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NPPA to raise dues for the first time in 11 years, because defending truth ain’t cheap

10 Aug

The National Press Photographers Association, the professional organization that regularly advocates for and defends the rights of visual journalists in and outside its ranks, has announced that it will be raising its membership dues for the first time in 11 years starting this coming January. Because, as they explain, “defending the rights and freedoms of visual journalists isn’t free.”

The news was announced in a blog post published earlier this week by photojournalist and NPPA President Melissa Lyttle. As more and more photojournalists are forced to work freelance, without the backing of a major media organization, the NPPA has had to adapt, writes Lyttle.

“This has made our legal advocacy work more critical than ever, as our members experience a rise in interference, harassment, and arrests along with an increase in assaults of journalists,” she writes. “We also see a public increase in the distrust of the media, challenges to the First Amendment by the current administration, state, and local government, an ever-increasing number of copyright infringements, and a rash of ill-conceived anti-drone laws.”

But all of this advocacy and legal work comes at a price, and so the NPPA board has voted to increase membership dues for the first time in 11 years, starting January 1st, 2018.

If you’re interested in joining the NPPA or re-upping your membership, you can do so at the old rates by the end of 2017. Once January 1st rolls around those annual rates will go up to $ 75 for student and retired member memberships ($ 10 increase), $ 145 for a professional membership ($ 35 increase), $ 240 for a family membership (households with more than one working photojournalist), $ 170 for international membership with surface mail, and $ 245 for international membership with air mail.

NPPA membership comes with several perks, including: discounted insurance, services and products; being listed in a searchable database of photojournalists; the ability to participate in the NPPA’s mentorship program; and more.

To find out more about the price increase, perks, NPPA’s mission or anything else about membership, head over to the official announcement or visit the NPPA homepage.

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The iPhone turns 10 years old today: What has it meant to you?

03 Jul

10 years later, photography is a much bigger part of the iPhone’s DNA than anyone could have predicted.

Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs stood up on stage and delivered what might be the most consequential keynote of his career: he introduced the world to the iPhone. Today, we want you to tell us how it has revolutionized, reorganized, and restructured the world of digital photography.

As Jobs put it on stage, repeating the line over and over again to a crowd of excitable tech journalists, the iPhone was three things: “an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator.” But if Jobs could somehow come back to life and re-do that moment today, he would probably add ‘camera’ to that list.

Sure, that original 1st generation iPhone only boasted a measly 2MP camera that was laughable even by 2007 standards. But the impact that this camera—and the one after that… and the one after that… and the 6 after that—had on our industry is hard to fathom.

The point and shoot camera has all but gone extinct, camera giants are struggling to appeal to a new crop of ‘photographers’ who value convenience and connectivity above all else, and each day the line between ‘professional photography’ and ‘smartphone photography’ gets a bit blurrier—if it hasn’t already disappeared entirely.

The 1st generation iPhone looked a lot different than today’s iPhone 7

But we’re not interested in the big picture stuff—there are tens, hundreds, maybe thousands of articles about how the iPhone changed photography for better and for worse. We want a more personal perspective. We want to hear from you.

From a photography perspective, how has the iPhone impacted your life? Do you use your main camera less often, or not at all? Is the ability to connect your camera to your phone and post pictures instantly a must-have? Do you even remember the last point-and-shoot camera you owned, and when you last turned it on?

On a day marked by hundreds of tech op-eds, quirky origin stories, and enough ‘looking back’ videos to keep you busy for days, we want to compile a more personal picture of the iPhone and how it has impacted the world of digital photography. Share your story with the community in the comments, or drop us a line directly at dpreview.com/feedback.

And in the meantime, we’ll content ourselves with wishing the iPhone a happy 10th birthday… and we’re only being, like, 21% passive aggressive when we say that.

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Move over Nikon: Gitzo celebrates 100 years with pricey, limited-edition tripods

20 Jun

Gitzo is celebrating 100 years since the founding of its brand by Arsène Gitzhoven, and to commemorate the occasion they’ve released two special edition tripods. The 100 Year Anniversary Edition Tripod features a ‘new high-appeal look and feel’ as well as features standard on the Traveler Series tripods: Carbon tubing, 180-degree leg folding and the company’s G-lock mechanism. Only 1917 of them will be sold, but if that’s not exclusive enough for you, there are only 100 Arsène Gitzhoven Traveler Tripods to be had.

