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Latest Photo Challenge: Cell phone photos

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0500

My colleague Eric Bauer, Boston.com's Information Architect who helps out with Globe Critiques here on RAW, bought his son a cell phone the other day that has a 5 megapixel camera. (My first DSLR, a Nikon D100, had 6 megapixels.) The quality of cell phone cameras has improved so much that I decided to run a Photo Challenge of cell phone photos.

Post your meteor shower photos

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:06:05 -0500

How far will you go to take a great photo? If any of you got up really early this morning to capture the Leonid meteor shower, or are planning to shoot it late tonight or early tomorrow morning, please post your photos in this gallery. (We ran a meteor shower photo by RAW Dawg Evan Sabogal on the Boston.com homepage today ... Evan took the shot at about 4 a.m. Tuesday in Amherst.)

Globe Critique: Learning to 'work' the picture

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500

Tom Henry only recently converted from film to digital photography, and says he has rediscovered his art through Photoshop and digital technology. But, he wonders, is his art any good?

We asked Globe photographer David L. Ryan to take a look at Tom's portfolio and give him -- and us -- an opinion.

November contest alert!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:22:20 -0500

Lots of you must have read right past the rule for the November contest that your photo must be taken this month. Of the 40+ photos entered so far, 14 are ineligible because they were taken earlier than Nov. 1. You have a little more than 2 weeks left to get a shot this month ... and please remove the contest tags from the old photos! Thanks ...

Photographer of the Week: Lee Cullivan

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0500

Lee Cullivan of Belmont, aka shoothead, is one of four RAW regulars who have won prizes in two monthly contests; the others are Garry Schlatter of Brisbane, Australia (Garry), Gillian Henry of Revere (amythyst_lake), and Kati Seiffer of Burlington (kseiffer). But Lee is the first one to capture two First Places -- in last November's Motion contest and this September's Jobs competition. I knew I had to make him a Photographer of the Week.

October 'Pink' contest Final 50

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:41:20 -0500

When I chose a color as the theme for October, I was looking for a bit of a break from tradition, opting for something a bit more abstract than many of the themes we usually tackle. And when I asked professional photographer D. Sharon Pruitt of Utah to be our judge, I had unconventionality in mind as well.

Meet the October judge

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:11 -0500

So I was cruising around the Web, looking for Pink photos and just reading on the topic of using color as a contest theme, when I came across an interesting site called Pink Sherbet Photography belonging to a Utah photographer.

Globe Critique: An impressive use of light

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:07:00 -0500

Mark Laverty of Plymouth was a photographer for his high school newspaper, but put his camera aside for about 30 years before the digital revolution rekindled his interest.

The 'Pink' galleries

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:32:19 -0500

Folks, the October 'Pink' contest has some of the best photos we've ever received. We've built five galleries to show them off. Later, I'll introduce our judge ... she's pretty interesting!
Gallery 1 | Gallery 2 | Gallery 3 | Gallery 4 | Gallery 5

Globe Bonus Critique: Erin Hart

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:05:49 -0500

This month, we have a bonus critique from Globe staff photographer Barry Chin. As he looked over the portfolios of amateurs who had submitted photos for a Globe review, he came across photos submitted by RAW regular Erin Hart of Boston, and said, "Hmmm. She doesn't need much help."

November contest theme: Silhouettes

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:47:22 -0500

Back when we were voting on contest themes (I temporarily discontinued that because I had enough theme ideas from you to last a year or two!), many of you voted in favor of Silhouettes as a theme -- and I think that's a great idea.

Some spectacular foliage photos

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:32:33 -0500

And I don't mean that just the foliage was spectacular ... your camera work was as well. This was our latest Photo Challenge (not to be confused with our monthly contests ... there's no judging involved with the Challenges). I'll announce another Challenge next week. Look over the self-uploading gallery to see your handiwork and that of others; just click on the first thumbnail photo to launch the slideshow. > Foliage gallery

Pink Alert!

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:20:28 -0500

Please check the tags on your October entries ... some of you have neglected to make your month tag October2009 ... instead you wrote simply October, so your "Pink" photos are showing up in the "Get Close" contest we had a year ago. To reiterate, the 4 tags for this month are Boston.com, contest, October2009, pink. Thanks...

Destinations: 'Who Shot Rock & Roll' in N.Y.

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:10:43 -0500

By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

''Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present'': Image has been as much a part of rock 'n' roll as sound right from the beginning. If Elvis hadn't looked like Elvis he wouldn't have been, well . . . Elvis, would he? Or imagine the Beatles with crewcuts, Bob Dylan with a double chin. Not easy to do. This Brooklyn Museum exhibition gathers images of rock performers from the '50s to the present. Included are such highly photogenic subjects as Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, and Little Richard, and such less photogenic ones as Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and Amy Winehouse. The exhibition emphasizes the photographers (among them are Henry Diltz, Baron Wolman, and Albert Watson) as much as the performers. There's also a section dealing with an overlooked element in the visual impact of rock: the fans out in the audience and their responses to music.

Belin's photos spotlight creativity, individuality

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:05:49 -0500

By Mark Feeney
Globe Staff

A very different sense of style and fashion is on display in "Valerie Belin: Made Up." Belin is a French photographer, and this is her first US solo show. There are 17 pictures in the show, and they're very large. Most are in the vicinity of 5 feet by 4 feet.

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