Category: Competitions

Continuing on my catching up … over at PhotoShelter, Allen Murabayashi takes on the question of over toning images, to the point they look like movie posters. I fully support Murabayashi except for the first part of this excerpt: To be clear, I’m not suggesting that there has been any manipulation that falls outside of the rules of the contest,...

A winning entry in the Pictures of the Year International competition have been raised by many people. Good summations available by David Gonzalez and James Estrin at the New York Times’ Lens blog as well as by Donald Winslow on the National Press Photographers Association’s site. There are warnings to be heeded in here, particularly about captions and making sure...

I have a backlog of stories to get through, so there may be a lot of posts in the next few days. Between our annual Weekend Workshop and our server having to be rebuilt, things have been … hectic? So on to the news … The White House News Photographers Association has disqualified an image for digital manipulation. The image,...