The F Stops Here

NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ — Photobook industry leader MyPublisher announced today the addition of famed storytelling photographer Rick Smolan to its editorial team.

Smolan joins MyPublisher as a consulting editor. He will advise the company on trends in consumer and professional photography and digital technology. Also, Smolan will counsel MyPublisher on selecting user-generated content to be displayed at www.mypublisher.com. In addition to his work as consulting editor, Smolan will create a Photobook including some of his favorite photographs to display on the MyPublisher website.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) March 4, 2010 — Bigstock, one of the world’s leading online royalty-free stock image agencies, announced today the launch of its eagerly anticipated website overhaul, www.bigstock.com, built to provide the best online experience for buyers looking to purchase high quality stock images via affordable credit-based payment options.

he site, designed in collaboration with Shutterstock, the world’s largest subscription-based stock photo company, reflects the company’s deep knowledge of the global stock image marketplace, and its commitment to expand Bigstock’s global presence after acquiring the company last year.

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Greensboro, NC (PRWEB) February 28, 2010 — The “Smart Light Box” opens to display right on top of a website; users can view their selected web content as if they have not left the site, and they can still see the photographer’s moving photo transitions in an opaque view throughout the background.

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One of my favorite contemporary documentary photographers, Shelby Lee Adams,  has been featured in the March 2010 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

I have previously written about him and his Appalachian Portraits. He was accompanied by a writer who wrote about his Capturing Appalachia’s “Mountain People.”

SEATTLE, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Corbis (www.corbisimages.com), a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced it has partnered with the National Geographic Society to offer premium quality images taken by the Society’s award-winning photographers. The new collection on CorbisImages.com includes photography from select shoots for the flagship National Geographic magazine, as well as from National Geographic Traveler and the Society’s extensive archive. Thousands of images are already available, and Corbis plans to have 20,000 images online from National Geographic by the end of 2010.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — CQ-Roll Call Group today announced that Roll Call staff photographer Bill Clark has won two Awards of Excellence from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA). Clark took the honors in two categories of the WHNPA Still Division, “On Capitol Hill” and “Insiders Washington.” The judging took place last weekend at National Geographic’s Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington, D.C., and the winners were announced Sunday, Feb. 14.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Today Shutterstock® announced the addition of its 10 millionth image, a milestone that underscores the company’s rapid growth and commitment to high quality, crowdsourced visual media.

In a typical week, Shutterstock adds 80,000 new images – a rate of nearly eight images every minute – and provides designers, bloggers, advertisers, publications and marketers with a continuous stream of fresh new content. Shutterstock crowdsources the talents of more than 200,000 digital photographers and illustrators around the world who collect earnings when customers download their images. Shutterstock’s review team screens every image for quality and compliance, enforcing some of the highest standards in the imagery business. Just 40 percent of the images submitted by approved artists are accepted.

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Oxfordshire, UK, Feb. 11, 2010. As the photography industry continues to feel the effects of the recession, Alamy is offering some good news with the announcement that it paid out over £8 million to its contributors in 2009.

Despite a tough trading year, the world’s largest online stock photography site was able to produce a healthy income for its image providers. Alamy pays 60 per cent of each sale to the photographer, one of the highest royalties in the industry. Of the £8 million, around £5 million went to individual photographers rather than picture agencies.

Head of Content, Alan Capel said: “Yes it’s a tough market but we’ve come through a tough year and are still turning a good profit. In these testing economic times for us all, we feel it’s even more important that we return the largest share of the sale to the creator of the image. This can in turn lead to the production of a steady supply of high quality imagery.”

Rancho Cucamonga, CA (PRWEB) February 11, 2010 — Hot on the heels of its popular PhotoTrader social photography application for iPhone, Tapestry today announces the immediate availability of Beautiful World for iPhone and iPod touch. It can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store.

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New Features Include Faces, Places & Brushes

CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today introduced Aperture(TM) 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto® ‘09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organize large photo libraries. Aperture 3 introduces new tools to refine your photos including Brushes for painting image adjustments onto parts of your photo, and Adjustment Presets for applying professional photo effects with just one click. Stunning new slideshows let you share your work by weaving together photos, audio, text and HD video.

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