Fstoppers Thursday March 24, 2022
“Given the number of big name photographers and huge brands jumping on board the NFT bandwagon, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the plethora of problems surrounding the NFT market had evaporated. You’d be wrong. NFTs are a still terrible idea, riddled with problems.” So declares British photographer Andy Day at Fstoppers. Day lists 6 reasons to avoid NFTs—from their environment impact to shoddy ethics surrounding the industry. Read the full Story >>
Mobile Photography Awards Thursday March 24, 2022
The Mobile Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 11th annual competition—images selected from 5,500 submissions from more than 90 countries. The grand prize goes to Shanghai-based amateur photographer Liu KunKun, who used an Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max to create abstracted landscape imagery. “I try to dismantle the original order of the landscape, and then restack and reorganize, with a simple visual language to express new abstract imagery and explore the boundaries of photography,” KunKun says. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday March 24, 2022
Kodak Moments, a division of Kodak Alaris, has launched Kodak Gold 200 film in a new 120 format 5-roll pro-pack for medium format cameras. The move expands the company’s color film portfolio for those who want to make the jump from 35mm to medium format film photography, notes PetaPixel. Kodak Gold 200 film features a combination of warm saturated color, fine grain, and high sharpness, adds PP. The film also delivers high-quality results when scanned for digital output and when cropped. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday March 24, 2022
The first casualty of war is the truth, they say. And with social media, the old adage is even more apt. "Amid the alarming images of Russia's invasion of Ukraine over the past few days, millions of
people have also seen misleading, manipulated or false information about the conflict on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Telegram," noted PBS recently. Not … Read the full Story >>
