Judging a Photo Competition

January 16th, 2008  |  by motoed  |  published in Featured

Tuesday evening I was asked to judge another “projected image competition” for the Harrisburg Camera Club. This is the digital extension of their slide/print competitions of days of film. Actually doing the judging is a quite an experience. You are seated in the front row of a room of about 40 people behind you. The [...]

What makes a good photograph?

December 30th, 2007  |  by motoed  |  published in Featured

It seems like everybody and their brother loves to quote about photography. Why not me? Saw this one and loved it.
“A good photographer is one that makes the viewer so aware of the subject, that they are unaware of the print”
- Kodak Brochure from 70s

Cost of fuel directly proportional to an “Impulse buy”?

December 29th, 2007  |  by motoed  |  published in Personal

I was talking the other day with a friend about how it’s funny how impulse buys have changed over the years. It used to be $19.95 was the magic price point. Anything over that was “hmmm… I need to think about that… maybe next week”. Now it seems like the latest gadgets are $50 or [...]

Famous Photography Moments?

October 29th, 2006  |  by motoed  |  published in Featured, Photography

I saw this ad in PDN and was looking at it pretty closely and some things looked familiar. It was shot by Clay Blackmore, a wedding and portrait photographer from Baltimore Maryland (not far from South Central PA).
After closer examination, I thought I recognized this location as the fountain behind the state capital here in [...]

iStockphoto Photos Found in Public

August 26th, 2006  |  by motoed  |  published in Photography

My boss got this magazine for the Raven’s football team the other day and opened the cover and found one of his employees sitting inside the front page.

Read more about why this is really ironic

Photographer Fired for Altering Colors

August 6th, 2006  |  by motoed  |  published in Photography

I just read in the PDNewswire email from PDN magazine that photographer, Patrick Schneider, was fired for adjusting a photo in the Charlotte Observer. The photo in question was a silhouette of a fireman with a bright orange sky.
I’ve read a number of stories where photojournalists have done editting in post-production and have changed [...]

The Cycle of Things…

July 11th, 2006  |  by motoed  |  published in Photography

Found on ModelMayhem: Jeff Cohn of x-pose.net had this to say to a friend who was grumbling about what digital photography was doing to film…

“Dinosaurs don’t like the idea that they’re about to become extinct, that’s why they always look so pissed off on tv”