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I really liked the Albinism story/pictures. Not particularly feeling either of the other two. The kid who got shot is sad, but the story feels manipulative, like it's more "look at this touching story I have created from these broken people" and less genuine insight into a tragedy. "Six months after the shooting, Josue’s father moved out, leaving his mother to balance Josue’s increased needs with those of her other four children." *shows a picture with only three children in it, one of them standing in a fridge* 
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The first place general news photo is I think a much stronger war image. http://www.poyi.org/68/08/index.php
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Feb 11, 2011 19:51
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I really liked the Albinism story/pictures. Not particularly feeling either of the other two. The kid who got shot is sad, but the story feels manipulative, like it's more "look at this touching story I have created from these broken people" and less genuine insight into a tragedy. That was my feeling as well, the albinism one was the most compelling and interesting of the three.
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Feb 11, 2011 20:04
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Ahahahahaha holy poo poo I shot those same albino kids at that same house for the other local paper. They were a blast, really cool family. Needless to say that guy did a much better job covering them than I did.  Also the Grunt's Life story was shot by Damon Winter, a NYT staff photographer, not just a fellow soldier, for what it's worth.
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Feb 11, 2011 20:11
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Paragon8 posted:The first place general news photo is I think a much stronger war image. Agreed. Not sure what's so remarkable about third place. You can barely tell he's carrying a person, but maybe that's what makes it special. Now "FRIDA," there's some war journalism.  I think my favorites from that are the first place and the kid playing in the mud. BobTheCow posted:Also the Grunt's Life story was shot by Damon Winter, a NYT staff photographer, not just a fellow soldier, for what it's worth. That makes it seem even less impressive.
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Feb 11, 2011 20:30
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BobTheCow posted:Ahahahahaha holy poo poo I shot those same albino kids at that same house for the other local paper. They were a blast, really cool family. Needless to say that guy did a much better job covering them than I did. Jeez man, you let an award opportunity slip through your hands. You really should have brought that flash.
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BobTheCow posted:Ahahahahaha holy poo poo I shot those same albino kids at that same house for the other local paper. They were a blast, really cool family. Needless to say that guy did a much better job covering them than I did. Totally misread a caption on that. My bad. The Frida image is great because they typo "weapon" to "Veapon" so it's even more stereotypically hot swedish blonde.
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Feb 11, 2011 20:51
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Hot like a g36.
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Feb 11, 2011 20:56
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poopinmymouth posted:Brad has done some kickass stuff. The key to getting a lot out of "boring" homework assignments is to find the part you like about them. If the arranging and styling of it is boring, try focusing on lighting, or post work. Try to see if there is items you would have fun with. I do find the arranging and styling part pretty boring but I do like playing with lights, so that's what I'll do.
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Feb 11, 2011 21:45
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If you want more inspiration you could check out Dan Tobin Smith, I love his stuff. He did the Blueprint III cover.
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Feb 11, 2011 23:09
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Paragon8 posted:You guys should check out the Albino adoption story that got second place. Really harrowing. Was it really taken with an iPhone and sent through hipstamatic? Cause it certainly isn't the default iPhone camera. To me it looks like a regular modern DSLR with green hue and vignetting added in post. Not that a photo doc of soldiers isn't interesting. And 1st and 2nd place also has gripping stories to tell. But my pet peeve of post production rears its sharpness adjusted and under-saturated head. The post production has one core motivation, which is making them look like classic pictures of some golden age of photograhpy, but back then pics were black and white because they were shot on black and white film, vignetting was caused by the lens and in cases of color, green hue was caused by the film. Something just grinds me when I think about the dirty clash of journalism and art. "Man look at this kid, he is totally shot in the head! His scarred head will look so awesome with my "gripping moment B/W" preset". To be fair, 2nd place is probably quite true to what came out of the camera.
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Can a radiographer fake it as a fashion photographer? Just found this and am watching it now. edit: Jesus, how many people would absolutely kill for this kind of opportunity? edit II: this may be Australia only, apologies if this is the case. psylent fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Feb 12, 2011 |
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Feb 12, 2011 13:50
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These two showed up in my google reader this morning, I never realized how good Olympus got the styling of their m4/3 kit zoom. http://sgcamerastyle.tumblr.com/post/3249627653/singapore-camera-style-leica-m2-with-cognac  http://tokyocamerastyle.com/post/3246677233/shinjuku-12-19-2010-leica-m2-with-50mm
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Feb 12, 2011 15:55
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psylent posted:Can a radiographer fake it as a fashion photographer?
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For those of you that go to zoo in the winter, how do you deal with fog/condensation on your lenses between the outdoors and the ultra-humid pavilions and indoor enclosures?
