Hold the phone

By Clifford Oto | Published: December 9, 2013 | Leave a comment

Most people probably think that if you pit a cellphone camera against a digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera that it would be no contest; the DSLR would win hands down. While in some cases that may be true, cellphone cameras and the photos produced by them have advanced enough to warrant their own merit.

24 readers sent in 77 photos that ran the gamut from portraits to landscapes to still lifes and more. The quality of the entries proved that it’s not the camera that takes a good picture, but the person using it. Here are some of the best examples.

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Darrin Denison of Stockton sent in a photo that used new technology to showcase a blast from the past. He used an iPhone to photograph an old Contax rangefinder camera that his late uncle Herb Works bought in France in the 1940s and was recently given to Denison by his aunt Shirley Works. Denison used beautiful window light to create a warm and nostalgic feeling of days of a much simpler time in photography.

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In the not-to-distant past some people may not have thought of their phones as creative tools but Instagram changed all that. Through the photo sharing app, different filters and effects can be added to a cellphone photo to help impart a feeling or mood to the picture.

Luis Rodriguez of Stockton photographed this lonely, apparently fire-damaged tree along Airport Way in south Stockton with a HTC wildfire S phone. He then converted it to black and white through Instagram, which eliminated the distractions of color and emphasized the desolate beauty of the scene.

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If some photos are better in black and white then there are others that are all about color. Eva Fujii of Stockton used a Samsung Galaxy S2 cellphone to take photos of rainbow-hued crayons used for “bridge rubbings” on her daughter’s field trip to the Cosumnes Nature Reserve in Galt.

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One of the most common mistakes that people make when taking pictures is that they don’t get close enough. This seem especially true with cellphone cameras. But it wasn’t a problem for Judi Howell of Stockton. She got in close, very close to her grandson Sammie Howell to get a tight shot of his innocent 13-month-old face.

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Many people use their cellphone cameras for their travel and vacation photos but not John Varelas of Stockton. He ventured not further than his own backyard to capture a colorful photo of a hoverfly buzzing over a daisy in his garden with an iPhone5.

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Sometimes what’s elevates a photograph over a mere picture is how the photographer sees the scene differently, how he/she makes some different out of the ordinary.

Holly Stone of Lodi watched as her husband used a leaf blower to remove leaves from the roof of their house. Instead of just photographing him with her iPhone 3Gs, she turned around to take a photo of flying leaves debris, which to me, looked like a reverse night sky of dark celestial bodies against a light-colored sky.

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Dave Skinner of Stockton is an experienced DSLR user and admits he was out of his comfort zone when he used an iPod Touch 4 to photograph some water plants at the Cosumnes Wildlife Preserve near Thornton. But he came away with an elegant composition that is a study in contrasting shapes and colors.

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As always there is a gallery of all of the entries at recordnet.com. Stay tuned next Monday for a new Readers Photo Challenge assignment.

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Advantage: Cellphones

By Clifford Oto | Published: December 5, 2013 | Leave a comment

When it comes to imaging, you may think that a DSLR and its big lenses have a big advantage over cellphone cameras. And in most cases, you’d probably be right. But there is one thing that the cellphones can do that the bigger cameras can’t. Due to their tiny size, cellphone cameras can fit into smaller places than DSLRs. You may not think that’s much of an edge, but there are times when it comes in handy. Recently I had an opportunity where it worked for me.
On Thanksgiving Day I covered the annual St. Mary’s Interfaith Dining Hall’s annual turkey meal for the needy. In the dining hall there’s a cafeteria-style counter. Volunteers were on the kitchen side dishing up trays of food while on the other side, separated by a glass partition, fellow volunteers got the filled trays and took them to the people dining. I got some overhead “hail mary” shots with my Nikon D3s DSLR with a 24-70mm lens of the people filling the trays but wanted to get shots from a lower angle through the glass. The problem was that there was a metal top to the partition that blocked the view of the faces of the volunteers.


