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Yahoo Photos Going Out for Good

"Yahoo Photos and Flickr have different kinds of users with different needs, and will remain separate for the foreseeable future. Flickr would also suffer from a sudden deluge of LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg! so we're going to grow it carefully."
The move by Yahoo to focus its photo efforts on Flickr is partly an acknowledgment of Flickr's innovative tools and the changes in the demographics of photography. The younger Internet users who have flocked to Flickr are less interested in ordering prints and more interested in searching for and commenting on the photos of other users.

"Welcome to the new Yahoo! Photos!" That's the cheerful greeting atop the home page for Yahoo Photos, the online photo storage, sharing, and printing site maintained by the search-engine company. If a spate of online rumors is correct, however, the Yahoo Photos greeting will soon disappear, along with the service itself.
The report originated on Michael Arrington's blog, "TechCrunch," on Thursday, when he posted a conversation he had with Brad Garlinghouse, the Yahoo Senior Vice President of Communications & Communities, and Stewart Butterfield, one of the cofounders of Flickr, at the annual Outcast CEO dinner.
The two executives told Arrington that over the next few months, Yahoo Photos would be replaced by Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing and social-networking site that Yahoo purchased in March 2005.

read full article here: http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Yahoo-Photos-Going-Out-for-Good/story.xhtml?story_id=010000X323D6

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Renée C. Byer Wins Pulitzer For Feature Photography

The award, one of several Pulitzers given out each year for outstanding contributions to a field of endeavor, was provided for "a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or in print and online". This year's award was given to Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee "for her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer."

Full story: http://www.pulitzer.org/

Congragulations!

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We all helped to speed the demise of professional photographers

Half a dozen lurid and splodgy pictures in the local paper brought home to me the death of an honourable profession this week. I took them. I am in my small way responsible for impoverishing an old friend, because he, not me, is a professional photographer, and his living has been more or less abolished by the changing world.
Just as film has been replaced by digital, professionals are being replaced by amateurs. The changes are partly technological and partly economic, but the final blow to his profession has come from Flickr and similar Web 2.0 sites.

read Andrew Brown's article at The Guardian
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2070571,00.html

ending in
A picture-sharing site like Flickr contains the work of tens of thousands of talented amateurs, all of them capable of producing one or two photographs a year that could be published anywhere. A British photographers' site, EPUK, has calculated that if only 1% of the pictures on Flickr are publishable, that would mean 1.5m usable pictures uploaded there every year. Most of the drudgery of identifying good, relevant pictures is also done here - by the photographers themselves, who tag them, and by the other users, who notice them and have their interest recorded by the software.
Perhaps none of these people could make a living as a photographer, but few want to. Any money they make is gravy for them - and bread taken from the mouths of professionals.
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How to Start a Home-based Photography Business

Pictures are perfect for capturing the most precious moments that happen in our lifetime.
This is one reason why many people are really into getting the best services when it comes to photography. Thus, it really pays to bank on this demand in the market. Learn how to start a home-based photography business and you can surely make these people happy.
How to Start a Home-based Photography Business
Many people are exploring how to start a home-based business to earn extra profits as they go about their daily job. This is also a good option for people who want to earn a living while staying at home so they can maintain a career and take care of the family at the same time. This way, you can work for your family without having to sacrifice the quality time you could spend together.
One good option for the home-based business is to do photography jobs. The wonders of modern technology now allow people to take pictures easily with the digital camera. All it takes would be some more skills and abilities then you can properly setup and start a home-based photography business.

Read Gerry Restrivera's tips at http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25883

Learning how to start a home-based photography business can be relatively easy. All you need is to get enough determination to give this endeavor everything. You must also have the initiative. This will ensure that you make the first move to making the business a success.
Do you want to discover more on how to start a home-based photography business that lets you earn up to $200 per day taking simple photos in your local area? Discover the perfect way to start a home-based photography business and income opportunities visit Easy Photography Home Business
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Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty'

The iconic photographs of Ansel Adams, that oversized talent of a shutterbug, have never known anything but praise-something underscored in the flat-out neat little show "Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty," organized by the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, N.C., now occupying the Scriven Gallery at the Fenimore Art Museum.
There really are no words that adequately describe the astounding beauty of Adams' work like 1944's "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California," 1947's "Sand Bar, Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas," and 1944's "El Capitan Fall, Yosemite National Park, California."
But call them masterpieces, at least.

