If you are a music photographer, I hope this post will agitate you a bit: Everything you know about concert photography is wrong.
Link: Guest Blog: Everything You Know About Concert Photography is Wrong – The Photoletariat
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This month, hundreds of photographers around the world will be descending on stadiums in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and other spots around South Africa to cover the month-long sports story that is the World Cup. For the first time in its history, the tournament is taking place on the African continent, and photographers will have to adjust to covering the events in wintertime. We called on photographers—both World Cup veterans and newcomers—to find out what gear they’re bringing, how they’ve prepared, and what they’re most looking forward to about covering the most popular sporting event in the world.
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Reuters Accused of Anti-Israel Propaganda
Photos by Reuters Is Reuters showing its anti-Israel bias? Or is the mini furor over some cropped photos the result of over-reaction and paranoia? As you can see above, the photo on the left shows …
Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/reuters-accused-of-anti-israel-propaganda/
The blog Little Green Footballs exposed the omitted knife, and Reuters quickly addressed the issue, saying the image was cropped at the edges, as is the usual practice, and the knife was “inadvertently” removed.
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Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
Journalists have been turned away from public areas affected by the spill, not only by BP but also by government officials.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/10access.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In a separate incident last week, a reporter and photographer from The Daily News of New York were told by a BP contractor they could not access a public beach on Grand Isle, La., one of the areas most heavily affected by the oil spill. The contractor summoned a local sheriff, who then told the reporter, Matthew Lysiak, that news media had to fill out paperwork and then be escorted by a BP official to get access to the beach.
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Photographer Antonio Simoes told his paper, the Portuguese daily O Jogo, that at about 4 a.m. this morning, he awoke when two men entered his room at the Nutbush Boma Lodge. One pointed a gun at his head while the other took about $35,000 worth of camera and computer equipment, his passport, cellphones, World Cup accreditation and cash.
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pete pin – the ave
[slidepress gallery=’petepin_theave’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Pete Pin The Ave play this essay “My whole take on the Telegraph life is, basic…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/06/pete-pin-the-ave/
My rationale for the studio shots were to strip the subjects from their environment with the aim of enabling the viewer to empathize with the subjects first and foremost as human beings. All of the subjects came into my makeshift studio exactly as they were on Telegraph. The street shots – currently a work in progress – in turn provides the context. In the course of working on this project, I at times fully immersed myself on Telegraph; I have slept on the street, under bridge overpasses, spent time in squat houses, and even hitchhiked with a group of young travelers with nothing but the clothes on my back
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Lomo Spinner Puts 360-Degree Panoramas Onto Film
Lomo just can’t stop inventing cheap, junky cameras that are just plain awesome. Here, for your retro-panoramic pleasure, is the Spinner 360º, a camera which will paint an entire 360-degree panorama onto a strip of 35mm film, pushing the image right over
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/lomo-spinner-puts-360-degree-panoramas-onto-film/
a camera which will paint an entire 360-degree panorama onto a strip of 35mm film, pushing the image right over the sprocket-holes.
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Making The Break: Kevin Arnold – A Photo Editor
Here’s another entry from my series on photographers talking about how they made the break to go pro. I thought you might enjoy hearing about Kevin Arnold because his transition was from writer to photographer so he’s got an interesting perspective on the
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/06/08/making-the-break-kevin-arnold/
That was two and a half years ago, and both of these things have been invaluable in getting my career to where it is today. I’d say that the most valuable “big idea” that helped me along the way was the idea that one needed a vision as a photographer. When I started to work with consultants, I had a lot of good images in my portfolio, but there was no clear vision that differentiated my work from the next outdoor shooter
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Martine Franck’s Pictures Within Pictures
Martine Franck is not just a photographer but a photographer’s subject. Mark Bussell wondered what that felt like. She told him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/archive-18/
I’ve been struck by how often she captures people in the act of looking. Was she was specifically pursuing these moments? Or, because she herself was thinking about seeing, did she subconsciously respond to subjects who were doing the same thing? Her answer to both questions: “No doubt yes.”
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Leica M10 concept – Leica Rumors
Leica M10 concept designed by Mizanur Rahman: Related posts: LeicaRumors now on Facebook and Twitter Detailed renderings of the Leica Mirrorless APS-C camera concept Another Leica concept Leica i9 concept: “Turn your iPhone into a Leica” v2.0 Leica iM mir
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2010/06/07/leica-m10-concept.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaRumors+%28LeicaRumors.com%29
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Lightroom 3 has arrived!
I’m delighted to say that after more than 600,000 downloads of the public beta, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 has arrived. The download is ready to grab, and Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost has…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/06/lightroom_3_has_arrived.html
Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost has posted 10 new videos to take you through feature and workflow improvements, big and small.
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That ducky has been present at many historical moments. It was with me when I witnessed women voting for the first time in Afghanistan. It was once a few feet away from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at his palace in Kabul. It was with me when I crazily walked into northern Iraq from Turkey — at night, in monsoonlike rain — just before the bombing started. The ducky visited Saddam Hussein’s palace in Tikrit before the Marines arrived.
Link: A Rubber Ducky Takes Flight(s) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Photographers’ clients—and the advertising agency art buyers who represent them in their negotiations with photographers—are often unsure of how they will use the images they commission or for how long. That means an increasing number of clients ask photographers for unlimited use of images, rather than negotiating print use, web use, out of home and other uses separately. Many clients are also trying to license still images for longer time periods. At times, they are seeking in-perpetuity usage agreements and even, in a few cases, copyright transfers.
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John Hedgecoe, one of the most significant figures in the history of British photography, has died.
Link: The man who taught the world to photograph – British Journal of Photography
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The documentary about legendary American Paparazzo Ron Galella ‘Smash His Camera‘ premieres tonight on HBO at 9.00pm.
Link: Smash His Camera
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One of the earliest quotes on the audio tour maps out the difficulties Avedon will struggle with for the entire tape. After revealing that “I still use the first camera I ever had, a Rolliflex,” Avedon goes on to say that new technology doesn’t interest him: what does is “the person in front of me and the moment we share.” Although he has since used other cameras (notably an 8×10 view camera), going on record for using the same camera he started with is code for “I’m still the same Avedon, I’ve never changed. I have integrity as a person and a photographer.”
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Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago
Yesterday was June 6th, the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by over 5,000 ships,
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/remembering_d-day_66_years_ago.html
Yesterday was June 6th, the 66th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by over 5,000 ships, aerial bombardment, gliders and paratroopers. Thousands of soldiers lost their lives on those beaches on that day – many thousands more would follow as the invasion succeeded and troops began to push German forces eastward, eventually leading to the Allied victory in 1945. Collected here are some photographs of the preparation, execution and immediate aftermath of the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy, and a few images from 2010. (42 photos total)
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Meet Toby Gregory — duckrabbit
Meet Toby Gregory: He wanted the photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba to give him some photos from the Rugby Sevens in Kenya…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/06/toby-gregory/
(Toby Gregory) wanted the photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba to give him some photos from the Rugby Sevens in Kenya yesterday. For some reason he thought that Chiba should give them to him for free! When he refused he attacked Chiba and stole one of his compact flash cards.
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U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. PFC Bradley Manning, 2
“Everywhere there’s a U.S. post, there’s a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed,” Bradley Manning wrote. “It’s open diplomacy. World-wide anarchy in CSV format. It’s Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth. It’s beautiful, and horrifying.”