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The American Guide reinvented: a new take on US travel

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:29:44 +0100

The original series of the American Guide provided a written and visual record of the US in the 1930s and 40s. Its social media-driven revival hopes to deliver an equally powerful project

America’s greatest self-portrait came out of its hardest times. You can still see the Great Depression – the faces and farms, factories and streets – even though you weren’t there, because the federal government of the time documented those people and places to keep a record for future generations.

The American Guide Series was an Encyclopedia Americana: a group of tour books and pamphlets published in the late 1930s and early 40s covering every state from Alabama to Wyoming. Thousands of writers, photographers and editors, including soon-to-be-greats such as Saul Bellow, John Cheever and Zora Neale Hurston, were employed by Franklin D Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) to gather material for the guides.

Then, as now, government stimulus was controversial. Federal writers going through New Mexico were known as El diablo a pie (the devil on foot – and a pun on the letters WPA). But with nearly a third of Americans facing unemployment, the programme provided out-of-work writers and artists with a regular pay cheque and a national purpose. As the country slowly recovered from the Depression, the series encouraged people to travel and spend money to boost the struggling economy.

You wouldn’t turn to the guides for a hotel rating or a restaurant review. Instead, in every state, people and tradition coloured the storytelling. You would find descriptions of soapbox orators in Harlem, New York; South Dakota’s grizzly bear-wrestling mountain man; a gumbo recipe for Holy Thursday in New Orleans; and folk songs for Los Angeles fiestas.

Some of the guides are still in print, and while they are fascinating reads, the descriptions and driving tours are often ghost maps of things that were and places that used to be. Outside of a few valiant local efforts to continue cataloguing our way of life, the US really stopped looking at itself the way the guide series did.

We think it’s time that changed. Which is why we started The American Guide, a project inspired by the spirit of the original programme. In 1940, the WPA guide to Oregon said that the endeavour was “the product of many hands and minds working joyously”. The same is true today. The American Guide is the effort of a Tumblr community; they are photographers, writers, and artists from across the US. They are also small business owners, teachers, skateboarders, and architects, to name a few, engaged in the process of sharing the country they know.

Your guide writer to Tennessee, Tammy Mercure, takes you to the temporary encampment of fans surrounding the annual Nascar races in Bristol. Through her images and words, you’ll meet the mayor of Jelloville, Jesus, and his Pennsyl-tuckians, and a group of (Nascar driver) Dale Earnhardt lookalikes.

Photographer Michael Cevoli brings you to Warren, Rhode Island – one of the smallest towns in the country’s smallest state – where shipbuilders have been producing vessels since before the American Revolution and now practise their trade on hulking steel by the light of arc welders. Out west, James Orndorf and Amadee Ricketts drive you around the Four Corners region of the south-west, unearthing its history and unleashing its staggering beauty through their camera lenses. These are just a few of about 40 regular contributors and a number of guest guides producing an ever-expanding record of America, documenting people and places both pretty and hard. It’s for the tourist and the local; a view inside the windows you pass every day, as well as required reading for your road trip.

Erin Chapman and Tom McNamara are co-editors of The American Guide

• For more information on holidays in the USA, visit DiscoverAmerica.com

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7 Great DIY Wedding Photo Ideas for Tech-Savvy Couples

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:19:40 +0100

Supplement your professional photographer with some fun and interactive ideas you can implement yourself

Photo: Love Me Sailor

If you’ve caught a glimpse of Pinterest lately, you already know that the DIY wedding movement has a lot of inertia. We firmly believe that a real wedding photographer is an essential part of any wedding, but adding some DIY touches can be a fantastic way to create a wedding that best suits you. So, while you should leave the key shots to the pros, these tips and tools can help make the day that much more fun.

Photo Booths

Photo: Stan Horaczek

Posed portraiture has its place at weddings, but after all the formalities are out of the way, it’s time to have some fun. Photo booths provide guests with the opportunity to take some wacky photos with old friends or relatives or maybe even make some new friends in the process. Photo booth rentals often cost upwards of $500, but creating your own setup isn’t too difficult and can save you a pretty penny.

