You can read the back story at The Austin Chronicle or Independent Sources.
(The flyer doesn’t say, but the show is in Austin, TX, US.)
Category: Random
Unauthorized WPPD-branded pinhole cameras
Tom Miller posted this to Pinhole Visions and the Spitbite Pinhole Mailing List. I’m re-posting it in its entirety:
Dear Photography Enthusiast,
The Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD) coordinators noticed that commercial pinhole cameras engraved with our name and logo are being offered for sale. This is being done without the authorization of the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day organization.
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is a community service organization operated as a not-for-profit; we are not a commercial enterprise. We don’t sell anything, but exist only to benefit all people by providing information about pinhole photography and by providing a gallery open for all people to post one pinhole photograph as part of the annual Pinhole Day celebration.
While we encourage people to use our artwork to promote the Pinhole Day event, we do not authorize use of our name and artwork for commercial purposes. Please keep this in mind if you are considering a purchase of a camera with our name and logo on it, as the purchase does not benefit Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Thank you for your understanding.
Tom Miller, on behalf of the
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Coordinating Team
Cell phone picture called obstruction of justice
Neftaly Cruz was arrested in Philadelphia, PA, US, for taking a picture of police activity on the street, from his own yard, with a phonecam. This is completely legal in the US and has been repeatedly and explicitly upheld by the courts.
An NBC affiliate’s article on the incident says:
"He opened up the gate and Neffy was coming down and he went up to Neffy, pulled him down, had Neffy on the car and was telling him, ‘You should have just went in the house and minded your own business instead of trying to take pictures off your picture phone,’" said Gerrell Martin.
Cruz said police told him that he broke a new law that prohibits people from taking pictures of police with cell phones. [This is a complete fabrication. — Nicolai]
"They threatened to charge me with conspiracy, impeding an investigation, obstruction of a investigation … They said, ‘You were impeding this investigation.’ (I asked,) "By doing what?’ (The officer said,) ‘By taking a picture of the police officers with a camera phone,’" Cruz said.
It gets worse from there.
Read article at NBC10
For a disturbingly large number of similar stories, visit PhotoPermit.org
Video interview of Cartier-Bresson by Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose covers lots of ground in this rare 58-minute video interview with the accepted mack daddy of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Watch interview at Google Videos
Via Myla Kent
Cost of US copyright registration increasing
The cost of registering copyright goes up July 1, 2006, the U.S. Copyright Office has announced on their Web site.
Registering a single photograph or groups of photographs goes up $15 USD to the new price of $45 USD. Renewing a copyright without an addendum increases from $60 to $75, and renewing a copyright with an addendum goes up from $30 to $220.
Continue reading summary at the National Press Photographers Association
New rate schedule at the US Copyright Office
Via Utata
Polaroid Spectra and 600 film sale
Polaroid are having a buy 4 packs, get 1 free sale on Spectra and 600 film when you
buy directly from them. Ends 29 June, 2006, so get your crack at a discount while you can!
Alkaptonuria patient’s urine used as film developer
This is bizarre:
This picture of a patient who had alkaptonuria (Fig. 1) was taken by my father, Dr. Ian Maxwell, in 1957 and was developed using the patient’s own urine [emphasis added].
Alkaptonuria was the first described “inborn error of metabolism.” This rare (< 1 per 250 000 births) hereditary recessive disorder is characterized by a triad of excretion of homogentisic acid in the urine, ochronosis (dark pigmentation of the connective tissues) and early-onset arthritis…
Continue reading and see urine-developed photo in the Canadian Medical Association Journal
Via f295 DIY Photography Forum member taco
Photographer assaulted by "police officer" for taking pictures on a public SF street
Thomas Hawk writes:
Today, aqui-ali (another local Flickr photographer), helveticaneue (in from out of town) and I went out to do a bit of shooting. Since Aqui had a meeting down on 2nd Street later this afternoon we decided to head that way and shoot the Transbay Terminal. 45 Fremont was in our path and we were shooting some photos of it as we were walking by. It was then that the security guard there told us that we could not shoot the building. When I explained that we were in a public area and had a right to shoot the building he insisted and called another security guard over on his radio who also tried to get us to stop taking pictures of the building. I still refused as it is my right to shoot buildings in San Francisco from a public area.
Continue reading at Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection
Via Digg
Mike Johnston clarifies depth of field vs. depth of focus
They aint the same! Get the poop at The Online Photographer.