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 …
We all tend to re-visit certain books movies over and over as they inspire and reinforce something essential for us. Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” and John Sayle’s “The Secret of Roan Inish” are on my list. Joseph Gamble does the same with photo books and shares his top five: There are many great photography books …
One unfortunate side effect of the dramatic way things have sped up over the past decade is our failure to create room for anything. Because we can send messages instantaneously, we do. Because we can generate content 24/7, we do. Because we can publish things to platforms with theoretically available bajillions of eyes and ears …
Sometimes responding to LinkedIn invitations result in delightful discoveries. That is how I met Karen Beard and learned of her new agency, SheStock. She took time from her launch for a brief Q&A and look at some of the wonderful work of some of her contributing photographers. What was the defining moment that inspired the …
The J. Paul Getty Museum, in Southern California is the home of a huge collection of art at its two locations. Earlier this month, they began offering high resolution downloads of thousands of images from the collection, free to use, modify, and publish through their Search Gateway. The Getty is following the lead of a …
Guest post by Alisa Steck of Rocketroom For those in the creative community, Photoshop is a critical tool. It’s been traditionally sold with a perpetual license, enabling users the freedom to upgrade as needed (and as funds allowed). Adobe has recently made the decision to move to a subscription-based model for all future upgrades to …
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 …
reposted from http://fstoppers.com, with permission from Joseph Gamble NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has relayed back images of the Earth and moon from 900 million miles away. The images, taken in a series of photos on July 19th as Saturn was backlit by the sun, portray the blue planet as a diminutive blip in a vast dark …
Guest post by contributor Julian Jackson. The UK has a plethora of photographic agencies and imagery sources. These range from big organizations which have photolibraries, like the BBC, through medium-sized companies like Alamy, to a large range of specialist libraries and hundreds of museums that have awesome collections of photographs, paintings and illustrations in their …