Link: The every image photo agency | Thoughts of a Bohemian
In a time where everyone is talking about big data and how to make sense and profit from huge amounts of information, the answer should be easy. But it is not.
Category: Photography
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Stock Photo Service stock.xchng Down for Days, Users Left in the Dark
Stock Photo Service stock.xchng Down for Days, Users Left in the Dark
There’s a slight mystery of sorts taking place in the stock photo community at this time. Stock photo service stock.xchng, reachable at sxc.hu, has been
As I walk around Unecha, I wonder what it is about this place that feels so nostalgic to me. I can’t help but think about all the events that took place in order for me to be here as a stranger: the Russian revolution and World War II, which sent my father’s side of the family first to China and then, finally, California, and my mother’s chance meeting with my father. I don’t feel like I am of this place, but I also don’t feel completely severed from it.
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17 Signs That You Were Alive Before Digital Photography
17 Signs That You Were Alive Before Digital Photography – PhotoShelter Blog
How do us elders separate ourselves from those who only know what it means to upload? Here are 17 tools and toys you’ll immediately recognize if you still remember the heyday of Kodak. Bring on the nostalgia. 1. You loaded your own sheet film 2. You know
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/08/17-signs-that-you-were-alive-before-digital-photography/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
How do us elders separate ourselves from those who only know what it means to upload? Here are 17 tools and toys you’ll immediately recognize if you still remember the heyday of Kodak. Bring on the nostalgia.
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The New SmugMug, Awesomize Your Photo Sales on the Web
Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » The New SmugMug, Awesomize Your Photo Sales on the Web
The new SmugMug brings fresh, updated, design and functionality to the service and is probably the most significant upgrade to the service since it started.
Most significantly, the new SmugMug brings a new line up of beautifully designed templates that allow even the most basic internet user the ability to have a photo commerce site up within minutes.
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11 Things Photographers Wish They Knew Before Going Freelance
11 Things Photographers Wish They Knew Before Going Freelance – PhotoShelter Blog
In theory, freelancing is a great option – be your own boss, choose your own projects, make your own money. But the reality is that creating a sustainable business from freelance work is no easy road. Almost every every freelancer faces the very same cycl
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/07/11-things-photographers-wish-they-knew-before-going-freelance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
We asked our community of supportive and, more often than not, optimistic photographers what they wish they knew before going freelance
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The Case of the Trombone and the Mysterious Disappearing Camera
Link: The Case of the Trombone and the Mysterious Disappearing Camera | Tribeca
People are freaking out about the privacy issues raised by Google Glass, but my bigger fear is what comes next, when the camera disappears completely.
via aphotoeditor
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Judge tells Terry Richardson to turn over thousands of Lady Gaga pics in wages lawsuit
Judge tells Terry Richardson to turn over thousands of Lady Gaga pics in wages lawsuit
A Manhattan Federal Court judge has ordered celebrity shutterbug Terry Richardson to hand over a whopping 142,000 pictures he took of Lady Gaga, Confidenti@l has exclusively learned.
via nydailynews.com: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/gaga-loses-snap-decision-back-pay-suit-article-1.1395464
In 2011, he released a best-selling photo book, “Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson,” featuring more than 350 candid pictures of the star taken over a 10-month period. Richardson has shot ad campaigns for top fashion houses from Tom Ford to Yves Saint Laurent and made a whopping $58 million between June 2012 and June 2013.
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In Financial Distress, liveBooks Sold to WeddingWire
In Financial Distress, liveBooks Sold to WeddingWire | PDNPulse
LiveBooks, the content management company that provides website management and other services to professional photographers and designers, has announced that it has been acquired by WeddingWire, Inc., an online marketplace for vendors in the wedding and e
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/07/in-financial-distress-livebooks-sold-to-weddingwire.html
Patrick attributed the problems to increased competition–there are now 25 or 30 firms providing websites for photographers, he says. Some of them provide free web sites, he adds. “It drove the price[s] down.”
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Fair Warning to Photographers out there: Livebooks appears to be in serious trouble…
Link: Fair Warning to Photographers out there: Livebooks appears to be in serious trouble… « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
What worries me the most is the total lack of response from LiveBooks. Their last tweet was June 4th. Dead silence since. There’s no one to reach over there either. No response. So we’re left to speculate openly which is not something I like to do at all. I’m frankly uncomfortable with it – but in this case a lot of photographers stand to get really hurt if LiveBooks were to suddenly shut down their servers.