The distance from the bottom of the camera to about the center of the lens measures roughly 2 inches, and the length of the lens from the body of the camera is about 5 inches. At its widest setting (24mm) it was plenty wide, but I just couldn’t get low enough. All I could get were hands and torsos with the heads cut off by the top of the counter.
Then an idea hit me. My cellphone camera’s lens is flush with the phone’s body and just a few millimeters from its edge. Even though the lens wasn’t as wide as the 24-70mm (an equivalent of about a 35mm on a full-frame DSLR), it just might work.


I placed my cellphone on the counter against the glass with the lens as low as it would go. I fired off a few frames and — voila! — success! I was able to get close enough and low enough to get two of the servers and their faces.
While DSLRs may have many advantages over cellphone cameras, versatility being the main one, they don’t necessarily hold all the aces.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of …?

By Clifford Oto | Published: December 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

These days it seems there’s a parody with every introduction of new products and the ad campaigns that go with them. The recent release of the Nikon Df is no exception. Photographer/educator Matt Granger based in Sydney, Australia (aka That Nikon Guy) put out a video in response to Nikon’s enigmatic Df video spots on the Internet almost as soon as the last of the six Nikon ads were done.

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November outtakes

By Clifford Oto | Published: December 3, 2013 | Leave a comment

“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.

With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.

The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.” – Clyde Watson

With the closing of November brings the last of fall and the harbinger of winter. Here are 10 of my favorite previously unposted photos from 2013’s 11th month.

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A game changer? Maybe.

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

Even though this is a blog about photography I don’t normally talk about specific cameras in this space because I believe that in general all of today’s modern cameras work pretty well. Oh sure, there are some differences between models and manufacturers but when it comes to purchasing and using a camera it’s all a matter of personal preference.

However Nikon recently released a new camera that’s worth notice, though maybe not in a way that Nikon intended.

The Df is a new Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera just announced by Nikon. In its introductory advertising Nikon characterizes the camera as harkening back to a simpler, non-iPhone, pre-digital era.

To that effect the Df has a decidedly retro design. Its outward appearance resembles the venerable Nikon FM-series film cameras of old. Instead of modern LCD panels with digital menus and plastic buttons, it has mechanical-feeling metal knobs and dials. It seems that Nikon is marketing the camera towards the serious amateur or those trying to become more serious with their photography by taking inspiration from the days of film.

To me that means the ability control the camera to make it do what you want it to do, which in turn means to be able to used the camera in manual mode. Sure there were film cameras that had automatic modes and some advanced amateur photographers (even some pros) used automatic modes on their cameras, but understanding and setting shutter speeds and apertures yourself was (and still is) essential to being a “serious” photographer. The Df can shoot in manual mode but has all the automatic functions of a modern camera as well. Almost all modern DSLRs have a manual setting as well as their auto modes so they can do the same things as the new “retro” camera can. The Df accepts all of Nikon’s old manual focus lenses but then again so do most of the company’s other DSLRs. And the Df will take the new lenses as well.

While the Df isn’t a totally manual camera, it doesn’t break any new technical ground either. It’s a what’s known as a “full-frame” camera meaning its imaging sensor is the same size as 35mm film. Most other DSRLs sold are what are called “crop sensor’ cameras which have sensors that are smaller than the full-frame ones. This allows them to be smaller and cheaper than the bigger sensor cameras but at a general cost of lower resolution and higher noise. But there are several full-frame cameras on the market already and the Df’s 16-megapixel (MP) sensor is the same one that’s found in Nikon’s flagship D4. In fact it uses most of the innards of that camera. It’s smaller than the D4 but not the smallest in the Nikon DSLR lineup. While it’s much less expensive than the nearly $6,000 top of the line D4, at $2,746 it’s not cheap either.

