Photography

Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

In Crowdsourcing, Photography on 22 April 2008 with Comments Off

I’m an advisor to a really cool project happening right now in NYC. Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.
The Brooklyn Museum is holding a crowdsourced art show. They held an open call for photography on the theme “the changing face of Brooklyn.” They got hundreds of submissions. Now, the crowd is voting on them. The winners will [...]

An Update to a Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In Copyright, Geek, Internet, Photography on 23 January 2008 with 13 comments

In my original post, I suggested adding a copyright message to a photo and use CSS to crop its view. This accomplishes the goal of adding robust copyright information without defacing your own work. I got a lot of responses to this idea, and wanted to update the post with a few responses to the [...]

A Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In Copyright, Geek, Internet, Photography on 12 January 2008 with 32 comments

I’m a photographer. I’m also a web geek. And those two sides of my brain sometimes fight with each other.
As a photographer, I’m outraged when people grab photos off the web and use them without consideration of copyright. I’ve been fighting this “It’s on the internet, so it must be free!” ignorance for more [...]

Rule 1 for Collaborative Media: Ask First

In Business, Community, Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Internet, Justice, Photography, Technology on 17 December 2007 with 27 comments

Here’s what happened, as far as I can tell.
Lane Hartwell is a fantastic photographer. She recently went full-time with her photography career.
A few weeks ago, an acapella group called the Richter Scales did a parody of Billy Joel’s song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” with new lyrics about the internet. They made a music [...]

How to Shoot Events

In How to, Photography on 7 November 2007 with 12 comments

A few weeks ago I found myself in Beauty Bar in San Francisco. I was standing on the bar, the actual Beauty Bar, in my own private Coyote Ugly.
My head bumped against the ceiling. I was sweating so hard, my glasses were fogging. I adjusted the flash forward so it would bounce in the right [...]

My First Blurb Book

In Books, For Sale, Fun, Photography on 24 July 2007 with 4 comments

I’ve been playing with Blurb and their print on demand tools. Very cool. Here’s my first little photo book.

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Get Lucky!

In Flickr, Invitation, Photography on 13 July 2007 with Comments Off

My wife, she’s always up to something. And this time, she’s inviting you to participate!
Heather picked up a bunch of expired Lucky brand film from China, and she’s giving 100 rolls away - first come, first served. All she asks is that you scan and submit one of the photos to the new Lucky group. [...]

How to Take Halfway Decent Photos with an iPhone

In Apple, Geek, How to, Photography, Technology, iPhone on 1 July 2007 with 14 comments

Heather and I think of our cellphones more as cameras with phone attachments than phones with camera functions. So when a new one comes along, the first question we ask is, “How’s the camera?”
Today I took my new iPhone to the local dog park to find out. Short answer: About average for a cellphone, with [...]

Lomo in Stereo

In Photography, Photos on 4 June 2007 with 6 comments

I had a nagging feeling that Heather’s Lomo was consistently better exposed than mine. So, as an experiment, I loaded the same film into each of our Lomo LC-A’s, and took them both out for a shoot. I did my best to shoot the same thing at the same time.
The results proved that both [...]

Vote for JPG Issue 7 Now

In JPG Magazine, Photography, Photos on 5 October 2006 with Comments Off

The submission period for Issue 7 of JPG Magazine has just ended, but you can still vote for another week. Get your vote on in Big, Self-portraiture, and Hometown! Here are my submissions.

And submissions are now open for the first theme in Issue 8: Tourist. Let’s see your best travel shot!