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Jen Leo at Written Road recommends going to the Book Passage Travel Writer and Photographers Conference, August 14-17.
The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference has developed an extraordinary reputation among publishers, editors, writers, and photographers throughout the U.S. and around the world. Alumni have published books, articles, and photosómany as the direct result of lessons learned and contacts made at the conference.
The Wall Street Journal is expanding the use of photographs in the publication. Darrell Perry is overseeing the Journal's photo department.
Editors throughout the Journal are now seeing the importance of photographs and are seeking more photographs. We do photo features now. In fact, we made our first Pulitzer nomination for Feature Photography last year. Photography is part of who we are now at the Journal.
Anyone interested in starting their own photography business will soon learn that solid business skills are as important as photography skills. Most of the popular photography magazines do not delve into this enough.
One of the best resources for photography business skills is EP. EP is an essential resource for photographers looking to do editorial photography. It also has plenty of relevant information for corporate and advertising photography.
While covering the war in Iraq, photojournalist Brian Walski made a composite of two photographs that then ran on the cover of the LA Times. When questioned about it by his editor, after a reader picked up on some discrepancies in the picture, Walski immediately owned up to it.
When they called me that night, Colin [Crawford, the Times director of photo] said, "Give me an excuse. Tell me it was a satellite transmission problem. Say something." I said, "No, I did it. I combined the two pictures."
Of course it is not acceptable for photojournalist to doctor photos and then pass them off as straight shots. I think, though, that Walski's candor in coming clean and making no excuses says something about his integrity. I imagine that long days in the middle of a war zone can disrupt your judgment, to say the least. Give the guy a break.
An ASMP, American Society of Media Photographers, member in Rhode Island has won a claim against UPS for 24 slides lost in a shipment from England.
PDNOnline reports that Corbis has reached an out of court agreement with Ofoto, a division of Kodak. The suit stemmed from pirated images by Corbis photographers that appeared on the now defunct file sharing site Webshots. Ofoto inherited the suit when it bought Webshots. Apparently, folks downloaded images from the Corbis site, them uploaded them to the public Webshots site for sharing.
As part of the settlement, Ofoto agreed to license digital watermarking technology to detect copyrighted images...
Right now, Ofoto uses human editors to judge which images were made by professional photographers.
Corbis uses a company called Digimarc, which supplies digital watermarking and document identification software. Green says Corbis? in-house team uses the technology to uncover between 20 and 50 commercial infringements per month.