I’m not exactly sure what it is about shooting at fairs that makes it difficult. Honestly, it has to be visual overload. Sometimes there is just too much going on to really concentrate on a particular moment – carnival workers yelling at you, a big vat of teen angst and love, unreal smells, ridiculous clutter – it all just messes with me.
In his first assignment for National Geographic, the Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin has explored what happens when one of the world’s most critical issues — climate change — is superimposed on one of the world’s most volatile regions.
Link: Little Water, and Less, Along the Jordan – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
The first in a series of reports by C.J. Chivers on the early days of Operation Moshtarak, the major offensive launched in Marja, Afghanistan, in late February.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/marja-embed-six-weeks-in-helmand-province/
After spending more than six weeks with the Marines and Afghan National Army in Helmand Province, Tyler Hicks and I left Afghanistan in early March. We plan to return a few times this year. Meanwhile, our colleagues will follow developments there, as Rod Nordland just did. But even as the conversation pitches forward, there are items from the opening of the Marja offensive that merit more attention. The limits of space in the newspaper, as well the shortages of electricity and time while on the ground, meant that material worth sharing at the outset never found an outlet.
Today, March 22nd, is recognized by the United Nations Water Group as “World Water Day”, this year’s theme being “Clean Water
for a Healthy World”. Although we live on a water-covered planet, only 1% of the world’s water is available for human use, the re
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/water.html
Today, March 22nd, is recognized by the United Nations Water Group as “World Water Day”, this year’s theme being “Clean Water for a Healthy World”. Although we live on a water-covered planet, only 1% of the world’s water is available for human use, the rest locked away in oceans, ice, and the atmosphere. The National Geographic Society feels so strongly about the issues around fresh water that they are distributing an interactive version of their April, 2010 magazine for download – free until April 2nd – and will be exhibiting images from the series at the Annenberg Space for photography. National Geographic was also kind enough to share 15 of their images below, in a collection with other photos from news agencies and NASA – all of water, here at home – Earth.
Contractually speaking, companies have found a number of ways to circumnavigate having to pay photographers for additional use of their images. In the ugliest instances, they also manage benefit by reselling the photographer’s images without any further compensation to the photographer. Although there are a number of ways for this to occur, one of the most commonly recognized forms of a ‘rights grab’ happens by way of a ‘Work For Hire’ clause.
Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Work for Hire | Luceo Images
DXOmark released their Leica M9 test results. Leica M9 came 23th in the sensor ranking and 19th in low light ISO ranking. You can also compare the M9 RAW-based camera image quality with any other camera in their database. Have fun! Read more about DXOmark
A new sensor technology promises to make cellphone cameras good enough to use for wedding photos. InVisage Technologies, a Menlo Park, California, company, has developed an image sensor using quantum dots instead of silicon. The company claims its technol
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/quantum-dot-images/
InVisage Technologies, a Menlo Park, California-based company, has developed an image sensor using quantum dots instead of silicon. The company claims its technology increases sensor performance by more than four times.
Building links to your website is, by far, the most effective way to enhance your SEO. Each link represents an “endorsement” and the number of links partially influences how much of your website will be indexed by the search engines, and where you appear in search results.
Link: How to Build Effective Links for SEO – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/03/foundry-photo-workshop-scholarships.html
Eric Beecroft of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop issued a press release announcing the winners of the Workshop 2010 Scholarships.
Wow. What an experience. A little over a month ago, I was an Olympic Virgin.
The Vancouver Olympics was my first. A columnist, reporter and myself were charged with covering the entire 2010 Winter Games from Opening to Closing Ceremonies -with as much of a local angle as possible.
Link: ‘Many friends and colleagues warned me of the logistical nightmare that awaited me.’
It’s surprising that it’s taken this long for someone to create a universal (well – almost universal) photographer’s viewfinder application for the iPhone. It has a built-in camera, as well as a large, bright, and sharp screen. Everything that one needs to turn it into viewfinder.
Link: Viewfinder
‘Today, how we divide our time and do our work and get paid for it has virtually no connection to how things worked for those who started out a decade or two before us.’
Link: Nieman Reports | Taking Time to Rethink, Adjust and Move Forward
Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The unsettling images from civil rights battlegrounds, followed closely by the disturbing images from Vietnam battlefields by Horst Faas, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut and others, created a golden era for photojournalism.
Today, everyone with a cellphone is a photographer/videographer and streaming video has become a national obsession. But has the proliferation of images devalued photojournalism and dulled its influence?
Bill Taub, a self-taught NASA photographer whose pictures recorded the country’s major aeronautics and space-flight events from 1958 to 1975, including the missions that sent the first astronauts into orbit and onto the moon, died Feb. 20 at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md.
Link: Bill Taub; photographer recorded NASA history – The Boston Globe
I don’t know if I need to say much more than that for people to already start construct a pre-conceived idea of what it is. I got a rare opportunity to go inside Scientology for The New York Times a few months back with reporter Laurie Goodstein for her story that ran last week. To be honest, I was just as curious as anyone of you out there. I jumped at the chance for the special “access.”
American newspapers, often squeamish when it comes to running disturbing images, overcame their inhibitions after the Haitian earthquake. Journalists say powerful, graphic photographs made clear the depth of the tragedy and fostered support for rebuilding the devastated island nation. But to some, the deluge of images of naked corpses and severed body parts was insensitive and dehumanizing.
Link: Too Graphic?
| American Journalism Review
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Photo by discarted The Christian Science Monitor turns its focus on photographers rights this week, reporting on the ongoing clash between police and the photographers who shoot them. CSM says that…
Link: http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/first-amendment-showdown/
The Christian Science Monitor turns its focus on photographers rights this week, reporting on the ongoing clash between police and the photographers who shoot them.