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Also go to Photography Changes What We Are Willing to Believe by Hany Farid.
Jim
Digital detectives discern Photoshop fakery by Chris Gaylord
Farid can now run possible forgeries through a gamut of tests, even checking the light reflections in people's eyes to triangulate the location of the flash camera that took the picture.
If the analysis of subjects in a photo shows that the camera had to be in multiple places at once, the shot's a fake.
Chris Gaylord
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Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world.
With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.
Photosynth
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Also go to Increase Powers of Observation.
Jim
Ever Notice? by Steve Portigal & Dan Soltzberg
This process of noticing once and then noticing again is how you start finding patterns and uncovering themes.
Steve Portigal
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Also go to Copyright.
Jim
Orphan Works Fallout? History may lend a clue. by Dan Heller
Wonder what the fallout will be if the Orphan Works Act passes?
History may lend a clue.
Dan Heller
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No, this site is not run by Adobe.
It started from a conversation between Adam and myself complaining about Photoshop.
Both of us being web design nerds, we figured 'Why not create a forum for people to vent?
Who knows, maybe Adobe will listen.'
Erik Frick
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Also go to History of Photography.
Jim
This website is an online Media_Museum explaining intriguing and mostly forgotten Early Vintage Visual Media and their history.
Thomas Weynants
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40 years on: the exile comes home to Prague by Sean O'Hagan
In 1969, a year after Russian tanks rolled into Prague, Josef Koudelka visited London with a Czech theatre group.
One Sunday morning he was walking out of his hotel near the Aldwych Theatre when he saw some members of the theatre group perusing a copy of the Sunday Times magazine.
As he passed, he saw to his surprise that they were looking at his own extraordinary photographs of that Russian invasion and the spontaneous street protests it provoked.
Sean O'Hagan
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Seeing In Four Dimensions by Julie Rehme
Mathematicians, freed in their imaginations from physical constraints, can conjure up descriptions of objects in many more dimensions than that.
Points in a plane can be described with pairs of numbers, and points in space can be described with triples.
Why not quadruples, or quintuples, or more?
Julie Rehme
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A nod to nature in the heart of the summer, and to the garden nicely bloomed of my parents.
As soon as the flowers open out with magical colors, the party is launched.
The butterflies twirl around and call the tune, the insects settle to the banquet.
The time remains suspended to this fascinating beauty revealed by a sun shining light or a more filtered.
Nature is really magical and enchanted, the charm and the illusion are everywhere.
LWO
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Also go to Mountain Trail Photo, for more of Ian Plant's work.
Jim
Here are a few ways to add a healthy dose of chaos to your photography:
Ian Plant
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Also go to Daguerreotypes.
Jim
The daguerreotype may not be the precise beginning of photography, but the technique, announced in Paris on Aug. 19, 1839, helped kick-start photography as an art form, setting it on the road to becoming the popular, widespread medium it is today.
Wired.com
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Michael Steele - At Beijing Olympics, Photographers Shine by Tom Goldman
Moments after Olympic events end, another feat of Olympic proportions begins.
An army of Olympic photographers and editors swing into action.
Tom Goldman
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There are many other articles about Robert Frank in this issue of photo-eye.
Also go to Robert Frank.
Jim
Robert Frank - 50th Anniversary of The Americans by Richard Gordon
Robert Frank's The Americans is vital to the here and now—as vital to the present moment as it was fifty years ago upon first publication.
This is all you need to know.
The rest, as they say, is commentary.
Around the time I turned 40 in 1985, I began to read classics I had not gotten around to, was never assigned, or could not penetrate as a reader with no agenda.
Books become classics not because teachers assign them.
A book becomes a classic when it speaks to readers or viewers, across time, across politics—when it is the rare enduring expression of a unique consciousness so rooted in its own time and place that time is transcended: a voice from the past that speaks to a reader in the present.
The Americans is such a book, no less so than Moby Dick or Madame Bovary.
Richard Gordon
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Also go to Yale University Press.
Jim
Facial Frontier by Robert Fulford
Consider the way a human face speaks with silent eloquence.
