Entries from May 2009

Video: Move Lightroom Cat to External HD

Date May 13, 2009

Here’s a short movie showing how to off-load your Lightroom catalogue from your main drive to an external one.

link: David marx on The LightroomLab.com

178 people 20 days

Date May 12, 2009

Simon Hoegsberg photographed 178 people on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin over 20 days. They are presented in one continuous photograph.
link: Simon Hoegsberg We’re All Gonna Die

DAM Book 2nd edition

Date May 12, 2009

The DAM Book (digital asset management) by Peter Krogh is now available.
link: The DAM Book blog

Chocolate and Noah Kalina

Date May 11, 2009

Are paper based publications dead? probably not, they have such a great feel and look. But Woa! there’s one heck of a lot of online magazines cropping up, or at least coming to the fore, like they never have before.
‘Too Much Chocolate’ is today’s find – courtesy of Flakphoto – and in particular an interview [...]

Free-Range graduate show

Date May 11, 2009

The 9th annual Free Range at The Old Truman Brewery, London, is Europe’s largest graduate art and design show… 28 May until 20 July
11 – 22 June are some of the main dates for photography shows, but check the web site timetable for other times too.
Opening Nights: Thursdays 6pm-10pm
Show Days: Fridays to Mondays 10am-7pm
Venue: The [...]

Legal: Photography in Public Places

Date May 10, 2009

We’ve featured a link to PhotoAttorney in our sidebar for a while. But now there’s a UK source of legal information specifically for photographers too…
Three guys… Darren Hector (photographer) James Barisic (solicitor) Phill Price photo social networker)… combine to present the PhotoLegal blog.
Currently they have two Podcasts available, with the second episode specifically including the [...]

Photos: Jason Hawkes

Date May 10, 2009

Aerial photography seems to have become a bit of a trending topic of late… and here’s another one – Jason Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans. Via The Big Picture he is sharing with us 26 [...]

Burning Jharia coal fields on 5D Mark II

Date May 9, 2009

For almost a century Jharia coal fields have been on fire in the Indian state of Jharkhand, due to poor mining techniques.
Many of the people who live on the burning fields survive by collecting coal illegally. The coal is burned and then transported to nearby markets for very little money.
A resettlement plan has been put [...]

World Press Photo 09

Date May 9, 2009

Foto8 has a report by Paul Lowe on the World Press Photo Awards. Held in Amsterdam this year it took on a poigniant air, coming as it did on the day after the murderous events of Queens Day in the Netherlands.
Paul’s report includes video responses to the awards by Anthony Suau, Claudia Hinterseer, Pep Bonet, [...]

Photo: Sergey Maximishin

Date May 8, 2009

Panos Pictures has this down as their picture of the day. We’d like to agree. Taken by Sergey Maximishin in the Theological college, Makhachkala, Dagestan, April 2008.
link: Sergey Maximishin

Aerial VR Tour of New York

Date May 7, 2009

Want to tour New York on a beautiful sunny day?… here it is.
link: Aerial VR Tour of New York
via Richard Earney

Perspective correction for Camera Raw images

Date May 7, 2009

Here is a video tutorial from the book ‘CS4 the Ultimate Workshop’ by Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe.
This isn’t exactly a hidden feature in Camera Raw, but this movie does demonstrate a workaround for correcting perspective of raw files while keeping them fully editable in Camera Raw. Here’s how it can be done.
link: Download the [...]

Zone Zero wants your Swine

Date May 5, 2009

 
Zone Zero is calling for your images to add to their gallery reflecting the world wide responses to the spread of Swine Flu.
Zone Zero is based in Mexico and is one of the most visited photo web sites in the world, created by Pedro Meyer.
links: Zone Zero Influenza & Pedro Meyer editorial
As you may well [...]

NYPH09 deadline extended

Date May 5, 2009

New York Photo Awards deadline has been extended to May 10.
Raffle Award
$250 B&H Photo coupon for all submissions and ticket orders received will be awarded on May 13 at The powerHouse Arena (one raffle chance per order).
Prizes categories
* $250 B&H Photo coupon good at either the store at 9th Ave. @ 34th St. or online
* [...]