Documentary filmmaker and photographer Louie Psihoyos is on the list of nominees for this year's Oscar in Documentary Features. The film, The Cove, is an expository investigative documentary about dolphin killing in Japan.
The New York Times made a blunder on its website yesterday, when it displayed the wrong photograph for one of the headlines. The headline of the story was "Clinton Arrives in Chile With Pledge of Aid", and the caption read "Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet", but the photograph was obviously not showing the two politicians.
World Press Photo has disqualified one of the winners of this year's contest after concluding that the photographer digitally manipulated his work. The disqualified entry "Street fighting, Kiev, Ukraine", shot by Stepan Rudik for the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, had won 3rd prize in Sports Features.
Canon was handing out coffee mugs that look like the Canon 70-200mm L series lens at the Vancouver Olympic games. Josh Weisberg, director of the Microsoft Rich Media Group, got one at the Olympic Press Center, and sent the above photograph of it to PDNPulse.
We reported at the beginning of last month that photography co-op Magnum had sold nearly 200,000 prints to billionaire Michael Dell's MSD Capital. Now, new details are emerging as to exactly what they plan to do with the money and with their future direction.
Here's a portion of the Judge Joe Brown episode that aired Monday in the US. The case involved a woman who felt cheated when the wedding photographer she hired delivered poor results after using a Canon Rebel XTi, 18-55mm kit lens, and a 70-300mm. What's interesting is how Judge Joe Brown actually seems to know a thing or two about photography.
This Sports Illustrated Tablet Demo by Jared Cocken came out a few months ago, before the announcement of the Hearst/LG/Marvell lovechild, the Skiff e-reader and Apple's iPad. With the more announcements of technology that will become available just around the corner, this demo is worth a second look.
Here's a video that's so creative and awesome it's sure to get your artistic juices flowing. OK Go just put up the music video to their song "This Too Shall Pass", and it's one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen. Basically the whole video shows a gigantic Rube Goldberg contraption built in a warehouse, with the timing and placement of every person and element perfectly integrated into the song.
SepiaTown is a website that lets you view historical imagery of particular locations using Google maps.
The above is a beautiful slow motion video (1000fps) shot of dogs jumping for dog treats flying through the air. It's actually an advertisement for Pedigree, as you'll see at the end. It's interesting seeing all the little details our eyes can't ordinarily pick up.
Here's a good tip for life: when flying, try to keep your camera gear with you at all times. A man named Harold found out the hard way after paying $40 to check in his gear, including a Nikon D60, worth over $900, only to find it missing after arriving home. He shares over at The Consumerist: …
If you've ever edited your Flickr photographs using the default image editor provided by Flickr, then you've used the web-based image editing software developed by Picnik.
Solargraphy is a technique in which a fixed pinhole camera is used to expose photographic paper for an absurdly long amount of time (sometimes half a year).
Tokyo/Glow is a creative time-lapse video by Jonathan Bensimon showing an illuminated man leaving his crosswalk sign at a street intersection and roaming the streets of Toyko.
Some years ago Canon offered a f/1.0 version of its 50mm L lens. They've since stopped manufacturing lenses faster than f/1.2, and US-based company Noktor thinks there's an opportunity for relatively affordable "hyperprime" lenses.