The exhibition's minimized curatorial commentary keeps the emphasis where it belongs-on the 25 gelatin silver prints made from vintage negatives.
A shaft of light cuts the center of a 1945 photograph of the partially cloud-obscured Mount Williamson, in the Sierra Nevada, as seen from Manzanar, California...the explosive punch of Old Faithful is almost felt as its geyser spews skyward in 1942's "Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming."
Yet as much as Adams might have liked to have had the viewer's attention fully on his eye-grabbing, often cloud-wrapped and winter storm-curtained subjects, his creations were wrought as much through the photographic art of apertures, exposure times and filters as they were through the sheer naked grandeur of his landscapes.
The exhibition reveals startling contrasts between geological features in photographs like 1948's "Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska," and the severe contrasts of light and shadows that dominate 1948's "Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California" that could only have been achieved through the medium of black and white photography.
Only once in this impressive show did an Adams' photograph-1939's "Merced River Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California"-seem to be an inadequate expression of its subject in black and white.
An ardent preservationist, Adams compiled a stunning photographic record of the wild state of America's national parks.
But he may have overreached.
Once seen, his works stir a longing for something more than a vicarious experience-as exceptional as that might be.
With the advent of the Interstate System-the Dwight D. Eidenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways-in 1956, and the coming on of the jet age, accessibility to national parks increased exponentially, with crowds flocking to the very areas Adams argued so persuasively through his photographs to protect.

"Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty." Through May 13 at the Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 State Highway 80, Lake Road, Cooperstown, N.Y. (888) 547-1450. http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.

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Photography Magazines

http://www.world-newspapers.com/photography.html let you find photography magazines and journals with free online content.

Check these out:

21st: The Journal of Contemporary PhotographyFind hand-pulled photogravure images from many of the world's highly respected contemporary photographers.
AK47.tvOnline art photography magazine, showcasing images from both fine arts and documentary photographers.
Atlas 6Features updated contemporary exhibits and editorials by prominent writers.
Blind SpotMagazine publishing new and never-before-published works by the renowned artists and discovers.
CameraArtsProvides interviews with portfolios produced by respected photographers, equipment reviews, and articles providing technical, "how to" information for the small and medium format photographer.
Digital JournalistMultimedia magazine featuring commentaries, editorials, and displaying high quality examples of still and video photojournalism.
Eye CarambaMagazine dedicated to alternative process photography.
FocalPoint f/8Photo essays and interviews.
Focus OnlineNews, reviews, techniques, pictures, and a readers' gallery.
foto8Magazine of photojournalism featuring photo stories by freelancers and agency photographers covering topical issues worldwide.
lens cultureMagazine celebrating contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures. Features the work of photographers from all continents and various points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, poetic, abstract, and street photography.
LeppPhoto.comOffers tips, reviews, articles, magazines, workshops, and prints, focused on nature photography.
MusariumInteractive photo essays about subjects ranging from childbirth to cigar bars to the Watergate decade.
Nature PhotographersOnline magazine dedicated to the art and technique of nature, wildlife and landscape photography.
Online PhotographyFine art photography journal showcasing the best in contemporary photography.
Outdoor PhotographerMagazine for nature, wildlife, sports, landscape, and travel photography enthusiasts.
Photoblogs MagazineOnline publication created specifically to showcase the work of photobloggers from around the world.
Photo BettyE-zine for women photographers.
Photo District NewsMagazine for professional photographers. Includes subscription information, photography news, a gallery, classifieds, contests, and a directory.
Photo LifeCanadian magazine with photography news, a gallery, and a question and answer forum.
Photo-ProPortfolios, tech tips, equipment info and more for the professional and advanced photographer.
Photo TechniquesDedicated to professional photographers interested in articles on complete darkroom coverage, black and white photography, color photography, alternative processes and improving prints and slides.
photographUSA guide to exhibitions, private dealers, and resources. There are also columns, special features, and calendar of events.
photographic ageMonthly online magazine with reviews, feature articles, galleries, contests and more.
Photography MonthlySite of UK photography magazine includes full list of cameras, as well as dealers, clubs, hundreds of tips and links.
Photo Guide JapanFind showcases, bios of photographers, book reviews, information on Japanese photoraphy history, photo essays, and more.
Photo ServeVisual database of the world's best photographers.
Picture ProjectsNarrative and images in a new documentary tradition.
Professional PhotographerOfficial magazine of Professional Photographers of America. Contains practical yet cutting-edge lessons in the artistic, business, and technological aspects of professional photography.
Reality XPortland arts and photo magazine.
ReportageOnline magazine dedicated to publishing innovative international photojournalism and presenting challenging articles on the use and abuse of photography in today's media.
ReVuePhotography magazine favoring documentary genre with an emphasis on people and places.
Sensuous LineIncludes fine art nude photography from around the world.
ShutterbugNumber one information and buying source for serious photographers. Columns include studio pro, weddings & portraits, travelog, darkroom techniques, Shutterbug basics and more.
Travel PhotographersOnline magazine dedicated to the art and technique of travel photography.
Underwater PhotographyOnline magazine for underwater photographers. Includes camera equipment reviews, tips and techniques for digital underwater photography, and photo-friendly dive destination reports.
Zone ZeroFind articles, works from featured photographers, a forum for discussions and a selection of international portfolios.
ZoomVisual art magazine dedicated to masters of photography and digital imaging.

