The great Justin Ouellette from Chromogenic.net has written an excellent article on his blog on how you can develop your own B&W film in your bathroom... and for damn cheap. One of the better and more helpful articles I've seen in quite some time. Enjoy:

Become Your Own Lab For $49.38

I just noticed today that the photoblogs.org community has surpassed 10,000 members.

Congratulations from all of your thankful participants Brandon!

Here's to many more years of a community that just keeps growing.

Nikon has revealed details of the new D70s and D50 digital SLRs, click for previews on dpreview.

I had the great honour and pleasure to work with Catherine Jamieson on a project called "Legs : a celebration of the female leg by female photographers". The project went live yesterday and if you haven't checked it out yet, I suggest you do.

15 photographers, 60 legs, one project, tons of fun.

Cheers,
Irina

Warning: To my utter amazement, it appears that some people can't see this as a photography-related joke. I was seriously tempted to delete the whole thing but I will instead make things worse by trying to fix it instead. People taking things too seriously is the reason why Cookie Monster is not allowed to have cookies anymore.

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. Please don't answer it without giving it some serious thought. By giving an honest answer you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation, in which you will have to make a decision.

You're in Florida...In Miami, to be exact... There is chaos around you, caused by a hurricane and severe floods of major proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper caught in the middle of this great disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.

You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is showing all its destructive fury. You see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be swept away with the water and debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar. Suddenly, you know who it is... it's

George W. Bush! (or Kim Jong Il, or Hillary Clinton, or Saddam Hussein, or your mother in law, etc...) At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him (or her, or it) under, forever. You know for a fact that he (or her, or it) will die if you don't do something quickly. You have only two options. You can save him (or her, or it) or you can take the most dramatic photos of your life. You can save the life of George W. Bush (or Kim Jug Il, or Hillary Clinton, or Saddam Hussein, or your mother in law, etc...), or you can shoot a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful men (or woman, or carbon-based lifeform). This photo will catapult you into the stratosphere of journalism.

Read the comments for the question (and please give an honest answer):

Yes, it's that time again: A new Seven Pages interview.

This week we feature the very talented Matt O'Sullivan from The Narrative

Please feel free to check it out when you have some time (you can now download the interviews in PDF format), and obviously head on over to Matt's site and browse his vast and wonderful archives. Hope you enjoy:

Seven Pages Presents Matt O'Sullivan

Hi there,

Maybe this is a bit obscure, but I thought it was worth discussing.

I just read that Nikon is trying to lock out third party RAW converters by encrypting the white balance data in their NEF files.

In English, to me, this means Nikon is saying you don't own the data of the photos that you shoot. It's like Kodak forcing you to develop your film using only the method they want.

I don't know if I'm missing something here, but I find it completely outrageous. And I don't even have a Nikon!

You can read a post by Thomas Knoll (Photoshop's creator) here in which he says Adobe is worried that Nikon might sue them for breaking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if they include the ability to read the NEF info in their Camera Raw plug-in.

It's hard to imagine a common raw format for everyone with attitudes like this.

Your thoughts?

Cheers,

Pablo

I was hoping someone out there could help me out...

Anyone still have the plug-in necessary for Photoshop 7 to accept and edit RAW files.  I know (now) that Adobe does not offer the plug-in for PShop 7 any longer on its website, but I am hoping someone out there still has the plug in and can help me out.

Thought you'd all like to know that Photoblogs.org member Ryan of The Snowsuit Effort was nominated for a Webby.

Congratulations, Ryan!

-myla

Not sure how I encountered this photoblog, but it was probably through the photoblog webring. Nonetheless, what I've seen so far is really nice, and the image weight is also friendly for the dial-up crowd.

Why, it's Keoshi.com, of course!

Frank Lynch