Area Woman Finally Uploads All 12 Million Pictures Of Her Vacation To Europe On Facebook | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source: “‘I don’t consider myself to be a professional photographer; I just took the 12 million pictures I thought were most interesting,’ said Stevens, stressing that she would rather have too many than too few. ‘And besides, the quirky ones are some of my personal favorites.’
As of press time, sources reported that the album had received a total of three likes”
Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. Photography is less about document or evidence and more about community and experience … and that’s not a bad thing.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/stephen-mayes-vii-photography/
Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. The swift pace at which we create images is only matched by the pace at which we discard them and yet, paradoxically, we’ve never been more engaged with images
Message to freelancers: sue the Los Angeles Times at your own risk. An arbitrator has awarded the paper $266,000 to cover the costs of defending itself against a suit by the longtime Hollywood photographer.
via LA Observed: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/11/la_times_wins_266000_from.php
An arbitrator has awarded the paper $266,000 to cover the costs of defending itself against a suit by the longtime Hollywood editorial photographer
Link: DAPD Holding Sipa Hostage | Le Journal de la Photographie
Barely a year after its takeover by two “money makers,” the Sipa photo agency is now dealing with the turmoil created by the bankruptcy of several subsidiaries of the second largest German news agency, DAPD. While one of the shareholders is in hiding, 127 employees and tens of millions of photos hang in the balance.
Link: Running With Tabitha Soren | LPV Magazine
Tabitha’s “Running” portraits have appeared on dozens of blogs and websites this year. When I first saw them, they didn’t initially grab my interest primarily because they felt too staged. As they continued to appear on my radar, I saw different selections of photographs, and began to look at them more closely.
Link: Architecture photographer explains how he got that New York magazine cover shot | Poynter.
Shooting in the dark, with a handheld camera, in a vibrating helicopter, 5,000 feet above land sounds like a photographer’s nightmare. But Iwan Baan made it look easy.
Portfolio reviews can be costly or, depending on what you make of them, cost effective. This idea—set forth by Center For Photography at Woodstock Executive Director Ariel Shanberg—was the focus of a panel this afternoon at Photo Plus Expo that aimed to h
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/10/ppe-2012-how-to-survive-and-conquer-portfolio-reviews.html
When in doubt, shut up. Which means that talking too much suggests nervousness and distracts the reviewer
Today two professional photography trade organizations‚ American Photographic Artists (APA) and Editorial Photographers (EP)‚ announced that they will merge to create one organization with a membership of approximately 3200 photographers. The move will se
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/10/apa-and-ep-join-forces.html
announced that they will merge to create one organization with a membership of approximately 3200 photographers
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » The next big Thing
The next major disruption in the photo world will be individual licensing. The ability for any individual to license images directly.
Link: Quinton Gordon: The Authorship of a Photograph « The Leica Camera
After twenty years of travel and assignment photography, I was at a career crossroads. Disenchanted by the developments in my chosen profession, I felt like there was only a trace of my own signature left on my work. But, unwilling to relinquish my love of photography, I gave myself an assignment, to rediscover my identity as a photographer.
by Bill Cramer, Wonderful Machine With the recent shake-up at Luceo Images raising questions about the viability of photo cooperatives, I thought I’d share my own experiences with the photo cooperative business model. Wonderful Machine didn’t always have
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/10/17/expert-advice-forming-a-photo-cooperative/
Wonderful Machine didn’t always have 600 photographers. Back in 2004, we were a group of 3 working photographers (Chris Crisman, Ryan Donnell and me), a studio manager, a marketing director, a bookkeeper and a dozen interns
Sometimes pictures can change how we see the world and the people in it. This happened to me a few days ago, when I received a link for an amateur photography blog called Almostmemories. It features pictures of private family moments and vacations from…
via Vice: http://m.vice.com/read/fotografii-din-alte-vieti
I found a box filled with negatives and photos in front of my apartment building five or six years ago. Since then, I began collecting snapshots, though it felt more like I was gathering them for something specific.
At the party that is Instagram – and all the other filter-heavy, photo socials out there – it’s time for the hipsters to rip off their filters and just let it all hang out. Because like clothes, filters allow us to hide our insecurities. And when we take
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/10/opinion-filter-free-photography-democratization/
Imagine actually trying to get the lighting and composition right before you take a picture. Imagine being forced to admit that a photo just doesn’t work and not posting it: essentially filtering the photos upstream, instead of downstream
On August 16th, Andrea Verdone received the shattering news that her 3 year-old daughter, Natalie Grace Gorsegner had been diagnosed with Leukemia. Natalie’s treatments will take approximately two years to complete, however for the next seven months or so
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/10/04/photo-editor-needs-our-help/
Andrea Verdone received the shattering news that her 3 year-old daughter, Natalie Grace Gorsegner had been diagnosed with Leukemia
Link: Conscientious | How to possibly approach writing about photography
’m fully aware that writing about photography can be a most tedious endeavour, especially online, where nobody wants to pay a cent for anything and where it’s more important to stir up a quick debate about some drama, about some scandal or controversy. But that aside, assuming one has convinced oneself that one wants to or needs to go about it, how can this be approached? It seems safe to say that there really is no recipe
Link: Conscientious Extended | Examples of Photography Content Management on the Web
I argued that it’s essential for photographers to carefully take the presentation of their work online into consideration. Instead of keeping things mostly theoretical, I thought I’d follow up with an article discussing examples.
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2012/09/inside-mind-of-street-photographer.html
Damn, damn, damn…gotta lock down the wallet. How did Odysseus do it again? Oh yeah, he lashed himself to the mast. Anybody got a mast?
We’ve been talking about Instagram so long that it seems quaint to continue to hear the “on-going debate” about whether professional photographers should be using it (and cellphone photography) or not. VII’s John Stanmeyer pretty much destroyed any argume
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/09/instagram-isnt-an-app-its-a-publishing-platform-so-treat-it-like-one/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29
We’ve been talking about Instagram so long that it seems quaint to continue to hear the “on-going debate” about whether professional photographers should be using it (and cellphone photography) or not.
In less than two years, 6Mois has established itself as a high-quality French magazine that uses photography to tell the story of today’s society. But, for photographers, it’s even more than that. Olivier Laurent speaks to editor Marie-Pierre Subtil
It’s been interesting reading the variety of responses to Colin Pantall’s What’s New in Photography? post. I’ve discovered a few new phot…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2012/09/thoughts-on-tumblr.html
Perhaps the most contemporary method of displaying photos is to do something completely random like publishing a deck of playing cards. Each new shuffle brings a new edit. Each new shuffle brings the deck closer to Tumblr. Shuffle it as many times as you want. It’ll never regain its original order. Which is fine, because only when it’s been fully randomized can the game begin.