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Chase Jarvis Offers His First Photo Book

October 9th, 2008

I won’t lie… I love Chase Jarvis. His work, both professional and artistic, is absolutely amazing. This man has a gift for photography and his vision is inspiring. I’m so excited that he’s offering up his very first photo book.
CHASE JARVIS BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
BUY THE STEVENS PASS BOOK (SIGNED COPY)
The book, Stevens Pass, [...]



Camera Dissection, Alamy Submissions, and XDR-TB

October 3rd, 2008

Ok, three things I wanted to share today — all totally unrelated aside from the common ground of photography.
JAMES NACHTWEY UNVEILS HIS PROJECT

First and foremost, this is something worth mentioning, watching, reading, and sharing. I mentioned a few days ago that James Nachtwey would be revealing a project he’s been working on with the [...]



Big Story Coming From James Nachtwey

September 30th, 2008

James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking and underreported global crisis. Over the past 18 months, the TED community have been working with James to gain access to locations he wished to photograph, and to prepare spectacular plans for unveiling these pictures.
Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be [...]



Orphan Works Panel Discussion

September 29th, 2008

Jim Goldstein has recently published a panel discussion on Orphan Works with professional photographers Chase Jarvis, Dan Heller and John Harrington. With view points that span the spectrum from support to opposition of the Orphan Works legislation, it is Jim’s hope that the information and viewpoints within this discussion help you form your opinions on [...]



And the Final Winner of the $50 Film Camera Project is…

September 24th, 2008

The_Wolf_Brigade with his trip to the asylum review of the Yashica Samurai X3.0 half frame camera! He had the most votes from the audience, and an honorable mention from each of the two official project judges. If you haven’t read his review yet, do yourself a favor and check it out! Here [...]



3 New Projects to Keep You Busy

September 19th, 2008

It always seems like the photography bloggers are unintentionally on the same project roll-out schedule. We just ended our film camera project here on Epic Edits, but in its wake three others have popped up within a few days of each other.
So if you’re looking to get involved with a project to keep you [...]



PhotoNetCast Episode 12 is Available

September 16th, 2008

In this twelfth episode of PhotoNetCast, we discuss the topic of stock photography in the wake of Photoshelter’s decision to shut down their Collection.
At the beginning of the podcast, I also talk about my recent adventures with upgrading my computer storage space — including an interesting quirk with Windows Vista that allows you to lock [...]



Sony Steps It Up With the A900

September 9th, 2008

Big news today for all the Minolta/Sony fans in the crowd. They’ve announced their “Flagship” dSLR model, the A900. Similar in appearance to their semi-pro model, the A700, the A900 sports some fancy upgrades. The big hype has been around the 24MP full frame sensor, but the new model also has dual [...]



5-Day Reminder for the $50 Camera Project

September 8th, 2008

The $50 Film Camera project will be coming to a close at the end of this week — the deadline is September 12. Currently, we have over 40 entries and I expect that we’ll pass the 50 camera mark within a day or two. So if you were thinking about participating in this [...]



A Must-Hear Interview with Zoriah

September 2nd, 2008

I’ve mentioned this amazing war photographer, Zoriah, in a previous article here on the blog. Well… over at the PhotoNetCast, we took things a step further and got him on a conference call for an interview!
This is something that you’ll definitely want to listen to. He talks about his past, present, and future in [...]