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Facebook to Jump on Photo-Sharing Bandwagon

13 July 2011
Published in Industry News

In a development seemingly timed to respond to Twitter’s announcement in June that it will be improving its photo-sharing tools, Facebook, too, is planning to launch a new app for photos soon.

Facebook’s photo app would reportedly be a mélange of several others available today, such as...

Smartphone Apps That Will Change Your Life

05 June 2011
Published in Electronic Market

Photographer Rosh Sillars lists some of the latest smartphone applications and discusses how they may change the way you manage your portfolio.

While Google and Apple battle for supremacy in the smartphone application wars, photographers have more mobile options than ever to manage their portfolios.

While your camera will take that great shot, it's the ubiquitous "smartphone" that...

High-Tech Goes Low-Tech

06 May 2010
Published in Electronic Market

Capturing the magic of imperfection with iPhone camera apps

My Facebook page is filled with new comments: "Wow, that is a great photo!" "I can't believe you still have a Holga!" "You're still shooting slides?" "Where do you get Polaroid film?" "You have a darkroom?"

Well, not exactly.

My photographer friends' comments are a testament to something we have all lost in the digital age: the magic of an imperfect photograph. Like many professionals today, I started with film and toy cameras and developed my photographs in a darkroom. Many of my most cherished images had a magical quality, brought about by plastic lenses, light leaks...

Apple Sued Over Use of Image in i.TV App

17 September 2009
Published in Industry News

For the second time, Colorado-based photographer Louie Psihoyos has filed a copyright lawsuit against Apple Computer for using one of his photographs without permission.

Psihoyos alleges that in 2008, Apple illegally incorporated his image into its first version of the i.TV, a free software application that lets users access their TiVo and Netflix accounts. The photograph in question, a shot of a man sitting in front of a dramatically curved wall of screens, titled "500 TVs‚" was registered by Psihoyos in 2005 and reportedly took him a month and $100,000 to create...