Photo: Yellowstone National Park, Photographing Old Faithful (Some rights reserved)
What would those in the know like others understand about photography? Presenting relevant links in a somewhat random fashion:
Headlines
Piden fotógrafos mirar a Oaxaca con ojos críticos y no románticos (Photographers are asked to look at Oaxaca with critical and not romantic eyes) – Noticias
The hidden fingerprint inside your photos – BBC
Responsible Travel Photography. Using the Web to Link Locals and Travelers in Oaxaca, Mexico
The ‘longest-ever photo exposure’ has been found — inside a drink can – CNN
https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984
This is why you are afraid of photographing people while traveling
Fotografieren auf Reisen
https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/september-1888-george-eastman-patents-his-kodak-camera
https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/5683481585/sofi-lee-on-digital-nostalgia
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums-right-to-charge-image-fees-is-called-into-question
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16405200/google-clips-camera-ai-photos-video-hands-on-wi-fi-direct
https://petapixel.com/2017/07/13/no-cant-use-photos-brands-instagram-free
https://theconversation.com/explainer-how-law-enforcement-decodes-your-photos-78828
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/03/21/photos-clogging-your-phone-here-best-solutions/99265086
http://news.wtmlondon.com/blog/responsible-tourism/would-you-welcome-tourists-to-your-home
http://nautil.us/blog/the-worlds-most-inspirational-iceberg-is-a-fake
http://www.whydev.org/shouldnt-post-photos-kids-facebook
Taking pictures with poor kids – @BluCollarProf
A Traveler’s Eye
Getty Images blows the web’s mind by setting 35 million photos free (with conditions, of course)
http://www.one.org/us/2014/03/25/the-ethics-of-photographing-locals
http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/03/getty-images-makes-35-million-images-free-in-fight-against-copyright-infringement
Tai Roob Dai Mai – @CReidTaylor
How to photograph yourself hugging third world children – @Reductress
Digital Cameras Are Messing With Your Memory
Watch where you’re shooting!
Underwater Photography
Was the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year faked with Photoshop
Set Your Phone’s Photos Free With the Wikimedia Commons App
How to photograph strangers
This Is the Oldest Record In History—Scanned and Recreated From a Photo
If You Call It Art, Is It Still A Crime? – Mike Bowers
Making calendars
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/collections/72157603082772902
http://bighugelabs.com/calendar.php
Recommended Listening
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar – Photographer Taryn Simon has spent years documenting some extraordinary places – nuclear waste facilities, forensic labs, the contraband room at JFK airport, even the art room at the CIA. Her exhibit, named An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, is currently on display at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne
Rewriting the history of photography – Many people know about the early history of photography involving images on silver plates. But these well known results were based on earlier experiments by a range of people over earlier decades. John Wood and Sally Hoban fill in the gaps, including evidence that another process of creating images was used before the silver plates method. It involved using poisonous cyanide leaving traces around fern leaves. The mystery extends to letters revealing rivalry and bribes. Perhaps the early history of photography is about to be rewritten.
Photojournalism special – Today we look at what effect smart phones in the hands of the public are having — and will have — on photojournalism. And photojournalists aren’t just under pressure from cameras being almost everywhere these days. The decline of newspapers is also having its effect. But amidst all this, many photojournalists are strangely optimistic about the future of their craft and today we’re going to find out why.
Quotes
A foreigner can photograph the exteriors of a nation. No foreigner can report its interior, its life, its speech, its thoughts. Knowledge of these things is acquired in only one way – years and years of unconscious absorption. One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
– Mark Twain, Essays on Paul Bourget, cited in The Trouble Begins at Eight
Photographs need to be interpreted. The mode is which photographs are made affects what they record.
– Simon Schaffer, The philosophy of astronomy
Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
– Marcel Proust
Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal. Now you see us; now you don’t. It doesn’t matter whether you look through a camera lens and press the shutter. It doesn’t even matter whether you open your eyes or close them. The pictures are always there. And so are the people in them.
– Robert Goddard
Photojournalism
ABC News Photos
Photographers
Rich Remsburg
Mari Seder
Elsewhere on the Web
smugmug.com
http://moodstream.gettyimages.com
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travel-blog/community/?p=1559
Tourist photography may be helpful to destination health
Photographer’s Rights – Bert P. Krages
We are all photographers now – nfp 2.0
Sports Photography Isn’t Easy: US College Rugby Playoffs – White African
Center for Creative Photography
Centro de la Imagen (Mexico)
Fotoperiodismo
Life photos on Google
Magnum in Motion
New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography
The Mayan Photo Album – Steve Bridger
Making Pictures of Guanajuato – Steve Bridger
We are all photographers now – Steve Bridger
The Impact Of Conservation Photography – Garth Lenz
XVII Concurso de Fotografía turística
openphoto.me
time-travel-photography-the-back-to-the-future-project/277120
eccardi.photoshelter.com
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Wikipedia
Nicéphore Niépce House – Flickr – @MaisonNiepce
Transitions Abroad
Responsible Tourism Photography
Culturally Sensitive Photography
tips-taking-photos-of-people
Embedded Tweets
Photos
Misc
On smartphones, the rear-facing camera always has better resolution than the front-facing camera
Vivian-Maier
britannica.com
bbc.com
flickr.com
Bingo
album – app – archive – aspect ratio – astrophotographer – bluetooth – body camera – burst – camera – camera shy – cameratrap – candid – carousel – copy – copyright – creative commons – crop – curate – daguerreotype – dark room – dashboard camera – delete – digital – digital camera – download – drone – facebook – filter – embed – filter – film – flickr – fluker posts – foodporn – fotomat – gallery – high dynamic range – image – import all – instagram – kodak – landscape – lens – magic hour – memory – mosaic – movies – optical artifact – panorama – permission – photobomb – photo booth – photo safari – photogenic – pixel – platinum rule – polaroid – portrait – pose – preview – print – privacy – public souvenir – read write culture – responsible tourism – roll – selfie – share – single shot – smugmug – space – soul – still life – tags – time lapse – travelporn – tripod – underwater – unselfie – untitled event – visual imagery – visual thinking – webcam – zoom – 360
AE/AF = auto exposure and auto focus
Wikipedia
Photography
History of photography
Academy ratio
Daguerreotype
Document camera
Edwin Land
Rule of thirds
Bokeh
Tilt shift photography
Photogrammetry
Celebrations
Apps
Planeta.com