So is the outward retro design of the Df the only thing that it has going for itself? In a word: yes. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

One of Nikon’s taglines for the Df’s advertising is: “Pure Passion. Pure Photography.” The ad campaign features a series of short videos of a serious (we assume) photographer thoughtfully wandering different scenes: a forest, some hilly grasslands, a city, a Scottish castle. He scans the horizon or tree tops looking for a photo, then we hear him change the camera settings though the clicks of the mechanical dials he’s turning. He raises camera to his eye and we hear a single snap of the camera. Is all advertising hype? Probably.

Another of Nikon’s taglines is “Classic feel. Modern performance. Rediscover the joy of photography.” The visceral sense of how a camera feels in your hands and how it makes you feel is not to be discounted. From a beep, ping or tweedle, cellphone manufacturers could have chosen any sound for their cameras to make when a picture is taken, but then why did they pick a solid camera shutter sound? So that you feel like a photo has been shot.

I’m always advocating to people interested in photography, especially those starting out, to slow down really take a look at the scene and think about what they’re taking pictures of.
Sure, they can do that with any modern DSLR, and sure, it’s the photographer who takes the picture and not the equipment, but if the Df can get picture takers to feel like a photographer then perhaps they may start to think like one too. And in my book, that can be a good thing.

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Rosters

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

When shooting sports for the newspaper, getting IDs on the athletes is as important as getting shots of them. You never read a caption that says: “So-and-so is tackled by what’s-his-name.” Or “Boxer X connects with an uppercut to Boxer Y’s chin.”

Football tends to be one of the easiest sports to identify the players in. They tend to have numbers on the front, back and sometimes the shoulders of their jerseys. There’s usually a complete roster either on MaxPreps online or at least in the pressbox at the stadium.

Boxing is one of the harder sports to ID. The fighters are often just referred to as either “red” or “blue,” after the red and blue corners of a boxing ring. Many times a list of the fighters and the order in which they fight are changed at the last minute.

I covered two events where these two norms were turned around.

Before the start of the prep football season I went out to a football scrimmage between Oakdale and Tracy at Tracy’s new-and-improved Wayne Schneider Stadium, I checked out both teams’ rosters on MaxPreps Oakdale had all the names and numbers of their players listed, but Tracy did not. Not a problem I thought, I’ll just go up to the pressbox and get a photo of the roster from the announcer. But when I got there, there wasn’t a roster of any kind. To complicate matters further, while the Tracy team had numbers on their jerseys (backs only) the Oakdale team had no numbers at all! I know it was just a scrimmage, but come on!  After the helmets go on, one player looks like another, and they’re impossible to identify without the numbers. So I decided to forego getting photos of the Oakdale team. I concentrated on getting shots of just a few players on the Tracy side. I wrote down their numbers and asked an assistant coach who they were during the scrimmage.

Later that day when I got to the youth boxing event at Yaqui Lopez’s Fat City Gym in downtown Stockton, the names of all the boxers were on a Central California Association United States Amateur Boxing Inc. bout sheet. The fights were numbered 1 through 14, with the fighters’ names and club affiliations neatly and clearly hand written in legible block letters. It even included the ages and weights of the young boxers. It was easy and even a pleasure to read.

 

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Readers Photo Challenge assignment: Phoning it in

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

Who’s world’s the biggest camera maker? Canon? Nikon? Neither; it’s Apple. Yes, Apple, the maker of computers, the iPad and the ubiquitous iPhone. It’s that popularity of the iPhone and its built-in camera that propels it past all of the traditional camera manufacturers.

For a few years now Apple and other mobile phone companies have surpassed digital compact point-and-shoot cameras, which has given camera industry cause to worry. Recently Canon introduced the PowerShot N Facebook point-and-shoot camera that can connect to the social media site in hopes of stemming the cellphone camera tide.

Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSRLs) cameras sales showed little signs of the cellphone camera incursion, until recently, that its. In the past year or so Nikon DLSR sales have dropped dramatically. Canon has posted similar numbers as well. It could be that DSLR sales have reached their market saturation or perhaps this signals the beginning the end and maybe they’ll be as prevalent as film cameras are today and cellphone cameras will rule the imaging world. Which brings us to the newest Readers Photo Challenge assignment: phone cameras.

