“With the masses of salmon gone from the river, the bears are fishing those left below the falls. We can see the salmon in the water but they aren’t jumping. So in the pools where they’ve gathered, the bears gather and defend. them What looks like a sleepy bear is actually a bear displaying his [...]

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“Getty Images replaced StockXpert ads on Stock.xchng – the world’s most popular free photo website acquired as part of the Jupiterimages purchase – with iStockphoto ads. Search results now show iStockphoto exclusive images above the free photos. Branded as ‘premium’ images, they link back to search results pages containing both exclusive and non-exclusive content.” — Lee Torrens
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“Just a few days ago my sparkly, shiny new Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens arrived from B&H Photo. I was lucky enough to check their website during one of the ten-minute periods when they have these in stock and placed my order right away. Half an hour later, they were sold out again.” — Thomas Graves
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“When it comes to my editing workflow for stock photography, I am very resistant to change. My lifetime 92.5+% acceptance rate at iStock makes me very set in my ways. I have reminded myself numerous times of the stereotypical grumpy old man with responses like “Why should I use that newfangled Lightroom thing when what [...]

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“Today I want to show you a simple but powerful two light set up for location. The image is of a Mother and son looking at a book together in a nice master bedroom. Main light is an Elinchrom 600 ws Strobe with the 53″ Junior Octa my favorite soft box.” — Kenneth Linge
Source and Read More: kennethlinge.squarespace.com

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“Minor digital SLR camera update also corrects foreign language glitches.
Canon has just released a minor firmware update for the Canon EOS 50D digtital SLR camera that fixes a phenomenon where captured images may tend to … “ — Adorama
Source and Read More: adorama.com

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“Leica has put the finishing touches on its new S-System camera, the Leica S2, and announced the full retail price and release date. We won’t beat about the bush – this camera costs a cool £15,995.” — Al Warmington
Source and Read More: t3.com

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“Where do you get you inspiration and motivation for the work you do? If you’re like many artists, chances are you are inspired by others in your industry whose work you admire. There’s a certain level of geek-like admiration that comes over you when you see a particular cinematic shot executed in a way you’ve [...]

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“HotPrints is a simple and easy to use feature for Facebook users that allows you to easily create printed photo books from your Facebook Photos!” — Cool Photo Ideas
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“”It’s time once again to ask a well-known photographer, instructor or otherwise interesting person the same 10 questions and ask them to Finish the Sentence! This time, the sentences are finished by…. Audrey Woulard.
Audrey, please Finish the Sentence…“” — Dave Cross
Source and Read More: davecross.blogspot.com

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“I was reading in the Wall Street Journal last week about how one luxury merchant was handling our current economy. Many of us have felt the down turn in business. Clients are asking for discounts on the products and services many businesses are offering.” — David Ziser
Source and Read More: digitalprotalk.blogspot.com

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Leica has published the suggested retail prices for its new Leica S-System and confirmed October 2009 as the first month for UK availability. The S-System, which sits at the very top end of the digital photography spectrum, will be offered at a very competitive starting price of £15,996 (SRP, body only).
Source and Read More: ephotozine.com

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“Over the past couple of years, I’ve mentioned some of my personal favorite “undiscovered” photographers (part 1 and part 2). I say “undiscovered” because these folks are not your mainstream hotshots known by every other photographer on the face of the Earth — but, you never know what the future holds (plus they’re still freakin’ [...]

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“Tips for Better Press Photos
Variety
Different media outlets have different editorial styles. You want variety in your media kit. Shoot in the studio, outdoors, on sets, and don’t forget to capture action stills of you at work….” — Eric Hamilton
Source and Read More: dilvie.com

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“This will be a special feature for hard core falconeye followers
It all started with the exciting new feature of the Pentax K-7 camera which can produce true HDR images in-camera (it takes 3 shots, 3 exposure values apart from each other, and creates a single, tone-mapped or blended image from the sequence). It [...]

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“Kodak today unveiled the new Kodak Easyshare D830 Digital Frame that enables consumers to enjoy and share stunning displays of their digital images within hundreds of traditional picture frames.” — Faraeastgizmos
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“Landscape photographer Colin Southern is based in Nelson, New Zealand. “Every serious photographer,” says Colin, “knows there will be times when their best laid plans for a great image will fall through. That’s when I find myself having to switch to ‘Plan B’ at the last moment. (‘Plan B’ being essentially ‘The lights fading – [...]

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“Canon has posted a firmware update for its EOS 50D digital SLR. Version 1.0.7 corrects the a magenta cast that can appear on images in specific shooting modes.” — dpreview
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““Feeling Photography” is an international, interdisciplinary conference that will bring together scholars working in a range of interpretive and theoretical approaches to interrogate the relationship between the affect, emotion, and/or feeling and the photograph. The conference will be held at the University of Toronto and is sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the [...]

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“WASHINGTON – In a new study, the outline of an ancient Roman city buried beneath cropland near Venice, Italy, has been mapped in detail for the first time with the aid of aerial photography.
Until now the ancient city of Altinum, which dates back at least to the first century BC, was known only from historical [...]

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“Just before Sam started college, I bought her two photography books (okay, that’s in addition to all the other photography books I’d been buying her for the past two years). One of them is… Ummm, this is the part where I stood up and started hunting for the book which I was sure I left [...]

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“With the switch to digital, and with its limited appeal except for professional photographers, Kodak has announced the end of Kodachrome. It was a special process, originally processed only by Kodak. But it yielded outstanding color transparencies with bright colors and high sharpness.
So I’m commemorating the event by showing off some of my Kodachromes, going [...]

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“For many photographers, the Mecca of accomplishments is to have your work displayed on a wall – and in many cases that means a wall other than your own home. In other words, gallery displays. There are lots of ways you can go about accomplishing this, and for the record, I have not had [...]

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“It was fun reading all the great attempts to deconstruct the photo from Monday’s post. As you might imagine, many of you got close or even nailed some of the components, and many of you were way in left field. And that’s exactly what I expected, especially since this image has some tricky, unexpected stuff [...]

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“Being familiar with Hans-Christian Schink’s wonderful Traffic Projects (see some of the images from the book here), finding LA was a bit of a surprise for me (even though I should have known from his most recent work – examples in the top row on this page that Schink is not a large-format one-trick pony).” — Joerg [...]

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