“The Phoblographer Weekly Recap” is a new feature where we recap the week’s most popular posts. Each weekend, we will present you the top ten posts of the week for your perusal. If you’ve missed any of our popular stories that week, you’ll find it here. Among this week’s top posts: Why Your Pictures Suck, Scientology Photoshops an Image, and Traps That Aspiring Photographers Get Caught In. Find the complete breakdown after the jump.
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Western Digital’s My Passport line have always been popular with amateur photographers. But today they’re announcing the My Passport Ultra, which feature USB 3.0 integration, WD Smartware Pro backup software with Dropbox, and the standard hardware encryption. Dropbox integration is extremely interesting since many phones and mobile devices these days have Dropbox installed, so it means that there is a greater spread of your files across the cloud. For the person wanting to show off their portfolio later on, this feature will make things much easier if they carefully curate a folder after automatic uploading.
My Passport Ultra 500 GB MSRPs at $99.99 USD, and the My Passport Ultra 1 TB is $129.99. There is a 2 TB option, but no word on pricing yet for that unit. They’re available now at the Western Digital Store.
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A couple days ago, Adobe announced their new CC platform–which puts everything in the cloud and requires a monthly fee. Despite the fact that this is still more affordable overall and that work can still be saved to external hard drives, the creative world is very split with those not so happy about this being very much up in arms. Listening to their customers, Adobe stated in a blog post on their Photoshop blog that they’re considering what they can do as far as giving photographers a bundle to work with. By far the two most popular pieces of software are Photoshop and Lightroom 5. At the moment though, if you just want Photoshop, you can lock yourself into a $19.99 fee per month or choose to cancel at any time for $10 more. And if you’re running a studio or an independent photographer, it’s a fee that’s well worth budgeting for.
For photographers that don’t know where to start, we put together a quick guide for you. Photoshop Elements is an alternative for sure if you don’t need full Photoshop–but it is still best complimented by Lightroom.
If you’re a working professional, studio owner, or on a collaborative team, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the new Creative Cloud in the comments below.
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Can you believe it? Everyone and their mother thinks that all we do is push a button and we make loads of money–but in fact, we don’t! Go figure!!! A Photo Editor linked over to a report from Career Cast, which still ranks us as higher than a Newspaper Reporter. From former internships, I can tell you first hand that it’s a tough gig. In fact, Newspaper Reporter ranks in amongst the top 10 worst jobs of 2013. If you Google, “Photographer layoffs” the first thing that comes up is the infamous round of firings that CNN did of their photo staff in their decision to go with user generated content which they specifically coin their iReport. As controversial as a decision as that is, the Boston Marathon Bombings show us that there is a true need for the photojournalist according to another report from the Chicago Tribune.
More analysis after the jump.
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Editor’s Note: Creating the Photograph is a new series that we’re starting where we interview photographers all about the photo that they shot and talk to them about how it was achieved. The results are some knowledge passed onto you. Want to be featured? Email chrisgampat[at]thephoblographer[dot]com
Bill Wadman is an NYC based photographer that has specialized in portraiture and editorial work for many years. His previous projects, 365 Portraits, won him much praise from many media outlets a couple of years back. He has also been a contributor to TIME, BusinessWeek, Improper Bostonian, POZ, Popular Photography, The New York Times, La Monde, Eloquence, Der Spiegel, Wharton Magazine, Times of London, USA Today, The University of Chicago Magazine, Fast Company, WIRED.com, and Corriere della Sera. Advertising clients include Gillette, The NY Lottery, UBS Bank, Practical Law Company, and (RED). But most recently, he’s also been one of the hosts of On Taking Pictures–one of the best photography podcasts we’ve seen as of late. We asked Bill to talk to us about this photo called, “Diner Scene.”
And here’s how he created it for our latest edition of Creating the Photograph.
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This week in photography history we are celebrating the life of an icon, a master of his craft, and one that died too soon, and too under-appreciated in his career. Garry Winogrand, arguably one of the most prolific street-photographers (though he really hated that term, and preferred to be just referred to as a still photographer), passed away on March 19th, 1984; this week we are looking into Garry’s career and appreciating his massive contribution to the world of photography.
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