Inspiring Photographers
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I'll often post images here that are interesting, curious and even spectacular. Would you also like to have your images showcased on this blog? If so, join my Flickr community group also called Tiffinbox. Thoughts, suggestions, opinions always welcome, so please leave your comments below.
This blog post is brought to you by Seshu's Pipal Productions.
The image above was originally uploaded by machlee in the tank.
This is one among many colorful, amazing and fun wedding images Jasmeen recently shot. I think it is in Delhi. Here is the complete set of images in a slideshow. What I love about these images, you ask? They place you, the viewer, in the midst of the wedding; making you feel like you were actually there. This in itself makes them unusual because traditional Indian wedding photography is nothing more than a form of treachery, an assault on honest emotions and well, dare I say it, a complete bore. Jasmeen's images are full of the energy we ought to remember for a lifetime or more. Beautifully executed!
I'll often post images here that are interesting, curious and even spectacular. Would you also like to have your images showcased on this blog? If so, join my Flickr community group also called Tiffinbox. Thoughts, suggestions, opinions always welcome, so please leave your comments below.
This blog post is brought to you by Seshu's Pipal Productions.
I want this iconic image signed and framed. Anybody want to pass the hat around? It's only $4675.
BoxCloud – “an easy way to share files with clients and coworkers”
Hand-picked Photoshop Tutorial – these are freakin' awesome [via Smashing magazine]
Lighting with remotes – David Miralle, sports shooter extrordinaire explains how he can get two different images of the same scene by triggering remote cameras and lights. [Via SportsShooter]
Shelfari – create a virtual book shelf and share it with our friends. Oprah, watch out!
Learn Hindi from Bollywood movies [I am a wee bit skeptical about this, but whatever floats your boat]
NBC launched “world blog” but I think it is just much of the same perspective we get out of the network at 6 pm everyday. I'll be watching this blog to see if they really depart from the same old-same old stuff.
If you are a photographer, a serious one and in business, don't walk but run to buy John Harrington's book Best Business Practices for Photographers. I just got it in the mail yesterday and am devouring it.
Also check out Harrington's blog, Photo Business News & Forum. Bookmark it fellow photographers!
I am not even sure this is a fair comparison, but LifeHacker points to a blog that pits GIMP, a free and open-source image editing software against Adobe's Photoshop.
Someone has cajones, I tell ya.
Hugh MacLeod's ChangeThis Manifesto called “How To Be Creative” is a quick download and a terrific read. MacLeod is the sardonic cartoon illustrator on GapingVoid.
I got this link off of Guy Kawasaki's wonderful marketing blog, How To Change The World.
Also read, Steve Pavlina‘s blog post on maximizing creative output. T'is the season to be creative!
Richard Koci Hernandez's new site Multimedia Shooter prompts a near-daily visit from me. When he posted a retrospective of his work at the San Jose Mercury News, and it included a piece about Vrindavan: The City Of Widows, I had to post it here.
Feel free to post your comments here after you have seen it.
Update: Photographer Tewfic El-Sawy wrote asking me to mention his multimedia project also on the widows of Vrindavan. Take a loot. Elegantly produced. Also take a look at his project on The Supplicants of Bahadur Shaheed, a Sufi shrine.
The Associated Press seeks a Photo Editor for its Photo Desk in New York City.
This photo editor monitors and edits the flow of photos transmitted to the New York Central Photo Desk by AP staff, freelance and member photographers and photo editors system-wide. This person reviews and edits photos for picture quality and caption accuracy before transmitting as appropriate. This photo editor works closely with staff photographers and member photo staffs to enhance the quality and quantity of the AP's photo report. This person might also deal with topic-specific photo coverage such as business and entertainment.
Candidates should have proven photo editing skills and broad experience in news photography, with a background in newspapers, news magazines and/or news services. Applicants should have strong organizational abilities and a willingness to take visual risks. Candidates should have the ability to work effectively and constructively with key editors and photographers in AP bureaus and at member newspapers, and with freelance photographers. Applicants should have excellent interpersonal skills to coordinate with editors and photographers, and to field member inquiries. Knowledge of PhotoShop, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mac OS and Windows is a necessity.
For consideration, e-mail a cover letter, resume and clips to photoed@apjobs.org. The Associated Press is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Black Star Rising “is designed to educate professional photographers, amateur photographers and photography buyers alike.”
How to be a curious photographer?
Swami Safari “showcasing the style of great artists and eventually having a collage of many different styles and intepretations of the same core theme (i.e. Hindu spirituality and ancient mythology)”
I am using CiteBite more and more as I read more and more and quote more and more
John Loomis, who edits Blueeyes Magazine just sent me an email saying issue 14 is now out
Via TED