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Aurora Photos Launches Select - An Assignment Division to be Headquartered in New York City

Aurora Photos is excited to announce the launch of Select, a photographer representation division in New York City. Aurora Select works with editorial photographers of exceptional vision and story telling skills, representing them in magazine and commercial areas of photography.

Aurora Photos, one of the small, premier independent photo agencies, licenses a wide range of photography, from outdoor adventure and lifestyle, to geography and culture. Select maintains the highest quality expected from Aurora Photos with a unique roster of photographers with diverse styles.

Portfolios for the Aurora Select photographers can be seen at: www.auroraphotos.com/select/.

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Shutterbugs Pack Your Bags for Photography 101 at Marquis Los Cabos Resort

Digital Photography Getaway Offered June 1 – December 15, 2007 at $1,980

Become an expert photographer or just pretend for five inspirational days at Marquis Los Cabos Beach, Golf, Spa & Casitas Resort in Mexico's Baja Outback. The Shutterbug Getaway, available from June 1 – December 15, 2007, offers three days of digital photography classes from 3 – 5 hours each with a professional local photographer. Guests bring their own digital camera to learn the tricks of the trade so they can continue learning at home. Images are burned on a CD for guests. Photography lessons include landscape, architecture, wildlife, still art and portraits. Guests can develop an impressive portfolio with snapshots of the arid Baja desert, the turbulent Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez, the unique outback wildlife, the Southwestern style architecture and the local people. Real shots of village life are taken during a side jaunt to Todos Santos where locals sustain themselves through handicrafts and tortilla-making by hand. For more information and reservations, call 1-877-238-9399 or book online at www.marquisloscabos.com.

Read on athttp://www.travellady.com/Issues/April07/4083aSHUTTERBUG.htm
credits: Madelyn Miller - a food and travel writer who loves to take pictures. Read her stories on www.travellady.com, www.chocolateatlas.com, www.carladynews.com, www.cocktailatlas.com and www.teaAtlas.com

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Point and Shoot

“What's the big deal, anyone with a camera who was in those places could get those pictures, what's so great about these pictures.”
This week I found the first photographic web site to pique my interest in a long time.

