A recent Pentagon report on the situation in Afghanistan over the past 6 months gives the impression that while things aren’t necessarily getting any worse, they are far from improving. Afghan citizens, when polled, showed only limited support for their g
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/afghanistan_april_2010.html
Scott Strazzante’s amazing photo blog has moved to a new home.
Link: Shooting from the Hip | Chicago Tribune | Blog
I’m calling it as I see it. DSLR video is a fad – at least in solo video journalism it is. Plain and simple. There are many who have become enamoured with the so called uber cool extreme shallow depth of field flavor of the moment, equating it to creative license and thus making it their top priority, and in the process, losing sight of the first rule of solo video journalism: It’s the story, not the gear.
Link: http://www.solovj.com/video-cameras-a-personal-perspective
via: 98% operator and 2% equipment | duckrabbit – we produce beautifully crafted multimedia
Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive features thousands of images, videos and essays on tribalism of young across globe
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/02/youth-culture-photography-archive
Among the thousands of images in the Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive are Parisian beatniks pontificating over coffee and cigarettes, rockers frozen in time at the Ace cafe in 1964, sun-kissed hippies sucking earnestly on their joints, punk girls sitting in a burnt-out car, and ecstatic, exhausted acid house ravers heading for a crashing comedown.
Here are 22 pictures that you submitted. As of Sunday evening, there were at least 9,977 other photos waiting to be published.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/readers-13/
Every time we expect the best of Lens readers, they do better.
With more than a bit of promotional hyperbole, we invited everyone with a camera to take a picture on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours U.T.C. and submit it to The New York Times. For our part, we promised to cobble these together into a mosaic portrait of one “Moment in Time” around the world.
Here’s another fotofest find. Susan Barnet t She has spends here days trolling the streets of NYC looking for interesting t-shirts to…
Link: http://adjustmentlayer.blogspot.com/2010/05/susan-barnett.html
Here’s another fotofest find. Susan Barnett She has spends here days trolling the streets of NYC looking for interesting t-shirts to photograph. She’s kind of OCD about the project but in a good way she told me she has thousands of these images.
Ethan Welty was independently covering the protest by environmental activists and was photographing from outside of the plant’s perimeter and in the crowd that had gathered. He has put together his pictures from the event on photoshelter. Shortly after the four who had trespassed on the plant’s property were arrested and escorted out police approached Welty, who was on property outside of the power plant, and arrested him. All five were charged with 2nd Degree Criminal trespass
Link: Photojournalist arrested in Colorado after environmental protest | dvafoto
Al Paglione, a longshoreman-turned-photojournalist who chronicled 35 years in the life of North Jersey, died Wednesday night at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. He was 80 and lived in Ridgefield Park.
Link: NorthJersey.com: Al Paglione, self-taught, award-winning Record photographer, dies
Award-winning photographer Stuart Freedman argues that the crisis of identity in photojournalism today can only be answered with a greater understanding of subject matter and context.
Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Ethics and photojournalism
Adobe has posted for download Lens Profile Creator 1.0 for Mac and Windows, its utility for generating lens profiles to be used with the Lens Correction tool in Photoshop CS5. These profiles will also be compatible with the soon-to-be-released Camera Raw 6.1 for Photoshop CS5 and the upcoming Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Adobe releases Lens Profile Creator, readying other utilities
West Virginia Uncovered is a project by the P.I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. The project sends journalism students to community newspapers around the state to teach multimedia storytelling. Project Director John Temple and Project Coordinator M.K McFarland talk about West Virginia Uncovered.
Link: The Visual Student » Discovering West Virginia Uncovered
Adding a previously unannounced goodie into the CS5 mix, Russell Brown has created a new Watermark Panel for use in Photoshop. He writes, Need to watermark a photo? You got it! Need to watermark 10…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/04/new_watermark_panel_for_photoshop_cs5.html
The all new Adobe Watermark panel takes all the hassle out of watermarking and let’s you get back to work (or doing the other things you like to do) a lot faster.
A photographer I’m working with asked me yesterday if I think photographers can edit their own work well. I answered that no, generally, I don’t think they can. The answer was not about job security for people like me, who edit photography for a living. Honest.
How to join our worldwide photo community on Sunday.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/readers-11/
Attention: everyone with a camera, amateur or pro. Please join us on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 (U.T.C./G.M.T.), as thousands of photographers simultaneously record “A Moment in Time.” The idea is to create an international mosaic, an astonishingly varied gallery of images that are cemented together by the common element of time.
Oh yes! And now for a little a little self-deprecating fun* (“Unicorn into a meteor sho-weer!”): You can download and/or buy CS5 apps here. (Here’s the link for Photoshop specific…
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/04/cs5_is_shipping.html
Stephen Shore is a prominent photographer and photographic educator. A pioneer in the field of color photography, Shore has published numerous books of photography, included his seminal book, Uncommon Places, published in 1982 (reissued in 2004).
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/04/interview-uncommon-interview-with.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29
On occasion of the recent printing of a second edition of The Nature of Photographs, published by Phaidon Press, is Stephen Shore’s primer on the understanding of the photographic object. Big Red writer Ben R. Sloat interviewed the noted photographer before his lecture at Boston University on the 5th of April.
Cheng-Chang Wu, from Taiwan, recently won The Power of Self, “an international search for the world’s most compelling self-portraits”
A series of web based interviews with innovative contemporary photographers from around the world….
Link: http://www.mullitover.cc/
A series of web based interviews with innovative contemporary photographers from around the world.
my peeps (hollah 212!) wrote a cool new thing called the “Photography Blog Handbook,” which is:
1. free
2. covers all this business marketing stuff
3. has a totally awesome drawing of a cowit’s like all of the resources & tools you need to make blogging work for you; time saving content ideas your clients and search engines will love; and success stories and case studies so you can learn from the pros. there’s links to over 25 different plugins you can use to display photos and pimp your blog with other key features like analytics, SEO, and social sharing.
Link: Your Photography Blog Ain’t No Online Journal – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
When I got to her apartment she told me that she did not like having her picture taken. Being able to relate, I decided to keep my camera in my bag and hanging our for a while to talk about her amazing book collection. We talked a lot – about Duchamp, Hockney and Kant, then I photographed things in her living room. Her plants, her music, her lying on the floor laughing uncontrollably.