Inspiring Photographers
Apple's ode to Magnum in Motion
Alien Skin has just launched Blow Up, if you are into enlarging digital images
Rediff.com chats with Steven J. Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera at Kodak
Entering the photojournalism job market
Craig Newmark, of Craigslist fame, has aspirations in journalism [that should read “perspirations in journalism”]
Blueeyes Magazine launches issue 13
High Dynamic Range Photography
Adobe 2006 Design Achievement Award Winners
If you are at all interested in design, read this blog: UNBeige
Mark Kramer at the Nieman Narrative Conference says that registration for the ninth annual meetup is open. He also suggested that we check out Nieman Narrative Digest, a repository of links, video clips and other forms of inspiration for those interested in this genre of journalism. If you haven't been to the conference, you ought to check it out at least once.
Colin Hastings is “relaunching kijiji*Vision in the Autumn as a result of some significant and exciting developments which will create the first web site solely to promote the work of talented photographers from the developing world.”
Connected to kijiji*Vision is Majority World: “A unique collection representing the wealth of fresh imagery emerging from indigenous photographers from within the developing world and global South.”
Josh Keay at PhotoJoJo shows you how you can in five minutes or less recover shadow detail in an image using Photoshop
I am looking into using Zooomr to store and save my images for this and other blogs I publish. I have also stumbled on SnipShot to edit online all these large images produced from my megapixel cameras.
Adobe‘s John Nack has a link to 10 free Photoshop plug-ins and more
Scooch: “An accessible, Web Standards based slide show creator and presentation blog for web sites from Grow Collective“
Leela, tipping “the work/play scale toward joy and fun.” [via Boing Boing]
UltraBrown, hip desi blog introduced to me by Amit Varma of India Uncut fame.
Desi computer scientist wants you to browse this page using nothing more than your eyeballs [via SiliconBeat]
Seeing Near and Far: In A Picture's Worth, a blog by those who run the terrific PhotoShelter service, an “industry-standard for online archiving, distribution and sales of images for the independent professional photographer.”
The Fuji FinePix F30 Review Roundup. I want this camera bad!
Get out and play with Flickr Toys
A Photographer's Quest For Perfect Light. Sure, you are going to look like a dork, but your images are going to rock!
I love words but sometimes I just can't spell worth a hill of beans. Instead of reaching out for my favorite dictionary online or hard copy, I am going to use this little USB-based device that Meriam Webster has produced. “In addition to the 300,000 word dictionary and 500,000 word thesaurus you get other applications as well like; grammar guide, confusable function that alerts you to words spelled differently that sound the same (there, their) and a crossword puzzle solver.”
A little whacky, but Dr. Russell Brown has a show you digital photographers should not miss. His Photoshop tips are simply great and his Services, a pack of scripts for Adobe Photoshop CS2, are a must have.
Dan Roam's Digital Roam is for visual thinkers. His book, “The Back of the Napkin: Solving problems with pictures” will be published in 2008.