Craig Silverman
May 7, 2013
8:50 am
User-generated content is rife with risk and opportunity.
The opportunity for it to deliver remarkable images is made clear on an almost-daily basis, be it in the midst of a crisis like the Boston Marathon bombings, Hurricane Sandy, or simply … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 25, 2013
5:06 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 22, 2013
9:37 am
Associated Press
David Green's
cell-phone photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appearing to move away from the scene of last Monday's bombing almost seemed too good to be true, Associated Press Director of Photography Santiago Lyon said in a phone call Friday evening.
"When the picture began to circulate, we were suspicious of it because when we looked at it closely it seemed to have been a composite picture," Lyon said. "But what happens often with digital imagery is when you're looking closely at low-resolution files you see things that are misleading, because of the way the pic is compressed or the size of the file."
- A cropped version of Green's photo (AP Photo/David Green)
So the AP asked Green, a Florida businessman who'd completed the marathon and was watching other runners finish when the bombs went off, for a high-resolution version of his pic. The time stamp and the resolution convinced the photo department it was real. After the AP did a little reporting on Green -- making sure he'd run the race, that he was who he said -- they struck a licensing deal.
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Kenneth Irby
Apr. 20, 2013
1:34 am
On Monday, veteran photojournalist John Tlumacki captured the iconic image of the Boston Marathon bombing: runner Bill Iffrig knocked to the pavement on Boylston Street in front of a trio of police officers, each seemingly headed in a different direction.… Read more
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Joshua Gillin
Apr. 19, 2013
4:07 pm
WillSteacy.com | Wired
Photographer Will Steacy grew up in a family of newspapermen, so his latest project has special resonance with journalists struggling with the progression from print to digital media. The son of former Philadelphia Inquirer national/foreign editor Tom Steacy, the writer and artist four years ago decided to start shooting the metamorphosis of that newspaper,
as depicted in his completed photo essay, Deadline.
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The project focuses on the cutbacks and layoffs brought on by the Inquirer's circulation declines, numerous ownership changes and
2009 bankruptcy, as illustrated by the paper's
move from its 87-year-old Tower of Truth at 400 N Broad to the third floor of
a former Strawbridge's department store on Market Street near Chinatown. The essay even includes images memorializing Steacy's father's empty desk after he was laid off in 2011.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 17, 2013
10:19 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2013
11:57 am
Javier Manzano was "shocked" when he found out
he had won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
“To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no outside support.”
Freelancers have won Pulitzer prizes in the past, but not nearly as often as full-time journalists have. Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler told Poynter that it's been 17 years since a freelance photographer won a Pulitzer. (Two freelance photographers -- Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh -- won in 1996.)
Manzano won for a photo of two rebel soldiers guarding their sniper’s nest in Aleppo, as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them. Karmel Jabl, the neighborhood in which Manzano captured the photo, separates many of the major battlegrounds in Aleppo.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 15, 2013
11:36 am
Monterey County Weekly
Defense Department police at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, Calif., shouldn't have demanded Monterey County Weekly photographer Nic Coury delete photos he'd taken of the base's entrance from the street, a base spokesman said.
The paper had assigned Coury to get a shot of NPS' gates for a story.
Base security detained him and insisted he delete the photos, Monterey County Weekly Editor Mary Duan wrote last week. They said " it is not permitted under the law to take pictures," Duan writes, quoting Coury. (It's unclear which law they were referring to.)
Coury returned two days later to retake the shots after the paper determined he was breaking no laws. Again he was detained.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 4, 2013
4:52 pm
iMediaEthics
An NBC photo of Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon sharing a motorcycle
has a fake background, Sydney Smith and Rhonda Roland Shearer report:
NBC confirmed to iMediaEthics by phone that it didn't use Photoshop. Leno, Fallon, the motorcycle and the sidecar were all real and present for the photoshoot. But, NBC did use "a fake background and a fake road" for the image.
The New York Post, The Village Voice and The Hollywood Reporter were among the outlets that ran the photo, Smith and Shearer report. The Daily News altered the image further, plopping a big pile of cash in Fallon's lap. The digital version of the Daily News' cover carries a small credit acknowledging the money's addition, but Smith and Shearer say they couldn't find one on a print copy.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 1, 2013
7:39 am
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