Category: Technique & Workflow

  • How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow | PetaPixel

    How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow

    How to Turbocharge Your Photography Workflow

    I recently heard a photographer say he’d spent 17 hours going through 10,000 images, deciding which ones were worth saving. My first thought was, “I hope

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    I recently heard a photographer say he’d spent 17 hours going through 10,000 images, deciding which ones were worth saving. My first thought was, “I hope he’s retired.” My second thought, though, was that he badly needed a lesson on speeding up his workflow. Which led me to write this guide on how to turbocharge your photography workflow.

  • WATCH: Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Essdras M. Suarez Shares What Makes a Great Photo – PhotoShelter Blog

    WATCH: Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Essdras M. Suarez Shares What Makes a Great Photo
    We sat down with Essdras to walk through your anonymous photo submissions. In this virtual portfolio review, Essdras discusses the key elements of composition, what needs adjustment and why it’s important to give yourself the assignment you want somebody else to give you.
  • AI and the Battle for the Future of Photo Editing

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    For photographers, AI photo editing is no longer a fringe topic for ML researchers or a gimmick employed by smartphone apps. With the impending release of Skylum’s Luminar AI and Adobe calling the latest build of Photoshop “the world’s most advanced AI application for creatives,” it’s time for the community to reckon with an important question: What does this mean for photography, photo editing, and creativity at large?
  • New Guide! The Photographer’s Guide to SEO – PhotoShelter Blog

    New Guide! The Photographer’s Guide to SEO
    Today, we’re thrilled to answer some of these questions and help improve your search performance with The Photographer’s Guide to SEO.
  • WATCH: Demystifying SEO – Best Practices for Photographers – PhotoShelter Blog

    WATCH: Demystifying SEO – Best Practices for Photographers
    Search engine optimization (SEO) for your photography website is more important than ever. If you’re feeling overwhelmed with the work needed to keep your SEO in great shape, you’re not alone.
  • 7 Tips for Better Black and White Street Photography

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    COOPH recently got together with London-based street photographer and co-founder of Street Photography Internationa Alan Schaller to talk about one of the most deceptively difficult forms of photography out there: black and white street photography.
  • New Guide! The 2019 Photographer’s Guide to PhotoShelter: 101 – PhotoShelter Blog

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    New Guide! The 2019 Photographer’s Guide to PhotoShelter: 101 – PhotoShelter Blog

    How you display and share your work can be as important to your business as the photographs you take. And if you’ve ever wondered about how PhotoShelter can help, then we’ve got the guide for you. In The Photographer’s Guide to PhotoShelter: 101, you’ll get a detailed look at how we can help you work smarter, impress clients, and grow your photo business. Dive into some of our most popular features, plus hear directly from members on how our tools make life easier every day. From beautifully showcasing your work to getting files to clients fast, we can help you look your very best.

  • Shooting College Football on 35mm Film

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    Shooting College Football on 35mm Film

    I’m sitting in the end zone and Tennessee’s quarterback is ready to throw for a touchdown against Missouri. There are only three frames left on my roll of film and I think to myself, “That’s more than enough.”

  • Lens Rentals | Blog

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    Lens Rentals | Blog

    Editorial Note: While we’re most notably known for our passion in gear, we also share the same passion in keeping your data safe. So in order to help our users develop a secure workflow for their data, we’ve teamed up with Backblaze on a series of articles discussing the importance of data management. This is the third article in the three-part series on data management and protection.

  • Quick Tip: How to Keep Your Image Files Readable Far into the Future | PDNPulse

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    Quick Tip: How to Keep Your Image Files Readable Far into the Future | PDNPulse

    Computer and data specialists warn that digital information we are creating right now may not be readable by machines and software programs of the future. As we explained in our story called “Four Steps You Can Take to Avoid the ‘Digital Dark Age,’” digital data that’s so easy to access now—including the digital image files of photographers—is at risk of disappearing forever. Hard drives will hardly last a decade, let alone a lifetime. Flash memory may eek out a few more years but may not endure a generation (if that).

  • Corruption In Photography – by BP Miller | The Photo Brigade

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    Corruption In Photography – by BP Miller | The Photo Brigade

    After polling our other photographers, I found out only about half of them shoot to two cards. So that got me thinking. I did an informal poll of some of my photojournalist buds. The answers went anywhere from “It slows down my shooting” to “I’ve never had a card corrupt, so why mess with it” to “who are you, and how did you get my number?”

  • Lens Rentals | Blog

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    Lens Rentals | Blog

    Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional photographer or videographer, employing a 3-2-1 backup strategy for your valuable photos and videos is critical. A good backup strategy can protect you from accidental or incidental data loss and make sure your working or archived files are available when you need them.