To start, simply tape a large piece of fabric or paper to a wall or door to serve as the backdrop. Depending on your lens and the width of your background, set up your camera and tripod at a distance that would allow you to capture at least four people side-by-side – the more people that can fit in the shot, the better. Tape everything down to prevent tripping, and use some spare tape to mark the ideal spots on which revelers should stand.

You can make your lighting setup as simple or intricate as you like, as demonstrated in our recent lighting how-to. Be sure to provide a remote shutter release so guests can control the camera without having to fiddle with it. Also be sure to use a small aperture F/11 works well if you can get there, because you don’t want to have to worry about people in groups being out of focus.

And don’t forget the props. Include items like feather boas, pirate hats, funky glasses, eye patches, mustaches on sticks, large, ornate picture frames for guests to pose within, or even a chalkboard on which guests can write personalized messages.

Another great idea is to create a viewing station by tethering your DSLR to an iPad. One way to do this is by using Eye-Fi X2 SDHC Class 6 Wireless Flash Memory Card in your DSLR, so that you can send the photos right to your iPad, wirelessly. Also be sure to also provide information to guests on how they may view their snapshots online after the reception. {C}

Wedding Photo Apps

Photo: WedPics

DIY becomes DIT (Do It Together) when you solicit the help of friends and family. The concept is simple – encourage your guests to share their photos and you end up with a vast myriad of POVs from your special day.

According to Nielsen’s 2013 Mobile Consumer Report, 53 percent of US mobile device consumers use smartphones. You can harness these numbers to your advantage with a whole list of excellent wedding photo apps that allow guests to instantly upload images from their smartphone devices to online albums. Same-day or rush editing from your wedding photographer can cost around $300. Pooling your guest’s photos offers the immediacy our instant-gratification culture demands at a significantly lower cost.

WedPics: iPhone and Android, Free

After creating a profile, which includes a wedding bio and cover photo, couples invite guests via email and Facebook to join WedPics. The app company also allows couples to order invite cards to be placed in invitations or distributed at the wedding. Once guests enter the Wedding ID and continue to their own account, they can view an interactive photo gallery, upload their own images from their smartphones, and even edit their images with five custom filters. The app works like other social media sites with the capability for others to comment on or “love” photos. And when it’s time to print, couples can download a complete, high-res album.

Snapable: iPhone and Android, $79 for the couple, free for guests

Couples create their album and invite guests via Snapable’s invitation system. Personalized downloadable instruction cards are also available for home printing. Friends and family can snap photos using the app or upload images from their galleries anytime before or after the wedding and the photos will be automatically added directly to the album. Couples choose which photos to share or keep private after their wedding.

Wedding Snap: iPhone and Android, packages start at $129 for the couple, free for guests

Couples sign up, create an album code, and then share that code with their guests via email, Facebook, or their own wedding website link. Wedding Snaps also offers 200 free personalized instruction cards. Once guests download Wedding Snap, they can take photos and videos through the app or upload them from their gallery to the wedding album. Guests can also choose between various filters and comment on photos.

For $199, Wedding Snap throws in professional photo retouching, and for $249, they include a six-hour, live, moderated slideshow. All packages include a money-back guarantee of at least 100 photos in the album.

Yapp: iPhone and Android, free, Yapp also offers custom IDs for $5 a year.

Not a wedding photo app per se, Yapp allows couples to create a self-made mobile app for anything, including a wedding. Simply visit Yapp.us from a computer, choose a theme, name the Yapp Event, personalize it with a photo, enter event info, and publish. Publishing creates a link or QR code that couples can send to guests. Guests will be invited to download YappBox, which will house the Yapp. Once they install the app on their smartphones they can share photos and messages in the News Feed. Couples may also connect a Twitter feed to the News Feed, allowing more photos to stream to the app.

Other Wedding Apps to check out:

Photo: Wedding Party

Appy Couple: iPhone and Android, $28 for the couple, free for guests.

