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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!
Point and shoot digital cameras have evolved by leaps and bounds. Dropping in price while improving in quality, many amateurs are on their third, fourth or even fifth digital camera. The demand for an increase in quality and lower price means they’ve become disposable to a point for many of us. During the growth of the point and shoot, manufactures actually listened to what consumers wanted, a nice change for the electronic industry that normally force feeds you what they want. [click to continue…]
If you’re more than a little confused as to what all those different scene modes on your digital camera do but don’t feel like reading the super-long manual, here’s a list of some of the most popular scene modes and an easy-to-understand description on what they do. [click to continue…]
Just one link for this morning: the New York Time’s enormous collaborative photography project “A Moment In Time” launched this morning. Take some time this morning and throughout the day to click through all the (thousands of) images for a diverse portrait of the entire planet at one single moment. I was really charmed by the diversity of image types; the serious black and white, the kid snapshots, and the arms length self portraits.
The Times has always been on the cutting edge with public photo projects done for the right reasons. Often, when a large publication asks for reader pictures, it’s usually a cute, innocuous way to replace the efforts of their dwindling staffs (see: CNN iReport) or a cynical pageview generator. It’s fun to see the Times not replace the hard work of their photographers but enlist the public for a task that couldn’t be done without them. A project and idea so big it was bigger than the paper itself. This was certainly a go big or go home moment and the public (as well as the Times) delivered.
