While the group arrived with few figures to back up their demands and little in the way of a concrete plan, they brushed off the criticism, suggesting the real goal is to highlight the expertise the party plans to bring to the table.
"The new NDP arts and heritage caucus will be the strongest arts caucus in the history of the Canadian Parliament," veteran New Democrat and one-time Juno nominee Charlie Angus said before introducing his new colleagues.
ElecomSoft, a privately owned company in the heart of Russia (Moscow) has fiddled around with Nikon's Image authentication software and managed to let a forged photo pass for a genuine one. Nikon originally created their authentication system to inhibit an uneditted image to be manipulated and being sold for original/raw.
Forged photos are nowadays so common for false political statements, legal evidence & business affairs that can define or totally destroy an individual or company's name and/or carreer. So Nikon thought it invented the perfect software to validate if a photo was taken with their camera and if it was modified in any way.
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Photojournalists under 35 years old can apply for a scholarship to attend a workshop.
http://ijnet.org/opportunities/scholarship-offered-photographer-attend-italy-workshop-worldwide
The Alexandra Boulat Scholarship, sponsored by the Toscana Photographic Workshop, gives a photographer the opportunity to attend a summer workshop in Tuscany for free and work under the guidance of top professional photographers. To view a full list of teachers, click here.
During the workshop, teachers will examine portfolios brought by students, conduct technical classes and help students produce new work. The workshop will also focus on how to publish photography and create a portfolio.
The scholarship does not include accommodation. For more information, click here.
At first glance, David Hobby looks like just another casualty of the decline of print media: A longtime staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun, he was one of many employees who accepted a buyout in 2008 as part of broad staff reductions at the distressed newspaper.
Yet last month he embarked on a sold-out, cross-country tour that will visit 29 cities. Approximately $1 million in tickets have been sold for the privilege of hearing Hobby and famed magazine photographer Joe McNally speak about their craft. Hobby's blog, Strobist, on which he teaches amateurs the lighting techniques used by professionals, welcomed 2 million unique visitors last year. (The largest professional photography association has a membership 1 percent of that size.) Manufacturers have named lines of equipment after him, an unheard-of honor.
How Hobby went from being a workaday newspaper photographer to an internationally recognized guru is a story tied up with seismic changes in the photography profession. By teaching a horde of novices the skills necessary to shoot photographs of a quality that was until very recently only within the grasp of an elite few, Hobby has played a significant role in the transformation of the profession. In the last few years, the market rate for many types of professional photographs has dropped by as much as 99 percent.
©2011 Tamara McDonald
Konrad Grandjambe, student (Left) with George Lessard, trainer (Right) at a digital photography workshop in Norman Wells, NWT http://www.frozeneyes.com
 | Nikon is the Official Sponsor of Barnstorm: The Eddie Adams Workshop |
Online videos are becoming pretty common in the union world, as elsewhere. If you have produced one or if you have enjoyed a union video that you think deserves wider attention, nominate it for the LabourStart Video of the Year award.
Info on how to nominate, as well as last year's winners and this year's current nominees can be found here:
http://www.labourstart.org/lvoty/2011/
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Derek Blackadder
LabourStart Canada
blackadderonline.blogspot.com/
705-930-3724
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Do you really have to print this email?
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Way back in the dark ages (OK, it was the 1970's) of image transmission, AP and other wire services actually sent images via machines that were little more than fancy fax machines. A black and white image was printed out line by line similar to how an inkjet printer of today works. Alongside the image would be typewritten information regarding caption, location source, crediting, etc. Typically the caption would either be cut off, or photocopied, and the two would go their separate ways. The text would be sent to editors, while the "photo" would go elsewhere for reproduction. If one or the other got lost or misplaced it would take valuable time to track it down and possibly mean missing a deadline. Obviously there had to be a better way.
