Category Archives: PHOTOGRAPHY

Obama’s Orwellian Image Control

Posted on December 13, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

THE Internet has been abuzz over the spectacle of President Obama and the prime ministers of Britain and Denmark snapping a photo of themselves — a “selfie,” to use the mot du jour — with a smartphone at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa on Tuesday. Continue reading →

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5 Minutes Of What The Media Actually Does To Women

Posted on December 10, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

“I don’t look like that, and I don’t desire to look like that.” — Kate Winslet ( originally Published on Aug 24, 2012) In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more … Continue reading →

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‘Identity Crisis’ in Photojournalism – AJR.org

Posted on December 9, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

In news organizations around the country, reporters are increasingly providing visuals with their copy. Freelance writers are rebranding themselves as multimedia journalists, and journalism schools, conscious of where the jobs likely will be for their graduates, are training all their students to write and capture audio, photos and video.

This advent of the new Super Journalist, the photographer who writes and the writer who takes photographs, is creating one of the biggest upheavals in modern journalism since online platforms gave everyone, including monthly magazines, a 24-hour news cycle.

In this new world, a world in which everyone is a photographer, what then happens to the photojournalists? Continue reading →

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Official release: MIPP Annual Photography Convetion 2013 event video (full version)

Posted on December 7, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

Official release: MIPP Annual Photography Convetion 2013 event video (full version)

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What’s in the kit bag? With Sports Photographer, Mark Pain | I AM NIKON Blog

Posted on December 5, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

WHAT’S IN THE KIT BAG? WITH MARK PAIN, SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER find out which essential items of photographic kit go with him Mark Pain is a multi-award winning sports photographer with over 25 years’ experience in the field. Working at the … Continue reading →

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Invisible women: can you spot the mothers in these photographs?

Posted on December 2, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

With exposure times of half a minute, Victorian mothers wanting a portrait of their children had to disguise themselves as chairs, couches and curtains to hold them still. The results, captured in Linda Fregni Nagler’s book The Hidden Mother, are both touching and unsettling Continue reading →

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When Photographers Fail, They Do It Big Time! 7 Major Mistakes Caught On Camera.

Posted on December 1, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

It’s certainly preferable to become famous by taking amazing photographs, but here a few examples of photographers who became known all across the planet because of some major mistakes that were caught on camera. Now, most of this stuff is … Continue reading →

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Nikon Df, blending quality with classic styling

Posted on November 28, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

Nikon Df, blending quality with classic styling The new Nikon Df with its full-frame quality FX sensor, has classic styling with mechanical dials for ISO, shutter speed, exposure compensation and shutter release mode. Nikon has also made a special edition older looking, … Continue reading →

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year 2013’s MIPP ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONVENTION

Posted on November 28, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

Malta Institute of Professional Photography: annual international convention, 2013 from Ivan M. Consiglio on Vimeo. Malta Institute of Professional Photography: annual international convention, 2013 http://vimeo.com/80535708 “A short clip reporting on the year 2013’s MIPP ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONVENTION: The annual … Continue reading →

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Stunning HDR Time Lapse Video with a Camera Under $300 | Videomaker.com

Posted on November 16, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

The Brinno TLC200 Pro HDR Time Lapse Video Camera Brinno has a solution for capturing time lapse video with its TLC200 Pro, an interchangeable lens camera capable of recording a wide range of frame rates to create High Dynamic Range … Continue reading →

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