Inevitable that a library of gifs would emerge as a viable and useful business tool for media professionals. Michael Masterson finds out more about Come Alive Images and we highlight some of their work. Currently co-founder of Come Alive Images, Joe Panker was the founder of digital agency Jellyfish Advertising and served in marketing and …
Daily we hear of customers seeking imagery that is anything but ‘stock’. Picfair took the challenge to heart. Here is their unfolding story. Tell us about the genesis of Picfair and a bit about the background of the founders. Picfair was founded by former Guardian & New York Times journalist Benji Lanyado. He was continually …
Taking a gander around the interwebs to see what there may be going on in the photography world during long hot days. A few items of interest: Everyone is talking about the Sundance darling film shot ALL on an iPhone: http://www.pdnonline.com/features/techniques/video/Sundance-Favorite-Tangerine-is-a-Feature-Film-Shot-on-iPhones-14018.shtml. The reviews agree that is is well worth the time. Shot on a 5s …
Reposted from http://kaptur.co with permission from author Paul Melcher Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins investor, just released her 2014 her annual Internet trends report which briefly trended on Twitter yesterday. Year after year, the report is slowly becoming a yearly milestone for the those in the internet business and those just curious about it. For us, …
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 …
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 …
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 …