Photo Business News archive, 2006–2026. New writing is at Substack.

ScottVest – A Cure for Carry-On Limits

As someone who’s been met with “you’ve got to check one of those…” challenges by unknowning TSA personnel, below is one really cool solution to solve this problem:You can read more about it on Engadget – Scottevest’s Carry-On Coat houses all of your portable electronics, stolen hotel shampoo bottles – or check out the ASMP … Read more

Design By Committee – SHUT IT DOWN NOW

Let creatives be creative! Don’t let the non-creatives think in their non-creative minds that they know what the hell they’re doing. Here’s a video that is a good laugh (and under 5 minutes).(Comments, if any, after the Jump)POST JUMP TEXT.Please post your comments by clicking the link below. If you’ve got questions, please pose them … Read more

Photojournalist Victory – Yet 1st Amendment Initially Ignored

It’s frustrating as a card-carrying member of the press corps, to see a fellow photojournalist harassed by law enforcement. Such was the case when, in December of 2009, “David Morse, a respected and veteran independent photojournalist was arrested while covering the student protests at the Chancellor’s House on the UC Berkeley campus”, according to their … Read more

Cloned – Don’t Steal Artists Work

Yet another great visual to demonstrate how wrong it is to steal artists work.(Continued after the Jump)POST JUMP TEXT.Please post your comments by clicking the link below. If you’ve got questions, please pose them in our Photo Business Forum Flickr Group Discussion Threads.

Photography and “The Buyout”

Photographers who know what they’re talking about HATE the phrase “BUYOUT”. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. Why? Because, among other things, it’s such an ambiguous word that means one thing to the photographer, another thing to the photographer’s client, and yet another thing altogether to the photographer’s client’s client. The Picture Licensing Universal Coalition … Read more

MediaStorm – Final Cut Recommendations

With more and more photographers migrating into video, one of the oversights in Final Cut Pro is how to easily centralize all of the ingested video, scratch disks, and render files into one central location. It takes a few minutes to properly set up each project so that you can migrate the files from one … Read more