A wedding app and website that allows couples to share almost every detail of their wedding with guests. The app includes unlimited picture uploads for couples and guests.

Wedding Party: iPhone and Android, free.

A wedding app that collects guests’ photos and organizes them into a minute-by-minute Wedding Timeline based on when they were captured. Guests can share notes and toasts, and photos can also be posted to mywedding.com in real time, a great perk for those unable to attend the wedding. The app also offers free, downloadable, customized place cards for guests.

Flock: iPhone and Android, free.

A photo gathering app, Flock automatically identifies photo subjects using Facebook and location information and creates shared albums.

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Instagram

More than 100 million people are already using Instagram every month, according to the company’s blog. Odds are, a majority of your wedding guests contribute to that demographic. Why not use this popular tool to your advantage to channel your guests’ photos to one location?

Start by creating a unique hashtag pertaining to your wedding, such as #ceebeeandjwedding. Search Instagram for this tag to be sure no one else has used it. Using a unique hashtag will enable you to search for and view any photos from your wedding that guests have tagged. You could also create a new Instagram handle specifically for your wedding that guests could follow and tag in their photos.

Next, get the word out there to your guests about the hashtag or handle. You could include them with instructions on your save the dates, wedding invitations, place cards, programs, or on a sign displayed at the reception, like CeeBee and Jared did for their wedding.

What’s special about Instagram is that users can throw their own filters on their images and create a unique memory. You can also project these images in real-time with Evenstagram, a website that creates photo slideshows out of Instagram images. {C}

Digital Camera Rentals

We’ve all seen them before – those black and yellow, plastic, disposable cameras in the middle of each guest table. It’s a great idea if you’re planning a 90s themed wedding, but these flimsy cameras don’t quite make the cut these days. Dozens of companies have revamped the concept, however, while ironing out a few kinks along the way.

Today’s point-and-shoots offer far superior image quality and eliminate the cost of developing images you don’t want. A quick Google search will yield a number of websites that offer digital camera rental packages for special events. Packages generally offer enough digital cameras for each table and personal, online photo gallery hosting or memory card readers for the couple to download photos directly from the cameras to their personal computer.

Weddit.com takes this one step further by offering five video recording devices to be distributed among guests and a marketplace of video editors to compile the footage.

Flickr

It’s easy to gather guests’ photos and videos together using Flickr. All you have to do is create a free account (if you don’t have one already) and form a group for your wedding. From the group page, invite your attendees to join your group. Then post instructions for guests to upload their images from the wedding to their own Flickr photostream, go to the Organizr page, click on the “Your Groups” tab, and drag and drop their images from your special day.

Go Pro

Having a GoPro HD Hero strapped to one’s head may not fit into the wedding dress code, but it can certainly be a fun way to capture intimate video and stills if you’ve already got one in your arsenal. From atop a willing guest to the nestled within the bride’s bouquet, as show above, a GoPro can give you unlimited angles and point of view.

Printing

Photo: Snapfish

If you subscribe to the laws of probability, you’ll likely end up with enough images from all your guests to print your own photo album. Years ago, we put a number of online photo labs like Shutterfly and Snapfish to the test and found that printing photos from these photo-share sites is generally convenient, budget-friendly, and up to image-quality standards.

Custom-printed photo books are another way to really show off some of your favorite shots and would make a special gift. Check out our review of the top ten services out there for printing your photo books.

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CENTER Announces 13th Annual Review Santa Fe

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:36:31 +0100

CENTER has announced the 13th Annual Review Santa Fe, a juried portfolio review event and conference for photographers.

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Make Custom Paper Profiles Your Best Friend

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:36:30 +0100

Ilford has announced a free webinar entitled, “Make Custom Paper Profiles Your Best Friend.”

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Pictastik for iOS

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:36:30 +0100

Pictastik is a free, location-based photo sharing app that allows users to see what’s happening, right now, in the cities around the world.

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Topaz Clarity

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:36:29 +0100

Topaz Labs have released Topaz Clarity, an image processing plug-in billed as the first software to give photographers the ability to easily adjust various levels of contrast in their photograph without degrading the image quality with halos or artifacts.

