Category: Business & Industry

March 5, 2014

Getty Goes Free

Sort of. Getty images is pulling the watermark off of images and allowing users to embed the images free of charge. How does this work? The new money comes because, once the images are embedded, Getty has much more control over the images. The new embeds are built on the same iframe code that lets you embed a tweet or...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 3, 2014

Where War Photography Began

The editors at Life, gazing at the debacle unfolding in Crimea, look back to the 1850s and the start of what is now known as war photography.

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism

February 27, 2014

Big Changes in Orlando

Reports coming out from the National Press Photographers Associaiton that the Orlando Sentinel has told all of its staff photojournalists they have until tomorrow to reapply for new jobs that are much more video-centric. While the need to produce more video is certainly there, is this the best path? To threaten job loss? Wouldn’t a progress policy of training be...

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Video

February 22, 2014

Court Orders Photo Published in Black and White

I’m still processing this …

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 21, 2014

Burnett in Sochi

One of my heroes, David Burnett, was featured on the Olympics broadcast tonight. I want to hang around with him …

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Craft/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 20, 2014

Alumn Goes Viral

Sometimes, opening email is a pure joy … Jon-Michael Sullivan, a 2010 graduate of our program at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and now on staff at the Augusta Chronicle, sent me a note about a video he posted in September telling the story of a 70 year old body builder. Normally, I’d embed...

Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Video

February 18, 2014

How the AP and Getty Cover the Olympics

Nice piece over at Gizmodo by Mario Aguilar about how the Associated Press and Getty Images are covering the Winter Olympics – everything from the technology to the philosophy is covered. Browsing the wire, you notice that the AP’s photos also have a grittier, newsier look about them. They tend not to be as closely cropped so that you can...

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

February 7, 2014

A Blogger Learns a Lesson

And, thankfully, she does genuinely learn about copyright. Best part is Roni Loren then goes on to share what she’s learned with other bloggers. Takeaway: If you didn’t create a photo, make sure you have a license for it. In writing. (Thanks to Seth Gitner for the link.)

Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Photojournalism

February 1, 2014

“One must not think about doing things in life, one must do them.”

For those who don’t know his work, Don McCullin has been one of the preeminent war photographers of the last half century. While his work has moved away from the dark days of conflict, his newer work is still stunningly good. As a tease, here’s a three minute interview with him done by Alfred Dunhill … This next piece is...

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January 29, 2014

Monetizing Traffic or Content?

Very good piece over at The Atlantic by Alexis C. Madrigal on the kids behind Twitter phenom @HistoryInPics – and why it, like a few other similar endeavors, are basically stealing other people’s work for profit. The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don’t pay or even credit. They...

Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal/Journalism/Photojournalism