You can always spot the least liked person just off stage at every presentation of lottery winnings. They are the people who are not outwardly smiling, likely wearing a dark suit, and carrying a briefcase of some sort. This is the IRS agent, cooly waiting to advise you of the taxes you now owe, and … Read more
Times are tough for everybody, especially, apparently, Time Magazine. Used to paying a stock fee of $3,000 for a cover, or $1,500 or so if it’s an assignment (last I checked), take a guess how much the cover below cost Time?Stylists for the coins, glass jar, studio rental, lighting and camera equipment? How much?(Continued after … Read more
If you’d rather not have Facebook’s advertisers using photographs of YOU in their ads – TO YOUR FRIENDS, you’ll want to rush over and change your privacy settings on Facebook ASAP!Facebook buries several pages into their privacy settings the ability to turn off permission you grant to Facebook to allow their advertisers to take any … Read more
Longtime friend and colleague Ron Edmunds, of the Associated Press, has decided to retire after a remarkable 28 years. His cold weather cap from the 1997 inauguration of President Clinton, clearly indicates though, that he is “Not Dead Yet.” I can attest to this fact – I spoke with Ron just a week or so … Read more
I am getting really sick and tired of know-nothings opining about the Usher v. Corbis case, and the railroading he got by his agent. (By the way, PDN did a nice job reporting on it here, as did Haggart here.) Corbis, and every other stock photography agency at the time valued every analog image at … Read more
While I spent the formative years as a photographer switching seamlessly between my Hasselblad and my 35mm film cameras, frankly, my preference for shooting, for example, weddings, was 35mm. I was of the opinion that I could be more free and able to catch that fleeting moment with a 35mm autofocus camera, than my manual … Read more
Richard Sine, who writes for free (as do all HuffPo writers) over at the Huffington Post, wraps up his article “Close the J-Schools” (7/15/09) with the following sentiment:“It dawned on me that the new business models that may save journalism were much more likely to come from the business school than the journalism school. At … Read more
Thursday July 2nd, as the MTV production “Real World” arrived officially in Washington DC, accredited members of the news media, on public property, documented their arrival, including an interview done by a crew from the local CBS affiliate. Here is the footage from the CBS crew, which illustrates just how inappropriate the actions of the … Read more
One of the most effective infomercials was the sham-wow sales pitch, with the “are ya following me camera guy” line. Then, the pitchman goes up in flames with press about an incident where the police get involved. So much for his career, right?Enter the slap-chop product and a new infomercial (here). No doubt, they got … Read more
So, how often have you heard the phrase “don’t burn bridges, you never know….” usually followed by some reason for not burning that particular bridge.The bigger question – the one that should serve as guidance, is – “should I ever burn a bridge?”The short answer is “no”, but that doesn’t mean that bridges aren’t being … Read more