The Arsène Gitzhoven Traveler features an all-carbon fiber construction. Each one will be laser engraved with its production number from 1/100 to 100/100 as well as an engraving of its owner’s signature. It’ll set you back $ 3000; the 100 Year Anniversary Edition will sell for $ 1500. Each will be available from ‘select dealers.’

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30 Years of Graffiti: Peeled Dutch Wall Sample Reveals Colorful Art History

18 Jun

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

The sides of the structure are painted from ground to roof, but peeling back layers of artwork reveals just how far back the building’s vibrant history goes.

“This is Doornroosje, the location where I took the piece from, “explains Paul De Graff. “It’s a Graffiti Hall of Fame in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. What started as a 70’s Hippie cult place, became a center of music and art in the early 80’s.”

It was apparently “one of the first places where it was legal to smoke cannabis” and “the building is surrounded by walls that are all spray painted from top to bottom.”

And over its many years and various uses, the building has gathered coats of paint, which De Graff has deconstructed like a geological core sample (or piece of Fordite).

Like a good urban scientist (or someone trying to sell proof with a section of the Berlin Wall on the streets of Germany), he also shows people exactly where it came from, then includes a banana for scale.

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Out of Gas: Abandoned Station Will Live its Golden Years as a Venue

06 Jun

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ]

A formerly abandoned gas station in London’s White City district may have outlived its usefulness in its original purpose, but it’s got a new, more relaxing job to do in the ‘hereafter.’ If all those pastel colors didn’t tip you off, the station is in retirement, and it will live out its golden years acting as a colorful venue for pop-up events in the midst of a decade-long urban regeneration effort aiming to create a “thriving, creative neighborhood.”

The station, located on Wood Lane, sits between the BBC’s former headquarters at the Television Centre and White City Place, the former BBC Media Village, both of which will reopen this year after redevelopment. Designer duo Craig & Karl, aka Craig Redman and Karl Maier, took inspiraiton from the bright colors of a television test card for the station’s cheerful new palette and decorated it in their signature graphic style.

“We view this project as the petrol station’s second life, or ‘wonder years,’ which led us to use the words ‘here after’ as a reference to heaven or utopia,” say the designers. “Now that the petrol station has fulfilled its duty, so to speak, it’s free to enjoy itself.”

In a jam-packed, space-challenged city where so few people even own vehicles, this is an especially fitting and fun revitalization of a disused urban space. Doesn’t it make you wish all gas stations were treated as art objects?

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ]

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Fractal: A supercell thunderstorm time-lapse years in the making

02 Jun

Chad Cowan is passionate about teaching people the ins-and-outs of storms and extreme weather, as well as how to safely document them. And judging by both his impressive body of work as well as his latest release, Fractal, he certainly seems to know what he’s doing.

So crank the volume and enjoy some samplings from the last six years of Cowan’s storm-chasing across America’s Great Plains.

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Europeana Photography lets you browse through the first 100 years of photography

30 May

Eadweard Muybridge, Loya: Valley of the Yosemite (The Sentinel), c. 1867 – c. 1872. Rijksmuseum. Public Domain

Europeana Photography is a new online image archive that includes more than 2 million historical photographs from European collections in 34 countries, covering the first 100 years of photography. The gallery includes important images from pioneers in the field of photography, such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Daguerre.

The Europeana Photography project is being led by PHOTOCONSORTIUM, the International Consortium for Photographic Heritage and a non-profit which aims to promote and enhance the culture of photography and photographic heritage.

The 2,296,517 photos in the gallery were sourced from photographic archives, agencies and museum collections across Europe and can be filtered by the providing country, institution, and usage license. Many of the images are Public Domain.

Nicola Perscheid. Grand Canal, Venice, 1929. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, CC0.

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Karsh, Beaton and Swannell featured as Camera Press celebrates 70 years with exhibition of famous faces

13 May

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An exhibition of portraits that chart the last seven decades of celebrity photography will mark the 70th birthday of British photo agency Camera Press. Emma Blau, granddaughter of founder Tom Blau, has searched the 12 million images of the agency’s archive to find the photographs that demonstrate how portrait photography has changed since the agency started in 1947. The first photographer to join the business was Yousuf Karsh and the first event covered was the wedding of the Queen of England by society photographer Baron.

