Fun Example of Photojournalism at Its Best

The American family farm gives way to a subdivision - a critical cultural shift across the U.S. Common Ground is a 14-year document of this transition, through the Cagwins and the Grabenhofers, two families who love the same plot of land. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/common-ground

Chase Jarvis On Social Art: Interesting

DSLR Durability Test: Funny and Interesting

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Seven Deadly Sins Assignment

This is a duplicate of my post from the class blog here:

Seven Deadly Sins in Faces

I decided to try and use the power of expression in the human face (primarily) to communicate the Seven Deadly Sins, which was our assignment for this week. The sins are Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Anger, Envy, and Pride.

Huge thanks and props are due to the volunteer talent from U of I that I worked with. And to Nellie Dimeler kindly helped me get connected with them and contributed her talent as well. I thought they all did a tremendous job! It was very difficult to choose just seven images for this post. When you're done identifying the sins in the comments you can click over to my web site gallery with the rest of the images.

But first you should help me with the final stage of this experiment as you tell me which photo corresponds to which sin. Thanks!

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Photoshop Forensics Video

Very interesting... and kinda long. Still, interesting.

About Photo Software

This is a response to a question I got on Facebook, based on a conversation I had with a friend several months ago. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but it give you a place to start if you're looking for free photo software. Ultimately, I recommend Photoshop, or Photoshop Elements when you are sure you're going to do this more. There are many reasons that Adobe dominates this space, but the one that really stands out to me is the way their software integrates/lays out an efficient workflow. Also, if you have photoshop, take time to understand the workflow from Bridge, to ACR, to Photoshop, to me it's THE reason to use Adobe. However, Adobe is expensive and requires a nice fast and powerful computer, so the options below can be a great place to start your exploration of this photo-editing world.

RE: "What was that software you said was like Photoshop and can be downloaded from the internet?" (a paraphrase)

Well, there's GIMP which is open source but needs to be installed on the computer. It's pretty good, and getting better every year.

www.gimp.org

At "Aviary" you can actually use a web-app that is a pretty good as well. You want to use the "Image Editor."

www.aviary.com

I also like Faststone Image Viewer (www.faststone.org), Picasa which is good but I don't use it (picasa.google.com), and a very powerful free raw processing software Raw Therapee (rawtherapee.com) it can be used on JPG images as well. These last programs are not really a replacement for Photoshop as much as organizer/developing tools. Which is a very important task often overlooked when you first decide that you want to do something with your images.

Hope that helps,

Peter

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Annie and the Queen

Here's another stand out photography video:

Redwoods

Henri Cartier-Bresson Interview

The greatest photographer of the 20th Century (or one of them at least)... fun interview with Charlie Rose. Great to listen to while you sort and edit images. Watch out though, or you'll be distracted by his photos, and you'll have to sort and edit you own later.

More Resources: Lens Reviews

Along with the new resolution to post more often, I have also realized I need to post many more of the resources. Some of the super cool sites I use regularly are not linked here, and that is just a shame. Look for these in the resources links at the side as well.

First Off: Lens Reviews

SLR Gear: Look for their little lens sharpness graph thing. Very slick.

Photozone: Great collection of lenses that have been reviewed in detail by Germans. Yeah!

FredMiranda: Personal evaluations of lenses from hundreds of different users. Just to get that other angle or perspective on gear before you spend your hard earned money on it.