PDN Photo Annual

Another great gallery of some fantastic images and sites. Lots of ideas to get new ideas from.

Sell your own photos on your site

A pretty smart photog I know, Gerik Parmele, shared this link on his FriendFeed a few days ago. Still need to investigate it a bit more, but I'm thinking it may just work for someone with a niché market and audience.

Unique photo story

Photo story from GOOD depicting personalities of people by what is in their refrigerators and freezers. Found this via 10,000 Words on Twitter.

Great variety of photography

Here's a great gallery of images from the entire spectrum of the photography landscape. From photojournalism to fine art and everything in between.

Might open up your mind to some new ideas, really.

Microstock and the devalued image

When you see companies like this gaining traction of use and investment, it's a good indication for the overall value of images.

Digital cameras have made the creation of images climb rapidly. Now think of your simple business practices....supply and demand. If you have a ton of supply and there is not a demand to use the supply up, what happens? The goods get cheaper.

So, how do you separate your work in an effort to get a better ROI?

Simple Slideshows App for Mac

If you don't have Soundslides or Final Cut and don't like iMovie you can use this free program, Slideshowmovie, to build quick and easy slideshows to be exported as a video file.

There's a ton of free apps on the Apple Downloads site.

Told you photo/video convergence was past tense

They used the RED One to shoot the cover of Esquire magazine.

Bring on the Scarlet!!!

100 Days in Photos

Pete Souza put together images from the first 100 days of the Obama administration and it's hosted on the White House's website. Interesting access issues to think about here.

Found via NPPA's RSS feed

Depth of Field

Interesting audio slideshows on AP photogs working around the world. Good images and nice to hear the behind the scenes or personal elements of shooting in difficult situations.

Eight tips for aspiring photogs

Some pretty good advice in here. The key being that the character of the story didn't need to be prodded and shoved. She went out and did things and was able to get a bit of guidance for her passion and drive.

If you want something bad enough, you will find a way to make it happen. Period.

Slick looking photo project

Tadd Meyers worked on a personal project about people who still make things with their hands, one at a time. The presentation of the images and copy is a really nice Flash package.

I guess I should have kept going on that similar theme I had about a year ago. Typical....

The NEW LIFE.com

All the stories and images of LIFE yore in an online space.

One more time suck to play with.

Great Earth Hour Images

Reuters went above and beyond to have shooters get frames of popular places before and after the Earth Hour event last week, then Boston.com put it all together.

Fun images and use of a simple crossfade.

On the money, and on photos

Great blog post about how focusing on the piracy of photos is not the solution. Making it easier and more functional to use legal licenses of photos is the solution.

Remember, locks on doors and drawers are only there to keep the honest people out.

Might have to get some new wheels like this

The Google Way

This is a very good read and poses some issues that many are fearful to face or comprehend.

Simply put, photography is becoming a devalued practice because of the simple prevalence of imagery.

Then you can follow that up with a rant about the notion of Creative Commons licensing eating away at the value of photography.

Where is the industry and the craft heading? Who knows, all I do know is that pricing for photography was stuck in neutral for over a decade before the flooding of the market with cheap digital camera equipment and tools and photographers. I'm thinking the yoke for the photo plane is pretty much stuck in the forward position and picking up G's.

Transform

'nuf said.

Multimedia Stock Agency

Aurora Photos is launching a multimedia production company. The voracious appetite on the web for video and other multimedia elements could open up a very good opportunity here. Be interesting to see who mimics and who makes the model work effectively. Maybe there's a future there for somebody I know...he'll require he telecommute though. There's not enough open land and mountains in L.A. for the guy I'm thinking of.

Functional Photography Art Project

Photog JR has been creating a unique project in Kibera, Kenya - on of the largest slums in all of Africa.

Really cool idea and functional in how it helps the community the project is literally on. Check it.

Cellular Obscura

Love this notion of getting back to making interesting photos and away from the hellbent technical and technological drive to have perfect pretty pictures.