Crowd “Editing” Your Photo Project
The idea of crowdfunding your photography project has become increasingly popular, especially since startup sites like Kickstarter and Emphas.is have gone mainstream. These days, it’s not unusual to hear about photographers asking you to take a few minutes out of your day to learn about their project and consider contributing to help finance their endeavors....
How Google Gets Personal & Why You Need To Know About It
Generally speaking, the goal of today’s search engines is to organize the web’s freakishly enormous amount of information, and present the most relevant results to you, the user. That was relatively easy when there were only a few hundred websites back in the 90s, but now there are literally millions of sites to sort through....
Who Shot It Better? Mario Sorrenti vs. Craig McDean: Charlize Theron
How do you take a bad photo of a beautiful actress? You don’t. Mario Sorrenti and Craig McDean took their turns four years apart for W Magazine by photographing Charlize Theron, who I’ve had a crush on since 2 Days in the Valley. Now this an interesting situation because you have two top fashion photographers...
Friday Happy Hour: Lady Gaga Owns Your Photos & More
The photo industry never ceases to surprise us. This week Allen posted his so-called rant, “Why I Love Photography“. The post has attracted over 1k Facebook likes, 1,200 tweets, and 120 comments. Clearly he hit a chord. Other topics this week that were worth paying attention to? Just check out our roundup below. The “Fame...
10 Insane Photos of the “Gatorade Shower”
Did you know? When a U.S. sports team makes a major win, like the Super Bowl, it’s pretty much required that players dump a cooler of Gatorade (or water) over the coach’s head. Did you also know? It’s said that this tradition got its start after the New York Giants beat the Washington Redskins in an important mid-season game...
Architectural Photography: Just Like Playing Tetris…Right?
“Shooting architecture or home décor is just like playing Tetris,” says Lincoln Barbour, a professional commercial advertising and architectural interior photographer based in Portland, Oregon. “You have to get everything to fit together just right.” Lincoln has his background in web design, so it’s no surprise that Lincoln’s talents lay in creating perfectly composed photos....
Behind The Scenes: The Making of The Juiciest Meat App Ever
Pat LaFrieda’s name is basically synonymous with great meat. The famed New York butcher owns and operates Pat LaFrieda Meats, a third-generation, family-owned meat supplier that caters to many of the top restaurants and burger joints in New York (think The Spotted Pig, Union Square Cafe, and 5 Napkin Burger). So it’s really no surprise that when Pat...
Rant: I Love Photography
It might sound strange to use the verb “Love” in the title of a rant. But here goes. I love photography. Why am I telling you this? Isn’t it self-obvious? Don’t we all love photography? The answer is no. There is a percentage of photographers who hate photography. They do not appreciate photography. They do...
Who Shot it Better? Simon Bruty vs. Bob Rosato: Tom Brady
Well, well, well, the Super Bowl is nearly upon us once again, and Tom Brady is back in the big game. So it’s a perfect time to compare and contrast photos of Mr. Bundchen from the cover of Sports Illustrated. In this episode of “Vs.” we contrast the in-game photo stylings of staffers Simon Bruty and...
A Better Sales Process for Your Customers
“Usability” is a catch-all word that we throw around to describe why the Apple iPad is better than the Motorola Xoom, or why WordPress is easier to use than Typepad (in our opinion). It looks and feels better, it’s more intuitive, and our expectations – aka our mental models – are satisfied when we engage...
Friday Happy Hour: Why Wedding Photogs’ Prices Are “Wack” & Other Top Headlines
There were a lot of news headlines and blog titles that caught our eye this week. The first, “Why Wedding Photographers Prices Are ‘Wack’” raised a fair amount of eyebrows around here. Others, like “McDonald’s Twitter Campaign Goes Horribly Wrong,” were funny but sad in their own right. Read our full roundup below and let...
Sebastian Kim vs. Henry Leutwyler
Photography is amazing to me because of its ability to take a very literal medium, and still create an incredible diversity of finished product. In this round of “Vs.” we pit fashion photographer Sebastian Kim against portraitist (and one of my personal favorites) Henry Leutwyler and their images of Michael Fassbender, recently snubbed by the...
