Another in a casual series of photo related articles from ’round the web. We all love a bit of creative intel: Media Bakery offers up some insight in their Stock Photography Trends for 2014 report. The very first Selfie! Ads of the World – bookmark this one for research. Feature Shoot showcases all genres of …
Not really. But, an excellently researched article in the Guardian address the democratisation of photography. Too many images? Lazy photographers? Does the iPhone take us away from our lives as we document rather than experience? Great read (and the comments are provoking too): http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/dec/13/death-of-photography-camera-phones Are we seeing the demise of photography or merely the next …
For our Crowd-Sourcing A Book Cover Contest with Sharon Donahue: Thank you everyone for participating in the Cover Photo Contest. Shown below is the final cover selected by the publisher – Photo Choice “C”: As several people suggested the original image was turned to fit a vertical format. Congratulations to ‘susansayings’ for being chosen from …
by Ellen Herbert My step-dad will be 90 years old in a few months. He is the son of homesteaders, a finish carpenter known throughout the South for his lovingly crafted rocking chairs and birdboxes, a WWII decorated Veteran, a farmer and rancher. And a much loved husband and father. His pear preserves are un-paralleled, …
Guest post by Sharon Donahue A book’s cover says it all in literally milliseconds, so it must be treated with the utmost care. The cover has to cause an immediate reaction within a potential reader. A great book cover grabs people’s attention. Many, many people weigh in on the selection in hopes of determining the best image …
When researching content and writers for the blog, we bookmark interesting articles and sites that may not end up as an article here, but are definitely worthy of a mention… and your time. Here are a few recent finds: Although image theft is rampant on the web, the field of digital forensics is ever-evolving with …
Contributed by Ellen Herbert with permission from Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Thumbing through the July/August issue of Intelligent Life, I was stopped in my tracks when I came upon a powerful image by artist/photographer Newsha Tavakolian, titled “Don’t Forget This Is Not You (for Sahar Lotfi).” The image is one of a set of …
Guest post by Simon Herbert with thanks to PetaPixel Our photographic records have changed radically over the last century: from the tiny black-and-whites that our great grandparents took; to the larger format black-and-white of our grandparents; through to the color print “happy snaps” of our parents; then the first digital camera pictures taken by our …
Guest post by Alisa Steck of Rocketroom Today’s insatiable consumerism with the latest, greatest digital devices has brought us every feasible type of entertainment and media at our fingertips. Cell phones older than a year are incredulously considered Jurassic technology. We could hardly imagine a world without must-have applications such as iTunes, delivering every song, …
Thanks to our international trade organizations PACA , CEPIC, BVPA and SAB for working in conjunction with the Research Group from the University Heidelberg, to research, create and make available the first truly international overview of Image Suppliers in both English and Chinese. Over the course of 2012, over 250 world wide image suppliers(still, illustrations …