  • Creating Photographic Archives for the Future – Witness

    Creating Photographic Archives for the Future – Witness

    I have been working as a professional photographer since 1999, a fact that means that I have now accumulated nearly 19 years of photographic images, both analog and digital. In reality, that amounts to a large wall of plastic boxes filled with negative sheet folders, print boxes and a history of dead hard drives and multiple DVDs of digital information. That is my archive. A mismatch of material that adheres to a variety of systems created to bring order to chaos. I am not a natural librarian, or an organized person, or even a detail-oriented person, but I am well-meaning and I do try my best. My archive is a reflection of this approach to my personal history. A confusion of stuff that only I can dissect.

  • The Moving Portrait: From Holograms to GIFs to Boomerang – PhotoShelter Blog

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    The Moving Portrait: From Holograms to GIFs to Boomerang – PhotoShelter Blog

    The lack of a screen hasn’t prevented publishers from trying to simulate movement in print. Two major technologies have been utilized to create the moving portrait: holograms and lenticular printing.

  • Websites are shop windows, not vanity projects! – Witness

    Websites are shop windows, not vanity projects! – Witness

    Let’s first be clear about what your website is. In essence, your website is your shop window. Every time a visitor clicks on a tab within your menu, they are visiting different departments of your store. Using this retail metaphor may seem blatantly commercial to some of you reading this. If you feel that this is the case, may I suggest that you replace the shop with that of a gallery or bookshop? Whichever you choose to use, the metaphor remains the same: you want to lead visitors through a series of physical or digital spaces so they can find what they want to see as easily as possible. Minimal clicks help this progress, but so does accurate and appropriate signage that can be universally understood.

  • The WIRED Guide to Digital Security | WIRED

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    The WIRED Guide to Digital Security | WIRED

    IN AN AGE of nonstop breaches and hacks, getting a handle on your own digital security matters more than ever. But everyone has their own threat model—a set of concerns unique to themselves. The average smartphone user doesn’t need to know what a Faraday cage is; an NSA contractor probably already has a good grasp of security basics. (Or … do they?) In this guide, we’ve included a few ways to improve your online security posture based on those different levels of risk. These won’t prevent the next megabreach or banish ransomware from the earth. They’re not all-encompassing. But they’ll help get you in the mindset of the types of steps you should be taking based on your particular situation. And they’ll help ensure that the next time you read one of those paralyzing headlines, it doesn’t apply to you.

  • Designer behind Halide explains why you might enjoy RAW photography on your iPhone | 9to5Mac

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    Designer behind Halide explains why you might enjoy RAW photography on your iPhone | 9to5Mac

    Sebastiaan de With, the designer behind Halide has dropped some knowledge today on just how RAW photography works with the iPhone. de With goes into explaining the advantages, and disadvantages, that come with RAW photography and why they matter.

  • Trump’s Official Portrait and the Language of Lighting

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    Trump’s Official Portrait and the Language of Lighting

    As a photographer and veteran involved in policy work, I am interested in both the messaging and methodology of Trump’s two official portraits. As a baseline I will compare Trump’s two portraits against a more standard portrait seen with Vice President Pence’s and Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy’s portrait.

  • Innovative solution providers tackle the ever-growing headaches of photo management and storage – Kaptur

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    Innovative solution providers tackle the ever-growing headaches of photo management and storage – Kaptur

    It’s a given: we are all overwhelmed by the sheer number of photos we take, or that are being shared with us. With some of these, it’s no big deal if you accidentally missed viewing them, or if you can’t locate them again after you’ve first enjoyed them. With others, it does matter: According to our recent survey, 58% of photos on average are considered to be “long life” keepers.

  • 20,000 slides returned from Sports Illustrated – Mangin Photography Archive

    20,000 slides returned from Sports Illustrated

    Next up I had to find a place to scan my stuff. I knew prices had come down since I last had slides scanned, but of course I don’t trust just anyone with my originals and I don’t want to send my stuff out of the country. Luckily through my friends at PhotoShelter I found the fabulous Julie Morris, who is the president of FotoBridge in New Jersey. These people would be an ideal place for me and many other friends to work with if they did a good job. I called Julie and immediately knew that she “got it” and understood the industry and what people like me needed. She told me they had scanned 250,000 slides for NHL Images, scanned 40,000 slides and negatives for the Kansas City Chiefs, and 25,000 slides and negatives for the Minnesota Vikings, to name just a few of their big sports clients. I told her I needed pro scans at 4,000 DPI to give me 50 megabyte TIFF files and she told me they would cost under a dollar apiece. I could not believe it! I decided to give them a try and see what happened. Two weeks later and I could not be happier with the scans I got back from FotoBridge.