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Category Archives: The Future

Photographers Leading The Way

I’ve been thinking that National Geographic photographers are uniquely poised to discover all the ways photography can reach consumers next. They already have one of the largest built-in audiences and that yellow border is instantly recognizable by the masses as a source for great photography. Plus, Geographic has always been good about moving the photography [...]

Posted 24 April 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (8) °

Where are all the goddam photos?

It costs millions of dollars to distribute photography in the form of a magazine page. Now, it can all be done for free, so will somebody please tell me where all the goddam photos are? Honestly you’ve got the internet at your disposal and every last one of you is lined up trying to get [...]

Posted 03 April 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (82) °

Newspapers and Bloggers

Newspaper ad revenues take their worst drop in almost 60 years (data here), which leads to a nice off the cliff graphic by Gawker (here) and a “Newspapers are f’ed” post by Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine (here) but hold on there, the Long Tailed, Wired Editor, Christopher Anderson responds with “Surprisingly, the industry is just [...]

Posted 31 March 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (11) °

A Thought on the Future of Photo Editing

Original, exclusive or previously unpublished photography printed as big as possible is the only thing that makes a magazine relevant in the dot com age. Hoo-ah.
Unless we’re talking about a massive media buy advertisers generally hate replication and will look to reach their potential audience through all the available avenues without having to repeat themselves. [...]

Posted 27 March 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (23) °

A Thought on the Future of Photography

Photographers need more fans.
Photographers spend waaay too much time and money trying to develop a very small and elite group of fans at the top. What needs to change is instead of thinking about having a couple of fans with deep pockets you need to start adding a large number with shallow pockets. These fans [...]

Posted 19 March 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (74) °

Brilliant New Technology to Licence Images

TechCrunch reports (here)–then I received an email from one of the founders–on the launch of a new company called GumGum (here) that allows people to license images on a cost per impression basis. This is the way images are licensed in the print world so it only makes sense that they should go that way [...]

Posted 14 February 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (15) °

All Music To Be Free

Update: This Qtrax announcement appears to be a hoax (here).
… are photos next? TechCrunch is reporting on a new free and legal P2P downloading service (here) with 25 million songs (itunes has 6 million). It’s called Qtrax and they’ve signed all 4 of the major music labels to somehow allow free music sharing in exchange [...]

Posted 28 January 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (11) °

Is Printing Dead?

Think so? Ask this guy, he’ll tell you to go eff yourself.

I just found a new favorite printer. Pazazz (here).
Via, John Nack at Adobe (here).

Posted 28 January 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (9) °

I Fixed That Copyright Problem On The Internet

I decided to take it upon myself to address the raging debate about copyright on the internet. I created an alternate internet for people who want to give their content away without attribution or payment.
I’m calling it the shitternet. Just direct your browser to shit://www.yourblog.com and start grabbing stories and photos and video to make [...]

Posted 02 January 2008 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (44) °

Rob Haggart is A Photo Editor

Phew. I feel much better now.
On December 14th, after 2 long years, I quit my job as the Director of Photography at Men’s Journal. Before that I was the Photography Editor at Outside Magazine for 5 1/2 years and before that I lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming freelancing as a photo editor for two national [...]

Posted 26 December 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (134) °

Happy Holidays Photographers

The holidays are nearly upon us and unlike the Thanksgiving break where you had to explain to your drunk uncle George that you really do take photos for a living and that “No, I’ve never met Britney Spears,” this holiday is all about your immediate family and friends and their deep appreciation for your unique [...]

Posted 21 December 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (50) °

The Online Magazine

I haven’t really paid much attention to online magazines because I think websites should be websites and magazines should be magazines and when they try to mix those roles it turns to shit. I especially hate that online reader that allows lazy publishers to turn their newsstand version in an unreadable online/downloadable version. A computer [...]

Posted 20 December 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (27) °

State of the Stock Photography Market

Dan Heller delivers this treatise about the state of the stock photography market on his blog based on an interview PDN did with him (here). It’s quite long for a blog read so I pulled a few highlights out here:
PDN: What do you think the license revenue number [for stock] is, if not $2 billion?
DH: [...]

Posted 04 December 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (11) °

Thanks for the Comments

I found this recently and while I know it applies directly to the Photo Rank website I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to the valuable post comments.
I appreciate the time and effort that goes into creating worthwhile comments to my posts.
Distributed karma
an idea for fixing recommendation systems
This sketch refers to systems where a [...]

Posted 26 November 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (10) °

Comments Welcome

A quick shout out to all the commenter’s who add their valuable insight and expertise to my posts. Your contribution to this process cannot be overstated. I visit many blogs daily where the comments amount to nice, wow and shut up asshole.
Your presence makes this website work.
Thanks: Mark Tucker, dude , Bruce DeBoer , Olivier [...]

Posted 02 November 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (28) °

Working for FREE

So, I just noticed that CNN has an i-report feature added to their website where citizens can submit news stories to be published on the website or even on TV depending on how the producers feel about your reporting skills.
Here’s the “now standard” web 2.0 work for free clause:
By submitting your material, for good and [...]

Posted 10 October 2007 † A Photo Editor § ‡ Comments (18) °