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Feb 12, 2011 21:29
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Winter responds to the debate over his Hipstamatic Grunt's Life photo series: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-hipstamatics/ "No content has been added, taken away, obscured or altered. These are remarkably straightforward and simple images."
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Feb 12, 2011 22:14
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psylent posted:I do find the arranging and styling part pretty boring but I do like playing with lights, so that's what I'll do. Look at dudes doing editorial tabletop stuff. Still life to me is really exciting, you can do anything. Sometimes it is tedious but I just kind of think of it the same as spending time in the darkroom - time consuming and detail oriented but worth it. People you should google: Adam Voorhees Levi Brown Horacio Salinas Dwight Eschliman Bela Borsodi Paul Graves Pick up any issue of Wired or similar magazine and just google still life guys.
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Feb 12, 2011 22:47
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aliencowboy posted:For those of you that go to zoo in the winter, how do you deal with fog/condensation on your lenses between the outdoors and the ultra-humid pavilions and indoor enclosures? I basically decide that I am going to limit myself to shooting one or the other. Although that's probably not an appealing option to someone that doesn't spend as much time there as I do, which is a lot. The other option is to bring a big ziploc bag and put your camera in there before you enter or leave a building, and wait until it's reached ambient temperature before pulling it out.
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brad industry posted:Adam Voorhees Sweet portfolio, but the best part is that his site has flash game of Pong.
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Feb 14, 2011 03:15
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Was this the inspiration for your frog dissection Brad? Voorhees stuff is awesome.
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Feb 14, 2011 05:47
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This is awesome
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Feb 14, 2011 14:24
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psylent posted:This is awesome That is an absolutely amazing idea. The results are great.. especially the ones that were repeated at the same location.
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Feb 14, 2011 16:01
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I love how they managed to recreate the processing of the original photos in some of those shots. What an awesome idea for a project.
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Feb 14, 2011 18:23
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Love it, thanks for posting 
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Feb 14, 2011 18:28
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Goddamn you people, any time I've tried clicking that link today it's refused to load for me.
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Feb 14, 2011 18:32
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Wow, that is really impressive.
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Feb 14, 2011 18:35
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New photoblog run by the same buy who started Bostons globe big picture. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/
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Dread Head posted:New photoblog run by the same buy who started Bostons globe big picture. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/ Aha! This morning I saw that on The Atlantic, and thought "Wow, they really ripped off Big Picture". I didn't connect the dots that the former editor left a few weeks back, haha.
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onezero posted:Aha! This morning I saw that on The Atlantic, and thought "Wow, they really ripped off Big Picture". I didn't connect the dots that the former editor left a few weeks back, haha. I love the format he's chosen for the blog, and hope it never changes. The way the photos dominate the layout is rare and fantastic. Having none of that "click to zoom" bullcrap makes it the best.
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psylent posted:Was this the inspiration for your frog dissection Brad? Voorhees stuff is awesome. No, actually I just saw that recently after I met yet another photographer who also shot a dissected frog. I wrote about it here.
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Just saw this on boing boing: http://turnstylenews.com/2011/02/14/slideshow-mark-laitas-created-equal/ Another neat idea that makes me question my own creativity.
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xzzy posted:Just saw this on boing boing: These are neat but what's so creative about juxtaposing two people from different walks of life that conflict with each other? Is it because it's such a basic idea and you don't think you ever would have come up with it?
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mr. mephistopheles posted:These are neat but what's so creative about juxtaposing two people from different walks of life that conflict with each other? Is it because it's such a basic idea and you don't think you ever would have come up with it? I like the idea of creating what's basically the same photo twice.. the only difference being the subjects. Either photo alone would be pretty unremarkable but side by side it provokes some contemplation. It's not the best idea ever, but I certainly wouldn't have come up with it. I keep seeing photos in the snapshot sense where it serves as a memory of a place. I find it really hard to treat what I'm doing as an expressive medium when holding the camera.
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Another mouseover before/after photoshop comparison. Some of the skin tone improvements were amazing. http://www.msethjones.com/rollovers/
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DaNzA posted:Another mouseover before/after photoshop comparison. Some of the skin tone improvements were amazing. Intimidating... almost more like digital painting though.
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I think it's amazing how much they can change and it still looks real enough that if you didn't know what to look for you wouldn't notice. They are so perfect that the rollovers look like horrible monsters compared to the touched versions.
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DaNzA posted:Another mouseover before/after photoshop comparison. Some of the skin tone improvements were amazing. Please some one never do this with met-art.
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ease posted:Please some one never do this with met-art. Also, am I the only one who prefers the un-retouched images? The final versions don't look human.
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DaNzA posted:Another mouseover before/after photoshop comparison. Some of the skin tone improvements were amazing. Nothing new, but still sickening.
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I think it's weird that the slightly desaturated, cooler white balance look is the current trend.
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