I’m on a mission to make my photo life easier when I’m not in work mode. Enter Sony. And Vanity Fair. In the newest issue, FanFair showcases a few spectacular can’t-live-without discretionary things. One item is Sony’s camera dock called Party-Shot which uses facial recognition to detect people in a room. Finds a face, takes [...]
Killzone, Comet Crash, Street Fighter, Red Faction: Guerrilla, God of War, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Modern Warfare, Assassin’s Creed. Slugs for the week’s news budget? Nope. Titles of the most popular video games on the market and showcased at E3 Expo.
Games already use violence for entertainment. New York times Op-ed columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas [...]
Good day for you readers. I recently came across two super fantastic sites. Trendspotting and print buying.
Type and bookmark Springwise. Over 8,000 trendspotters from around the world send in the newest in funky, useful, innovative entrepreneurial ideas and companies. Currently, the site splits the posts into 20 industries including marketing and advertising, style and design, non-profit [...]
That is the period of time when a surfer enjoys the best a swell has to offer. Not a water baby myself, I hear the result is like some kind of magical power. Enter the partnership between the New York Times and Adobe Reader launched the Times Reader 2.0. Abracadabra! Content is sold! Pay nothing [...]
Klavs Bo Christensen knows firsthand. He was booted out of Denmark’s Picture of the Year contest because of his post-production saturation and color treatments. In final rounds, judges requested to see raw files from three contestants, they disqualified Christensen’s entry.
What makes the case more than retouching in the extreme is that Christensen positions the issue [...]
Check out the GE grid site. Digital hologram. I think we can all see the multimedia documentary implications - moments literally jumping out of the screen at you. I jest. The Disney movie Bolt in 3-D attempt now looks amateurish. I’m thrilled not to see scary CNN peoplegrams floating in a red circle. Such a [...]
Don’t have the stamina of David Burnett to lug around digitals, speed graphics and half the B&H inventory? Cheat. Yes, cheat reality. Upload 35mm images to TiltShiftMaker and magically download the medium format look. Best images to manipulate are sweeping expanses with one or two main characters in center of frame.
I have nothing of the [...]
Each month, Wired magazine publishes Jargon Watch - a collection of new ‘it’ words. Take December 2008, one of the nouns to make the list:
“Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as less [...]
Monday. The day to celebrate the good, creative and inspirational. Happy Nugget belongs to Getty Images for 27Letters: Talking in Pictures.
The agency analyzes ‘advertising, architecture, art, celebrity, design, entertainment, fashion, film, news, sport and photography’ sites to pick up ‘the most used, referenced and talked about images’. Each month a new issue is published. Few [...]
When I owned my own photography business, I spent a half day or so each month catching up on management trends. The habit stuck with me as a photo editor. Good managers and change agents don’t magically grow on the career tree.
In a November 2008 report, Annette Moser-Wellman says that a news company should have [...]
