That is going to be a HUGE meme on the photography related blogs. 2 years ago, world renowed photojournalist, mainly know for his war photography, James Nachtwey was awarded the TED Prize. He was awarded “one wish to change the world”, a 100,000$ price that he used to cover a story of his choosing. Now, “James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking and underreported global crisis”.

On October 3, the story breaks. Here

Have a look at the picture below. Notice anything special?

Hint: The title of this post kinda give it away

Look at the 100% crop below, straight out of the camera (I did however use the in-camera noise-reduction):

I just recently got my Mark III, and it was the first time I was traveling in this ISO range. And I’m blown away. On the sideline with my was a colleague from Le Journal de Québec, still with is Nikon D2X. With this camera, he couldn’t go above 1600 ISO, and had to shoot at 1/100. I wonder if he got some shots without any motion blur!

Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark III, 1/125 at f2.8 with a 300mm prime lense - ISO 3200

Can we afford this, Cindy? Hey, no payments until 2009 with the new eBay MasterCard!

I don’t really advertise myself as a commercial photographer, but since my Google rank is pretty good, I often get request from people looking for a commercial photographer in Quebec city. Some months, corporate jobs represent more than 50% of my income.

I rarely publish the photos and I rarely even talk about it here, because the end result is rarely interesting for anyone else than my clients.

But just because I feel like it, here is some jobs I recently did.

Sofame Direct Heating Installation:

Federation of Canadian municipalities congress:

Bombardier Transport metal cutting machine:

Christie Digital projectors in action at the image mill show (same job than those photos):

I was pretty busy last few days. Tuesday morning, I left for Roberval to cover the NHL exhibition game between the Montreal Canadians and the Buffalo Sabres. Roberval won a national contest to be named “Canadian hockeytown” and the chance to host the game. An NHL pro game in a 10,000 citizen town, it is pretty amazing. The light was pretty bad, of course, and we had to shoot at 1/400, 3200ISO and f2.8.

After the game, I headed to Chicoutimi to sleep at an uncle house. I then spent the day in Chicoutimi and La Baie to shoot some stock photo, including the famous “petite maison blanche” (little white house), symbol of the 1996 déluge du Saguenay (Saguenay flood)

Quebec Remparts Marc-Olivier Vallerand celebrates his goal in QMJHL (LHJMQ) action against the Rimouski Oceanic at the Colisee Pepsi in Quebec city. Quebec won 4-3.

Rimouski Oceanic Guillaume Pelletier, left and Quebec Remparts Jonathan Audy-Marchessault eye the puck in QMJHL (LHJMQ) action against the Rimouski Oceanic at the Colisee Pepsi in Quebec city. Quebec won 4-3.

David Blair, president of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society, poses in the library of the Morrin Centre in Quebec city, September 16, 2008. The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec is postponing the controversial sale of thousands of historical volumes to a later, unconfirmed date. Photo Francis Vachon for the Globe and Mail
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/50 at f4 with a 24-70 at 54mm - ISO 400, one flash thru an umbrella on camera right

David Blair, president of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society, poses in the library of the Morrin Centre in Quebec city, September 16, 2008. The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec is postponing the controversial sale of thousands of historical volumes to a later, unconfirmed date. Photo Francis Vachon for the Globe and Mail
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/125 at f7,1 with a 24-70 at 70mm - ISO 250, one flash thru an umbrella on camera left (facing the subject) and one gridded flash on the right shooting to the back of the subject

Online story here

QMJHL (LHJMQ) Quebec Remparts goalkeeper Jonathan Roy sits on the bench behind a board sign of his coach, father and ex-NHL star Patrick Roy September 12, 2008 at the Colisee Pepsi in Quebec city.

Great mind think alike, I guess…

Regarding the Jill Greenberg controversy…

The Atlantic Monthly will send a letter of apology to John McCain, will not pay Greenberg, and is considering legal action against her

What other photo editors think of this stunt? “Jill Greenberg officially took herself off everyone’s list with that little stunt. (…) Even if some Photo Editor wanted to hire her now they wouldn’t get her past the editor let alone the publicist.”, says the Photo editor blog

Jeffrey Goldberg, writer for the story on McCain that Greenberg took photos of: “I don’t know Greenberg (I count this as a blessing) and I can add nothing to what James Bennet told the Post except to say that Greenberg is quite obviously an indecent person who should not be working in magazine journalism”

Editor of The Atlantic answers questions from Fox News