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Friday Links

April 25, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Charlottesville V by His Noodly Appendage
Charlottesville V by His Noodly Appendage

Happy Friday! Our links this week include more awards for Tyler Hicks, the National Zoo trying to help Sumatran Tigers, great photos of local food, and a possible ban on overly photoshopped images.

  • This week Lytro announced the Illum, a new light-field camera. Light-field (or plenoptic) cameras capture all of the light in a given scene, allowing you to make significant changes to photos, like choosing different focus points and even perspective, after you’ve taken them.
  • Local photographer, and  two-time Exposed winner, Rey Lopez has mouth-watering images of chef Matt Adler making gnocchi on Eater DC.
  • After years of clarifying that she was Indian, and not Native American, photographer Annu Palakunnathu Matthew uses the diptych to compare and contrast her Indian cultural heritage to Native American Indians.
  • Zoey and Jasper – a rescue dog and her little boy. Because adorable.
  • Terry Richardson was accused again this week of sexual harassment, after a model shared a message he allegedly sent offering a Vogue photo shoot in exchange for sex. This is not the first time someone has stepped forward with accusations against Richardson, with some of those including sexual assault. Can the photo world agree to be done with this predator already?
  • Photographer Aline Smithson has made all of your doll nightmares a reality.
  • Tyler Hicks won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award this week for his story on the 2013 attack on a Nairobi mall. Hicks also won the Pulitzer Prize for the story, and shared behind the scenes information about it with NPR.
  • Photographer Rohan Anderson photographed a band for a publication, and the band subsequently used his photo without permission. The band did not like his request for payment, and responded like whiney five-year olds. After the story went viral, the band paid up. No word on if they apologized for posting the photo using a pseudo HDR filter.
  • Photographer Zahir Batin has revealed the private lives of Storm Troopers. This of course includes waiting at the AT-AT stop and feeding baby chickens.
  • We can agree that excessive photoshopping is terrible, but do we need a law banning it? And if we are banning things, can we at least start with selective color images?
  • The Smithsonian has created the Endangered Song project to raise money for the 400 remaining Sumatran Tigers, who are at risk of going extinct. They printed 400 lathe-cut records of a song by the band Portugal. The Man, which will degrade over time and ‘go extinct’ unless it’s digitally reproduced. You can see more tiger photos on the Zoo’s Instagram page.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Aline Smithson, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, dog, Eater DC, friday links, Illium, Lytro, national zoo, Rey Lopez, Robert Capa Gold Medal, Rohan Anderson, Smithsonian, Terry Richardson, tigers, Tyler Hicks, Zahir Batan

In Frame: April 23, 2014

April 23, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Bao Bao, happily playing with a stick.
Bao Bao, happily playing with a stick.

We are going with a slightly unconventional, yet highly adorable version of In Frame today. Brian Allen has been taking and posting photos of D.C.’s cutest tourist attraction, and we couldn’t resist posting several shots of our favorite baby panda. Bao Bao has been very busy doing some fun panda things like eating a stick, rolling in a ball, climbing a tree, and cuddling with mom. Thankfully Allen has been there to capture it all.

Bao Bao in a ball.
Bao Bao in a ball.

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Filed Under: In Frame Tagged With: baby panda, Bao Bao, Brian Allen, Mei Xiang, national zoo, panda

New Local Rental Gear Resource: F8 Rentals

April 22, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Running for Mom by Rob Cannon
Running for Mom by Rob Cannon

When Calumet Photo filed bankruptcy and closed their stores across the nation last month, the largest local camera rental department in the area disappeared with it. Hardly missing a beat, Jerry Smith, the former manager of the Calumet’s rental department in Tyson’s Corner has opened his own business, F8 Rentals, to help fill that void.

Transferring a small portion of a previously existing business to a new endeavor is not new for those in the former Penn Camera and Calumet family. The former head of the Penn Camera Workshops, Marie Joabar, broke out on her own after Penn went bankrupt in early 2012 and founded the Capital Photography Center. Now Smith is trying to follow a similar path. We asked him a few questions about F8 Rentals.

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Filed Under: Gear Talk Tagged With: Calumet Photo, f8Rentals, Jerry Smith, Local Business, Local Resource Guide, Penn Camera, rental gear

Friday Links

April 18, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Being a panda is hard work by Brian Allen
Being a panda is hard work by Brian Allen

Plenty of links to love this week: A new photo blog by an Exposed DC photographer, the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners, and the VP joins Instagram. Enjoy!

  • UPDATED: The film Finding Vivian Maier will be playing for at least a week for one night at the E Street Cinema starting April 25. (Thanks to Ron Freudenheim for the correction!)
  • A photo shoot of Claire Shipman and Jay Carney in Washingtonian Mom caught some flack online for the excessive us of photoshop.
  • Jeff Bauman, the man who was featured in one of the most iconic photos in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, wrote an op-ed piece about the photograph.
  • The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced this week, including Taylor Hicks of the New York Times for Breaking News Photography, for his coverage of a terrorist attack in a mall in Kenya, and Josh Haner, also of the New York Times, for Feature Photography.
  • Our own Sanjay Suchak has a new photo blog that you should check out.
  • The NoMa Parks Foundation is holding an Underpass Competition to find artists or architects interested in re-designing several underpass areas. It would be cool to see work from photographers installed in these public spaces.
  • Photographer Peter Macdiarmid has overlayed photos from World War I over modern photos of Europe.
  • Asher Svidensky’s photo essay on a 13-year old Mongolian girl training to hunt with eagles is worth seeing.
  • Joe Biden joined Instagram this week.
  • When you stake out an airport and take photos of planes taking off and they go viral, you may hear from airport authorities. This happened to photographer Mike Kelley, but in a way you would not expect.
  • And finally, two mistreated German circus tigers are being saved and transported to a zoo in the UK. The tigers were reportedly happy to hear that they were not going to Copenhagen.

Filed Under: Friday Links Tagged With: Asher Svidensky, Finding Vivian Maier, friday links, Jeff Bauman, Joe Biden, Josh Haner, Mike Kelley, Peter Macdiarmid, Pulitxer Prize, sanjay suchak, Taylor Hicks, tiger, Washingtonian Mom

In Frame: April 14, 2014

April 14, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Spring in Oak Hill by Erin Kelly
Spring in Oak Hill by Erin Kelly

The peak of the cherry blossom trees has left the city awash in pink. This photo by Erin Kelly taken at Oak Hill Cemetery shows that you can find the beautiful blooms in more locations than just the National Mall.

Filed Under: In Frame Tagged With: cemetery, Cherry Blossoms, Erin Kelly, in frame, petals

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