Anderson Cooper does a great job of hitting hard at BP on their seemingly uncanny ability to override the first amendment to the Constitution.
A follow up to the Anderson Cooper piece, below:
Time and time again, I get the "hey, what camera is that?" question, as if the camera brand makes my photos better. To the trained eye, you can see some differences, and to be sure, each brand has their feel and features. Yet, all to often, it's not about the tool, it's about the talent. Enter photographer Lee Morris, who did a high end fashion shoot with an iPhone 3Gs.
The iPhone Fashion Shoot - Lee Morris Shoots With The 3GS Fstoppers from FStoppers on Vimeo.
Lee Morris of Fstoppers.com shoots a full fashion session with the iPhone 3gs. You can get more info at www.fstoppers.com/iphone.
The good folks over at the Economist seem completely content to alter the reality of an image with some really bad justifications for doing so, as outlined over on the New York Times blog - On The Economist’s Cover, Only a Part of the Picture - and we agree that it's just plain wrong to digitally manipulate this image for the cover, or any other reason, for that matter, in an editorial context, without providing very clear indicators that the photo has been manipulated. Heck, why not just photoshop the President swimming into the oil slick?
Paul Melcher has a few good thoughts on this whole retouching mess, in general, in his post - R is for Retouched.
As someone who's been met with "you've got to check one of those..." challenges by unknowning TSA personnel, below is one really cool solution to solve this problem:
You can read more about it on Engadget - Scottevest's Carry-On Coat houses all of your portable electronics, stolen hotel shampoo bottles - or check out the ASMP website for information on TSA's allowances for professional photographers, here.
Let creatives be creative! Don't let the non-creatives think in their non-creative minds that they know what the hell they're doing. Here's a video that is a good laugh (and under 5 minutes).
Often I give presentations that last just a few hours, and in August, I'll be headed West to the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, in Missoula, Montana, to present on, what else? The business of photography. If you're interested in learning more, click here to learn about their Summer Intensive. I'll come in at the tail-end of the program and talk, at length, on the subject that will sustain you in the field after school is out and the real world sets in.
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