With each new generation of cellphones their cameras have improved to the point to nearly the match the performance of the point-and-shoot cameras (though they lag far behind the quality and versatility of DSLRs).

I think that there’s a tendency to think of the images made from cellphones as throwaway pictures. That somehow they’re less worthy to be considered as art because they’re not shot with a “real” camera. I know because I’ve been guilty of it myself. But it doesn’t have to be. True, there are limitations that nearly all cellphone cameras have. They tend not to be very good in low light nor do they capture action very well, but much of photography is problem solving. The best photographers find a way to work around whatever shortcomings of that their equipment may have to come up with great images. You have to throw off that throwaway mentality and think of cellphone photos worthy in and of themselves.

Indeed there are Websites dedicated to the art of cellphone photography. The annual San Joaquin County Fair’s photography show now includes a category for cellphone images. The best of those images are as good as shot by any kind of camera. It’s because it’s the photographer that makes a good photo, not the camera.

A few things to look out for:

Try not to use the zoom function. Most if not all cellphone cameras use a digital zoom and while it may sound impressive it’s not. What DSLR and most point-and-shoot zoom lenses employ is an optical zoom, meaning that they have several different glass elements to change the focal length of a lens. Digital zooms use a smaller portion of the camera’s already small sensor the farther you zoom the lens out. This ultimately means a loss in resolution and sharpness.

Most cellphone cameras have poor performance in low light, try to shoot action photos during the day or anything that’s moving will be blurred.

Speaking of low light, you will need to find a way to steady the phone/camera when it gets dark or you’ll experience a lot of camera shake. There are some adapters that allow you to fit a cellphone to a tripod, which will help. The upside is that the cellphones are so light you can get a small, lightweight and cheap tripod.

Exposure and focusing with cellphone cameras is more or less done automatically. With some if not most mobile phone cameras portions of the scene can be picked for focusing by tapping on the screen where you want the camera to be focused. Exposure can be done the same way.

As far as composition goes the principals are the same as with any camera: Get in close, watch your backgrounds and look for good light.

The most the important thing in any kind of photography is to think and it’s even more important with cellphone photography. Perhaps because of it’s casual, everyday nature of cellphones people tend to take their pictures without much thought. They walk up take a quick snap and then leave. But in actuality because of the cellphone cameras’ limits you should slow down, give some thought to your subject and take your time when you take the photo.

With the popularity of cellphones and their cameras, the days of the compact point-and-shoot camera market may be numbered, though DSLRs will probably endure (though likely in lower numbers than their peak sales a few years ago). So break out your phones and fire up their cameras then slow down and think when taking your pictures. Good luck and good and good shooting.

The rules:

1. Entries can be emailed to coto@recordnet.com. Type in “Cellphones” in the subject line.

2. Photos have to be shot between Nov. 18 and Dec. 1.

3. Include your name (first and last), hometown, and the kind of device you used to take the picture.

4. The subject is up to you but it must be taken with a cellphone camera (iPad or tablet type devices are acceptable as well)

5. Describe what the photo is of and where it was taken. If your photo is of a person please include the name (first and last) of your subject, their relationship to you (relative, friend or stranger off the street), their ages (if they are juveniles).

6. Please feel free to include any interesting anecdotes or stories on how you took the picture.

7. The deadline for submission is Sunday, Dec. 1. The top examples will be published on Monday, Dec. 9 with an online gallery of all the photos on the same day.

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Readers Photo Challenge: Building towards success

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 11, 2013 | 2 Comments

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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From the buildings that we work, play and live in to the bridges we travel over to the monuments erect in our communities, architecture is an art and craft that can affect all of us on a daily basis. It’s around us so much so that we often take it for granted. We pass up grand buildings, stylish houses and ornate details without a second thought as we go about our busy lives.

But you don’t always have to rely on an interesting looking building but it’s how you approach the subject to make an interesting picture. A humdrum structure may take on a different look in the light of early morning, late afternoon or even at night. Getting close ups or just portions of a building may provide interesting details and textures. For this month’s challenge “architecture”, in which 21 people sent in a total of 72 photos, the best examples took advantage of at least one or more of those aspects.

