Photography Soup (podcast, Gotham and more)

Welcome to a new installment of the Photography Soup, a round-up of happenings in the photo-blogo-sphere. To catch-up with previous episodes, be sure to visit and bookmark the Photography Soup mini-blog.

Flickr member showcase: stephenk1977
Today's spotlight focuses on flickr member stephenk1977 who submitted a great selection of pictures to our flickr group and is one of the top five submitters. That made picking one as our favorite even harder, but after careful deliberations and soul-searching we decided that our favorite picture is *drum roll* .... "Ocean Park Cable Car in Hong Kong".

But with over 100 great pictures submitted, we couldn't stop there, so we have selected a couple of runner-ups. First a very colorful exhibit in Brisbane, Australia, and the soothing leading lines of the Brisbane River. And since we have a soft spot for atmospheric pictures, here is an atmospheric bridge.

Podcast World
A brand new episode of Photoshop User TV, and in this episode, David Ziser of Digital Pro Talk is the special guest. The podcast is available to download in .mov format and is about 230MB long. Also featured on the show is PI guest-blogger Michael Tapes.

And now news of upcoming podcast changes. Unfortunately the last episode of the Digital Photography Show podcast by Scott and Michael will never air. Details at Scott's blog. To catch up with more than 90 current episodes, check the Digital Photography Show website at the Podcast Network.

Tech Talk Now
What is black silicon and how it affects the photography world? Black silicon? Is it like black gold? What is it? The Online Photographer has the details.

What is the sweet spot of the 50mm f1.4 lens? How can you make the most out of it? David Ziser has the answer in his latest gear bag friday update.

Why does the f1.0 blog hate the 24-80mm f2.8 lens? Why oh why? One way to find out, read the reasoning!

There's a lot of talk about noise! The Imaging Insider points us to a new article tackling noise.

From the department of obnoxiously unnecessary, Olympus is unveiling a crystal version of the Stylus 1040. As if. Good luck with that ;-)

Olympus, hear me out, you can put affordable gems in all your cameras. It's really simple: Add SD/SDMC memory card support :-)

Meanwhile on the software front, TWIP Photo talks Adobe Photoshop CS4, which should start shipping any day now.

If you were having any technical issues with the JPG Magazine website, they have a new blog update that talks about technical website issues.

Pictures
How does Gotham look in HDR? Find out!

The wedding season may be almost over, but that doesn't stop the wedding pictures from coming! This one at Dreamtime Images has a crying groom.

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