Category: Pro photo
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Photojournalism has never been easy
Living on the edge means bringing back some tremendous photographs with a high power on the minds of those who will be seeing them. But it has never been easy on the photographer. YouTube link
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Kuwait: DSLR authorized again
Now, this is good journalism: Kuwait Times has been following on their previous story about a ban imposed onto Digital SLR cameras in Kuwait. Actually, they published a retraction indicating that this was false information. Less surprising, but kudos to them for standing up to good journalism standards: Always check the source information.
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Kuwait: DSLR prohibited
Surprising decision in Kuwait: The use of a DSLR photo camera has just been prohibited by a coordinated decision of three ministries (Ministry of Information, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Finance) which determined that the Digital SLR cameras could only be used by professional news people. The prohibition seems not to apply to…
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Links between a flash and a studio
A photographic studio is not only a place where there are too many cables on the floor. It could also be an excuse to find a lot of useful web links: High Speed Sync for flash at any shutter speed Almost Free DIY Paper Diffuser (Strobist) High Speed Photography Studio at Home You also have…
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German special! Videos for photographers
Of course, you have to understand German, but here is a web site which has a lot of interesting videos for, about and from great photogrpahers: FotoTV.de. Just a couple of examples: Elliott Erwitt Robert Doisneau If only this existed in other languages! I’d like to speak about them too.
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Dramatic fire for Philip Plisson
Fortunately, with more destruction than victims, the “Plisson La Trinité” studio-gallery burned to the ground on September 19. Unfortunately, this is a 30-year-long archive which flared up in flames. Those are thousands of pictures, the years of life of a great man who will have to rebuild from nearly nothing, except his eyes, his heart…
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Big Picture iPad app
Do you know the excellent The Big Picture web site? It hosts marvelous sets of pro news photographs. I admit freely that I always keep an eye on this excellent source. Today, I learn that Boston.com (which is hosting The Big Picture) launches a new iTunes application for the iPad. And this is a great…
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Stages of a photographer
Found at RobertBenson.com, here is probably the best description of how a photographer evolves in time (from larva to beautiful butterfly, one would say). You may be any location on this evolution chart, but it’s good to recognize that you still have the possibility to move forward to the right of the graph. Stages of…
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An iPhone for fashion photography
After that, don’t tell me that the iPhone 3GS is not really a camera. Vimeo link Of course, the final photos have been edited in Photoshop afterwards, but isn’t it the case for all studio work?