Link: Documentary photography digital magazine
via: Tim Hussin
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Quad-Sync LumoPro Strobist Flash Pops Four Ways
The LumoPro LP160 might be the ultimate Strobist flash. Cheap, powerful and able to talk to pretty much any camera, it offers a great alternative to the $500 top-end flashes from Nikon and Canon for those who want a big light without paying for all the fa
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/quad-sync-lumipro-strobist-flash-pops-four-ways/
The LumoPro LP160 might be the ultimate Strobist flash. Cheap, powerful and able to talk to pretty much any camera, it offers a great alternative to the $500 top-end flashes from Nikon and Canon for those who want a big light without paying for all the fancy automatic functions.
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CLICK NOTE: This will be interesting to watch. I can’t imagine there aren’t a bunch of people ready to put out their own Photo Mechanic-type app. And with iPhone OS 4.0 right around the corner, maybe the limitations and barriers he’s talking about will be removed. After reading the press release I’m seeing the good points made, but also picking up a tint of condescension toward iPad users. Just me?
Walker blames limitations of the device’s hardware and the iPad Camera Connection Kit, and slams restrictions he says Apple has placed on third party apps to directly access photos.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Camera Bits rules out iPad version of Photo Mechanic
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Camera Raw 6.1 includes new lens correction functionality that can apply profile-based corrections to accommodate geometric distortions, chromatic aberration and lens vignette effects
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Andy Spyra is the winner of the Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2010. The international jury sought to find a series of photographs in which a photographer, under the age of 25 years old, perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive. Here is an interview by Helen Todd, a Leica Internet Team member, with Andy Spyra on his winning series.
Link: Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award Winner Andy Spyra « The Leica Camera
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New shift here at The Click. I’m choosing quality over quantity. Fewer posts, but every one will be worth your time.
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via: dvafoto
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I first saw Australian photographer, Graham Miller’s project, Suburban Splendor, at Review Santa Fe last year. There is an beautiful quality to his prints, sumptuous and cinematic, yet intimate. A recent post on Flak photo drew me back to his site, and to another banquet of images with his series, American Photographs. The series shows an insight into American culture, that perhaps only an outsider can find. I’m interested in the ambiguity of images. The way that all photographs have elements of fabrication and truth making.
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Link: Come and join us…
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Judge Urges Resolution in Use of Obama Photo
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said in a hearing that “whether it’s sooner or later, The Associated Press is going to win” the case.
via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/judge-urges-resolution-in-use-of-obama-photo/?partner=rss&emc=rss
On Friday, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a hearing that “whether it’s sooner or later, The Associated Press is going to win” the case.
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Also of note: most of them being designers, they were very aware of the designs of our photographers’ leave-behinds. They gave nice feedback in instances where they thought the photographs were better than the design. Which is a warning to photographers: bad or dated presentations (books, prints, leave behinds) reflects poorly on the images. So if you don’t fancy yourself a designer, seek professional design help on your next rebrand!
Link: A Visit with Thinkso and The New York Times Magazine / Wonderful Machine Photography Blog
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Art review: Exposed at Tate Modern | Adrian Searle
Lynchings and suicides, night-time glimpses of couples having sex … Adrian Searle on a photography exhibition that tests our ability – and desire – to look
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/27/exposed-photography-tate-modern
Lynchings and suicides, night-time glimpses of couples having sex … Adrian Searle on a photography exhibition that tests our ability – and desire – to look
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Photographers Say BP Restricts Access to Oil Spill
As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the gulf are being blocked from the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible.
via Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
Photographers who have traveled to the Gulf commonly say they believe that BP has exerted more control over coverage of the spill with the cooperation of the federal government and local law enforcement. “It’s a running joke among the journalists covering the story that the words ‘Coast Guard’ affixed to any vehicle, vessel, or plane should be prefixed with ‘BP,’ ” says Charlie Varley, a Louisiana-based photographer. “It would be funny if it were not so serious.”
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Colorado photographer, Heather Oelklaus, has a sense of humor and a sense of the world from the inside out. Her work explores the past and the present, and the spaces in between. I believe taking a picture really does make it last longer.
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Embodiment began as a purely photographic endeavor in 2005-2008, as I photographed friends and acquaintances to better understand my own place within the queer community as well as a chance to create beautiful representations of people I loved and respected. I had no idea that I would be starting in on a five year (or more!?) project that would one day include subjects from all over the country, an international collaborator, in depth video interviews and a innovative multi-platform outreach plan. I would have been terrified to even begin!
Link: Interview: Molly Landreth and Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America | dvafoto
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Lensbaby Control Freak Puts You in Charge
Lensbaby has popped out another new reality-distorting lens, this time for photographers who are a little too fussy about the technical side of things (you know who you are). Aptly named the Control Freak, the new lens has the familiar twisting front end
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/lensbaby-control-freak-puts-you-in-charge/
It works like this: You push and pull the front section to get your subject in focus, and then twist to move the sweet-spot. When you’re done, hit the focus lock and everything is clamped down. Now you can twist the little swizzle-sticks to fine-tune the tilt effect and rotate the fine-focusing ring to get things just-so.
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Autochrome’s Enduring Allure
Autochromes afford a remarkably colorful glimpse into what is usually considered a monochromatic era. Stephen Crowley offers an appreciation.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/archive-17/
Looking through a loupe at the grain that makes up the gossamer colors of an autochrome is like looking at a pointillist painting, a miniature Georges Seurat.
Autochrome is a process developed in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in which glass plates were coated with a layer of potato starch mixed with color dyes that filtered light before it reached the emulsion. It yielded a grainy, positive image of muted pastels on a glass plate: a stained-glass window of the recent past.
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david rochkind – heavy hand, sunken spirit
[slidepress gallery=’rochkind_anthropographia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT David Rochkind Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit: Th…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/05/david-rochkind-heavy-hand-sunken-spirit/
I am not creating a story about violence that happens to be set in Mexico, but rather a story about Mexico’s present situation, offering a snapshot of a time that will be referred to for decades as people look for answers to make sense of Mexican society. I want each image to convey a sense of Mexico, her color, and her culture. The wounds of this war bleed into every corner of the country, staining the very fabric of Mexican life with violence, death and fear. The psychology of the country is also changing, as people become accustomed to horror and distrust, weakening an already fragile democracy. I am most fascinated by the space between what Mexico has always been and what this carnage is creating.
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Success that Friday night was about cutting edge technology, a super experienced news photographer, and having one of the best pilots in town. Saturday’s page 1 picture was shot at a 3oth of a second (handheld) at f2.0 and at 12,000 ISO so without our new 1D Mark IVs it wouldn’t have happened.
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“Hi, I’m Jim. I’m from the Internet.”
That was the moment Jim MacMillan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, veteran of 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and former embedded journalist of the war in Iraq, realized the game had changed.
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