PDNPulse: The Photo Feed 09.20.07

Nothing Like Film (AP via New York Times)
If you still shoot with film, you're not alone. According to an Eastman Kodak survey released yesterday, two-thirds of all pros still prefer to use film in certain situations. Photog Chris Usher thinks that "the honeymoon and the infatuation is starting to run its course" and predicts that "in the next five years you're going to see almost a retro backlash because of the things that film gives you that you can't get with digital."

Friends Of Times-Picayune Raises More Than $300,000 (Editor & Publisher)
Organized by alums of the New Orleans paper, the group is raising money to aid Times-Picayune employees affected by Hurricane Katrina. The group was created shortly after the hurricane hit in 2005, and has since provided aid to about 190 employees. The $300,000 raised to-date has come through private donations, fundraisers and contributions from foundations and companies. On October 10, Time will co-host a cocktail fundraiser at the Time & Life building in New York. To learn more about the event or to learn how to donate to the group, click here.

MORE BELOW: Photojournalists prep for Nazi rally trial ... The latest fad in wedding photography ... Jeff Kravitz resigns from Getty ... Lou Reed curates photo exhibit and shows his own NYC pix ... Jennifer Garner poses for Marie Claire ... Terry Richardson shoots Cavalli's H&M ... Katherine Heigl gets three looks and three InStyle covers ... Martha Stewart poses as 'glampire' and goddess ... Photog Jason Hawkes completes more arial night pix ...

Photojournalists Prep For Trial For Shooting Nazi Rally (Sportsshooter Message Boards)
You may recall the story of photogs Jeffrey Sauger, Jeffrey Willis and Jim West, who were arrested while covering a white supremacist demonstration in Toledo, Ohio, in December 2005. Saufer and West are scheduled to go on trial next Wednesday, September 26, and are asking that other photojournalists attend the trial to show their support.

The Latest Trend In Wedding Photography (New York Times)
It used to be enough to have a photog snap pix of the engaged couple for engagement announcements. Now aspiring grooms are hiring photogs to hide and snap pix at the exact moment that they get down on one knee.

Jeff Kravitz Resigns (Thoughts of a Bohemian)
Kravitz is the president and founder of Filmmagic, which Getty bought in the $200 million Mediavast deal. The red carpet photog has left Getty’s reigns, citing “impossible working conditions” and an “antiquated distribution system.” Paul Melcher thinks that this kind of defection could be bad news for Getty if the defectors launch their own agencies.

Lou Reed Takes A Walk On The Wild Side (Reuters via New York Times)
Apparently, devoting an entire album to New York wasn’t enough for the rocker. The former Velvet Underground frontman is currently co-curating “Visions of Rock,” a Manhattan photography show featuring pix of the city shot by musicians, ranging from himself to Lenny Kravitz to Michael Stipe to Mick Fleetwood to John Mayer. Perhaps even bigger news is that Reed is getting ready to take his own “New York” photo exhibit to Amsterdam in October. “What was I trying to accomplish with the New York photos?” he said in an interview with Reuters. “I wanted to record the way New York looks right now, before it changes any more.”

Jennifer Garner Poses For Marie Claire (Popsugar)
The mag’s October issue features sultry pix of the actress shot by Mark Abrahams.

Terry Richardson Shoots Cavalli’s H&M Ads (Women’s Wear Daily)
The ads were shot at Robert Cavalli’s Florence home. Among the models: Erin Wasson, Jessica Stam, Theodora Richards, Nicolas Malleville, Sean Lennon, Jane Schmitt, Lydia Hearst, Astrid Muñoz, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Anouck Lepère, Ludovico, members of the Cavalli clan and Cavalli himself. (Cavalli says that, to the best of his recollection, this is the first time he’s posed in one of his ads.) One shot shows Cavalli surrounded by ladies in leopard-print dresses, corseted and ruffled halters and sequined gowns. Twenty-one different ads will debut in various mags and newspapers next month.

Three Looks, Three Covers, One Katherine Heigl (People / InStyle)
InStyle’s October issue features three different covers of the Emmy-winning Grey’s Anatomy star, including one in which she dons a brown wig. No word on who shot the pix. See a video of the photo shoot here.

Photog Jason Hawkes Completes More Night Aerial Pix (Photo Archive News)
Hawkes used the latest gyro stabilizing mounts and lenses and usually shoots at “at least 1/1000sec of a second to get-around the camera shake caused by the helicopters and it took a lot of trial and error to perfect the technique.” View Hawkes’ work here.

Martha Stewart: Glampire Or Goddess? (Yumsugar) The October issue of Martha Stewart Living features both a front cover and a back cover, each with an image of Martha Stewart herself. One shows her as a “glampire” or a “goddess.” You can vote on which Martha you prefer here.