Archive for September, 2009

Reviews

Review: The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

The DAM Book by Peter Krogh is my digital asset management bible. It is a definitive source of information about everything you need to know to get your photos organized, archived, and protected. This book is a lot of things but let me start by telling you what it is not. [...]

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Announcements

Viewbook Photostory 2009 contest

Please visit our sponsor: Viewbook is an online service that helps photographers present and deliver their work professionally. You can use Viewbook to present your photos in uncluttered albums and galleries, create elegant portfolios, and build an entire website to promote your brand using visual design tools. They've even got [...]

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Reviews

Robert Frank at the MOCA, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles was a mixed bag for me. I love art, but I especially love beautiful art or, at the very least, art I can understand. I think art should communicate---and I just didn't get some of it. Maybe that makes me shallow (but [...]

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Grab bag

Fun photo project at Epic Edits

EpicEdits.com is running a fun collaborative group project/experiment to help you brush up and show off your rad post-processing skills---yah, I said rad... blame the eighties---and possibly learn something new. Here's how it works: go to Epic Edits and get the unprocessed RAW or JPG file by John Huson, do [...]

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News

Did Newsweek go too far?

Inside the September 14th issue, Newsweek featured a full-page photo of Dick Cheney holding a knife over a bloody piece of meat along with this caption: "I am." Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday, in response to the question, "So even these cases where [C.I.A. interrogators] went beyond the specific legal [...]

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