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Category Archives: Photography
Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist, and winner of several World Press Photo Awards (19751, 19862) slams the selection of the 2009 World Press Photo winners:
The World Press Photo of the Year is stunning for its lack of content or any other journalistic values. The jury’s selection is yet another setback for a profession that is already in deep [...]
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Missing the point
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers:
The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know about [...]
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Annie Leibovitz’s “Rail Love” for Vogue February 2010
Annie Leibovitz’s “Rail Love” for Vogue February 2010
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Aperture 3: I’ll Pass
No tethering support for Canon 5D2, or for that matter, any Canon cameras newer than the 350D.
Even the inelegant workaround, the Hot Folder Import Script doesn’t work. And even when it does, it is still more clumsy than Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3’s implementation of Auto Import, requiring an additional script to work.
As much as [...]
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Angry photographer rants
An angry, traditional photographer rants about how microstock photographers stole his big, fat pay cheque away, calls microstock low quality, and Robert—whose shot was bought by Time—a pervert:
Congratulations Robert, you’ve just become the poster-boy for exactly what is wrong about iStockphoto. A stock rate previously known to be $3,000 for the cover of Time Magazine [...]
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Film bigots II
I took issue with a bigoted and misleading write-up by a group of “elite” film photographers at Anti Lomography with my previous post.
Someone, who posted a comment under a link to rangefinderfilipinas.com, replied:
Sorry, but you missed the point. Or a lot of points, I should say. If you read past the ‘about’ page, [...]
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Film bigots
Over at Anti Lomography, a group of film purists are attacking what they deemed as their inferior film counterparts—lomographers who use “old film cameras that are generally of extremely poor quality and overpriced”.
They claim they aren’t anti-digital and support digital photography as one of the best ways to learn photography. But they would later add: [...]
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Thinktank Pixel Sunscreen
This is going to be very useful for those sunny outdoor shoots.
Via deke.
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Why many photo-sharing sites and communities stink
Petteri Sulonen is right on the money:
I used to participate on Photosig, but I learned to hate it. It exerts a huge pressure of blandification — shooting for the lowest common denominator. Flowers, bug macros, anal-retentive “figure studies,” golden-hour landscapes, pouty soft-focus “glamour” ladies, you name it — every photographic cliché ever invented [...]
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“Ridiculous” to optimise sites for iPhone