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Life Guards by Jane Fulton

- At NY Times: A behind-the-scenes look at troops being trained in Pakistan.

- See Jane Fulton’s Crude Awakening, her take on the Gulf Oil Spill and its impacts.

- Learn how to make a basic portrait much more “artful”.

- Photojojo has composed a very detailed and extensive list of the best movies about photography.

- See everything from fireworks to bullfighting to crowd-surfers at the 2010 Spanish Festival of San Fermin.

- Nicolai Howalt takes an in-depth look into car crash aftermaths.

- Trying to find some good summer clothes? Take a look at some photo-friendly clothing.

-Can’t wait for “Inception”? Check out these 28 mind bending examples of optical illusion photography.

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Rogue, Detriot by Andrew Moore

Rogue, Detroit by Andrew Moore

- Get some great tips on how to improve your photography skills through kung fu.

- At NPR: The early years of the Tour de France shown through eighty-year-old photos.

- See a disheveled Detroit though Andrew Moore’s eyes.

- A survey revealing the down low on photo editors and art buyers – everything from their business models to how they find photographers.

-  On The Freelance Switch:  How to upsell your services as a freelancer.

-  The work of photographer Ben Pier.

-  Rural children are given cameras and document their lives with the organization Project Einstein.

-  On the New Yorker:  A collection of old postcards from Coney Island.

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via Flickr user mikie t

Here at the Photoletariat, we’re looking to support and showcase photos shot by hobbyists and amateurs alike. In the next few weeks we’d love for you to send us your photos for a gallery of reader submitted photos to be published on this site. We’ll have a gallery and uploader set up in the future, but for now send them directly to me at jsimon@magnetmediafilms.com. They needn’t be big, no larger than 700 pixels please.

To help you all out, we’ll offer you a theme to get you started. For our first photo challenge we’re giving you the theme “The Dog Days of Summer
Interpret that any way you want. Feel free to send any pictures you’ve already taken as well.

Happy shooting!

-  The Photo Argus provides some simple tips for photographing summer festivals

-  Meredith Andrew’s “7 AM Portraits

-  Alixandra Fazzina has won the United Nation’s $100,000 Nansen Refugee Award

-  Engadget features a simple tool that turns your SLR into a 3D camera.

- On the Freelance Switch: 50 awesome apps for freelancers

-  On PDN:  Photographers of the Gulf oil spill could face charges for photographing the environmental disaster.

-  On Epic Edits:  10 Online Photography Don’ts

-  On the New Yorker: Jobi Bieber’s “Soweto”

via PetaPixel

Much is being made of the Economists’s most recent cover, featuring President Barack Obama alone in front of a oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.  A picture depicting a solitary leader up against enormous pressure and consequences.  However, the original photo taken by a Reuters photographer shows him anything but alone.  In fact, he is with with the Coast Guard’s Adm. Thad W. Allen, Obama’s point-man in the Gulf and Lafourche Parish President Charlottle Randolph.  The image used for the cover was heavily cropped and both people were cloned out, possibly through using Photoshop’s new “content aware” setting.
Is this wrong?  Possibly.
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