Over seventeen years ago, I was a young upstart photographer, and I was approached by Washington Life Magazine, a brand new magazine, to shoot for them. And I did. Black and White, color if it was to be a cover story. After a year or two of steady work, the publisher, who ran the business … Read more
It is with pleasure that I highly recommend you check out my friend Vincent Laforet’s blog – titled – what else? – Vincent Laforet’s Blog! Calling something that Vincent has engaged in something as basic as that belies it’s future potential. Consider something titled 17, or, The White Album.Vincent uses this as the graphic lead-in … Read more
If you’re looking for a resource for information on the business of photography, this book must be on your bookshelf. I’ve had several previous editions, and now the 7th is out, and available for pre-order. The last one – ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography: Sixth Edition, was published on September 1st, 2001. We all … Read more
According to this statement by Sen. Leahy, his beloved OrphanWorks bill “is being stalled from Senate passage by an anonymous Republican hold.” It is believed that the hold was placed by Sen. Sam Brownback, not so much because of his love for photographers’ rights, but because of his interest in “assuring fair rights and rules … Read more
We were critical of PDN for their recent contest terms (No Confidence Vote for the PDN/NGS Contest, 1/28/08), which were explained away as just boilerplate text that someone wrote, and weren’t thinking, and which they fixed. Well, thankfully, the attention that those terms recieved ensured that this contest they have ongoing now (and one can … Read more
Paul Melcher’s blog – Thoughts of a Bohemian –Jupiter is Not Responding, talks about the decline in the Royalty-Free market:Without significant numbers, it is hard to figure out why Jupiter is having such a hard time. Guess is that they are suffering from the same effect as Getty Images : a declining rights manage market, … Read more
I’ve written about BusinessWeek before ( Diversification and A Variety of Clients, 2/11/07), and usually in more positive terms. A piece datelined July 28, 2008 – Cheap Photo Sites Pit Amateurs Vs. Pros – sub-titled “Graphic design and photography pros are scrambling to stay viable as barriers to entry fall and stock agencies buy from … Read more
I was talking recently with Eric Chan, of Adobe, who’s one of the Adobe guru’s on Camera Raw. Since we use Camera Raw to convert all our camera’s proprietary Raw files into the DNG open format (created by Adobe and given to the world) , for many many reasons (see here and here for several … Read more
More and more, prospective clients are searching for imagery on the internet, and, more specifically, Google Images. Yes, the other search engines have image search, but for today, we’ll limit this discussion and comparison of capabilities to Google’s systems.How do we compare SEO (that’s search engine optimization if you’re living in the dark ages) between … Read more
With thanks to PDN (here) and MediaPost (here) for bringing this to my attention. I wrote about this in my book – essentially, if you’re a staff photographer you must be prepared to become freelance unexpectedly. 3500 people (and counting) are being forced into the freelance world (from all areas of the media newsroom) without … Read more
