The Sacramento Bee and The Boston Globe
Images: Framing the Eclipse of the Century
Screen shot of The Sacramento Bee's photo blog The Frame. |
The Bee has joined a number of newspapers featuring "big picture blogs," including the Denver Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe. I can't think of better subjects than the vastness of space, the sun slowly being carved by the moon as it casts the Earth into shadow and the thousands of people who watch the event as an excuse to run large images on the Web.
See The Frame cover the eclipse here.
See The Big Picture cover the eclipse here.
Richard Hernandez and the iPhone
54 Days, 54 Images on the 54 Bus in Oakland
A documentary by Anne Medley
Holding On: HIV and AIDS in Montana
From the Beacon
Happy Fourth of July
The final firework showers down on onlookers at the City Beach in Whitefish during the annual Fourth of July celebration. Hundreds showed up to cool down in the waters of Whitefish Lake and take in the stellar firework display. - Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon
Neda Stirs and Inspires
Cell Phone Video Captures Latest Iconic Image
Frame grab from YouTube. |
The image has joined the ranks of John Filo’s 1970 photograph of shootings at Kent State University and Eddie Adams’ 1968 image “Vietnam Execution” as the new iconic image.
It was inevitable that the mix of cell phone cameras and social networking would propel an image to iconic status. CNN reporter Jessica Ravitz writes about the history, the effects and the place in mass media of these iconic images in her piece, Neda: Latest iconic image to inspire, on CNN.com.
Kodak announces end of a 74-year run
Kodachrome, Another Casualty of a Digital World
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
Well … after 74 years of production, Kodachrome is going away as Kodak ceases production of its most iconic slide film.
Using the Red
Shooting a Living Movie Poster
Photographer Alexx Henry walks through his set-up and philosophy of using the innovative Red One camera to shoot a living movie poster (or "One Sheet"). This is a textbook example of how to take traditional still photography techniques and revise them for modern means of information dissemination. See the video after the jump.