iStockphoto Announces Financial Incentives, Declares Holiday

Photography - No Comments » - Posted on July, 23 at 3:32 pm

Getty-owned microstock site iStockphoto, has announced a series of awards and financial incentives for its members, and warmed the hearts of post-structuralists everywhere by declaring August 19 “Punctum Day.” The “holiday for creatives” is named after the term that literary theorist Roland Barthes used to describe the poignancy of an image for an individual viewer. The holiday also commemorates the date on which the French government unveiled Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype technology for capturing a photograph in 1839. As part of its Punctum Day celebration, iStockphoto will give away $5000 awards to members whose work is judged to be the year’s best by their peers on the site and a
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Sigma SD14 Digital SLR Review at HomeTheaterHiFi

Tips Tricks - No Comments » - Posted on July, 23 at 9:04 am

Sigma SD14 Digital SLR Review at HomeTheaterHiFi
HomeTheaterHiFi has a review of the Sigma SD14 and writes, “The Safeway vegetable rack – one of my standard test shots – shows that the SD14 tended to underexpose it a bit. Usually, I get some over-exposed highlights on the yellow peppers, but not with this camera. This is reasonably easy to fix in Photoshop or other photo editors (I like PhotoImpact), but it is better to give a subject like this about one f/stop more than the metered exposure, and/or shoot in RAW mode, which gives you more latitude in the photo editor stages. … The Sigma SD14 DSLR is a fine camera. It has the easiest-to-use interface I have yet experienced, has a wide variety of lenses to fit it, and takes great
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