DIYPhotography Friday November 29, 2024
Today you’re supposed to be shopping for bargains. Contrarily, DIY Photography wanted to see how expensive you could go by looking for the five priciest items to be found on the B&H Photo website—the most expensive camera, the most expensive lens, the most expensive tripod, the most expensive light and the most expensive lighting modifier. The camera is the Arri Alexa 35 Live Multicam System Pro ($118,070), while the lens is the Fujinon 4K Plus Premier UA125x8BESM-S35 2/3″ 125x Box Zoom with OIS ($246,000). A little here and a little there adds up pretty quick.
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People Friday November 29, 2024
Mary Ellen Matthews is the photographer behind Saturday Night Live's "bumper" photos—the iconic images of the show’s hosts and musical guests that appear before commercial breaks each week. Now, to celebrate SNL’s 50th anniversary, her photos are being collected in a book appropriately titled The Art of The SNL Portrait—the first printed collection of these photos. I’m so excited to share these images to the world because the talent gives so much during the shoots right in the middle of a chaotic week," Matthews tells People. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Friday November 29, 2024
Through the 2010s, Apple didn’t do much on the software front. But In the last year and a half, the company has launched Final Cut on iPad and Final Cut Camera, updated Final Cut Pro for the first time in 13 years, and moved to purchase Pixelmator, maker of popular alternatives to Photoshop, “As Adobe’s public perception continues to struggle, Apple is making moves to take advantage,” notes PetaPixel. Photographers want a good Lightroom competitor and video editors still using Premiere are looking elsewhere if they haven’t already switched to DaVinci Resolve, adds PP.
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npr Friday November 29, 2024
The Cold War came to Central America in the 1980s: Following the left-wing Sandinista rebels’ overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979, the U.S. bolstered its support for El Salvador's right-wing military government, fueling a violent 13-year civil war there, notes NPR. Time magazine photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg covered the conflict that consumed El Salvador, and his black-and-white images from the country, some of which have remained unpublished, are now collected in the book Legacy of Lies (Kehrer Verlag).
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