Photo Business News archive, 2006–2026. New writing is at Substack.

TIPS60 – Should you upgrade your equipment?

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Here is one in a series of videos by the author of Best Business Practices for Photographers John Harrington, who also publishes the blog PhotoBusinessNews.com. In this segment John discusses the benefits of upgrading your camera equipment. (Continued after the Jump) “TRANSCRIPT: Part of your workflow for your business, your equipment workflow if you will, … Read more

TIPS60 – Keeping Your Memory Cards Organized

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Here is another of our videos offering tips and inisights into the business of photography. a transcript of the video is included after the jump. This segment is about organizaing your memory cards. (Continued after the Jump) TRANSCRIPT: Here a few thoughts on organizing your memory cards. I’m John Harrington. Obviously, we use memory cards … Read more

TIPS60 – Sticking with your marketing campaign

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Here is another of our videos offering tips and inisights into the business of photography. a transcript of the video is included after the jump. This one offers a few insights into the importance of sticking with your marketing campaign. (Continued after the Jump) TRANSCRIPT: Here a few thoughts on marketing and sticking with your … Read more

TIPS60 – An Introduction to the TIPS60 series

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Here is an introduction to the TIPS60 video series – another of our videos offering tips and inisights into the business of photography. a transcript of the video is included after the jump. (Transcript after the Jump) TRANSCRIPT: Hi I’m John Harrington and over the next – I don’t even know how long – we’re … Read more

The Value of an Upgrade

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Wish it were the case that we could return to the days where a 1960’s era Hasselblad could be loaded with the latest and greatest advances in film technology to make an amazing photograph. I remember the days when I could “upgrade” from Ektacrome (EPP) to E100G, or even the E100VS. I loved going from … Read more

Earning a Living as a Photographer

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Being a professional photographer – and the definition of that would be best encapsulated here – is a challenge. We’ve written before about the fallacy of the pride in being a starving artist. In most every profession I can think of, you put in your time financially challenged, with some modicum of success as a … Read more

Citizen Journalism Fails Viewers at the BBC

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Fact-checking took a holiday at the BBC today, as a credit line of “photo from activist” was used to identify propaganda promoting the activist’s cause, on the front page of the BBC’s website for an article titled “Syria massacre in Houla condemned as outrage grows.” The problem? Among the many, is that this photograph, purported … Read more

Getty Images Returning to the Stock Market with an IPO?

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According to the NASDAQ website (here) the Financial Times is reporting that Goldman Sachs has been retained to consider an IPO and other options. Photo Business News reported that federal regulators had approved Hellman & Friedman taking Getty private (Getty Images – Moving Forward, 3/19/08) at a rate of $2.1B (according to Forbes) and $2.4B … Read more