Can’t make a living as a still photographer because supply exceeds the demand? Losing business because amateur photographers are selling stock for a dollar?

Buy a 5D and shoot video. There aren’t enough starving filmmakers in the world trying to find venues for their work.

It’s painful to watch lemmings fall off another cliff.

http://www.dslrnewsshooter.com/2009/10/14/photojournalist-danfung-dennis-how-i-cover-the-afghanistan-war-with-the-5dmkii/

http://vimeo.com/album/135370

Is Obama capable of blushing?

Great job on both projects, perhaps it will show people why Afghans can’t stand their gung-ho occupiers.

There is no reason, at least no technical reason, why Canon, Nikon and the other manufacturers cannot develop quality video cameras as part of, or separately from, their still cameras, and there is every reason to think that eventually, each frame from a video camera will be able to match the quality of today’s still cameras. The “technology” is cool.

But let’s not kid ourselves, still and video technology will continue to merge to the point that video is nothing less than high frame rate still shooting at 60 frames per minute — fun. But the people who produce high quality video and high quality photography will “always” be two different people. Photography and videography serve different purposes and require different skill sets and this will always be true — they communicate different messages. Relatively few people will be able to do both well.

And the surfing one, wow. Sick moves and nice views. As the Backyardigans would say, he’s got the ‘rad moves’ – totally should get a pass to Tiki beach. [I need to stop watching TV with my 4 y.o. goddaughter...]

While it’s not video image making by a photographer per se, I think its a great combination of tradition picture making, oral history, and current flash animation. Maybe it’s a presentation option for photographers instead of a traditional still web site. Any thoughts?

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html?ref=nyregion

But as I have been exploring all the MK II videos tonight, I worry about the use of music that permission for use has not been sought, or given. I did a Soundslide a few months ago and it took me awhile to find a piece that was in the public domain and then, we asked the musicians to use it. Quality music is really hard to find for free or even for a small fee. Seems the time is ripe for artists and labels to explore another licensing option that goes beyond the 99 cent itunes for personal use and the big bucks it would cost to license it for a video. I can’t afford hundreds for music.

I’m glad the walls are being broken down.

Hulu can be a nightmare, watching Flashforward on ABC.com was laughable, the show streamed fine but then all the ads came up as white boxes…fine by me!!!

Seems like we have a long way to go to just recover the simplicity of turning on the TV…