In the view of Raymond Tallis, an eminent British doctor and a talented writer, the face of a man or woman constitutes "the most sign-packed surface in the universe."
Nothing else we see carries more meaning.
Every face displays a pattern of dense emotional responses in the present and an archive of its owner's experience in the past.
And each one is both unique and mysterious
Robert Fulford
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Also go to Flip Books.
Jim
Handmade Flipbooks by Aaron "Alphonse" Swinehart
I can't quite remember how I got the idea, but I thought it would be fun to create some flipbooks based off of video I had shot.
The challenge was to be able to effeciently process the frames from a 3-5 second clip, have them printed by a photography shop, and assemble them as easily as possible.
Aaron "Alphonse" Swinehart
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Your Photos, Off the Shelf at Last by David Pogue
You'd be forgiven, then, for raising an eyebrow at the offer made by a California company called ScanMyPhotos.com.
It says it will professionally scan 1,000 photos for you, the same day it receives them, and put them on a DVD for $50.
David Pogue
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Paparazzi in the Woods by Etienne Benson
Next time you go for a hike, keep an eye out for the hidden cameras.
The first sign that you're under surveillance might be a plastic or metal case, about the size of a hefty hardcover book, strapped to a tree and painted to blend into the bark.
If you're listening carefully, you might even hear the click of the shutter or the whirr of the film advancing.
Etienne Benson
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Also go to Macro (Close-up) Photography.
Also go to Rick Sammon.
Jim
Adventures in Close-Up Photography by Rick Sammon
Close-up photography allows us to capture a unique view of our world, especially when that world is printed larger than life. Capturing small subjects requires careful attention to the technical aspects of photography: focus, lighting, sharpness, depth of field, exposure, and composition.
Rick Sammon
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Also go to Hans Eijkelboom Lecture 03.
Jim
Hans Eijkelboom: Paris - New York - Shanghai by Rosecrans Baldwin
Dutch artist Hans Eijkelboom's book and exhibit, Paris—New York—Shanghai picks out the miniscule ways people in three big cities all resemble one another, then pulls them together in tapestries of logos and patterns, looks and costumes.
Gone are the days of aesthetic differences, the book suggests; we are now all one nation, under Louis Vuitton.
Rosecrans Baldwin
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Also go to his website and blog.
Jim
Picture China is a photographic journey through contemporary China.
From the teeming metropolises of the east coast to the rural villages of the interior to the lofty Tibetan plateau, New York City based photographer Dan Eckstein traveled 10,000km over the course of eight weeks to document this rapidly changing country.
The result is a unique portrait of life in modern China and the issues that its people face.
Dan Eckstein
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Also go to Bill Hatcher.
Jim
What Moves You by Bill Hatcher
It's our unique individual photo style created and guided by our personality that produces the more creative photos we make.
Bill Hatcher
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Also go to Rob Sheppard.
Jim
Seeing Photographs by Rob Sheppard
Digital cameras can help you take better landscape photographs.
If I had said that even just a few years ago, OP would have received lots of letters.
People would have challenged that statement, defending film, and basically telling me I was crazy.
I may be crazy at times, but not because of this idea.
Rob Sheppard
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Also go to Bob Krist.
Jim
In Praise of Pea Soup by Bob Krist
Any landscape photographer who prays and waits for conditions that lower contrast, decrease saturation, obscure sharpness and ruin resolution might be considered to be a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic, a real madman.
Yet, when that condition is fog, there's a definite method to that madness.
Bob Krist
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Also go to Daniel J. Cox.
Jim
Dust & Snow: Shooting in Extreme Conditions - Daniel J. Cox
Working as a traveling natural-history journalist, I often move from one extreme to the next.
I've been asked more than once, how does your body adapt?
Equally as important is how I prepare my photography equipment for such incredibly extreme climate changes.
Daniel J. Cox
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Susan Meiselas - Well-Traveled Photographer, Recording and Then Returning by Caroline Brothers
She is also constantly questioning what photography can do as the technological and economic landscape that surrounds it radically shifts.
Caroline Brothers
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