Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said during an interview about changes at Flickr that the site no longer needs a Flickr Pro account because everyone is a professional photographer. Only some have better skill levels.
Yahoo, indeed.
I suggest that no true professional photographer ever do a photo shoot for Yahoo, it’s clients, advertisers, ad agencies, and families. Let them use anyone but the professionals she says doesn’t exist.
Welcome to Ohio where the weather can change within minutes and usually does in February.
Today was one of those days. Changes that presented radically different lighting.
The day began with strong daylight for the 40 Days of Lent project resulting in this vibrant frame.
When budgets would get tight, as they always did at the end of the year, the AP’s main office in New York would modify every film supply order changing requests for 36 exposure rolls into orders for 24 exposure rolls.
The intended purpose was economy during shooting. Logic was supposed to show that a photographer, faced with a shorter roll of film, would be more judicious in picture choice and shoot less film without affecting content or quality.
In truth, we shot more film on most assignments. Our photographer brains, trained for very specific processes, couldn’t wrap themselves around counting by 24. We were accustomed to counting by 36. Now we had to calculate when to begin shooting, when to slow down, how many frames to save at the end for something unexpected at the end of an assignment, and worry about not having shot enough to insure getting the best photo.
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Over the next several days we’ll explore ways of making it easier for you to prepare for a shoot, handle the variety of on-site storage methods, moving photos from disk to computer and how best to store the finished images and all the rejects you may want to keep.
It wasn’t too long ago that deciding which memory card to use meant choosing whether to use a 128-meg or the larger 256-meg Compact Flash card. The earliest digital cameras shot much lower resolution files than today’s cameras and the flash cards held much less data. Storage technology and pricing was still evolving and not yet reached a point that made larger memory cards easy to manufacture and cheap enough to market.
I’m not bothered by the photo by freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi of a man about to die in a New York subway. Abbasi is being criticized for being everything from a Godless man who enjoyed the opportunity to make money off his photos of the death to a coward for not having made an at tempt to save the doomed man.
He doesn’t deserve such criticism by readers. Only his peers can participate in the discussion about shooting first or helping first.
Take the case of photographers Horst Faas and Michel Laurent in Bangladesh. [Read more...]
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