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Darrin Denison of Stockton used his iPhone to photograph a street lamp next to the San Joaquin County Administration Building in downtown Stockton in the early evening. His photo contrasts the old-fashioned-looking light against the modern, sharply angled glass of the building’s lobby.

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I had my high school senior prom at the Grand Island Mansion near the Delta town of Ryde and at the time it was the fanciest place I had ever been in. Steve Marziano of Lodi took a photo of the interior staircase of the mansion and captured it’s opulence with a Nikon D90 DSLR. The lower half of the photo is illuminated by the warm glow of the interior incandescent lights while the upper half is lit by afternoon light from an upstairs window. The effect is one of beautiful elegance emphasized by the grand upsweep of the stairs. One almost expects to see Scarlett O’Hara to come gracefully gliding down the steps.

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Jeff Hood used to be a reporter for the Record then became a spokesman for the city of Lodi and is now Lodi’s Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services Director. While on a college scouting trip with his son who’s a senior at Tokay High school, Hood of Galt took a late evening photo of the Geisel Library on the U.C. San Diego campus in La Jolla with his Nexus 4 mobile phone. The last remnants of the setting sun reflected off of the inverted alien pyramid’s shiny windows giving them an unearthly glow surrounded by the coolness of the blue hour.

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Elizabeth Lindemann of Ripon used a Nikon D3100 DSLR with a 55-200mm lens to capture an image of the famed Big Ben while on a trip to London, England. Using the inherent compression of a telephoto lens and an extreme low angle Lindemann’s different take on a famous landmark gives her photo a stunning visual impact.

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Many architectural photos involve buildings in faraway lands but Laura Van Noord of Lodi didn’t go farther than her front door to get her shot. She took a photo of the foyer of her home with a Nikon D7100. Van Noord shot from the floor up towards the ceiling with a 10.5mm fisheye lens to get a towering view worthy of any big city skyscraper.

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Most people would probably consider shiny and new buildings as subjects for their architectural photos. Kim Romena of Stockton did some out-of-the-box thinking and took another route. The Byron Hot Springs Hotel in Byron was once a popular resort for the rich and famous in the 1800s. For many years now it has been abandoned and has fallen into disrepair. Using a Canon EOS 6D Romena shot an interior hallway to capture the hotel’s desolate beauty of neglect and decay.

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Rick Wilmot of Lodi took a photo of Lodi’s arch over School Street, just north of Lodi Ave. in downtown Lodi with a Canon EOS 5D Mk III. Shooting at night the arch is bathed in the ambient warm glow of the streetlights. Wilmot used a small aperture (f/22) which gave a starburst effect to the highlights in the photo giving the picture an added sparkle.

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Traci Manwaring of Stockton used a Canon Power Shot SX40 point-and-shoot camera to photograph the Sea Breeze Motel in Pacifica. Shot with the camera set to its black and white mode, the distraction of color has been removed to bring more of an emphasis to the sign. The serendipitous addition of the flying seagull gives it an ominous Hitchcockian vibe to it as well.

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Thanks to everyone who submitted a photo. As always there is a photo gallery of all the photos submitted at: recordnet.com/readerpics.

Stay tuned for the next Readers Photo Challenge assignment which will be announced next week.

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What does the future hold?

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” – Winston Churchill

My daughter, who is now a freshman at U.C. San Diego, took what seemed like the longest time to decide what her major would be. I actually should say she took a long time to tell my wife and I what her major was.

For a while she was leaning towards science/engineering and we thought that was great because there aren’t many women in those fields and companies would be falling over themselves to give her a good, high-paying job. Then she switched to archeology/anthropology, though she wasn’t firm on it. Another path where we thought that might make a good career for her if not as lucrative financially.

