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5 Tips For Avoiding The Rights Grab
Read the terms and conditions of just about any contract, website and even some venues, and it’s almost inevitable that you’ll find some form of the "rights grab." Even doing something as seemingly innocuous as posting images on social media...
Misinformation: Camera Tech
Recently, RED Digital Cinema’s mercurial CEO Jim Jannard took to the RED forums to respond to a post asking if the company would ever go “head to head” with the DSLR market.
Vision To Visuals: Feed The Models!
These opening lines from “Feed the Models!” a monologue performed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” by artist Jane Gennaro, are the genesis of her solo exhibition that Duggal helped launch at the World Monuments Fund Gallery in New York City last month....
Misinformation: Camera Tech
Developed as a compromise between the efficient size of compacts and the quality and compositional freedoms of a DSLR, a brand-new breed of camera has appeared over the last year or so.
Vision To Visuals: Preserving Image Quality
I’ve written a fair amount in this column about the rich experience of working with artists who donate their works for charities.
Trademark Yourself Part II
In the first part of this article, which you can find on the DPP website, www.digitalphotopro.com, we addressed some of the key reasons why a photographer should make use of trademarks and how to use and clear that trademark
Misinformation: Copyright Tech
There’s no stopping the Internet. There’s no stopping the Internet. Just as independent musicians and the record...
Vision To Visuals: Artistry And Philanthropy
Among some of the most powerful ideas that are shaping the zeitgeist of today, social responsibility, conscious capitalism, social entrepreneurship and global citizenship are at the top.
Trademark Yourself: Part 1
Ask just about any photographer what area of law protects his or her business, and the answer you’re likely to hear is “copyright.”
What Do You Really Know About Copyright Law?
Ask a fellow photographer what the first thing he or she learned about copyright law was, and you’re likely to come up with a variety of responses that have little to do with the reason copyright law exists, what it seeks to protect or even what r...
Vision To Visuals: Walk, Don’t Walk
Art and real estate enjoy a unique complementary relationship. The depreciation of real estate prices inevitably creates a downward demand trend for art as well.
Release Me!
Like many photographers, my way of seeing the world was influenced by images capturing discrete moments in time in everyday places.
Vision To Visuals: Challenging The Norms
Photography always has played an integral role in the world of fashion. ...
Vision To Visuals: The Model Project
Illustration has long struggled to gain a distinct place for itself in the fine-art world.
Get It In Writing
It’s a universal truth that economic downturns bring increased litigation as people attempt to minimize the liability they have under contracts.
Worlds In Collision
The audience in the screening room at the Collision Conference: Where Stills and Motion Collide had just witnessed history. ...
Vision To Visuals
I grew up in India at a time when its identity was still symbolized by craftsmanship and cottage industries, and not by Internet technology or outsourcing centers.
Your Total Website Solution
As a pro photographer, you have different priorities for using the web as a base for your images compared to amateurs. ...
The Treatment
There’s nothing more embarrassing than moving up the career ladder and sitting in a room with your new peers, not understanding a single thing that they’re saying to you.
Revolutionary Art
When an artist decides to confront complex social issues and express them publicly using a visual platform, we can’t help but be pushed out of our comfort zones and face the troubling aspects of our society, which we inadvertently shelve away from our...
Vision To Visuals: A Savory Combination
My favorite cuisine, Indian, usually accompanies the standard fare of adjectives that range from spicy, hot and exotic to aromatic, flavorful and delicious. Naturally, then, if someone introduces this cuisine, enveloped in the adjective sensuous, I’m...
Take Down That Image
We’ve just seen an extraordinary election year, where even relatively innocuous issues such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s takedown provision was cast into the limelight. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) introduced a num...
Building Your Perfect Website
Remember when everyone who was anyone had a business card, and that was the common currency of business introductions? While business cards haven’t gone away, you’ve probably heard—with increasing frequency—a photographer who says, “No,...
Staying In The Black
I’ve never started an article as many times as I’ve started this one. The mercurial shifts in the global financial markets in the fall of 2008 made my first paragraph irrelevant five times over.
Vision To Visuals: Small Country, Global Focus
It’s not too often that we get asked by consulates of countries to encapsulate their past, present and future legacies into dynamic visual experiences, so I was quite intrigued in October 2008 when the Principality of Monaco asked us to do just that. ...
Orphan Works Explored
Editor’s Note: Of all the legal issues with which photographers are faced, perhaps none is so polarizing as “orphan works.” The U.S. Congress has taken note of the importance of modifying the current law, and new legislation is now in...
Vision To Visuals: Architecture Beyond Building
Last month, I was in Venice for the opening of the 2008 Architecture Biennale where Duggal produced the “Into the Open: Positioning Practice” exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion, a venue reserved by the U.S. Department of State for the Biennales. Our...
Copyright Your Images
I was contemplating a new project when a colleague entered my office. “Did you see this recent article regarding a copyright infringement action where the photographer seems to have been awarded everything she was seeking and more?”
DPP Solutions: Image Optimization For The Web, Part I
First impressions can make or break a photographer. Prospective clients and photo buyers alike who surf the web for interesting photographic work can and will pass judgment on you, for good or bad, in a matter of seconds. While many photographers...
Vision To Visuals: Layers Of Commonality
Photography has the ability to powerfully communicate ideas and hopes, and can teach important messages to its viewers. Tom K. Loughlin, an inspired photographer from Crested Butte, Colo., wanted to do just this. Tom explained to me that he wanted to...
