Popular Newspaper Columnist Quits Citing Slow Transition To The Web (1)
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Jay Mariotti, star sports columnist and 17 year veteran of the Chicago Sun-Times abruptly quits after signing a new 3 year contract. Mariotti told CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker that he decided to quit after covering the Olympics in Beijing because newspapers are in serious trouble, and he did not want to go down with the ship. “It’s been a tremendous experience, but I’m going to be honest with you, the profession is dying,” Mariotti said, ...
Here’s What I Think Of Your Pictures (10)
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I was looking at a photographers pictures recently trying to figure out what kind of advice I should give and having a difficult time of it, because I felt like they had perfectly decent pictures and they were a perfectly decent photographer, but I felt nothing for the images. I recently re-watched the Johnny Cash movie, Walk The Line and even though it’s such a cliché for artists, it still sent tingles up my spine ...
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SEO Is Not Just For Wedding Photographers Anymore (3)
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I know that for a wedding photographer or a local portrait photographer, SEO (Search engine optimization) may be one of the most important things for their business after the images. What could be more simple for a potential client than typing city and state plus the word photographer in google? I’d never given it much thought for editorial and commercial photographers because there are better ways to find those people and the results google used ...
New iPhone Only Magazine (1)
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Heineken Discovers Flickr Isn’t Full Of Free Photography (4)
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The incident below can serve as an important warning to corporations that mistakenly think Flickr photographers won’t jump your shit if you infringe upon their copyright. Also, they should keep in mind, the cc license is virtually worthless in protecting you, if you mistakenly believe those photos can be used for free, because it can be revoked at any time (Dan Heller explains here). One of the photographers who’s work was stolen, Richard Sharman, sent ...
Chris McPherson stopped by to show his portfolio (2)
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Someone mentioned to me the other day that Chris McPherson was red hot at the moment, so I thought I’d do what I normally would have done when working at a magazine and called Deborah Schwartz to get his book in for a look. Only this time I shot all the pages and posted them here so you could have a look too. Editorial book: See a full frame slideshow (here). I have to say ...
A Cluetrain Manifesto For Newspapers (1)
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A blog post written by William Lobdell, an 18 year veteran of the Los Angeles Times entitled “42 Things I Know” should serve as a clue train manifesto for newspaper (cluetrain is here and here). As a former media insider I know the feeling of “this shit is broke and you clowns have no clue how to fix it” that he’s expressing in his post. I’ll highlight a few of the points I strongly agree ...
An Important Part of Having a Great Eye is Choosing Subjects (1)
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Elisabeth Biondi, visuals editor of the New Yorker magazine on photographer Pieter Hugo’s “The Hyena Men of Nigeria:” ‘Some people have said to me that Pieter’s subject is so dramatic that it would be hard to take a bad picture,’ says Biondi, ‘but, you know, a photographer chooses his subjects, and that, too, is an important part of having a great eye. Photographers go where their instinct leads them and then try and work out ...
MagCloud Tested (1)
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Outdoor Sports Photographers (1)
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I love great outdoor sports images and as much time as I’ve spent focussed on photo journalists, portrait, lifestyle and still life photographers I still get giddy as a school girl when someone sends me a big day at Teahupoo or neck deep in Jackson Hole so, I’ve always kept a pretty tight list of outdoor sports photographers who I rely on when I need something killer. There’s a few people on this list who ...
Denis Darzacq’s Floating People (1)
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Photos from Denis Darzacq’s new project “Hyper” (here) were all over the internet a couple weeks back and they certainly deserve the attention as fascinating and unnerving images, plus there’s no photoshop involved which makes it all the more interesting. Here’s a behind the scenes video I found on the Lens Culture blog (here) from his book La Chute. I suppose the only editorial application of a technique like this would be a fashion story ...
