1. Understanding Fair Use
(Main/Business and Technology)

...d. Since an author usually does not review his own book, the impact of the quotation on his interests should be minimal. If, however, so much material is quoted that the review will substitute for a p...

2. Privileged POV: Closing the Disparity Between the Photographer and the Documented
(Main/Viewpoints)

...of either capturing a potential "winning shot" of someone in peril or helping that person -- which one would it be? The question was meant to gauge how much we truly wanted to be photographers. In a s...

3. Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teaching -- It's Not for Everyone (But It May Be Right for You!)
(Main/Feature 2)

... and photographer. Whenever one of our academic friends complained about the hardships of teaching, we would look at each other and smile knowingly. How could teaching -- a few hours of classroom time...

4. Technology Keeps Moving Forward; Are You Moving with It?
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...and communicating their tribe's culture through the ages. With the printing press, storytellers could communicate to larger audiences. The radio opened up audiences to hearing the stories, and...

5. How to Work with NGOs: Two Approaches
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...k, but there are no guarantees. Working with an NGO Supplier As a photojournalist, your aim should be to remove as much dependency on the NGO as possible, while still getting access to your ...

6. Little Details Make a Big Difference
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...sly that the statues they carved are complete all the way around, even though they knew their carvings would be in places where no one would ever see those details. This attention to detail is perhap...

7. How to Send a DMCA Takedown Notice
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

... Carolyn E. Wright Email: carolyn@photoattorney.com After the ISP receives the notice, it should remove the infringing materials. Infringements are much too common these days. Fortuna...

8. To Be (Represented) or Not to Be
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...ated objective is to represent you in the many facets of photography. Read Ben Chapnick's post, Should You Seek Agency Representation? for more on agency relationships. What we're discussin...

9. Who Needs Photojournalism When We Have Hollywood?
(Main/Viewpoints)

...s woman needs a reality check. Hollywood's images do not hit home because we all know it's fake. It would be easy enough, then, to dismiss Ingraham's comment as just another idiotic remark by anoth...

10. Blind Photographers Teach Us New Ways of Seeing
(Main/Industry News)

...tographers generally, offered this additional explication: How do they do it? Well, imagine how you would take pictures if you were blind. First, your ears would serve as a guide. By listening care...

11. Eye on Image-Making: Cousin Lou Comes to Visit
(Main/Business and Technology)

...first time you entered a darkroom or, for that matter, opened Photoshop? Thus, although the multitudes could take pictures, we preserved the distinction that we were "making" pictures. Still a ...

12. Rush of Innovation in Photographic Technology Shows No Sign of Slowing Down
(Main/Business and Technology)

Photographic technologies are moving at a pace beyond anything we could have imagined a few decades ago. The possibilities of capturing images at increasingly high resolutions are staggering. What we

13. Why You Should Be Worried About Proposed Orphan Works Legislation
(Main/Viewpoints)

...rks. What's Mine Is Mine ... and If I Can't Find You, What's Yours Is Mine, Too The new bill would allow image users to help themselves to photographs (and other creations) whose copyright o...

14. Stop Whining About Copyright Infringement and Start Doing Something About It
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...pe for infringement and misuse. My experience on my own blog has taught me that large pictures should never be posted online. Over the years, I've discovered that several images I published ear...

15. Six Ways to Help a Laid-Off Photographer Get Started as a Freelancer
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...fered us both half-time. I said yes, panicked that I was; he said no, and left. I thought this meant I could stay, but I was wrong. This began a rushed effort to become self-sufficient and my own boss...

16. Do Embedded Photojournalists Actually Work for the Pentagon?
(Main/Feature 1)

...Black Star Rising columnist Is the work of embedded photographers in Iraq the kind of journalism we should expect -- and demand -- in a democracy? Conflicts always arise when an embedded photoj...

17. Finding True Independence as a Freelance Photographer
(Main/Business and Technology)

...gotiable "written agreement" (another term for contract) stating that the work I created for the paper would be owned entirely by them. If I refused to sign the agreement, I would no longer receive an...

18. How I Created My First Coffee-Table Book
(Main/Business and Technology)

...nts in the area. These reenactments are a great opportunity to create photographs of subjects that you would seldom capture any other time of the year. Persons dressed in period clothing set up...

19. Print Media Layoffs Are an Acceptance of Defeat -- Not a Strategy for the Future
(Main/Viewpoints)

...dmission of defeat, and will cause a downward spiral over time, ending up in a defunct newspaper. Would it not be more effective to give journalists and photojournalists the training, resources, ...

20. Up Your Price with Limited-Edition Photography
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...provide them with the sort of interesting, challenging and rewarding assignments that any photographer would be happy to fulfill, whether that's creating portraits of some of the world's leading execu...

21. Notes from the VisCom Classroom: Teacher Goes Back to School, Part 2
(Main/Business and Technology)

...the film. Sure, with luck and autofocus, students can sometimes create interesting videos. These would be the moving equivalents, I suspect, of the snapshots I see in the beginning photography c...

22. Getty, Flickr and the Land of Really, Really Bad Ideas
(Main/Business and Technology)

... outreach to Flickr in an attempt to get a commercial key (link) for an application plug-in (API) that would make a direct connection between Flickr and the PhotoShelter system, so that photographers ...

23. Tips for Creating a Winning Portfolio
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

...ng paid to look at beautiful pictures created by some of the world's most talented photographers. What could be bad about that? Tags: ((photography advice)), ((photography portfolios)) Not the p...

24. What Are Your Creative No-Fly Zones?
(Main/Business and Technology)

...ck coined the phrase "creative no-fly zones" to describe places where copywriters and other creatives shouldn't go in their work. The no-fly zone encompasses ideas that are not only tacky, but likely ...

25. How Professional Photographers Can Generate New Business with Flickr
(Main/Advice from the Pros)

... and more than 150 million images, Flickr has become the elephant in the room for any photographer who would choose to ignore it. Flickr's photo streams and groups are prime destinations for those see...