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Nikon D4 Leaked by French Magazine
French magazine Réponses Photo has spilled the beans on the Nikon D4, one day ahead of its official announcement. A two-page scan from the magazine leaked onto the Internet, revealing photos of the...
View ArticleWhy the Kodak Brand Can Live Past a Kodak Bankruptcy
Categories: Industry NewsTags: articlebankruptbankruptcybrandbrandnamecnnmoneydeathofkodakKodakkodakbrandquoteCNNMoney has an interesting article on how the Kodak brand will likely survive even if the...
View ArticleKodak vs. Fujifilm: A Tale of Two Film Makers
Categories: Educational Industry NewsTags: analysisarticlebusinessdigitaleconomistfilmphotographyfujifilmindustryinterestingKodakpiecetheeconomistThe Economist has a fascinating piece looking at the...
View ArticleArnold Newman and the Birth of the “Environmental Portrait”
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View ArticleWhy Polite Internet “Criticism” Makes Your Photography Suck
Categories: Educational TipsTags: articleblogpostcriticismcritiqueeditorialimproveimprovementinterestinginternetcriticismkennethjareckelearnopinionpiecereadsuckthoughtsTipsPhotographer Kenneth Jarecke...
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“There Is No Such Thing as Absolute Truth in Photography”
Photography author Ben Long has a thought-provoking article over at CreativePro in which he argues that “all photos are manipulated” and that “there is no such thing as absolute truth in photography”:...
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Why Photographers Should Embrace, Not Scorn, Tools Like Instagram
It’s seems like many photo enthusiasts are hating on Instagram and retro-filtered photos these days, but not photographer Richard Koci Hernandez. He has written a piece for CNN titled “Photographers,...
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Analog Instagram: A Brief History of the Lomography Movement
Stephen Dowling of BBC News has an interesting piece that tells the story of the Lomography movement and how it may be instrumental in saving film photography: In 1991, a group of Austrian art...
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Razor-Blade Model: Polaroid and Kodak Never Existed to Sell Cameras
Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid, has authored a lengthy piece for the Washington Post on what Kodak — and whoever buys its film lines — can learn from the fall of...
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Photographer Websites: Why You Need One And What To Do About It
The modern web was made for photographers; it’s such a visual medium where beautiful images have an incredible impact. Text, or copy, is still important for SEO considerations and for those visitors...
View ArticleCan You Tell the Difference Between Phone Photos and DSLR Photos?
Categories: EducationalTags: articlecnncomparisonfflawedinterestinginterestingreadnealkrawetzphonephonephotospopquizreadCNN recently published a pop-quiz with 10 photos and a simple question: was the...
View ArticleThe Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer: Photo Clichés of the 1930s
Categories: Culture FindsTags: 1937articleclichesCulturegenerichippocratichippocraticoathhippocraticoathofaphotographerhumorousinterestingmfaghathehippocraticoathofaphotographeruscameraBack in 1937,...
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Steve Jobs’ Role Model? Edwin Land, the Founder of Polaroid
If you think about it, there are many parallels between Apple and Polaroid: both companies introduced innovative products that redefined markets in their time, both were founded by college dropouts,...
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Success Stories of People Who Turned Ideas into Photo Products
Have an idea for a photo product and an entrepreneurial itch? PDN published an article this past week with three stories of people who successfully turned their ideas into products (and businesses)....
View ArticleIf Clichés Are So Bad, Why Do So Many of Them Win Contests?
Categories: Culture TipsTags: articleclichescontestsessaygroundbreakinginterestingmichaeldavisopinionoriginalityphilosophyphotoclichesphotocontestsphotoeditorthoughtsuniquePhoto editor Michael Davis on...
View ArticleOne Photo and Four Changed Lives
Categories: Culture FindsTags: analysisarticlebackgroundcrimefascinatinginterestinglondonlondoneveningstandardnottinghillcarnivaloliscarffstabbingThe London Evening Standard has published a fascinating...
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Photographer Cleverly Shames HuffPo After They Use Her Imgur-Hosted Photo...
When photographers find their images being used in online publications without permission, there’s often not much they can do aside from sending out emails requesting payment, credit and/or a...
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Photographer Peter Lik Has Sold Nearly Half a Billion Dollars in Prints
Last December, the art world balked when photographer Peter Lik announced the world’s priciest sale of a photograph: a single black-and-white print titled “Phantom” for $6.5 million. Here’s another...
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This 1907 Article Describes How Photos Were Faked a Century Ago
Back in 1907, a photo retoucher named C.H. Claudy wrote an article for Volume 17 of Camera magazine titled “Faking the Negative.” In the piece, Claudy describes the latest and greatest techniques for...
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Casual Photographers Were ‘Stealing’ Work from Pros Back in 1887
Professional photographers sometimes gripe about how casual shooters undercut their businesses by offering (often) lesser quality work for pennies on the dollar. But it’s not something that was...
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