Category: Photographers
The home page for industry news, information and resources for professional stock photographers, illustrators and videographers.
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Photo News Round-Up
• AP Photo Editor, Jim Collins, discusses Photos of the Day from the Olympics in Beijing.
• PhotoShelter’s Shoot! the Day event injects an estimated 250,000 new stock images into the marketplace.
• Hot News Turkey publishes revealing images from the front lines of the Georgia-Russia conflict.
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Digital Railroad releases Adobe Lightroom 2 plug-in
Digital Railroad, a provider of online archiving and marketing services for photographers, has released a free plug-in for Adobe’s Lightroom 2 enabling users to export images and metadata directly into their archive on the Digital Railroad platform. The company had previously released a similar plugin for Lightroom 1.x which has proven to be very popular among its users and is still available for download.
Features
Book Review: The Eternal Light of Egypt by Sarite Sanders
The Eternal Light of Egypt by Sarite Sanders
Thames & Hudson (September 30, 2008)
220 pages/hardcover/126 duotone photographs/$50.00
Sarite Sanders issues the results of a thirty-year reconnaissance mission in her book, The Eternal Light of Egypt: A Photographic Journey. Conquering the sensitivity of infrared, Sanders’ impressions of Nile treasures are most welcoming. As the full gray spectrum is no longer hidden, gods and goddesses, mummies, rulers, colossi, temples and portals reveal a new likeness with prideful charm. Along with her timeless subjects, Sanders can rejoice with this mammoth personal and professional achievement.
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Mark Seliger shoots celebrity series to commemorate Macy’s 150th birthday
Macy’s, one of the world’s largest and most respected retailers, is gearing up to celebrate its 150th anniversary. As part of the celebration the company has is working with JWT New York and famed Rolling Stone photographer Mark Seliger to capture images of such celebrities as Christina Aguilera, Martha Stewart, Tommy Hilfiger, Donald Trump and Calvin Klein in an apparent effort to emphasize the brand’s fashion and lifestyle significance. “This is an incredible milestone for Macy’s,” said Peter Sachse, president of Macy’s Corporate Marketing. “There will be big celebrations and moments throughout the remainder of 2008, but what better way to kick off our 150th birthday festivities than with some of today’s most popular stars and designers paying tribute to Macy’s most revered and long-standing icons – all shot through the extraordinary lens of one of America’s most talented photographers.”
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Corbis taps photographer Jason Joyce to create stylized women in sports images
Corbis, one of the world’s largest stock licensing companies, has released a new set of imagery featuring futuristic women in sports just in time for the Summer Olympic games in Beijing. To create these images Corbis Art Director Martin Yates worked with acclaimed photographer Jason Joyce to produce imagery of women fencers, swimmers, archers, weight-lifters, soccer players and others in high concept futuristic settings. The images have been carefully retouched to give the photos a clean, vibrant and surreal look.
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Adobe Lightroom 2 is here!
I’m delighted to report that the 64-bit native Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 is now shipping for Mac and Windows. LR2 sells for $299 ($99 upgrade), and the 30-day tryout version is available for immediate download.
Tom Hogarty has posted a wealth of info on the Lightroom Journal blog, so I won’t attempt to duplicate everything here. Instead let me note some highlights:
Editorials
Microstocks: the Latest Fossils
Recently, attracted by an internet link to photos of “Living Fossils,” I clicked into a slideshow in Popular Science’s online magazine. The usual suspects were there- platypus, opossum, tuatara- but the usual credit lines weren’t. None of the small niche specialist agencies were represented, nor were any of the giants. Not even a microstock! Instead, the credits included nine photos gotten through Creative Commons (CC) licensing, and one through GNU General Public Licensing. Of the two remaining, one was in the public domain, and one was from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (presumably acquired free).
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Book Review: Animalia by Henry Horenstein
Animalia by Henry Horenstein
Pond Press (June 30, 2008)
80 pages/hardcover/64 duotone photographs/$40.00
Professor Henry Horenstein remixes his acclaimed photographs of land and sea creatures, adding 35 unpublished images, into his latest book, Animalia. His parade of subjects in sepia marches with pride and precision through the lens and into the mind’s eye. As an artist, Horenstein connects humans to animals though emotional macro studies. As a scientist, he patiently waits to press the shutter on an unsuspecting world.
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants tells what to do with all your travel and landscape imagery
You’ve undoubtedly been wandering around for weeks now, muttering to yourself: I wonder how the heck Mr. Stock Smarty Pants has been weathering this nasty economic downturn that I’ve heard so much about? Your concern is greatly appreciated, and MSSP wants to assure all of his loyal readers that he’s doing just fine, thank you. Oh, sure, the recession has caused him to tighten his belt just a bit: he’s had to temporarily discontinue stocking his cabinet with single-malt Scotches and switch to Dewar’s, and instead of three weeks on the Riviera in August, he’s prudently decided to cut back to just fourteen days on the French coast. But, MSSP remains generally optimistic about the state of the economy, and why shouldn’t he? He was wise enough to unload his Getty Images stock near its high of ninety five bucks a share back in the fall of 2005 instead of the puny $34 each sucker…uh, shareholder received when the company’s sale to Hellman & Friedman closed a few days ago! Hey, they don’t call him Mr. Stock SMARTY Pants for nuthin’!
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Photographer Associations express concerns with Orphan Works bills S2913 and HR5889
For several years now the US Congress has been debating orphan works legislation which would allow publishers to use copyrighted works without a license in the event that it is difficult or impossible to identify and contact the copyright holder. As in recent years, organizations representing artists and copyright holders have made it clear that they cannot support this legislation in its current form. The Advertising Photographers of America (APA), the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and Editorial Photographers (EP) on behalf of their members are urging congress to change Orphan Works bills S2913 and HR5889 as they bad for copyright holders and inconsistent with international trade agreements.
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Photoshelter selects 20 photographers to participate in Shoot! event
Photoshelter recently announced plans to host a photographer event on July 20th 2008 called Shoot! the Day, where a select group of photographers will get thew chance to work on-location with industry experts to create new and unique images. PhotoShelter has received more than 750 applications which the company has narrowed down to a list of 20 photographers who will engage in a photo shoot based on five key image categories noted by image buyers as most depleted: active seniors, youth culture, family and kids, business settings and still life.
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Photo News Round-Up
• Getty Images Announces Completion of Acquisition by Hellman & Friedman (originally announced in Feb 2008).
• Chinese government officials fired after publishing fake tiger photo.
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Red Cover picture library unable to pay contributors
The Press Gazette, a UK publication for Journalists, is reporting that Red Cover, of south London, has racked up nearly £500,000 (approx $1 million USD) in debt and has told its contributing photographers and writers that it may not be able to pay them for up to two years. Red Cover specializes in home interior imagery and currently supplies content to Getty Images.
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Africa Media Online lanches EU funded African Image Pipeline project
Africa Media Online Pty Ltd, the parent company of Africanpictures.net, has announced that it is launching a ZAR 5.5 million (Approx $700,000 USD) project Known as the African Image Pipeline to ensure that global audiences have access to quality pictures from South African sources. The project has been made possible with 70% grant funding from the European Union through Gijima KZN, an initiative of the Department of Economic Development in South Africa.