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Brand and Branding: Communicating You
Brand and Branding: Communicating You
By Deb Pang DavisType in any keyword combination of “branding” and “photographers” into Google and you’ll likely get results in the tens of thousands.Most of the results lead you to articles emphasizing the importance of a logo or a business card or some
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/brand-and-branding-communicating-you
Your brand is the sum of all the feelings, opinions and expectations others have about you — Good and Bad, Objective or Subjective, Real or Imagined. Your brand is based on your audiences’ experience of you in any venue and from any source, direct or indirect.
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The economic realities of editorial photography
Link: The economic realities of editorial photography
There are as many career paths in photography as there are food pictures on Instagram. The difference is that on Instagram, the pictures are posted for fun. When it comes to a career though, pictures are produced for profit. At least that’s how it’s supposed to be.
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Photography’s Existential Dread
Photography’s Existential Dread
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/photographys-existential-dread/
The malaise in large parts of the world of photography is very real. The question is: why has it lasted so long? What is going on here?
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Alexandria Sunset: A Metaphor
Alexandria Sunset: A Metaphor – Reading The Pictures
What’s so fascinating about this Egyptian sunset that’s gone viral over the past few days is how much the heavy-handed construction of reality mirrors the radical re-engineering that has just taken place in Egypt.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/07/alexandria-sunset-a-metaphor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
I’ve been fascinated by this Egyptian sunset that’s gone viral over the past few days.
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Protecting Yourself from Gear Theft
Protecting Yourself from Gear Theft
In case you don’t know it, cameras and lenses are prime theft targets. You may never think it’s going to happen to you, but almost every day I hear from someone who is missing thousands of dollars worth of gear with no hope of getting it back. As a rental
via LensRentals Blog: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/06/protecting-yourself-from-gear-theft
As a rental company, we have lots of experience with preventing theft and recovering stolen items. I’m not going to give specifics about all the exact measures we take; that would be like leaving a blueprint for those who want to steal our gear. But we’ve learned a lot and have at least tried everything I’m going to talk about today.
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On Friendship, Managing, Respect and the Director/Actor dynamic
Link: On Friendship, Managing, Respect and the Director/Actor dynamic. « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
For the employer/employee relationship to work for BOTH parties, the correct dynamic needs be set from the start. The employer hands out specific tasks and the employee executes them with their expertise. It’s pretty straightforward – and not an ego thing. If egos enter the picture, and if that dynamic is challenged by either party, things will break down at lightning speed.
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Group mentality: How photographers can join forces to tackle the market
Group mentality: How photographers can join forces to tackle the market
The Farm Security Administration photography programme, despite being more than 75 years old, continues to influence photographers today. It not only fostered photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks, but also put into focus the
via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2255214/group-mentality-how-photographers-can-join-forces-to-tackle-the-market
Faced with a tougher market and increased competition, some photographers are banding together to produce more ambitious bodies of work. Olivier Laurent speaks to three of these groups
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The Quest To Rescue Beijing’s Trashed Photo Negatives
The Quest To Rescue Beijing’s Trashed Photo Negatives
It’s a Sisyphean task, but Thomas Sauvin has already saved about half a million photos from the trash.
What happens to trashed negatives if Sauvin doesn’t get to them first? In China, at least, they’re collected, dropped in acid (along with old X-rays), and what remains — the silver nitrate — will fetch a decent price.
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Look3: Gregory Crewdson on Inspiration, Repetition, and Huge Productions
Look3: Gregory Crewdson on Inspiration, Repetition, and Huge Productions | PDNPulse
Photographer Gregory Crewdson, who has inspired nearly as much awe for the size of his productions as for his evocative, cinematic work, told an audience at Look3 Festival of the Photograph on Saturday that he’s just starting a new body of work, and he’s
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/06/look3-gregory-crewdson-on-inspiration-repetition-and-huge-productions.html
“It’s always [my] interest in trying to tell a story through light and color. That’s essentially what I’m attempting to do,” he explained. “Photography has a very limited capacity to tell a story. Whatever story we could manage in the end remains a mystery. I’ve always loved that about photography: its restriction, its containment.”
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Look3: Josef Koudelka on the Measure of a Photographer, Courage, and Controlling Your Own Destiny
Look3: Josef Koudelka on the Measure of a Photographer, Courage, and Controlling Your Own Destiny | PDNPulse
Legendary photographer Josef Koudelka packed the house at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville during the Look3 Festival of the Photograph over the weekend, and the audience greeted him with a standing ovation after master of ceremonies, phot
Koudelka also told the audience at the outset that he “never listened much to what [other] photographers say,” and recounted how Henri Cartier-Bresson had asked him to read and comment on the text of The Decisive Moment before that book was published. “I said to Bresson I’m really not interested and I’m not going to read it.” Koudelka added, “I think the best portrait of a photographer are his photographs, so please judge me on my photographs.”