Long-time readers of DImageMaker and of my contributions to HP Professional Photography blog may remember me talking of the need for cameras to become expandable in the same ways that phones are. We needed to be able to expand their functionality or just configure the existing capabilities in a way that better suited us, personally. …
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Since it is the start of the New Year and also, for me, very much about new beginnings in my photography, it is time to consider where things are going. Photography is in the process of undergoing changes every bit as large as those of the switch from film to digital. In fact, I would …
Photography is sometimes art and art sometimes uses photography. But what is the determining factor? The answer is that photography is art when it mirrors contemporary art concerns. So just what do I mean by that? Well tough as it might sound, contemporary art moved beyond just being beautiful or representational back with surrealism, futurism, …
The digital publishing of ebooks and apps is still very much in its infancy, as is the provision of software to make this easier. Yet there is a major problem already obvious, the costing models for production software. Publishers are used to a buy and use model for the software we use. We are …
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Let’s be honest, copyright is a complete mess. There are differences in law from country to country and, in a day when putting an image on Facebook or your blog makes it vulnerable to attack under any copyright jurisdiction in the world, the risks are considerable. The largest problem for artists is that techniques and …
Simplicity vs Simple – these are two words that are so similar, but are also so different in meaning. And they trip photographers up every day. Simplicity, elegance and purity are words that are associated with the best photographs. They talk to an image that wastes nothing on superfluous detail, on content that is not …
Simplicity vs Simple – The Confusion of Many Photographers Read More »
HP is a company I have always loved, whose products are well engineered and who have some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley. So just what has got into HP and all the other computer makers, except Apple? The recent news that HP has dropped the TouchPad a month after the US release and …
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The next installment in my coverage of photo books (increasingly known as photobooks) has been published on the HP professional photography blog.
With the Internet already a core part of your business life as an image maker, why not treat the whole world as your local market and expand the opportunities to sell your photography, design or services.
With all the doom and gloom around about the economy it is a good time to reflect on its potential impact, strategies to work with it and make it a positive for your photography or related business. When an economic crisis hits, the natural reaction is for business to rein in its expenditures and that …
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