Our friends at Photojojo have put together a guide about the pending demise of JPG Magazine. Included are links to JPG's top content, a ZIP file containing all the issues, and other fun things. Thanks to Kelly from Photojojo for suggesting the guide!
It's no secret that I've been a fan of JPG Mag. I've submitted images on numerous occasions, have subscribed, took part in voting for nearly every theme since issue 7, and have been an RSS subscriber to their blog for some time now. So, it was extremely sad news for me to receive in my inbox this morning an email saying goodbye from the Editor in Chief, Laura Brunow Miner.
JPG had an interesting idea, and unfortunately it couldn't sustain itself. I know I'll miss the community of amazing photographers, and taking part in the JPG experiment. Thank JPG Mag for all your hard work!
You can read the sad post at the JPG blog.
Superstar photography website Photo.net, has finally started sending out newsletters via email. I say finally because I've never been able to keep up with the site as a casual reader. There's too much new stuff going on there, all the time, especially in the forums and critiques.
Really, if you want to become a great photographer, you should probably just read every word on that site as scripture and create some sort of critique dependency graph to follow before you take a photo. I guess the idea there is that if you learn to avoid the pitfalls that make bad photographs, you can make good photographs.
What do I mean by "critique dependency graph"? It's actually quite simple. Imagine taking a picture at the beach. You personally have a few things in mind about how you want the image to look, but you've also absorped a bunch of suggestions from the critiques you read. The "dependency graph" tells you how you should apply them to get the great shot. You saw Joe state the the rule of thirds should not be broken, so you decide you will compose your shot with that in mind. John has stated that the use of a polarizing filter can make the blue sky bluer and the white puffy clouds whiter. One of Jill's past critiques delt with a shot where the subjects head was below the horizon, making the subject look dwarfed. Which do you consider first? It seems obvious to me, that you would have to find an angle where the subject will be partially above the horizon before you can compose with the rule of thirds. However, you could have placed the polarizer on your camera before you composed, or before you found the shot angle.
Anyway, the debut newsletter (they're using a newsletter service), is pretty much what you'd expect out of a newsletter. Short intros to this months featured articles, product reviews, current photo of the week and of course this months projects.
If you didn't get the newsletter but would like to be reminded of photo.net monthly, you might as well subscribe.
