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New Issue Cover.  Jeremy Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah.  Photo Andy Wright

Picture can tell a thousand words!  What about this one WOW!

Light ‘em up Eh!

Canon has announced their new 1D Mark IV (that’s 4 Koop), not full frame but about everything else you could want from a Camera and Pro Video Camera!

Good run down on the Camera can be found HERE on Rob Galbraiths website, and HERE on Canon Website

Basically:

	New 45-point Area AF sensor including 39 cross-type AF points with f/2.8 support plus new AI Servo II AF with improved algorithm.
	ISO 100 - 12800 (expandable to L: 50, H1: 25600, H2: 51200, H3: 102400) for shooting from bright to dim light with low noise levels.
	EOS HD movie with manual exposure control and multiple frame rates (1080: 30p (29.97) / 24p (23.976) / 25p, 720: 60p (59.94) / 50p, 480: 60p (59.94) / 50p).
	16.1 Megapixel APS-H CMOS sensor and Dual DIGIC 4 Image Processors for high image quality and speed.
	10.0 fps continuous shooting up to 121 Large JPEGS or 28 RAW using a UDMA CF card.
	3.0-inch ClearView II LCD monitor, 160° viewing angle, 920,000-dot VGA, reflection resistance with multi coating and high-transparency materials for bright and clear viewing.
	Magnesium alloy body with shutter durability up to 300,000 cycles and exclusive dust- and weather-resistance.
	Fully compatible with over 50 EF lenses and a wide range of EOS System accessories.

Check this Video, pretty scary stuff.  The whole story on the Vimeo page HERE is really interesting too.  This one had a happy ending but is pretty pretty freaking Gnarly!

It wont be long before every photo assignment will also require a web video from the trip.  Last season I met a US Today Newspaper photographer shooting Shaun White, he was shooting with Video Camera in hand (and Canon with 600mm lense over the shoulder).  He said he shoots majority video on assignments and pops a couple frames here and there, the web videos pay the bills. The day before he was riding in the back of a SUV shooting Obama and the week before was in Fallujah.

Check the Interview with Photographer Yassine (Yazzy) Ouhilal HERE

This looks like an interesting documentary, important topic and made by good people.

This is pretty crazy, Check all 10 Out HERE I knew Photo Manipulations dated back long before Photoshop but back to 1865?

and the original:

The Ol’ put a head on a different frame trick!

and the original frame:

Classic Distraction coming out of the subjects head!

and the Image used with Pole removed:

I found this Interview with Sam Jones on aphotoeditor.com.  At first I hadn’t heard the name so passed it, then when Part 2 got posted I figured it must be worth a read and was totally stoked.  Sam Jones a hugely successful Photographer & Movie Maker in Hollywood.

In his Interview part 2 he talks about film vs digital (I’m always a sucker for that debate), and still camera technologies going into video.  His Photos on his website are seriously pretty insane, full celeb Cover shooter.  But it was this question from his part 1 Interview about getting started that really hit a note and I wanted to share.  He’s out of college and got his first real job with a magazine Entertainment Weekly, first assignment is to shoot an empty parking space for 1/4 page.

APE: I think a lot of people want to know how you go from 1/4 page of a parking spot to shooting the cover?

You know what it is? The photo editor sees the whole shoot and so it’s not just the one picture in the magazine that they judge you by. I shot features for a long time before I got to shoot a cover. Even when I was doing a 1 page shot I was always trying 3, 4 and 5 setups. I was shooting like it was a cover and full feature because you never know, it could get bumped up. I think there was a couple photo editors early on at Time, EW, US and Premiere who just started making a case to their Art Director and their Editor that this photographer is working his ass off and is good and they should let him do it. That was the case with me, where someone finally said we should give him the cover, or at least I remember it being a cover try. I think back at what I made actors do for 1 page, because I was telling them it might be more pages, so we need to shoot more setups and try a bunch of ideas and we had extra clothes and locations ready. I was syndicating my pictures with Gamma Liaison at the time and because of all these setups, I actually had several syndicated covers before I was assigned an actual cover. So, those tear sheets were in my book and that helped me out as well.

Read the whole Interview Here

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Tim McKenna Photo

Red Bull Illume Photo Contest

This is probably the best Photography Contest in our Industry, and unlike most of the other general Media Photo Contests out there, its Free to enter.

From Press Release:

The Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2010 calls upon all action photographers to submit a maximum of 5 images to one or more of the 10 categories where they will be judged by a panel of renowned international photo editors.  The ten categories include; Playground, Energy, Spirit, Close-Up, Wings, Sequence, New Creativity, Experimental, Illumination, and a brand new category, Culture.

Submission is open from October 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010 - until then, register and check out all the details at www.redbullillume.com <www.redbullillume.com> , or join the Red Bull Illume fanpage on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/RedBullIllume <http://www.facebook.com/RedBullIllume> ) where we would like to share all facts about the competition, discuss relevant topics and questions regarding action and adventure sport photography, and post the latest gossip and updates.

More info HERE