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Wheelchair-bound Miles Ambridge's mother objected strenuously to his placement in his class photo, saying it makes him look "ostracized." Photo courtesy The Province. Sports broadcasters have long known that people identify with watching sports they themselves have played. It's not...

Any time Zeiss releases a new lens its a cause for heightened interest by photographers. Cameras come and go in the digital era, but lenses can become life-long friends, at least the best ones can.

Kevin and I had an opportunity to work with the new Zeiss Touit 12mm f/2.8 and 32mm f/1.8 lenses in Fuji XR mount on our Kimberly PODAS Expedition in Australia earlier this month. These lenses are also available in Sony NEX-E mount.

 Our joint review is now online.

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So if you've been reading this "vertical photography magazine" a long long time, you might remember a piece I wrote explaining why I'm not a photojournalist. I described coming across a perfect and very newsworthy picture and not being able...

I woke up in the middle of the night last night realizing I'd forgotten to put out the garbage. So I went to do that, and once outside I heard this gawd-awful roar coming from somewhere out to the West...

I shot an actual assignment yesterday...a dear family friend, Ned Schley, died a few months ago, and yesterday's memorial service at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center downtown drew a huge crowd. Grimmy (it's short for "Grandma Imy") asked me to...

Reviewed by John Camp TOP looks at quite a few books over the course of a year; this is a review of an unusual one called A Photojournalist's Field Guide, with the subtitle, "In the trenches with combat photographer Stacy...

We have just published our Advanced Guide to Lightroom 5. This "live" video tutorial, with Jeff Schewe, Michael Reichmann and Adobe's Eric Chan provides an in-depth explanation of all the new features in Adobe Lightroom 5.

You'll find a comprehensive Table of Contents here, and you can click directly on this link to purchase. No waiting, no taxes – available immediately to anywhere in the world. Swift Amazon S3 downloads.

Our Advanced Guide to Lightroom 5 is available for an introductory period at just US $19.95, a 20% discount over the regular price.

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Here's my latest pic, taken last night. I got six or eight good shots last night, but the older I get the more willing I am to let the "just good" ones fall away and concentrate on the ones that...

A nice short film about our friend Peter Turnley in Portugal, on a Portuguese website, Público; reader John Krill sent me the link. The interview must be very new—Peter's in Portugal right now, and I notice that one of the...

Leica raised a lot of false hopes when they ran teaser ads for a Mini-M. Instead, we got an X with a slow zoom lens. 

Our regular contributor Sean Reid comments on this new camera in an essay titled Waiting for Monroe.

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Phase One is now running a special at 50% off for Capture One Express 7 and 20% off Capture One Pro.

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Apparently the Hasselblad Lunar (cough, cough) has gone on sale, and is now available on Amazon. To celebrate this occasion we are offering the first person anywhere in the world who can prove that they have purchased a Lunar a complete collection of all of our training and travel videos as a reward (compensation?). We'll also offer to publish your review, if you care to write one. The review has to include a brief explanation of why you decided to pay $7,000 for a Sony NEX-7.

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Photo by Rachel Elizabeth Seed This has got to stop! For the second time in just a few days, my systems went down and an entire post got zapped. This time it was my DSL, which went down for just...

We're just completing the final editing of our brand new Advanced Guide to Lightroom 5. Only a few more days until it's available.

In the meantime, you can watch the opening chapter.

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[UPDATE—Sorry, this is another false alarm, unless Amazon will take your order for a reserved copy. I heard from Dewi and the reprint is (as of a few days ago) fixed for July, which means copies will be shipping in...

This week's column by Ctein Last column I told you what is wrong with Adobe's Brave New Photoshop, and we had a jolly good time bashing the Big A, didn't we! Now we've got that out of our system. (and...

I can't claim that this is entirely due to the notorious "TOP effect," but Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door is now the #1 Bestseller on Amazon in its category. Hey, we're at least helping.... Mike P.S. I'm trying not...

