment-34/
Ruth Fremson has seen a great deal of war, disaster and poverty. To be able to depict suffering, photographers have to step back and observe, holding themselves a bit apart from the situation — if they can — for just a moment or two. That doesn’t mean, however, that their own emotions can simply be shelved.
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Four Lions: This is Spinal Tap for suicide bombers
Parenthood has seriously put a crimp in our moviegoing activities, but every now and again Alice and I get to go see something, and we always try to pick a good one. We scored big on Saturday night…
Ruth Fremson has seen a great deal of war, disaster and poverty. To be able to depict suffering, photographers have to step back and observe, holding themselves a bit apart from the situation — if they can — for just a moment or two. That doesn’t mean, however, that their own emotions can simply be shelved.
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KGB’d!
So news photographers can’t alter images in any way, but new publications can? Shame on Emma Duncan, The Economist, and Reuters. The original picture was taken by Larry Downing of Reuters. The cover crop and alteration was the responsibility of…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/07/kgbd.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
LUCEO will be documenting the decline of small town America as a group project over the coming year.
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duckrabbit’s mindblowing good news — duckrabbit
Today is a very exciting day for duckrabbit for two reasons. The first is that this is our 1000th blog…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/07/duckrabbit-exclusive-interview-and-new-picture-by-martin-nachtwey/
Martin Nachtwey has been responsible for some of the most iconic and memorable images in the world. His deeply saturated, ringflash lit images of war, death and destruction have made him more famous than Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
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Photojournalists, more and more, are forced to break the law in order to get the right images. Not only their standard of living has plummeted, making it harder to be motivated, but they are now faced with either jail time or extremely steep fines. There is a war being waged against photojournalism at a time it is already at its weakest. If the forces of photo censorship succeed, our world will become we can forget about democracy. We might not understand it fully, but these are our eyes that they are trying to cover. It is a our ability to make a sound judgment that is threatened forever.
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The NGO’s decided not to release any information about the torture.
I deleted my article. I was aghast. But I could also see the reasons for their decisions. The long-term benefits to transparency seemed to outweigh the short-term benefits in theory, but in real life, it was impossible to choose to jeopardize so many lives.
Link: When transparency and humanitarian aid clash – PhotoPhilanthropy’s Blog, written by Eliza Gregory
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I’ve been holding onto my copy of the April 19th issue of the The New Yorker because of an image by George Steinmetz. It’s the kind of image that is remarkable in so many ways, and I knew that there had to be a rich body of work behind it, and trust me, George’s site is the motherload of stunning and compelling work.
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On The Economist’s Cover, Only a Part of the Picture
The June 19 issue of The Economist showed President Obama alone on a Louisiana beach. But he was not alone.
via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/on-the-economists-cover-only-a-part-of-the-picture/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Editors from The Economist had no comment when asked on Friday about the cover image.
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Outspoken Is Great, Till It’s Not
Dave Weigel, the Washington Post political blogger who resigned over comments about conservatives, was just what the paper wanted.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/business/media/05carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
if you dumped every reporter who ever sent a snide message or talked smack in private, there would be nothing but crickets chirping in newsrooms all over America.
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Is calling torture ‘torture’ political correctness?
The New York Times is one of the many newspapers which, after calling torture “torture” for generations, switched to euphemisms (“enhanced interrogation techniques”) during …
The New York Times is one of the many newspapers which, after calling torture “torture” for generations, switched to euphemisms (“enhanced interrogation techniques”) during the previous administration. The prevalence of such language is summed up in a paper by Harvard University students, who found that its use became ubiquitous after prisoner mistreatment at Abu Ghraib was exposed.
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Leica S2 in the Wild
When I put up that quote from Michael Reichmann yesterday, a number of people used it as a touching-off point for the familiar old disputation between old film cameras and new digital ones. “Semilog,” for example, wrote a characteristically eloquent…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/07/leica-s2-in-the-wild.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
Who but Leica, conceiving its flagship camera, could so resolutely eschew gee-whizzery? Sony earns a passing mention here for the straightforwardness of the A900/A850, but that’s only relatively—relative to the competition. The S2 is is another league in this regard. No other camera maker would have—no other camera maker could have—the utter confidence to make a camera that does the important things well and just says no to all the rest to the same extent the S2 does.
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DHS, Police & BP Detain Photographer at Refinery
Refineries are typically dicey places for photography — even from public vantage points — because oil companies evidently are above the law and the government typically backs them up on…
Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/dhs-police-bp-detain-photographer-at-refinery/
BP maintains it followed “industry practice that is required by federal law.” I would like to see this federal law challenged in court because I have a feeling taking photos of a public street is a constitutionally protected activity.
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Star-Spangled Skepticism
Misha Erwitt’s series “Stars and Stripes” is a chronicle of the American flag in its glory — and glorification, Kerri MacDonald reports.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/showcase-flags/
Misha Erwitt was born on Flag Day. That wouldn’t normally be a conversation opener, but Mr. Erwitt, 56, has spent more than 20 years compiling images of the American flag.
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Holga D, The Ultimate Lo-Fi Digicam
Before I tell you what the digital Holga D doesn’t do, let me recap what Lomo’s plastic-fantastic Holga medium-format film camera does do. The Holga has a cheap plastic lens, an even cheaper light-leaking plastic body, settings so sparse that they’re almo
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/holga-d-the-ultimate-lo-fi-digicam/
To keep things low-fi and cheap, the sensor is either a full-frame or crop-frame model from last generation designs.
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We caught up with San Diego based commercial photographer Tim Mantoani a few weeks ago when he was in town. Since we’ve got a live event coming up in Kansas City on shooting what you’re passionate about, we thought we’d take the opportunity to ask Tim’s opinion on the subject.
Link: Talking Passion and Personal Projects with Tim Mantoani – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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