For a while now I had been ignoring most of the photographic web because there just wasn’t any content at an appropriate level of maturity. What I mean by that is that most sites are either just a big shopping catalog or a collection of articles providing shallow tutorials on various subjects like how best to put the $5000 digital camera you just bought on a tripod.
So I am happy to share a link to The Strobist, a site that does not suffer from either of these problems. Yes, there is technical dorkitude. Yes, there is advice about things to buy. But by and large the site is dominated by photographic content and content about photography that is actually interesting to read because they cover an area of photographic work that is generally mysterious to we who only dabble. The site is about lighting.
My usual position about lighting is that I try to use the light that is there because I’m too lazy to learn how to create my own. I came to this conclusion after reading an excellent book about how to bring your light with you and deciding that it was just too much work.
The Strobist is written with the point of view that you can’t count on the light that’s there to get you a usable picture, so you better know how to create your own. The site is the creation of one David Hobby, a pro photojournalist based in Baltimore. The job of the photojournalist is to take good pictures very quickly under conditions that you cannot easily control. A large number of the articles fall into this “On Assignment” bucket where he shows you the techniques and tricks he uses to pull pictures out of these situations. These are the pieces I like, and not only because they are about clever things that you can do with a couple of small flashes. I like these articles because they illustrate a truth about photography that the general public doesn’t really understand:
You don’t get good pictures by just pointing the camera at the thing and hitting the button.
If I were to write a book that could only contain one sentence about photography, and so I had to write down the most important fact that you, the aspiring shooter had to know in order to become successful, it would be: You don’t get good pictures by just pointing the camera at the thing and hitting the button. Every excellent book that I have ever read about photography has this fact as its core message.
I bring up this point because of this guy who works in my office. Every once in a while, I’ll buy a big photo book from Amazon.com. In recent memory, I have picked up the excellent Linda Butler collection on the Yantze River in China and more recently the phenomenal Galen Rowell retrospective. I would show these books to the guy, and he’d flip through them and say something like, “What’s the big deal, anyone with a camera who was in those places could get those pictures, what’s so great about these pictures.”
The frustrating thing is that it is hard to explain what the big deal is. You can’t tell from a reproduction in a book that Butler spent four or five years carrying a 4×5 camera around the rural river valleys of China, often evading government officials, in order to document the villages that would be flooded by the damming of the river. It is impossible to convey to someone who hasn’t had the experience how hard it is to capture a nice portait of someone in good light even when you are carrying a modern 5fps bazooka camera, much less a camera that can take one frame every two or three minutes. Finally, it’s hard to express a photographer’s appreciation of a perfectly composed frame of some out of the way detail that a regular person never would have seen, in light that a regular person never would have noticed. So instead of an impassioned defense of the integrity of my photographic heroes, I just look stupid and grunt.
Luckily, I have Galen Rowell to do my work for me. His classic Mountain Light eloquently explains the difference between a literal snapshot of what is in front of you and a real photograph. Many of Rowell’s pictures are such stunning juxtstapositions of landscape forms and once-in-a-lifetime light that even the layman can’t help but be impressed. Others appear to the untrained eye to be fairly literal snapshots of exotic far away lands. But do not be fooled. You might think that if you just happened to be standing in his shoes on top of that mountain, or in that valley at sunrise, that you’d be able to capture the pictures that he did. You won’t (unless, of course, you are a genius photographer). You won’t because you won’t know where to point the camera, how to take advantage of the light, how to tame the contrast, how to juxtapose warm colors against cool, and how to arrange the randomness of the natural world into a neat pattern that is pleasing to the eye. In other words, you won’t because you don’t know what you are doing.
You shouldn’t feel bad or insulted to find this out. After all, Galen worked on his craft and vision for decades to get as good as he was. How many awesome landscapes have you taken recently? You should not be surprised that if you stood there at the tip of some ice flow near Everest and pointed your camera at it and pushed the button that you’d get a bad snapshot. That’s why he’s a photographer and you are not.
Which brings me full circle to The Strobist. I was impressed with this site for a few reasons. First, it was apparent from the content that this guy knows what he is doing with lights, and this makes me even more aware of how little I know about taking advantage of artificial light in difficult situations. Second, this was one of the few photographic web sites that I’ve been to lately that wasn’t designed by a mental cripple who loves Flash and hates usability. You would think that photographers, who are presumably people with a keen visual sense, would know better than this, but they don’t. Every site you go to is filled with ugly and unusable Flash galleries that wrap what I would think are excellent photographs if only I could actually navigate to one before having a seizure. Third, the site has an associated photo group on flickr where readers post their strobist experiments. The amazing thing about these pictures is the extent to which they do not suck. I didn’t think it was possible to put five people in an Internet photo group without generating dozens of miscomposed out of focus disasters that lack any redeeming value whatsoever as photographs. Here is proof that I’m wrong.
Finally, the best parts of the site are a fabulous illustration of my fundamental principle of photography: You don’t get good pictures by just pointing the camera at the thing and hitting the button. I love how he tells us how much knowledge goes into getting a decent shot of some guy standing next to his computer, or a simple portrait of an athlete. Here are great examples of how it takes work to make the picture look to the untrained eye like you just pointed the camera and pushed the button. It makes me happy to read and learn. Maybe some day I’ll get good at using my flash."