This might be the most interesting comment from the Editing Software post, which came in rather late in the day from Camilo Polymeris. Camilo points out that not having one program do everything would be a-feature-not-a-bug: I prefer small, light...

Damn—you know, you stop paying attention for five minutes, and the news just steamrolls right over you. Apparently Leica has released a new camera, and judging from the price it must be a pretty significant product. Yr. Hmbl. Ed. is,...

I didn't actually know this when I wrote yesterday's post about photo editing software—I'm generally more clueless than calculating—but it turns out that Adobe is about to release the newest edition of Lightroom, Lightroom 5. You can order it now,...

I'm giving a plug here for my friend Sean Reid and his subscription web site, Reid Reviews.

Sean has just published the first review of the new Leica X Vario, which was announced this morning. This is bound to be a somewhat controversial camera (which new Leica isn't), and if you are interested in what it might have to offer you then Sean's write-ups are always a great place to find out what's what.

 

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By Kenneth Tanaka What does the expression "a photographer's photographer" mean to you? To me it's a genre-independent designation far beyond simply a "good" or "prolific" photographer. To me it's someone who leverages a mastery of the photographic medium toward...

We have just published Alain Briot's latest essay, Vision and The Artists Statement – Part 3.

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I returned from Western Australia yesterday after two days of almost continious travel. Whew. Four airports, five movies, two novels, and at least a half dozen indescribable airplane meals. But, no delays, no lost bags, and no drama, so lot's to be thankful for.

Kevin is still there, taking care of winding things up, and shipping all the Phase gear back to Denmark. He'll be home by Thursday.

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Adobe started shipping Lightroom 5 today. We filmed our Lightroom 5 Tutorial Update a few weeks ago and it is now in the final editing stages. It will be ready shortly and will have compehensive tutorials on all of the new features in LR5.

Watch for a special promotional price soon.

         

 "Yes I downloaded the videos. THEY ARE AWESOME!!! 
I learned so much I think my brain is going to explode.

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Home sweet home for me...Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) I've been thinking about this for the past few days now, and I've been struck by an idea that won't leave my head: Is it possible that good photo editing software just...

The saddest sight in my house. I am in theory as frightened of the idea of pain as the most timid little girl, but in reality I don't seem to be very much in touch with it. Pain, I mean....

It is Wednesday June 5th in Kimberley Austrailia where for the last five days we have been sailing to some of the most remote places on the planet.  We have seen some amazing things.  We are sailing aboard the True North on a Phase One PODAS workshop.  There are 34 attendees and instructors on board and it is all about photography and fun.  We have a helicopter that takes us to remote locations as well as some incredible sights from the air.  There isn’t enough room here to even begin to tell you what an amazing photographic adventure this has been so far.  There are still three more days to go and we are told that tomorrow will rank up there as a most amazing day.  When we get home home we’ll post more images and an article about this workshop.  

 

We have also started planning NEW workshops for 2014 and 2015.  A few of these will be aboard the True North again.  So, if you missed this workshop, be sure to register early when we announce the new ones.  We are assembling a great  group of instructors and locations we plan to visit.

 

 

Michael, Chris and I have been busy doing a number of video interviews and these will be posted in the near future too.  There is a lot going on and we have some new and informative features coming soon.  

 

If you are interested we have a link to our GPS tracker and you can follow our progress HERE.  You’ll have to select the GPS points you want to see as the map will only display the last 50.  

 

Also, follow the links to our Facebook pages for more photos.

 

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In a few hours we board the True North and will be out of touch for a week as we cruise and photograph the remote Kimberley Coast of Western Australia.

The new Home Page photograph was taken last night and will be the last posting here till the 9th.

You can continue to follow me and the expedition via my Facebook page (link above) where I'll be posting via a satellite texting device. The messages are geocoded and will show our current location on a map on your browser. 

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