Category: Photography & Visual Storytelling
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Grace Park Photo Used On Wikipedia
Grace Park Photo Used On Wikipedia Someone from Wikipedia dropped me a note today to mention that they used this picture of Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica) on her profile. Thx guys! 🙂
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Photography Featured in Beyond Robson
Photography Featured in Beyond Robson Thanks to Matt for featuring my photography in a recent post on Beyond Robson.
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Fotolog overtaking Flickr?
Fotolog overtaking Flickr? Quick! Which photo sharing site community thingie is more popular: Fotolog or Flickr? You might be surprised at the answer…but first some history.
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when the postman looks twice – or why photo theft can be a bad idea nowadays
when the postman looks twice – or why photo theft can be a bad idea nowadays The story I heard of yesterday (my friend Schoki told me about) is an other example for working communites and that stealing intellectual property can backfire badly.
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Eric Appel’s SmartSetr Seriously Rocks
Eric Appel’s SmartSetr Seriously Rocks One of the things that I really like about Zooomr is that we have SmartSets. SmartSets are a much better way of building sets or albums than the way that most photo sharing sites are organized. SmartSets allow you to predefine criteria and then use a data
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Screamo Photoshoot with Lenore Owens and Mitchell Bowman
Recently I had the chance to do a photoshoot with models Lenore Owens and Mitchell Bowman in Gastown that we ended up jokingly calling "Screamo". We had the help of our friends Kimberley Nelson of Discollection, Shai of PrepWork, and Tamar Ouziel. We've done several shoots together now over the past few months and I
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Streisand effect – The increase in popularity of an item due to interest driven by the publicized outrage over its existence.
Streisand effect – The increase in popularity of an item due to interest driven by the publicized outrage over its existence. Streisand Effect is a category of Internet phenomena in which a reckless attempt to censor or remove (in particular, by the means of cease-and-desist letters) a certain piece of information (such as photograph, file
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Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Photowalking with Flickr’s Heather Champ
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Photowalking with Flickr’s Heather Champ Robert Scoble and I spent some time hanging out with Heather Champ for Episode 4 of Scoble Show. Heather talked about her photographic style, the reincarnation of JPG Magazine, Flickr, how she shoots her Polaroids and more as we spent the morning in one o
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Flickr Upload Limits Increased
Flickr Upload Limits Increased And it’s even better to give the gift of Flickr since now your recipients will get unlimited uploads — the two gigabyte monthly limit is no more (yep, pro users have no limits on how many photos they can upload)! At the same time, we’ve upped the limit
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You Witness News
You Witness News Were You There When News Happened? Upload your photos and video here to have them considered for use in articles and features on Yahoo! News.
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FLICKR PICKR / Morning do
FLICKR PICKR / Morning do Narcissism is a recurrent theme on Flickr. There is vast new potential to reveal yourself to the world.
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Lee and Sachi’s Rockin’ Panorama Photos
Lee and Sachi’s Rockin’ Panorama Photos As I’ve mentioned on many occasions, Lee and Sachi travelled around the world and blogged the heck out of it. Lee recently posted a schwack of his favourite panorama photos. Here are a couple:
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How to become a fashion photographer
How to become a fashion photographer A career in fashion photography doesn’t have to be an impossible dream. Three industry insiders tell Ben Widdicombe their tips for getting started.
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How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr, Buying a Business or Franchise Article
How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr, Buying a Business or Franchise Article The original plan had been to create an online game. But they were just about out of money. And then Butterfield had this crazy vision of building a photo-sharing website, and before you knew it Flickr was a
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Photography Christmas Gift Ideas – Fotoclips
Photography Christmas Gift Ideas – Fotoclips Fotoclips are tiny clear plastic fasteners which serve one simple purpose in life: to help you build things with your photos. Each box comes with 110 clips: 100 “2D” clips that hold two photos together, and 10 “3D” clips that allow you to attach photos at
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The 7 Deadly Myths of Internet Copyright in Regard to Photography
The 7 Deadly Myths of Internet Copyright in Regard to Photography The following is a summary of important information regarding the use and misuse of photos on the Internet. It is not specific legal advice. Copyright is a specialized field of law, and there are sometimes exceptions to the rules. If you have a specific
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JPG Photography Magazine – Issue 8 Voting
A few weeks ago I blogged about submitting a few of my photos to JPG photography magazine for inclusion in their upcoming issue. Well, submission are now closed and 3 of my pics are being considered for publication. Please head on over there and take a look at them and vote for these 3 pics
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Flickr Faves: Self-Portraits by Laura Kicey
Flickr Faves: Self-Portraits by Laura Kicey Each week, SMITH photo editor Audrie Lawrence scours the land of Flickr and finds someone doing highly personal, absolutely amazing photography that you, busy reader, probably wouldn’t have stumbled upon yourself.
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Francois Brunelle’s Doppelgangers
Francois Brunelle’s Doppelgangers Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle has embarked on an interesting quest to take portraits of people with their look-alikes. Not the most visually arresting photography project in the world, at least when compared to LaChapelle’s fashion work or Tol