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Nikon D800/D4 troubles, and Nikon's response
Canon's fix for the 5D mk III light leak issue is a bit of black tape.
Olympus E-M5 review by DP Review
Adobe Lightroom 4.1 Rc2: Still buggy according to many users.
Nikon D800 VS Canon 5D Mark III: DXO verdict is out, Canboys hide themselves in shame.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Field review by Michael Gakuran
Nikon D800 Review by Nasim Mansurov
Adobe Photoshop CS6 compatibility: Windows XP yes(!), Windows Vista no, Apple 64 bit only.
Patrick Butler reviews the Canon 5D Mark III and shoots a wedding with it.
Canon 5D Mark III review roundup part 1
Advice To Young Photographers by Justin Mott
"So here I am about a month later at my apartment on the eve of the Lunar New Year trying desperately to remember what I was writing. I truly enjoy teaching and Ihope to have more opportunities to do so in the near future. So to my former and future students and anyone else who cares to read, here are my thoughts on approaching personal projects and photo-stories.
• Go after stories you have genuine interest in. Don’t go for stories just because you think it will impress the masses. Nothing wrong with doing a story about HIV but also nothing wrong with doing a story about what it’s like to be a stray dog in an animal shelter (more on that later).• A photo story isn’t done in one day or one week. Take time to earn the space and intimacy with your subjects and give them the respect they deserve for entrusting you to tell their story.• Stories don’t always have to be linear where you show the subject waking up doing what he/she does then going to bed. Be more creative than that.• Stop taking pictures of children smiling looking directly into your camera. Well you don’t have to stop taking those shots but stop putting them in your portfolio unless you are doing a story about children smiling into cameras. These are the easiest shots to take, strive for better than that and for not being present in your images.• Make the viewer care about your subject or subject matter. Think about when you watch a movie. If you don’t care about the characters you tune out. With still images we have even less leeway to draw in our audience.• Show me don’t tell me. If you need to explain your story to me for 30 minutes because the pictures aren’t doing so, you have a problem. Your images need to tell the story that is why you are a photographer and not a writer.• You have to give a shit about your story or else it will show and we won’t give a shit either. You will have ups and downs along the way and bouts with boredom but overall you need to care.• Take cue from directors you admire. Think about how they crafted their stories and the journey they took you on. If you don’t know any directors off hand, think about what movies you really enjoyed why you liked them. Go back and watch it and pay attention to how the directed crafted the story.• Sequencing is an art in itself. Pay attention to sequencing when you are showing your images in a slideshow. Give serious thought to how you weave your images together to tell your story. Do you want to create some mystery? Do you want to build up to a big ending? Do you want your audience to have to really think or do you want to be upfront from the first image. Sequencing is an art in itself. I know I keep beating home this movie director thing but they are building their story just like you are, so the parallels are endless.• Stop and share your images along the way with like and unlike minds. Let people take in your story both photographers and civilians (non-photographers). I feel like too often we (myself included) focus (pun intended) too much on appeasing other photographers with our work instead of focusing more on the story itself. I’ve left out powerful images from my edits because I didn’t like the style of the image and it was a mistake.• Don’t set things up. Life is beautiful and surprising all by itself so just let it unfold and be ready to capture it. When you set up scenes, in addition to many other reasons it’s wrong, you are setting things up based on your memory of perhaps another photograph you saw and you are losing originality.• It’s okay to have influence in your photography but be careful of that gray line of influence and mimicking."Links:(Maybe) Related articles
Makeover in reverse: Boxers, before and after the match.
Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt is among other things, also known for the grittiness in some of his previous work. On this occasion, he puts a human face on it, and a backstory that deals with dreams, sex, and identity, to match.
Although the 'Boxer" series and consequent book were originally presented back in 2003, it has now been re-edited and republished by HJØRRING of Denmark.
The book contains 78 diptych portraits of moderately to heavily smashed up amateur Boxers and their stories. The preface is written by author Edward Bunker (Dog eat dog, Little Boy Blue). The photographs are also available at Howalts own online gallery.
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage exhibition
(Via pdnpulse.com)
"New work by Annie Leibovitz goes on exhibit today at the American Art Museum in Washington, DC., and it’s only distantly related to the celebrity portraiture she’s so famous for: Leibovitz has turned her camera on the personal effects and ephemera of celebrities from bygone eras, especially notable women."
A New Way For Photographers To Self-Publish @ Photofocus
This article refers to Apple ibooks, revealed a couple of days ago. The medium is easy enough to comprehend by even the most compuphobic photographer, and the potential market is huge with almost 50 million ipads sold so far, and another 50 millions projected for the next 18 months.