The exhibition ‘Camera Press at 70 – a lifetime in pictures’ will feature archival work by Karsh, Cecil Beaton, Baron and Jane Bowen, as well as by more recent photographers such as John Swannell, Clive Arrowsmith, Jason Bell and Chris Floyd.

Celebrities caught by the lenses of the exhibited photographers will include Kate Bush, The Queen, the Gallagher brothers from Oasis, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill and JFK.

The free exhibition will be held the Olympus-sponsored Art Bermondsey Project Space in London from 17th May to 10th June 2017. For more information see the Camera Press website, and for more of the images see the Daily Mail website.

Information from Camera Press

Founded in 1947, Camera Press celebrates its Platinum anniversary this year with Camera Press at 70 – a lifetime in pictures. Drawing on an unparalleled collection of images, and featuring work by some of the most iconic names in the industry this exhibition offers a fascinating insight into photography from the 1940s to the present day.

On display will be the work of photographic legends such as Yousuf Karsh, Cecil Beaton and Jane Bown through to contemporary names that include Andy Gotts, John Swannell, Jason Bell, Jillian Edelstein, Chris Floyd and Laura Pannack.

The exhibition will feature two further 70th anniversaries: 1947 was the year the young Princess Elizabeth wed Prince Philip and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) was founded. The first photographs distributed by Camera Press were of the wedding of the future Queen, and this famous image by Baron will sit alongside more recent unique portraits of Princess Diana, The Queen’s Jubilee and the christening of Prince George. The exclusive BAFTA portrait collection will shine a light on many of our best loved actors from the worlds of TV and film.

Also included in the show are photographs by three generations of the Blau family: founder Tom Blau, his son Jon and granddaughter Emma.

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Spring on Speed: Time-Lapse Video Captures 3 Years of Blooming Flowers

13 May

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Photography & Video. ]

A single sweeping shot seems to capture an entire spring season of blooming flowers in this artfully directed time-lapse video, which took three years to record and complete. Filmmaker Jamie Scott captured almost all of the footage on a soundstage in the closet of his New York home, often against a black backdrop, placing the flowers in stark relief as they unfurl.

The sped-up result almost makes them look like sea creatures waving around under the sea, tentatively opening and then closing again as the camera passes over them. Scott started out filming the flowers from the front, but realized the effect was more dramatic if he shot them from above instead, shifting focus as he went.

In a behind-the-scenes interview with F-stoppers, Scott explains that he made the film in contrast to his previous time-lapse work entitled Fall. The difference between the two films isn’t just the season, but also the close-up shots, shallow depth of field, classical score and placing the camera on a slider.

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Photography & Video. ]

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This flower bloom time-lapse took three years and 8TB of raw footage to create

09 May

You can pick your favorite symbol of springtime from any number of familiar images. In Seattle, the local favorite is a rain-soaked figure clutching a latte with a cold, dead look in their eyes. But it’s hard to beat the natural beauty and optimism of a blooming flower. That’s the imagery that dominates filmmaker Jamie Scott’s recent time-lapse titled ‘Spring,’ a follow-up to his popular video ‘Fall’ of a couple of years ago.

He gives FStoppers a fascinating look at what it takes to create a time-lapse of this scope. Not surprisingly, a lot of patience and hard drive space were involved. Watch the video, check out the behind-the-scenes and let us know what you think in the comments.

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Posts Tagged ‘Years’

NPPA to raise dues for the first time in 11 years, because defending truth ain’t cheap

The iPhone turns 10 years old today: What has it meant to you?

Move over Nikon: Gitzo celebrates 100 years with pricey, limited-edition tripods

30 Years of Graffiti: Peeled Dutch Wall Sample Reveals Colorful Art History

Out of Gas: Abandoned Station Will Live its Golden Years as a Venue

Fractal: A supercell thunderstorm time-lapse years in the making

Europeana Photography lets you browse through the first 100 years of photography

Karsh, Beaton and Swannell featured as Camera Press celebrates 70 years with exhibition of famous faces

Spring on Speed: Time-Lapse Video Captures 3 Years of Blooming Flowers

This flower bloom time-lapse took three years and 8TB of raw footage to create

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