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Peter Ferguson"s ChangeMakers 101

Photographer Peter Ferguson has joined a rapidly expanding list of` Jamaicans who are recording their work for posterity. Come May 5, he will launch ChangeMakers - a book of 101 black and white photographs of outstanding Jamaican men who have effected change through their various endeavours. Ferguson's feat is no small achievement, it took him 11 years but the result is magnificent.
ChangeMakers has foreword by Professor Rex Nettleford, and is the author's attempt to further document some aspects of the island's history before someone alien to our way of life, does it for us.
The St. Catherine-born photographer majored in graphic design at Concordia University, Canada and has racked up numerous awards plus an impressive client list spanning Jamaica, Cayman, the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
Flair got the pre-launch exclusive with Ferguson at his Hope Road studio and delved into the process of producing his pictorial masterpiece. It is late evening and he sits, surrounded by the tools of his craft, reggae musicis audible but not intrusive. He is relaxed and the subject is close to his heart, so talk is easy. After completion of studies, Ferguson probably would have been an architect or even an interior designer had he not chosen to stay behind the camera. He studied building construction at Kingston Technical High School. But, fresh from college, his first job was with Grimax Advertising Agency where he spent just a year before venturing out on his own.

get full story at http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070430/flair/flair1.html
credits: Barbara Ellington, Lifestyle Editor

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National Pictures of the Year winners announced

The News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) Pictures of the Year (POY) competition presented their firstannual awards to photographers Saturday night in Vancouver, British Columbia,recognizing excellence in Canadian photojournalism.

The judging body is proud to announce that more than 1300 entries were received from across Canada,giving the birth to a truly national photojourjoumalism awards program.

The first annual NPAC awards recognized the best photos of 2006. Canadian photojournalists competed in 12 categories, including the 2006 Canadian Photojournailst of the Year and the Canadian Photograph of the Year.

See the NPACPOY winners are at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2007/29/c2563.html

A photo accompanying this release is available on the CNW Photo Network and archived at http://photos.newswire.ca

Additional archived images are also available on the CNW Photo Archive website at http://photos.newswire.ca. Images are free to accredited members of the media.

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A wider focus

Forget quilts, carvings and other folk arts of the past; thanks to the era of the camera phone, not to mention that of the Kodak moment, the folk art of the future easily belongs to jpegs.

Photography is the closest most of us come to making art, though the medium, traditionally considered to be pop, is gaining steam among wide swaths of professional artists, too. The Toronto edition of the Contact Photography Festival, which kicks off its 11th incarnation on May 1, celebrates photography in all its varying artistic, documentary and snapshot- style glory. Here, Leah Sandals sits down with festival director Bonnie Rubenstein to get a big-picture look at the fest.

Read on at http://www.canada.com/cityguides/toronto/story.html?id=7ad0cfcc-291b-40ce-b84d-e1dcae8a1b6f&k=44932

Contact 2007 runs from May 1 to May 31 at various Toronto locations.
For more information see http://www.contactphoto.com.

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Have you seen it? Have you seen the lens?

Object of Desire: Sigma Apo 200-500mm F2.8 Ex DG lens

Along with the release of the lightning-fast Canon EOS 1D Mark III, the biggest buzz-generator at this year’s PMA photography convention in Las Vegas was what people were referring to simply as “the lens.” As in: “Have you seen it? Have you seen the lens?”

Always interested in checking out what the teaming masses are rumbling about, we wandered over to the Sigma booth at PMA to take a look at “the lens”—the APO 200-500mm f/2.8 EX DG—and were suitably impressed.

First of all, it was big—very big—about 3 feet in length and weighing in at 28 pounds for the lens alone, with an additional 7 pounds for the hood, for a total of 35 pounds combined. To give some idea of the scale, the Sigma SD14 DSLR that was attached to it looked like a measly point-and-shoot in comparison.

Even more impressive than its size, though, were the specs. With a constant f/2.8 aperture available across the entire 200 to 500 focal range, this Sigma is the fastest super telephoto zoom lens we’ve seen. If, for whatever reason, the 200-500 range isn’t long enough for you, an APO Tele Converter 2X EX DG II comes as a standard accessory, transforming it into a truly astro-friendly 400-1000mm f/.5.6 lens. Though the PMA lens was just a prototype, working units compatible with Canon, Nikon and Sigma cameras could ship by as early as late summer, according to a Sigma spokesperson. No price has been set yet, but Sigma hopes to sell the lens for between $10,000 to $12,000. Now if you can only find a tripod big and strong enough to handle this puppy, you’ll be ready for some serious shooting.

Estimated cost: $10,000-$12,000Further information: www.sigmaphoto.com.

Thanks to Dan Havlik, http://www.pdn-pix.com/pdn/prodtech/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003577346

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