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Review: Newsweek for iPad. Pleh.

Two days ago we downloaded the free Newsweek for iPad app, along with their special free trial issue designed to entice us to buy the real thing. It was laughably bad. We couldn’t stop passing it around from hand to hand to marvel at its slapdash, amateurish, awfulness.
Newsweek launched its app over the holiday weekend, [...]

Airplane Completion Photography

I’ve been shooting corporate jets lately. Here is a link to another photographer that does the same work and
an article in the Washington Post. It’s cool work, but it’s hard to get. It’s just like everything else, clients want to see the work in your book before the hire you to do it.
Charles Tack, [...]

40 is a magic age for photographers

I wish someone would have told me when I was 25 and really upset that I hadn’t “Made it” yet, not to worry. When I was 25, I had no money and very little connections. Now, 15 years later, the opposite is true. There is almost no job I cannot do. I just get [...]

Sell, Sell, Sell…

These last couple of jobs that have come in, I’ve been working on selling my ability to do jobs for mid-size companies. To be perfectly honest, this is really amazing, because I get to talk to the client, the marketing and PR person for the company, directly.
I am now coming to understand that [...]

Big Companies, Relationships, Local Jobs

There’s something magical about hanging out with people in the industry in a mid-size town. First of all, there aren’t many photographers who have the gear and can do the entire job from pre to post, so you’re going to get the call; meaning, at some point your name is going to be mentioned. Second [...]

New Photographer Monday: Ackerman Gruber

Ackerman Gruber Images is the husband and wife team of Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber. Trained as photojournalists, they now work in both video and stills, and have built a career that includes both editorial work and commercial documentary work. Tim and Jenn sent me a link to their latest commercial work, a behind-the-scenes look [...]

Photographer in Little Rock, Dero, shoots variety, makes $$$

In class last week, one of my students interviewed photographer, Dero Sanford. One quick look at Dero’s website reveals that he is shooting a variety of subject matter and making a go of it in a smaller market. He shoots national advertising campaigns, PSA’s, editorial jobs and weddings. And, yes, video has become part of [...]

Showed a client portfolios on an iPad today – not so good

This afternoon, for the first time, Greg brought our new iPad to a meeting with a prospective client. Before he left, I loaded it up with a few new portfolios that I had created specifically for that client. And that’s how I discovered some serious limitations of this device.
The basic issue is that Apple has [...]

Did Corbis register your copyright? If so, read this APA alert!

APA just put out this press release – read below.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2010
APA ALERT!
Do you have images with Corbis?
Did you sign the Corbis Copyright Assignment Affirmation Declaration?
If so, you may have invalid copyright registrations.
Last week, Judge Loretta A. Preska of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, issued a summary judgment [...]

Livebooks has update for iPad/iPhone

Dear Greg,
We are pleased to announce a wonderful new update to your liveBooks website that brings the clean design of your liveBooks site to Apple’s range of mobile devices.
This update, which is already part of your liveBooks site, supports finger swipe, rotation and bookmarks, as well as allowing you the choice of theme, background/homepage color [...]