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Written by Michael Coyne
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Friday, 26 January 2007 |
 "I’m a made-man, man, and when you come outside I’ll get you. Don’t you worry, we’ll be waiting."
He had unwashed, thick brown hair that was tipped with blond streaks. His face was pushed into mine and he was screaming at me. Pushing and shoving in the tiny lobby of the hotel were about five of his gang members, yelling and telling me what they were going to do with me when I came outside.
Black Star had sent me on a corporate assignment to Singapore to shoot portraits of several businessmen for a New York design company. My travel agent in Hong Kong, where I am based, was having trouble finding a hotel for two nights. "They’re booked out," she said.
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Friday, 26 January 2007 |
As more and more images are being used on the Web, rights-managed (RM) sellers need to find an appropriate way to price based on such usage.
In my 2001 edition of Negotiating Stock Photo Prices, I offered a very simplified pricing system that basically had three categories – National Corporation, Regional Corporation and Local Corporation – and four sizes of uses. Considering the many ways that images are now used on the Web, this strategy is totally inadequate.
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
 Reuters closed the final chapter on the Adnan Hajj affair this week by announcing staff and policy changes in the Middle East. Despite maintaining that it had found only two altered photographs after studying hundreds in its investigation, Reuters reported that the news agency has:
tightened editing procedures to ensure that only senior photo editors deal with sensitive images, invested in more training and supervision and strengthened its code of conduct for photographers...[and also named] Stephen Crisp the new chief photographer for the Middle East.
Reuters became the target of right-wing bloggers in August 2006 when it was shown that one of Hajj's photos had been digitally altered to enhance the amount of smoke rising over Beirut after an Israeli air strike. This discovery led to a blogosphere hunt for other pics Photoshopped (presumably for political purposes) by Hajj and other photojournalists.
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Written by John
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
 As we all know, the Big Three stock agencies are in a period of turmoil, with the emergence of microstock, photo-sharing, crowdsourcing and other changes seriously cutting into their profit margins -- as well as the earnings of professional stock photographers.
In this environment, I guess it's only natural to expect the disruptive innovations to become more and more dramatic. Which, I suppose, is why a number of people have told me recently that they think Google will ultimately gobble up the entire stock business.
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Friday, 05 January 2007 |
Recently I heard of a customer who was looking for a picture of an air conditioning repairman working on a home system to use in a small yellow pages ad. I thought it would be interesting to see what was available. I started with the Big Three and found this:
Getty had one picture of someone working on a large industrial system.
Corbis had three pictures, two on industrial systems and one very nice one on a homeowners system.
Jupiterimages had nothing.
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Sunday, 31 December 2006 |
 I admit I've got a thing for New York City. Something about the energy, the vibrancy, the diversity, the ability to be as visible or invisible as you want, keeps me coming back. And I'd jump at the chance to live there again, after having moved away years ago. One of the things I've always loved about New York is that I could usually get anywhere I needed on foot or by subway, and so I developed an intimate connection to the city that I wouldn't have been able to if I'd just driven around in a car.
It's that connection, the ability to experience what an environment looks and feels and smells and sounds like when it's explored on foot, that makes Caleb Smith's
New York City Walk (discovered through the terrific Backpackers.com site) so powerful.
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