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Open Post: What Do You Think of the New Flickr?

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:34:49 +0100

It’s now been four days since the Flickr redesign â�� what works and what doesn’t?

On May 20th, Yahoo! unveiled a radical new redesign of Flickr, including not just a visual overhaul, but offering all users 1TB of free space, and with a new pricing structure. The days that followed have been met with some jubilant applause over the redesign, and some frustration over pricing and features. Now that the dust has settled, we want to know our readers’ thoughts.

Reaction amongst the photographic community has been mixed, to say the least. The large amount of storage is definitely a boon (especially when it came out that the 300MB per month limits were being lifted, too). What’s not clear is what’s happening with Pro level features not related to storage space, like unlimited sets and statistics.

Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer has also received some flack for off the cuff comments she made. When talking about storage space for photographs, she said “there’s no such thing, really, as professional photographers.” In the context of the question it was clear she was talking about needing large amounts of storage space, but it caused some controversy. She later took to Twitter to apologize, but then deleted those twets.

Not everyone has been enthusiastic about the redesigns, but Yahoo! has promised that it is listening to users complaints, so hopefully some problems will be dealt with.

Today also saw some technical problems on Flickr, with the service going down for some people The revamp must have brought in a large amount of extra traffic which doubtless contributed to the downtime.

So now that you’ve had a few days to play with the new Flickr, what do you think? What do you like about the new design? What do you not? Let us know in the comments.

Photo by: Popular Photography Magazine Editor

New Flickr 1 Terabyte

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Samsung Patent Helps Other People Take Your Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:34 +0100

Sick of lending your camera to people and having the shot turn out bad? Samsung’s got the fix

Getting a friend or stranger to take your photo can be something of a crapshoot. You have no idea of how good they are at composing, or even basics like making sure the subject is in focus. But a new patent from Samsung could allow you to do much of the legwork first, and make sure that someone else taking your photo comes out well.

This new patent essentially allows you to compose the scene as you like it and take a photo. Then you hand the camera over to another person, and it shows the first shot as an overlay. That person then lines up the two photos — one now with you in it — and snaps the shot, capturing you in a composition you can be proud of.

Not only that, but the system would also allow you to place a circle where you want your face to be, and offer even more bizarre tools, like giving the photographer a “composition score” of how well they’re doing, or even automatically firing the shutter when everything lines up.

We’ve seen overlays of some sort on digital cameras for some time — usually in the form of assisting a panorama, or for a double exposure. But this is a really innovative take on that technique, and could remove a lot of guesswork from getting someone else to snap your photos.

[via Engadget]

Photo by: Popular Photography Magazine Editor

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Tim Walker: a fashion fairytale

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:11 +0100

He shot his first Vogue story when he was 25, and has photographed everyone from Tilda Swinton to Kate Moss. But Tim Walker has never been interested in clothes. We talk to him about making his dreams reality

Fashion photographers can be terrible bosses – demanding, capricious, unreasonable. Tim Walker, whose work has for the past decade graced the pages of almost any glossy magazine you care to name, is nothing like that. But one look at his fantastical, ambitious photographs tells you that working for a man who thinks nothing of creating a dinner party suspended in a wood, or of crashing a giant doll through a forest, or of faking a snowdrift inside a stately home, could be a challenge. “I think an intense enthusiasm to create a vision you have seen in your head makes you ignore certain obstacles,” is how the softly-spoken 42-year-old puts it.

Walker has a very specific take on fashion photography. His work is theatrical, bordering on surrealist and – to state the obvious about a man who once dyed Persian cats pastel – incredibly romantic. Every fantastical scene is created with props, and all the meticulously crafted tableaux existed at some point. Walker strives to create his pictures within what he calls “the parameters of the impossible” – something has to be physically, rather than digitally, possible for the picture to register with the viewer. “Otherwise the ring of truth goes flat.”

All his photographs are instantly recognisable as Tim Walker pictures, whether they feature fashion models or not. He sees that as a positive: “If you are fortunate enough to acquire a style that is recognisable, you end up taking the same 10 pictures for the rest of your life, even if you think it’s a new picture.”

