TechCrunch Monday November 25, 2024
It’s been 13 years since Apple released Final Cut X, and now, notes TechCrunch, Final Cut Pro 11 has arrived. (It comes as a free update for existing users, while new customers will have to pay $300 to download the software.) Among the most notably new features is “Magnetic Mask,” which easily crops people and objects out of video without having to rely on a green screen. 9 to 5 Mac is excited that Final Cut Pro 11 brings spacial video editing. It also gives users the ability to have captions automatically generated within the editing software. PetaPixel thinks it’s big news.
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British Journal of Photography Monday November 25, 2024
“I often photograph scenes that seem serene or beautiful on the surface, but on closer inspection, reveal a deeper or darker reality,” explains Sibusiso Bheka, whose work, together with that of fellow South African photographer Tshepiso Mazibuko, was featured in a joint exhibition as part of the recent PhotoSaintGermain photography festival in Paris. Both photographers, notes the British Journal of Photography, belong to the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation of South Africans whose lives began after Apartheid’s fall in 1994.
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Aperture Monday November 25, 2024
The Aperture Portfolio Prize, an annual international competition that aims to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition, is now accepting submissions for its 2025 edition. When choosing the first-prize winner and shortlist, the competition’s judges will look for innovative bodies of work that have not been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues. (The only requirement for entering the Portfolio Prize is to be an Aperture magazine print subscriber.)
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David Schonauer Monday November 25, 2024
It's been half a century since photographer Neal Slavin began traveling around the US documenting an array of groups--from bingo players and "Star Trek" fans to stock brokers, gravediggers and
fencers. The work, an open-hearted homage to American society, was collected in the 1976 book "When Two or More are Gathered," which soon came to be considered a landmark in the rising medium of … Read the full Story >>
