Category: Blog News

…all I’m trying to do is take interesting photographs. I’m a photographer, not a social worker.

— Tony Fouhse

via Colin Pantall’s blog.

Condé Nast has worked with Adobe for about a year to develop software that integrates with Adobe’s popular publishing program, InDesign. The new software gets the magazine closer to something that now seems like a company mantra: “author once, publish everywhere.”

The add-on to InDesign, Mr. Dadich said, allows the magazine’s editorial team to easily move the print design into the iPad design and vice versa. Until now, Condé Nast’s apps relied on software developers, not the magazine’s design team, to put the content into an app. The Adobe add-on will be available for sale to other publishers.

via Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com.

Via, spd.org

Consumer uptake will be slow, he acknowledged, but he laid out a scenario in which [E-Reader] adoption could save Meredith, which publishes Ladies’ Home Journal and Family Circle, about $60 million a year. Lacy told analysts the publisher spends about $150 million annually on paper, $80 million in printing costs and $80 million for mailing. If audience migration to an e-reader allows 20% of that $310 million to be trimmed, “that could really be meaningful to us from a financial point of view.”

via MediaPost.

My expenses are almost as high as my photography income and I have so little left at the end even when I am lucky. So, maybe I am not qualified to answer this question. Then why am I doing photography? I think it is a combination of passion and stupidity. For me, photography is intellectual, artistic, and curiosity fulfilling. I love making photographs.

–Hiroshi Watanabe

via Two Way Lens

Photography is incredibly difficult as I’m sure you know. The complexities within a single picture can be enormous at times. The composition, the content, the lighting, there’s so many elements that have to be brought in to one picture. From that point of view, I’m still learning a lot about photography. It’s a very narrow discipline in that way and even to think about doing something else would be a distraction.

via Milky Blacks.

“I think they’ve done the best job in making themselves a multimedia property,” said Peter Gardiner, partner, chief media officer, Deutsch. “They’ve worked smartly at making themselves more than a print magazine. It happens to be the last man standing that’s been the most progressive and aggressive.”

via Mediaweek.

The global advertising business is showing signs of recovery after months of decline, WPP Plc (WPP.L), the world’s top ad firm by sales, said on Wednesday adding its own business saw worldwide growth in April.

via  Reuters.

I understand the whole “I’m an artist, not a marketer” thing, actually, but in this day and age, to not think about your audience in advance is not just poor business, it ignores the fundamental changes that have hit every business and every art form – that audiences are more participatory, so you can’t just try to engage them with a product and no conversation.

via SpringBoardMedia, thx j-carrier.

As you look through the various award winners, people who’s work is selected for the American Photography annual or whatever contest PDN is currently pitching, I guarantee you there’s a good percentage that are nowhere near earning a living with a camera, and more than a few are working at Starbucks to make ends meet.

That’s where we’re at.

via Mostly True.

Newsweek’s problems lie in its business model. It doesn’t offer advertisers a platform they can’t get elsewhere.

via  The Big Money.

I’m a little bit sheepish about the fact that these guys who spent all this money to attend art school then taught me how to make my pictures. But I think knowing how you want something to look is more important than being able to make it. There will always be people who can tell you how to make something happen.You have to have the content in your head.

via The Outside Blog.

Video will NEVER replace the still image. The reductive power of the breathtaking image will remain — it’s instantaneous, unobtrusive yet IN YOUR FACE. Video… you have to press a button. And you have to engage your ears. An image can convey that story in a microsecond. It’s an illustration, whereas the video is the article. I’ve been a broadcast film and tv producer, and it’s just not the same. Plus, you never, EVER get the intimacy of a photograph with video.

via Robert Benson.

This is a golden age for film criticism. Never before have more critics written more or better words for more readers about more films. […]Twenty years ago a good-sized city might have contained a dozen people making a living from writing about films, and for half of them the salary might have been adequate to raise a family. Today that city might contain hundreds, although the Catch-22 not more than one or two are making a living. Film criticism is still a profession, but it’s no longer an occupation. You can’t make any money at it.

via Roger Ebert’s Journal.

Loni passed away a week ago Sunday. Leave a note on her FB page (here).

via John Nack on Adobe:.

So the biggest challenge was really after twenty some odd years of hard work and devotion and believing I had achieved some level of status and respect in this industry, I suddenly found myself having to promote myself, and market myself, and work as hard as I did when I first started… You can’t ever coast and you can’t ever quit. But even when the economic situation isn’t as disastrous as it was last year, it’s improved dramatically since then, I still find that apart from the economy, I still have 5000 new photographers to compete against at any given time.

via › Andrew Eccles Interview, Part 1.

That’s what we’re heading towards. If you go anywhere in Asia, or just in Times Square, so many of the billboards are moving now. So, if it gets to the point where we are all shooting with things like the RED camera then we can be shooting the moving content and be extracting stills for when we need the stills. That’s why I think it’s inevitable that we’re going to end up there.

via › Andrew Eccles Interview Part 2.