Walker’s otherworldly work is being celebrated in an exhibition opening today at the Bowes Museum in County Durham. Tim Walker: Dreamscapes is curated by former Turner prize judge Greville Worthington, who believes the photographer’s work can be read as “more than fashion”. The exhibition shows Walker’s influences from British surrealism and places him as an artist with roots in the traditions of English landscape painting. For Walker, the art tag is a welcome change: “I was never interested in fashion when I started out. I was interested in people. Fashion photography allowed me to explore dreams and fantasy, and that’s what I love about it.”

His career in fashion started early. As a 19-year-old intern at Vogue, he established its Cecil Beaton archive before studying art and photography at Exeter Art College. After graduating, he worked as a photo assistant in London before moving to New York to assist Richard Avedon. He shot his first Vogue story at 25, and since then has contributed to every leading glossy magazine. In doing so he has inspired multiple imitators and changed the course of fashion photography. His shoot at the 1998 Glastonbury festival, featuring campfires, supermodels, foil capes and muddy fields, is one of the most referenced in recent fashion history.

Despite contributing so much to the fashion conversation, Walker himself is particularly unfashiony. He dresses according to colour – head-to-toe blue or green – rather than in labels. His one accessory is a pencil poking, carpenter-like, from behind his ear. “I’m not motivated by the wheel of fashion and commerce,” he says. For Walker, fashion is simply a giant dressing-up box.

His current work is less about lush tableaux and more about stripped-back portraits. The turning point came about four years ago, when a typically ambitious idea of painting the exterior of a cottage Post-it yellow to make it look as if it had been dipped in wax came unstuck thanks to three days of torrential rain. Rivers of yellow paint streaming down a Sussex village made Walker nostalgic for the relatively stress-free environment of the studio.

Not that Walker’s portraits are simple. He can’t quite bring himself to turn up to a shoot without a suitcase of props, but he wants the finished image to be less a quest to print out a vision he has in his head and more a collaboration with his subject. “That’s why I love working with Tilda [Swinton] so much,” he says.

Swinton is one of Walker’s most photographed subjects. He regularly shoots a small group of women who he believes have a unique beauty. He cites the androgyny of Stella Tennant, the strangeness of Kristen McMenamy and the challenging looks of Karen Elson – once considered ugly, now recognised by the fashion industry as a great beauty.

Swinton is apparently a photographer’s dream. “She is so involved in the pictures. She is vitally present and so involved in the characters that we are exploring – whether that’s as Bowie’s Thin White Duke mixed with the witch in The Wizard Of Oz or a character from a surrealist painting.” She will, he says, “go there”.

So who else is a joy to photograph? “Kate Moss. She has such a joy for life. You have never met anyone with such a sense of living 100% in the moment. And the camera loves the moment. Even though you might have spent ages in pre-production, it’s still about a precise moment.”

• Tim Walker: Dreamscapes is at the Bowes Museum, Castle Barnard, County Durham until 1 September; go to thebowesmuseum.org.uk for details.

Imogen Fox

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Tim Walker: a very different fashion photographer - in pictures

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:11 +0100

From Tilda Swinton and Agnes Deyn to surrealist dreamscapes, a look through some of Tim Walker’s groundbreaking fashion photography between 2000 and 2012

Lily Cole

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Pictures of the week: Water Memories

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:09 +0100

Michel Huneault’s powerful before and after images of seasonal floods in Canada. By Hannah Booth

Hannah Booth

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Weekend readers' best photographs: shimmer

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:09 +0100

From dogs to egrets: your best pictures on this week’s theme, shimmer

Guardian readers

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Brooklyn Bridge under construction - picture of the day

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:59:45 +0100

Two men stand on a high catwalk, surveying the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, with Manhattan in the background. The roadway of the bridge had not yet been completed. Large ships and ferries sit in docks in the East River

Karin Andreasson

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Photographer documents a year in the life of a bur oak on his iPhone

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:14:22 +0100

Mark Hirsch publishes images taken using his smartphone through the changing seasons in a book called That Tree

• That Tree: an iPhone photo journal – in pictures

It was a sight so familiar it was almost beyond noticing: a bur oak – though an old and particularly gorgeous specimen – towering above the corn fields that Mark Hirsch drove past daily on the road into town.

