If you’re in the Boston area (or can get there), I am speaking tonight, Monday 1/26/09, in the evening, at the Commercial Industrial Photographers of New England (CIPNE) meeting. Find more details here, but suffice to say, we’ll be talking a lot about business practices, negotiating, search engine optimization, and maybe even a bit of … Read more
For those of you who didn’t make the trip to DC to make photographs of the “big day”, and who likely enjoyed it from the warm and toasty comfort of your own home, skipping the frigid weather and long hours, here’s your chance to see it up-close and personal. Photographer David Bergman posted his 1,474MP … Read more
Scott Andrews, who, or about two decades, worked for Nikon in their professional services division helping photographers do their jobs, is a respected and amazing photographer in his own right. Today, Scott serves in the same capacity for Canon in their Canon Professional Services division, and is reprising his roll managing the remote cameras setup … Read more
Our colleagues over at Photo District News ran an insightful piece “Found: The Photo That Shepard Fairey Use For His Obama Poster, 1/15/09) about how a photograph by Reuters staff photographer Jim Young was alledgedly used to create the derivative work, as noted below:The image above is a well studied look, by Mike Cramer, dissecting … Read more
The above photo, captured just over four years ago on a very very cold day in 2004, has served me well. It was a better image than the one I made in the rain in 2000, and I had a better angle than I did in either 1992 or 1996. Next week will be my … Read more
Lawrence Lessig has some interesting perspectives and ideas about copyright. He’s recently written a book – Remix, where he is arguing that it’s ok to remix copyright content and not pay the original owners, or allow them to preclude the remix if the copyright owner doesn’t like how their work is represented.In the piece below, … Read more
Every four years since 1992 I have had the privilege (and responsibility) of photographing the inauguration of the President of the United States. This year, I’ve taken some time to document what goes into the assignment, from swearing-in to reviewing stand. Video archived — restoration pending.Related links:Behind the Scenes at the State of the Union, … Read more
Many people just assume that when a politician running for office speaks, they’re saying whatever will appeal to that audience, and that is why you have to look closely at their track record of casting actual votes (or in the case of judges, their actual case history). As CNET News reported earlier this week (Obama … Read more
We regularily read the gadget blog Gizmodo, along with EnGadget, Consumerist, and countless others. About two years ago, we wrote about how Consumerist just published a Getty Images photo with the watermark – (Getty Infringement, 2/27/07) which, to me, is a sure sign that you didn’t download the image with permission. Now, we find that … Read more
With the end of the 110th Congress, all the formal legislative activity that was done regarding Orphan Works is now dead, and a new bill, with new hearings, and new negotiations, with new players, must begin anew. Yes, you can expect the language in the bills on both the House and Senate sides of the … Read more
