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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 [...]



PhotoNetCast to Interview Zoriah Miller

August 26th, 2008

In the near future, a special guest will be joining the discussion on the PhotoNetCast. Zoriah is an independent war photographer and photojournalist who was recently embedded in Iraq. For more background on Zoriah, see my recent article about him.
We’re taking questions over at PhotoNetCast, and we’ll bring up those questions when we [...]



Giving JPG Magazine a Shot

August 22nd, 2008

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now. The concept of JPG Magazine is quite appealing to me — a magazine full of photos and stories created with the content of regular photographers like you and I. So I finally got around to signing up and submitting a few photos for [...]



Four Prints For Sale on eBay

August 14th, 2008

I meant to do more of these after I posted my first photo on eBay, but I completely lost track of things. So I finally found some time to post four new photos to eBay. These ones are posted a bit differently than the first one — there’s a low starting bid plus [...]



Portrait Project at DIYPhotography.net (with prizes!)

August 4th, 2008

Our friend, Udi, over at DIYPhotography.net is opening up a little photography project on the topic of portraits. This one is way cool because you can choose from three different sub-projects to participate in:

Black & White Portrait
This category calls for a black & white portrait of someone meaningful to you. I’ll be judging this [...]