Then Hirsch, a photographer with a studio in Dubuque, Iowa, got his first iPhone. A friend challenged him to use the camera feature, and Hirsch decided to spend the next year photographing the bur oak that was such a feature of his daily commute.

The result is That Tree, a year-long photo diary of the life of the tree.

As far as the tree was concerned, it was a year of dramatic occurrences: 2012 saw a historic drought across the mid-west as well as a punishing winter. At the height of summer, after a string of 38C-plus days, the leaves on the tree curled up and crumbled away into the dried-out corn fields.

In the depths of winter, after a terrible blizzard, the tree was surrounded by snow, nine or 10 inches deep, and broken only by the tracks of a deer.

It was a year of transformation for Hirsch as well. Before taking on the tree, he had never really worked as a landscape photographer. And while he describes himself as a “quiet environmentalist” and a keen hunter, hiker, and outdoorsman, who lives on 200 acres on the other side of the Mississippi river from his studio in the state of Wisconsin, he had never looked that closely at the natural world.

After about two weeks, he feared he had run out of ways to photograph the tree. He had exhausted all the angles that immediately came to mind. “I thought: oh my gosh? How am I going to do this for a year?” he said.

The iPhone imposed additional limitations. The time of day prized by photographers, the pre-dawn early morning hours or those minutes when day turns to dusk, were often too dark for the iPhone’s camera.

Hirsch would take some pictures, drive home to view the images on his computer and be forced to return and try again because the light was not good enough.

In time, he learned to look out for the smaller changes, to watch the leaves grow on the branches or the acorns accumulate on the ground beneath the tree. He grew fascinated by the tracery made by Japanese beetles devouring the leaves.

Those small biological changes – none of which he would have much noticed in the past – formed a large body of the work in the book.

“It made me a way better photographer,” Hirsch said. “As a photojournalist you run into a situation and document a specific topic and an inanimate object that just sits on a landscape is a passive subject. I just really had to change my way of thinking, and my way of looking at the world and it has really had an incredible impact on me.”

Suzanne Goldenberg

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Jordan Baseman, Haroon Mizra, Free Range: the week's art shows in pictures

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:14:21 +0100

From Haroon Mizra’s sonic sculptures in Wakefield to Jordan Baseman’s studies of death in London, find out what’s happening in art around the country

Skye Sherwin

Robert Clark

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That Tree: an iPhone photo journal – in pictures

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:14:20 +0100

Using his iPhone 4S, Mark Hirsch photographed a tree in Platteville, Wisconsin, every day for a year

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Sport picture of the day: engage

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:44:50 +0100

The moment before the forwards engage is perfectly captured in this beautiful photograph from the match between the Chiefs and the Crusaders in New Zealand.

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GuardianWitness guide to video: verification

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:52 +0100

Now everyone with a smartphone has the potential to be a video news reporter, how do we know who to trust? Claire Wardle from social news agency Storyful offers some advice on how to ensure your footage is findable, traceable and (hopefully) sellable

Elliot Smith

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Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 60mm f/2.8 Macro Photos

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:44:36 +0100

Ahead of our full review, here are 21 sample JPEG photos taken with the Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens, mounted on an E-PL5 body.

The Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 60mm f/2.8 Macro is a fast macro lens for the Micro Four thirds system, retailing for £449.99 / $499.99.

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Nikon Coolpix L320 Review

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:44:40 +0100

The Nikon Coolpix L320 is a super-zoom compact with an affordable price-tag. Less than £200 buys you the 16 megapixel L320 complete with 26x optical zoom, 3 inch screen and 720p HD movie recording. Read our Nikon Coolpix L320 review to find out if this budget super-zoom is worth a closer look…

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