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One of my favorite photography resources - along with  DigitalPixels.net  - is Steve Paxton's website www.paxtonprints.com , nice photos ( love those hdr'ish - lucisart'ish - dave hill'ish detailed portraits , the latest news, and well written photography articles from Steve himself, check it out.

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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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This past year has been one of the roughest years for the newspaper and magazine industry --- and truth be told --- the outlook for the next few years looks even grimmer.

It seems that there isn't a day that goes by without reports of a newspaper chain cutting dozens or even hundreds of jobs, circulation and general public interest in the mainstream media dissipating, and advertisers slashing their spending as well.

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In light of the demise of Digital Railroad, a few readers have written expressing concern about the future of PhotoShelter, and what their
closing of the PhotoShelter Collection means. So, we thought we'd ask them how things are going, and we turned to Grover Sanschagrin for answers.

1) Some readers were concerned about the closing of the PhotoShelter Collection and seem to be confusing that with the entire PhotoShelter service. Can you shed some light on this?

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FotoNation FaceEnhance Solution Improves Portraits in Camera Phones and Digital Still Cameras

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA) today announced its new FotoNation® FaceEnhance solution, which beautifies captured images of human faces by smoothing lines and blemishes to improve the capabilities of digital still cameras (DSCs), camera phones and other camera-enabled devices.

The FotoNation FaceEnhance solution automatically reduces the appearance of wrinkles and other skin imperfections from human faces in an image, without the need for additional editing with PC software. It can be applied automatically upon image capture, or applied manually in the display setting when viewing an image. The solution can also be used in display devices, such as digital picture frames.

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Sponsored by leading image science company DxO Labs, this free online resource delivers in‐depth, objective RAW‐based image quality data to enable fair analysis and comparison of digital cameras.

San Diego, California, USA, and Paris, France – Nov 17th, 2008 – At the Image Sensor 2008 conference in San Diego, DxO Labs today unveils dxomark.com, a new website delivering key objective metrics of sensor performance for a variety of cameras measured directly on the RAW image. Available as a free online resource, dxomark.com makes it possible for the first time to assess the intrinsic quality of a camera before the impact of any RAW conversion.

“There are many valuable resources reviewing the image quality of digital cameras, but none of them consider the actual RAW signal straight from the camera sensor,” explains Nicolas Touchard, Vice President of Marketing, DxO Labs Image Quality Evaluation business. “Demanding photographers who shoot in RAW should only care about the genuine quality of the RAW image, yet until now they have had to rely on measures based on converted RAW images, obviously biased by the processing applied to them, whether embedded or performed offline with a software RAW converter. Furthermore, as RAW converters evolve and improve, the latent potential of RAW images can only be gauged by analyzing the RAW images themselves, projecting the potential quality achievable with the ultimate RAW converter. This is why we believe that our approach will dramatically change the way photographers evaluate digital cameras.”

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Kodak Asserts that Samsung and LG Camera Phones Infringe its Digital Camera Patents

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced today that it has filed complaints against Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other related entities for infringement of Kodak patents.

The Kodak actions specifically allege that Samsung and LG camera phones infringe Kodak digital camera patents. The patents in question cover technology related to image capture, compression and data storage and a method for previewing motion images.

Kodak filed against Samsung and LG in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, as well as in the U.S. International Trade Commission. Kodak’s District Court complaints request compensation for damages resulting from the companies’ infringement, and both the District Court and ITC actions seek injunctions prohibiting Samsung and LG from further importation and sale of products cited in the complaints. Kodak did not disclose the amount of damages it is pursuing.

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What sets the good photos apart from the ever-increasing stack of common photos, are the people and actions photographed. A photo of a person feverishly grabbing his belongings before his house floods, is almost certainly going to be a more gripping photo than the one of the flood water and nothing else. At least, that’s the case in the world of photojournalism.

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The Tamron User Entering the Best Image of Americana Will Receive a Tamron AF18-270mm VC Lens

November 12, 2008, Commack, NY— Baseball, apple pie, diners, drive-ins, folk art. From its music to its main streets, America is defined by its history and its present, how we live and breathe within the fabric of our society. Enter the 2009 Tamron User Photo Contest and showcase your image of what makes America tick!

The Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 contest will receive a Tamron AF18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical IF Macro zoom lens—the world’s first 15X ratio zoom— featuring Tamron’s new Vibration Compensation mechanism (a $599 value).

This year’s guest judge is Judith Pishnery, professional photographer and SCAD/Atlanta professor. Pishnery has been immersed in the field of photography for over 25 years. She was always artistic, encouraged by her grandfather, and when she discovered photography her future was determined. She has worked with corporate, editorial and advertising clients creating images for brochures, magazines and other printed materials, throughout the US and abroad.

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"The CNN hologram during the US presidential election bought the news network a wave of positive publicity.

But the fizz has gone out of the much-vaunted new technology as bloggers and hologram experts lined up today to point out that the holograms were, in fact, not really holograms."

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"The network won't divulge the cost of the technology, which allowed Wolf Blitzer to speak to what viewers saw as a flickering image of correspondent Jessica Yellin, who was in Chicago. (An even more weird moment came when CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed musician will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas via hologram -- or was it hol.o.gram?)"

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PhotographyBB Online Magazine Issue 9 is out for free download :

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