This morning a couple new features were made available to image sharing sites Flickr and Zooomr. While trying to get my morning fix of Flickr I mysteriously could not load the site. Frustrated I ended up checking in on Zooomr to find that “Discover” had been enhanced to find the latest and greatest by hour, the last day, the last week, the last month and the last year. I’m looking forward to checkin
So about a year ago Photosynth was announced by Microsoft and to be honest I was unimpressed. For those that don’t know what Photosynth is it’s a unique technology approach to allow users to search across a vast number of images in a very interactive way. To quote Microsoft’s take on this I’ll quote their web site: “Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object,
Something I meant to share last Friday that ties in my previous posts on copyrights. The following case both exemplifies the impact of copyrighting and not copyrighting your photography. Appeals Court Confirms Photographer’s Rights in Case – imaginginfo.com Amazing to think that there could be any claim that using an image in a collage is acceptable after agreeing to a previous licensing agreement definin
For those of you that are unaware today is the first day that the Library of Congress is accepting applications to Beta test a new electronic submission system. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be selected to take part. It will definitely make my life easier and will speed the process by which I register my photographic work. It should also be noted that one of the benefits of electronic submissio
To date I’ve made two posts on Flickr: * The Dark Side of Flickr: Photo Phishing By Corporate America * Flickr + _Rebekka + Availability of High Resolution Images = Nightmare Today I read about two more stories of photographers images being stolen and used for commercial purposes. * A fourteen year old’s self-portrait being lifted off Flickr for use on a porn DVD * In Germany a political party lifts a pho
A common topic of discussion by semi-professional and professional photographers is how to deal with the changing market dynamic of photo sales. Smaller photo agencies exist in smaller numbers and many older agencies have been acquired by the like of Getty and Corbis. Stock appears to be the primary means of selling photography these days. Major stock agencies have been putting the squeeze on photographers as the yea
It would seem Zooomr Mark III is being released today. Strangely I’m not seeing how to login just yet. At the moment the index page consists of two videos, one a message from Kristopher and the other a demo of the sites new features. Once released I’m looking forward to diving in and exploring what is being offered. With Yahoo’s Flickr and SmugSmug having stock sales functionality on the horizon it
New Registration Fees are in Effect Electronic submission via the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) now costs $35 Registration with paper forms now cost $65 As an offshoot to my article “Flickr + _Rebekka + Availability of High Resolution Images = Nightmare” I thought it might be beneficial to go into greater detail about what I do to protect my work using copyrights and why. First I will say that I am no