Andrew Paul Leonard is a photographer and one of Ed’s clients. Mr. Leonard is also an electron micrographer. Shooting through an electron microscope he is one of the precious few professional photographers in the world who can both use scanning electron microscope and then create color images of stem cells. The black and white image […]
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According to the good folks at Petapixel.com, the current Miss Universe faces hefty fines and a possible jail sentence for an unsanctioned photo shoot, shot at the Taj Mahal. Read their article here. Looks like they were promoting and/or advertising a shoe brand. Real Estate brokers are fond of stating that, “The first three rules […]
To post or not to post? That is the question. This was going to be a comment in reply to Damian in our “comments” area, but we decided it really warrants its own article. Basically, the question is, “Just what rights do you give up in those social media Terms of Service (TOS) agreements”? To […]
Sign, Sign Everywhere a Sign
May 22
There was a “Top 40” song, years ago in the last century, called “Signs”. A Canadian group called The Five Man Electrical Band sang this counter culture classic. The lyrics included: … sign, sign. Everywhere a sign. Blockin’ out the scenery. Breakin’ my mind. Do this. Don’t do that. Can’t you read the sign? There […]
There was a front page article this Sunday in the New York Times that is the same subject we covered last month in this post titled “Ag Gags for Carnivores, Vegetarians, Vegans and Yes, Photographers”. It’s about how several states are making it illegal to take photos on farms and of animal abuse. Very scary […]
Still Working For Free?
Mar 14
We have over three plus decades repeatedly written, urged, cajoled, screamed, advised, suggested and prodded members of the photography and illustration communities to never work for free. There isn’t an argument or rationalization against that position that we haven’t heard a hundred times. Now someone has made many of the same arguments that we have […]
We have talked and written about several instances where a seemingly meaningless image became valuable weeks, years or even decades after the photo was taken. Here’s the story of one that was shot at a very conventional wedding. Real names, states and other identifiers have been changed or omitted. The facts are accurate and very uncomplicated. All […]
Again relying solely on a story appearing in The NY Post. Click here to read. It is claimed that “Famed Photographer David LaChapelle Sues his Ex-manager for 2.8 million dollars”. We don’t know if there is any validity to the claims. We do know that reps, agents, managers, gallery owners and agencies which sell or […]
The blogosphere is abuzz today with news that Instagram has updated and changed it’s Terms of Service (TOS) today. You can read it here. Basically, skip down to the rights section and you can read what we call a blatant rights grab by Instagram. They can use your images or even a photo of you […]
Effective November 7th, 2012, Canada made sweeping changes via their Copyright Modernization Act. There are many changes, but the major one for photographers is that now photographers own their own copyright rather than the commissioning party. Previously, if you hired a photographer, you owned the copyright and photographers had to transfer the copyright to themselves […]
