Big changes for JPG! In short: moving to traditional offset printing for better image quality, memberships, voting on submitted images, more themes, and US $100 and a subscription if your work is published. Their newsletter explains: Dearest JPGgers, Exactly two years ago today, JPG Magazine began with a simple mission to honor the amazing work [...]

Hot off the presses: JPG Magazine Issue 6: Oops! There’s magic in mistakes. There’s something special in the spontaneous. Because it’s in those moments when photography becomes more than just a document. It becomes something real. This issue of JPG is about your best "Oops!" photos. Whether it was faulty settings, old film, the random [...]

Right to Create write: The USPTO has rejected the broadest claims of the JPEG image format patent held by Forgent Networks. It’s nice to see the Patent Office doing the right thing, but it’s too bad that more than $100 million dollars that Forgent has extorted from industry will never be returned to its rightful [...]

JPG Magazine says: To celebrate the first year of JPG, for a limited time only, we’re selling a special box set of the first four issues! In addition to the four issues, the set also comes with a set of four high quality vinyl JPG stickers. Buy now, because supplies are limited! The set is [...]

Sometimes the best shots are accidents. They come from the moment your finger slips, your settings are wrong, you shoot into the sun, or your model sneezes. The results are more about serendipity than technique, and they can surprise even the most accomplished photographer. The theme for Issue 6 is "Oops!" to celebrate these happy [...]

JPG Magazine writes: Sometimes the best shots are accidents. They come from the moment your finger slips, your settings are wrong, you shoot into the sun, or your model sneezes. The results are more about serendipity than technique, and they can surprise even the most accomplished photographer. The theme for Issue 6 is ‘Oops!’ to [...]

JPG writes: "Issue 5 is now available! Our ‘Photography is Not a Crime’ issue is a celebration of the freedom to photograph. "Inside you’ll find 31 photographer’s takes and stories on the theme, NYC subway photography by Edmund Leveckis, Shane Lavalette‘s Family Portrait Project, an interview with attorney Bert Krages about your rights when shooting, [...]

Sean Scanlon of bluedot has written an open source Perl script that will add camera make and model EXIF fields to JPGs. EXIF is a standard for embedding exposure-related metadata such as camera make, model, lens focal length, shutter time, f/stop, etc. in image files. The data can be searched by image management databases, remind [...]