Jump forward to today, where each image file can be saved using Adobe Photoshop with this text information embedded within the file. Anyone that's worked around newspapers, with digital images or image databases for a while has probably heard the acronyms IPTC or IPTC-NAA tossed around, usually when discussing the use of the File Info feature of photoshop. But few understand what they mean or what they stand for. The short story is that IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council, was one of the groups responsible for encouraging the standards necessary to"marry" the text information describing an image with the image data itself. The NAA is the Newspaper Association of America (formerly ANPA), and they also have been responsible for developing standards for exchanging information between news operations, including information used to describe images.
At this point, some of you are thinking,"OK that's enough about history, I'm doomed to repeat it, just show me how to use these IPTC "thingies" to help me find my images." If that's the case, you may wish to jump to the chart of Sample IPTC fields below. If you need some help in figuring out how each of these IPTC fields actually appears in your version of Photoshop, download the IPTC Core mapped fields PDF. For those that want a little bit more background about how these standards came to be, read on.
A Brief History of the IPTC
Standards regarding metadata for news images have evolved over time, beginning in the 1970's when some were first issued as"guidelines." However, most of these efforts were regional in nature, and focused on text. As news organizations moved from manual typewriters to CRTs (Cathode Ray Tubes) and VDTs (Video Display Terminals) these standards were revised and became more specific. Only later, as the world embraced the web, did the standards begin to address multimedia content.
In 1979, the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) approved its first news exchange standard IPTC 7901. This provided metadata and content in plain text only; the only delimiters allowed were spaces and line breaks. Despite these limitations, IPTC 7901/ANPA 1312 is still in use. In the '80s, the IPTC and ANPA standards were revised, updated and expanded into other areas such as radio and broadcast television. As the '90s approached, these various groups focused their efforts on a new standard that could serve various media, not just text....
What's the difference between FFO or XMP?
Which IPTC fields should I use?
View the IPTC Core mapped fields PDF
View the Users Guide to the IPTC Core panels (PDF) on the IPTC website
What programs are there to edit IPTC Metadata?
Is there an easy way to view IPTC or other Photo Metadata?
Which IPTC fields do you suggest to use for stock photography image collections?
List of Software supporting IPTC photo metadata standards IIM and "IPTC Core"
Deh Cho Bridge under construction March 1st 2011
©2011 George Lessard htpp://mediamentor.ca
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Violating the laws of nature. Playing God. Capturing stuff we are not supposed to see. Potentially opening up a wormhole in the fabric of time.
These are a few of the things I think about while shooting with a Phantom High Speed Digital Cinema camera. The above video is a bunch of test footage I shot to get familiar with the new "Flex" version. I shot inside my Las Vegas Palms Casino hotel room between the hours of 2am and 6am. If you had a Phantom in your bedroom, you would stay up too!
This past weekend, I worked in Las Vegas for FOX shooting the World Championships of Ping Pong (WCPP). Yea, Ping Pong.
Winter brings unique challenges in capturing this splendour effectively - challenges you can overcome.
Your mind and eye adapt to each portion of the landscape as you gaze over the vista before you.
Not so for your digital camera.Norm Hamilton is a freelance writer and photographer in Whitehorse. Learn more at http://www.normhamilton.ca/blog
Sometimes the hardest part of a story is getting there. Sometimes it is getting around. Sometimes it is obstructive intelligence agencies and soldiers. Sometimes it is lawlessness, sometimes overattentive law enforcement. Sometimes it is lack of transport, poor communications, power blackouts, accreditation difficulties or a hostile local population.......
We proudly support photographers and communications professionals who use imagery to promote positive change in our world. To that end, we've launched our Grants for Good.
Nonprofits need imagery to tell their stories effectively, which is why our Grants for Good provide two grants of $15,000 annually, to cover photographer, filmmaker and agency costs as they create compelling new imagery for the nonprofit of their choice.
Grants recipients may use the entire award to offset shoot expenses, or choose to donate all or part of it directly to their charity and contribute their own time and resources. The photographer and the nonprofit as well as the communications agency involved will be showcased to the media and to our customers..
Feel free to contact us with questions about our Grants for Good at grants2@gettyimages.com.
