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The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of August 4

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Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Nikon finally settles (some of) the D600 madness. In a recent settlement in favor of participants in the Zimmerman & Reed class action lawsuit against Nikon for faulty D600 sensors, Nikon will replace their D600 with a D610 free of charge. Read the full letter of the settlement at PetaPixel.

A spacecraft that was launched 10 years ago to capture a comet (yes, I’m actually saying that seriously) has, well, captured the comet! The European Space Agency’s Rosetta has successfully caught up with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko halfway between Jupiter and Mars, and has already sent back images. To see them, head over to the European Space Agency’s site by clicking here.

Finally! Image usage rights for dummies all thanks to The Visual Communication Guy, Curtis Newbold. In an infographic flowchart, he explains everything from copyright to creative commons to fair use and public domain, efficiently demonstrating what’s right and what’s wrong usage of any particular image. All you have to do is answer a couple yes’s and a couple no’s to keep the lawyers from knocking on your inbox. Click HERE for the chart.

In addition to launching a new website dedicated to Apple Aperture users who are deciding whether to migrate to Lightroom or not in wake of Apple’s announcement that they will be discontinuing their photo editing software, Adobe has also officially released a guide explaining how to perform the migration to Lightroom. Additionally, as reported by PetaPixel, they’ve hinted at new software that will help with the migration as well.

Speaking of Adobe, they’ve announced a partnership deal with photo sharing site 500px, bundling together Adobe’s photographer’s package, which includes Lightroom and Photoshop, along with a 500px Awesome account for an annual fee of $165. Click here to learn more about it directly from 500px.

August 8, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 28

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Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

A group that includes Hollywood Studios and big name directors including Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, and JJ Abrams, have banded together to save Kodak film from extinction. They’ve pledged to buy enough to keep production of the analog film alive. Find the full story at PopPhoto.

Adobe has released Camera Raw and DNG Converter version 8.6, which now supports the Nikon D810, Panasonic LUMIX AG-GH4, and Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ1000 along with a slew of new lens profiles and color profiles. Click here for more info and the download links.

David Attenborough, the prolific and hypnotizing host of award winning nature documentaries and shows such BBC’s Planet Earth and Life, has announced that his next project, Conquest of the Skies 3D, is using new 3D techniques, 3D octocopters, as well as Augmented Reality experiences. Yes! Click here for more on this one.

Flickr will be hot damned if it’s left behind in the new trend of curated photo licensing options that have cropped up such as 500px Prime and Stocksy, and decided to launch Marketplace, a new licensing initiative. There isn’t too much information on it just yet, but CLICK HERE for their blog post describing what we know so far.

Canon has patented an insanely ridiculous 45x zoom lens for an underwater camera, PetaPixel reports. Apparnetly this will help bring focal lengths equivalent to 26-1170mm to a dedicated underwater camera. Not a bad step for the growing underwater camera market. CLICK HERE for more.

August 1, 2014
How And Why I Finally Made The Switch To The Adobe Creative Cloud

So I fought it for a year. And I fought it hard. I didn’t want to rent it. I wanted to rightfully own it. The way I have for years. The way we all have for years. Why should I have to ‘rent’ the software I need for my work? Why can’t I buy it anymore? It made no sense. And it didn’t seem right. And it didn’t seem fair. So there was only one thing left to do. Rent the software.
Yeah, that’s right, I did it. I made the switch to the Adobe Creative Cloud. And here’s why it finally just had to happen.

A big part of my decision was Adobe’s recent commitment to photographers to keep the price at 9.99/month for the two tools that photographers need most, Photoshop and Lightroom. Which, once you crunch the numbers, one you sit down, and really crunch the numbers, you realize that at 120 dollars a year, it would still take about 5 years to cover roughly what a full version of Photoshop used to cost for purchase. Considering the fact that a new version normally came out every 2-3 years, in essence, and in the long run, you’re actually saving money.

On top of that, getting the updates for free on the fly is quite the welcomed gotcha! Well, sort of. While you lose some of the big-box anticipation of all these new features at once, which was always a fun reveal and sense of discovery, the way it is now actually allows you time to adapt and use and test and play without being overwhelmed by new features all at once. By easing you into the usage of these new features, you are able to actually focus on them rather than try to fish through an onslaught of madness, only to forget half of them existed 2 weeks later. Basically, I’ve begun to get even more use out of each new set of features that has been released since subscribing to the Creative Cloud 2 months ago.

So I’m 2 months in, and once I got over the whole ’subscription’ thing, the process has actually made my workflow easier, and that’s due in large part to the feature set that they offer in the Creative Cloud, most notably, the syncing with the new Lightroom mobile. This workflow, Lightroom mobile, on an iPad mini? It’s simply divine. Instead of laying on the couch feeling lazy and proscrastinaty, now I’m actually getting work done. I’m able to star, flag, and pre-edit my images, and when I do finally decide to act like a ’true professional’ and get up off the couch, and walk to the computer, or head into to the office or studio the next day, what a treat to see that all the edits have automatically synced with Lightroom on the desktop…I mean…c’mon! That alone might be worth the 10 bucks a month.

So yes, needless to say, so far, I’m happy I made the switch. Adapt or die right? I’ve still got some gotcha in me hot damnit!

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July 31, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 14

Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Photoshop World-A-Thon : So many of us can’t make it out to Photoshop World, so what’s the next best thing to attending the real thing? Attending Photoshop World-A-Thon. A full night of tips and tricks taught and demonstrated by Photoshop World veterans including Scott Kelby, all from the comfort of your own home. The free webinar comes with a free virtual swag bag and it all happens on July 24 at 7pm ET. CLICK HERE to register.

Aperture To Lightroom Migration Tool Now Available – While there hasn’t been an official release from either Apple or Adobe, there is a beta version of a new tool to help you begin your migration from Aperture to Lightroom in the wake of Apple’s announcement to stop developing Aperture. The tool is called Aperture Exporter and if you want it, CLICK HERE to visit the official site and download link.

Last week we talked about BBC opening up it’s journalism training courses to the public. This week it’s the Massachuessetes Institute of Technology. Through their Open Courseware project, MIT just gave us “Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion,” a course actually offered at the iconic university. The free offerings include everything from the official syllabus to assignments and other course materials. CLICK HERE to go to class.

Blackmagic Design have cut the price of their popular Pocket Cinema Camera by HALF! As if the $1000 prices tag wasn’t low enough for a professional level cinema camera that can shoot 1080 footage in RAW ProRes format with 13 stops of dynamic range, they’ve gone lost their minds and decided to make it available for $495 from now through the month of August. Git it! CLICK HERE for more info.

Best of the Blogs

Photographer John Rowe, along with Ethiopian Kara tribesman Lale Labuko have teamed up to help stop the practice of Mingi, an age old tradition of labeling certain children, mostly born with physical abnormalities, as ‘cursed.’ These children have traditionally been taken away and killed. Thanks to Labuko and Rowe’s Omo Child Organization, they have helped bring an end to the practice. CLICK HERE to read more about it. (source NBC)

A first-aid trained journalist from Norway stopped in midst broadcast when a bomb exploded in proximity to where he was reporting from in Gaza. He rushed to the scene where he aided an injured child, before taking a moment to gather himself and resume his job by photographing the incident and the child. For the story and the video, CLICK HERE. (source Petapixel)

July 18, 2014