This year’s Olympics should well be the turning point where the sidelines of sporting events are – to pay homage to AC/DC – Back in Black. Nikon’s flagship D3 – even with a smaller chip than it’s competition the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III (and even it’s predecessor the 1Ds Mark II) has painted the … Read more
A contest that was purported to highlight Britain through “recommending” images that are not your own has turned into a black eye for the good folks at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). In reality, the program was really designed to get people familiar with Microsoft’s “Live Search” functionality. I say “good folks” because they’ve been working hard … Read more
Last night, we surpassed 1.2 million pageviews for the blog, and hope that everyone who’s been here has learned a lot! Here are the top 10 posts, in order of pageviews, during that time.Nikon vs. Canon – Introduction – Our head-to-head comparison of our two newest cameras, back in December of last year, the D3 … Read more
Well well. Heineken is the latest Virgin Mobile to fall into the Flickr trap with their allegedly infringing uses of a large number of photos from the Flickr site, with thanks to Rob Haggart over at A Photo Editor for bringing this to our attention – (Heineken Discovers Flickr Isn’t Full Of Free Photography, 8/11/08).Haggart … Read more
Andrew Peterson (a.k.a. Thomas Hawk) is not a disrespectful person. Andrew Peterson also does not like to be taken advantaged of, lied, or mis-treated.So, Andrew learned that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (a.k.a. MoMA) has changed it’s policy, as is outlined here:(Continued after the Jump)CamerasPhotography is not permitted in the galleries. Flash photography … Read more
Imagine my surprise when a missive related to the Breeders’ Cup landed in my inbox suggesting they have the right to limit images that are produced by the news media. When you are producing an event, it may – or may not – be news. There are a number of examples where the news media … Read more
With thanks to the multi-tasking Daryl Lang over at PDN, for bringing to our attention the member of the press corps who interupted the speech by Sen. Barack Obama recently (Video: Obama Photographer Self-Destructs, 8/7/08). Go watch the video, and read what Daryl wrote, and follow his links. In short, a credentialed member of the … Read more
A colleague forwarded me a note about Si Newhouse, and Conde Nast, that appeared in the New York Times – Can Si Newhouse Keep Condé Nast’s Gloss Going? (7/20/08) that gave me a laugh – except that it was a laugh of “you’ve got to be kidding”. Previously, I’ve analyzied both Conde Nast’s contracts (Conde … Read more
That surely is the question. When I started as a photographer, I thought that I had to have a rep. But what’s a rep? In photography, generally speaking, you may have representing you, possibly a photo agency, such as Black Star, Aurora, or Zuma. (This is not the same as a stock house where you … Read more
I can’t tell you the number of times, in passing, a friend has mentioned to me they were going on vacation in a few days. They might even tell me they’ll be gone for the weekend, or a whole week. What is always substantially after their return, I get a call from them. “Aren’t you … Read more