One day over the summer while driving in the car with her I asked her if she had decided yet as the deadline declare was fast approaching. “ She hemmed and hawed a bit then said: ”Communications.” “Communications” is a code word for journalism. I gave what I thought was a heavy but silent sigh. Then she said: “Don’t tell mom.” “Why not?” I asked. “Because she’ll give me the ‘face’.” “What face is that?” I asked again. “The face you’re giving me right now.”

My wife, a former journalist, and I, a photojournalist, encouraged our daughter to pursue anything she wanted. Anything that is, except journalism (in my case specifically photojournalism). We worry for the path that our she has chosen because the industry is in flux and its future is at best cloudy.

Scott Wreyford who used to be a salesman at the former Gluskin’s Camera in Stockton and is now photography professor at the Art Institute in Sacramento recently asked me to be a guest lecturer at one of his classes. After my presentation there was a Q & A session and one of the student’s asked what advice I could give to anyone who wanted to become a photographer. I actually was stumped for a moment.

In the old days I would have said to try to learn every aspect of photography that you can because most news photographers had to know how to do it all. Sure, there were some specialists (especially at the larger papers with bigger staffs), photographers who excelled at sports or studio work or portraits, etc., but most shooters were jacks-of-all-trades. That’s because you had to be. You could go from shooting a portrait, to a business assignment to an accident to a sporting event all in one day. And when the next day rolled around it would be completely different.

As long as I’ve been in the business it seemed that there were always more photographers wanting to work at newspapers than there were jobs available. Those who didn’t want to do it all were the ones who specialized and found jobs elsewhere.

The troubles of the newspaper industry is no secret. During the “Great Recession, the downturn in the economy caused a precipitous drop in advertising revenue. Circulation numbers dropped in similar numbers and classified advertising all but dried up when sellers moved to other venues like eBay and craigslist. Some newspapers have cut their reporting and photography staffs literally in half. Some of the best photojournalists I know or heard of have been laid off. Some have found other jobs in the photo industry but now are working in different, more specialized fields.

In today’s environment all I hear and read about is how one should find a niche and specialize. With newspapers shrinking photo staffs, the call for generalists is becoming more and more scarce. I’m fairly optimistic that newspapers will still be around when it comes time for me to retire but beyond that the crystal ball goes dark.

So back to that photo student’s question: What advice would I give for the budding photographer who wants to become a professional? I’d say learn the craft and art of photography. Gain expertise that will not only allow you to become proficient but to excel as well. Then you’ll have the skill to adapt to a constantly changing market.

Just as newspaper jobs become scarce, other avenues are opening up. Today photography is more important than ever. In the online world of Web sites, blogs and tweets there are millions pictures, many of which are frankly not very good. Be the one whose photos stand out. And news photography, whether in newspapers or online, will endure. In the long run there will always be a market for quality images.

The future is always a scary thing especially when you’re thinking about the well-being of your children. But as Apple founder Steve Jobs once said: “…you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future…”

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Challenge reminder

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 2, 2013 | Leave a comment

There’s only one day left in the current Readers Photo Challenge assignment: Architecture. Whether inside or out, buildings and other structures such as bridges and monuments are the subjects for the challenge. Try to go beyond just getting a representative shots of your subjects. Think of creative light, angles and close-ups too.

1. Entries can be emailed to coto@recordnet.com. Type in “Buildings” in the subject line.

2. Include your name (first and last), hometown, and the kind of camera/lens you used. If you can, tell us what shutter speed you used. If the building/structure has a name please include it as well as where it is located.

3. The subject must be of a building or structure (houses, buildings, bridges, etc).

4. If there is a recognizable person in the photo please include the name (first and last) of your subject, their relationship to you (relative, friend or stranger off the street), their ages (if they are juveniles) and where the photo was taken.

5. Please feel free to include any interesting anecdotes or stories on how you took the picture.

7. The deadline for submission is Sunday, Nov. 3. The top examples will be published on Monday, Nov. 11 with an online gallery of all the photos on the same day (Photos have to be shot between Oct. 21 and Nov. 3).

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