Prodig member Rodney Rascona cover the Tsunami in South East Asia in 2004.
Now he is on his way to Haiti around the third week of February, covering his first assignment for a period of about two weeks.
Rodney will be keeping the Prodig web site up to date with his work.
Some have labelled news coverage of [...]

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You may have noticed that Rii Schroer took second place in this year’s SUN Awards. But she also makes short films. We thought you’d like to see one.

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By Norman Childs -
The joys and tribulations of tearing around Africa. The former created by those who already know the continent through significant experience. The latter, by those who don’t and expect it to be exactly like Europe traversed by Ryanair.
Such was the nature of our most recent foray; firstly to Mozambique to photograph a [...]

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Does a photographer need to bother with social networking – Blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, yada yada yada – ?…
Don’t we have enough to do with sourcing work, keeping up with cameras, software, client relationships, tax returns and the whole schlemiel?

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Here’s a very brief intro to some applications and services which will help you Twitter on mobile devices as well as on your regular computer.
• Dedicated Twitter applications allow you to organize your Twitter communications efficiently.
• Don’t worry if your phone won’t support a dedicated app, there are some web based services which emulate them [...]

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“Sexy, stylish, and ever-quotable Miami photographer Jorge Parra is creating the “new Latin chic,” a sophisticated, upscale look that showcases the heady verve of Latin culture. His imagery for clients such as Ray-Ban, Avon, Johnnie Walker, Christian Dior, and L’Oréal Paris has appeared in both U.S. and Latin-American markets. His images are made stunning through [...]

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I’ve had Media Storm in my bookmarks for some time now but I haven’t checked it out for a while. A link on Rob Galbraith’s site prompted me to do so and I can thoroughly recommend that you do the same.
Media Storm presents cross-media, primarily visual, essays. They say they are a multi-media production outfit. [...]

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In this, our third podcast from the LOOK07/Redeye symposium The Democratic Image, Geert speaks in compelling depth of the difficulties of being a photo journalist in this area of conflict, and his insights into being an Iraqi attempting to live under those conditions.
Geert embedded with the US military for months to capture the Iraqi villagers’ [...]

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Prodig subscribers have recently been asking ‘Is PS CS3 able to cope with more RAM?’.
Adam Jerugim and Russell Williams, from Adobe, have contributed these answers…
Photoshop can and does take advantage of more than 2GB of RAM. What you’ll need is an OS that supports that much RAM (XP 64-bit, Vista 64-bit, or OS X) [...]

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photo: Tim Flach © – one of the ‘Judges Choice’ winners

Dylan Jones, editor of GQ magazine, hosted the 24th AOP Photography Awards at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London last Monday March 26th 2007. Nearly one thousand guests attending this showcase for the photographic industry saw Silver Awards go to Charlie Crane, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Markku [...]

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Well not so much fun as some pretty nifty soft shoe shuffling with the new features of Photoshop Extended, courtesy of Martin Evening with a little help from John Nack.
Martin has found a novel use for combining Image Stacking, Alignment and the Median filter to get rid of unwanted people crossing the path of [...]

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Jill Greenberg became notorious for her portrait series of children crying “End Times”. But the work she created at the beginning of her career took advantage of Photoshop before it was a household name and formed the groundwork for the hyper-real work that’s now her trademark.
This video from CoolHunting.com looks at End Times, visits her [...]

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From WhattheDuck.net

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Using a data projector to present your work is becoming increasingly commonplace these days. Image clarity, brightness, portability and ease of setup are important factors in choosing which one to use from the very many that are on the market.
Projectors used to be the reserve of corporations and colleges. But prices have drop so much [...]

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