Creativity
Photographer sues Alexander Wang over Dua Lipa pic
A New York City-based photographer is suing fashion house Alexander Wang for using his copyright-protected work without a licence. In a complaint filed at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, August 12, Robert Barbera said Alexander Wang had used a photograph he took of UK singer Dua Lipa without compensation.
Photojournalism
The week’s best photojournalism
Afghan girls swing during the first day of Eid al-Adha, in Kabul, Afghanistan. | ( REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail) A man dressed in the traditional 'Chulapo' style poses during Nuestra Senora de la Paloma festivities in Madrid, Spain. | ( AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) A boy competes in mutton busting at the Iowa State Fair.
Video Creators
How Netflix Is Using Its Muscle to Push Filmmaking Technology Boundaries
Arguably the most popular camera among Hollywood cinematographers is the ARRI Alexa, made by the century-old ARRI camera company. But as recently as six months ago, Netflix would not permit DPs to use this camera (other than the large-format Alexa 65) for its original programming because the standard model employed a 3.2K resolution sensor instead of the streamer's required 4K.
Photoshop
How to Create Starburst Effect in Photoshop
In this photoshop photo effects tutorial, we'll be mixing photo editing and graphic art to create our own starburst lens flare effects and applying them to an image. You don't really need any sort of graphic skills to do this as the process mainly involves manipulation through scaling, rotating and applying filters.
Documentary
Ferlinghetti photos of Normandy landing on D-Day surface at Harvey Milk Photo Center
Ferlinghetti photos of Normandy landing on D-Day surface at Harvey Milk Photo Center
As the armada of allied ships formed up for the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was in command of a submarine chaser off the coast of Normandy. He had one hand on the controls and the other on a Navy-issue camera.
Cameras & Lenses
How Canon, Nikon and other Japanese camera companies are fighting for survival in the Smartphone era
There were 100 million digital cameras shipped in the iPhone's first year, 2007. By 2018, the digital camera market had declined by roughly 80%. Of Japan's eight digital camera makers, only one had sales and profit growth in the most recent year.
Off-Camera Flash
Why Salads and CEOs Are Photographed the Exact Same Way
Pick up a magazine or fall down Instagram's rabbit hole and you're likely to come across at least one photograph lit up by an unnaturally bright flash - a flash that floods the space, evenly illuminating every detail in vivid color.
Newspapers
$32M lien placed on Tampa Bay Times over pension payment defaults
Liens against the Tampa Bay Times' parent company now total more than $103 million, according to documents obtained by Florida Politics. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. filed its latest lien against the paper June 20 for $32.2 million. The lien is placed "on all property and rights to property" because the Times "failed to make contributions to the pension plan required."
Personal Advancement
Nobody’s Perfect
Nobody's perfect, as the saying goes. And while that is perfectly true (Ha! See what I did there?), and meant to make us feel better for being flawed or making mistakes, in retrospect it also implies that we hold perfection up as an ideal..as the ultimate achievement.
Community
Canon Drops Ambassador Barbara Davidson for ‘Racist’ Tweet
Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson has been booted from the Canon Explorers of Light program after an insensitive tweet aimed at Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro sparked outrage on social media. In the tweet that kicked off the controversy, Davidson mocked the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for not being able to speak Spanish.
Lifestyle
No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you.
Before deepfakes and alternative facts, the online world was already telling us fibs. In our series Lies the Internet Told Me , we call 'em all out. For our summer vacation, my wife drove us hell-for-leather between National Parks, driven by the urge to collect every stamp in her Parks Passport.
Wordpress
Tumblr sold off yet again, adult content bans to remain in place
Verizon announced that microblogging platform Tumblr would be acquired by Automattic Inc, the tech company behind WordPress. This comes roughly eight months after Tumblr announced that it would no longer host NSFW content on its side and introduced posting guidelines that prohibited sexually explicit videos and images, as well as pictures of "female-presenting nipples."
Books
30 Books Mattis Thinks Every Good Leader Needs To Read
James Mattis, the Marine Corps general-turned secretary of defense, is known for many things, including his prolific reading list. We know everyone jokes that Marines can't read, but Mattis has probably perused more books in a year than most people manage in a lifetime.He sat down with Foreign Polic
Technology
How to fix your phone’s shitty portrait mode
Ever since Apple introduced their depth map generated fake background blur filter known as Portrait mode, practically all other phone makes have also added that feature. In all cases it's terrible at making your photos look good because the filters never get the edge details right.
Geek Gear
1TB phones are coming and I’m so fucking ready
Something special happened today. Samsung, a tech company you definitely know, announced it's mass-producing 1TB flash storage chips for mobile devices. In other words, you'll soon be able to buy phones with a terabyte of storage space. When I asked people about this news, there were two main schools of thought.