PhotoPLUS 2010 - Delivering What You Promise on Global Assignments

In October, I will be presenting a new program at the 2010 PhotoPLUS Expo, that discusses the challenges of delivering images on assignment, around the world, for a broad spectrum of clients. While PhotoPLUS hasn't released the full program yet, I wanted readers of this blog to get a heads up to the new program (I did get permission from the folks at PPE to announce this though!)

Here are the details:

COMMERCIAL/ EDITORIAL
Thursday, 8:45 AM – 11:45 AM

NEW! Delivering What You Promise on Global Assignments [TA3]
John Harrington
Sponsored by Cengage

Once the assignment has been booked and contracts signed, delivering on your promise is often one of the most challenging parts of the job. The key to longevity in the business is making sure the client gets what you said they would, despite the logistics of getting there, the challenges of pre-visualizing the final image and the demands of working with high-profile subjects. Through a series of his own assignments—covering subjects that range from Presidents to rock stars to your everyday Joe—Harrington will talk you through what it took to get the shot. Whether climbing to the crows’ nest of the Golden Gate Bridge or hanging out of a helicopter for air-to-air photography, the core of this presentation will be about learning from experience and knowing what it takes to get the shot. All levels.

So, go, sign up (when registration opens), and tell your friends! While the book, Best Business Practices for Photographers has all manner of detail on the business of photography, there are not photos. This presentation will show you the photos, the behind-the-scenes images, and other details about how the assignment ended up!

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PLUSnews - Registry to Launch in Fall

We're a big fan of the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition, and they sent us this announcement, that is well worth looking into!

PLUS Registry To Launch This Fall

With core funding now in place, the PLUS Coalition is fully engaged in developing the PLUS Registry ─ a global online resource which connects images, rights holders and rights information.

About the PLUS Registry

~Industry-neutral and non-profit.
~Unique identifiers for every rights holder, image and license.
~Global metadata for a global marketplace.
~Secure metadata with access control.
~Dynamic metadata for dynamic rights.
~Robust metadata, at long last.
~A global hub for all registries.
~Much more than rights metadata.
~Powerful forensic search capabilities.
~Connect using any application.

For more information, and the ability to be a beta tester, click here

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BP and Media Interference

Anderson Cooper does a great job of hitting hard at BP on their seemingly uncanny ability to override the first amendment to the Constitution.


A follow up to the Anderson Cooper piece, below:

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And Paul Melcher has a good take on things here.

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It's Not The Tool, It's the Talent

Time and time again, I get the "hey, what camera is that?" question, as if the camera brand makes my photos better. To the trained eye, you can see some differences, and to be sure, each brand has their feel and features. Yet, all to often, it's not about the tool, it's about the talent. Enter photographer Lee Morris, who did a high end fashion shoot with an iPhone 3Gs.

The iPhone Fashion Shoot - Lee Morris Shoots With The 3GS Fstoppers from FStoppers on Vimeo.

Lee Morris of Fstoppers.com shoots a full fashion session with the iPhone 3gs. You can get more info at www.fstoppers.com/iphone.

Gizmodo wrote about it here - A Professional Fashion Shoot With an iPhone 3GS - and it's just one more point about the importance of talent.

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The Economist - OOOPS!

The good folks over at the Economist seem completely content to alter the reality of an image with some really bad justifications for doing so, as outlined over on the New York Times blog - On The Economist’s Cover, Only a Part of the Picture - and we agree that it's just plain wrong to digitally manipulate this image for the cover, or any other reason, for that matter, in an editorial context, without providing very clear indicators that the photo has been manipulated. Heck, why not just photoshop the President swimming into the oil slick?

Paul Melcher has a few good thoughts on this whole retouching mess, in general, in his post - R is for Retouched.

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