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fivre posted:Does he keep a cow in the darkroom? No, he keeps a family of racoons though
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quote:Sun-Times photographer Alex Garcia argues that the “idea that freelancers and reporters could replace a photo staff with iPhones is idiotic at worst, and hopelessly uninformed at best.” Garcia believes that reporters are incapable of writing articles and also producing quality media, but she’s fighting an uphill battle. Except that Alex Garcia is a man. Nice reporting, cultofmac. Here is Garcia's piece: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/assignment-chicago/2013/05/the-idiocy-of-eliminating-a-photo-staff.html I know nothing about news reporting but I imagine that quality will suffer.
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I find it vaguely amusing that the Chicago Tribune's article on this doesn't have any pictures but rather video. I personally find stills to be easier to consume than video. It seems people constantly seem to push video as an evolution of stills but really they are consumed very differently. Unfortunately for photojournalism it seems like the move is to shoot video and scrub it for stills to use and try and kill two birds with one stone. It will be interesting to see how much of a poo poo the readers will give.
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aliencowboy posted:People read newspapers? to look at the pictur.... oh wait.
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Paragon8 posted:I find it vaguely amusing that the Chicago Tribune's article on this doesn't have any pictures but rather video. Any time a news item is a report filed as a video without a transcription I instantly close the window. Time to read a transcription ~1 minute. Time to watch the video? ~3-6 minutes plus now I have to put on headphones. Do. not. want. The only time video is ok is if they have video of whatever the story is about, e.g. guy gets in huge shootout with police, here is a video of the shootout.
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So I decided to see what would be my bare essentials that I would have on me if I needed to minimalize the stuff I carry. 4 items, not bad.
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Dren posted:Any time a news item is a report filed as a video without a transcription I instantly close the window. Time to read a transcription ~1 minute. Time to watch the video? ~3-6 minutes plus now I have to put on headphones. Do. not. want. I agree with this completely. The kicker? I shoot video for a living. Also, scrubbing video for stills is a terrible idea. Video is shot at 1/60 sec pretty much no matter what, almost anything moving fast enough to be interesting will have more motion blur than people are used to seeing in stills. Not to mention that the notion that reporters can create quality video on an iPhone is just as offensive as the notion that they can shoot quality photos. Perhaps even more laughable, actually, since you introduce terrible sound to the mix as well.
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Chitin posted:I agree with this completely. The kicker? I shoot video for a living. Give it five years we'll be seeing nothing but portrait oriented videos in our news reports as journos try and figure out their iPhone 9s
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Does someone have a link handy to that article of photographers that students should never look at? It was a bit tongue-in-cheek and one of the photographers was Stephen Shore.
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Fragrag posted:Does someone have a link handy to that article of photographers that students should never look at? It was a bit tongue-in-cheek and one of the photographers was Stephen Shore. http://lpvmagazine.com/2010/05/oped-photographers-whose-work-aspiring-photographers-should-ignore/ ?
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Reichstag posted:http://lpvmagazine.com/2010/05/oped-photographers-whose-work-aspiring-photographers-should-ignore/ ? "Someone else already did it better -- don't bother getting off your couch"
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Dren posted:"Someone else already did it better -- don't bother getting off your couch" Photograph your cat while sitting on your couch. Use the wi-fi capabilities of your Canon 6D (tm) to upload cats to the internet, all from your catch.
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Worse isn't good enough. You must do it offensively!
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Dren posted:Worse isn't good enough. You must do it offensively! Why choose?
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I urge everyone to read this editorial article on photography, the web, and the curatorial work of photography. It's brilliant. Google's macchia.
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VomitOnLino posted:I urge everyone to read this editorial article on photography, the web, and the curatorial work of photography. It's brilliant.
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VomitOnLino posted:I urge everyone to read this editorial article on photography, the web, and the curatorial work of photography. It's brilliant. Wow what a wonderful article. I have spent time browsing Flickr, usually the strobist group, in search of images containing deep shadow at play with a bright pop of light and vivid color. I was looking for a certain aesthetic, or macchia, to borrow the term from the article. The old Flickr format of showing thumbnails was actually perfect for this task. Each thumbnail is too small to really reveal detail at first glance, it shows only an impression of the total image. So I would browse through, looking for thumbnails that popped at me. There is something undeniable about a photo that is interesting as a thumbnail and that remains interesting at full size. Perhaps my favorite photographer who creates images such as this is Dustin Diaz. I'm afraid my stuff often doesn't capture the interesting even as a thumbnail criteria. But when I get there it's a very satisfying feeling. Thanks again for the article. To have a term that helps describe the way I've been looking at images is fantastic. I intend to play with image search and some of the photos I like to see what pops out.
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I never knew google had that search by image thing going.. didn't flickr have something like that at some point? I remember early on they had a fairly open API and there were a lot of neat hacks that people were working on. The thing is just begging for someone to do a project on the results. The similar images feature produces some hilarious results: 
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Dren posted:I don't recall Flickr ever having anything like that. The closest they come is interestingness, which is as or more concerned with popularity as it is with aesthetic. I've always wanted search by color. http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr 
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VomitOnLino posted:I urge everyone to read this editorial article on photography, the web, and the curatorial work of photography. It's brilliant. This is awesome. Repeat: everyone go read this.
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Holy poo poo thanks.
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Paragon8 posted:I find it vaguely amusing that the Chicago Tribune's article on this doesn't have any pictures but rather video. One of the laid-off photographers has posted a blog, using an iphone to make a point. http://laidofffromthesuntimes.tumblr.com/ Thing is, I can't tell if he is deliberately taking lovely photos to emphasise that point, or if he isn't that good a photographer. the iphone isn't a great P&S, but it isn't that bad, either.
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Yeah, they're not great. I think I'll link him to my Indian cow collection. He needs more foundation.
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I want to see that Indian Cow collection. I might regret that desire. *** 14-year-old uses modern technology to create very cool self-portraits. Adults (presumably) use modern technology to call each other morons in the comments. http://www.demilked.com/surreal-sel...ion_object_map=
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Just for you, ExecuDork. http://imgur.com/a/bgTiT
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Helmacron posted:Just for you, ExecuDork. Sikh cows, brahmin.
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My first exhibition. It didn't turn out exactly as I wanted but if we manage to sell this one we'll make some improvements for the next one.   Sorry for horrible color balance. Thank you everyone in the Dorkroom who have critiqued my photos during the years!
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Very nice! Was this taken in Hong Kong? I can't remember if I already told you but I really enjoyed your Project 52 you posted somewhere in the DR last year. I seem to remember some from HK in there as well. I love the seemingly endless skyline you can find in HK.
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Helmacron posted:Just for you, ExecuDork.  I feel like this one would make a good avatar. It's the tongue sticking out that suggests fluency in posting etiquette, I think.
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'Man with pink shirt, unawares' Photographic print $1500
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This is freaking awesome. I thought you mirrored it for a second because I was like "way too long".
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Saint Fu posted:Very nice! Was this taken in Hong Kong? I can't remember if I already told you but I really enjoyed your Project 52 you posted somewhere in the DR last year. I seem to remember some from HK in there as well. I love the seemingly endless skyline you can find in HK. Yup, Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong. And thanks!  Helmacron posted:This is freaking awesome. I thought you mirrored it for a second because I was like "way too long". Had a wide wall to fill so it had to be wide
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The photo in the back looks like an interesting idea, has anyone done a series of life-sized/to scale prints?
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