OSX Lion: Turn your Mac into an iPad
With (questionable) interface improvements Lion unifies the iEverything experience. Don’t break your workflow! Check the vendors website for mission critical apps first. www.apple.com/osx/
Quoting on Video & Stills
As more photographers (including me) create video along with their stills a gap in best business practice has arisen. A Photo Editor blogger Rob Haggart asked photo buyers to field anonymous questions from professional photographers creating video content. Some interesting answers including usage versus day rate, and stills photographers with DSLR cameras being more efficient … Read more
Extensis Portfolio Server 10
Extensis have updated the server editions of their Portfolio DAM software to version 10. Scalable from Studio, Professional to Enterprise, Portfolio is a proven and robust DAM solution. Server digital asset management allows true multiuser support and remote access to assets. New features in version 10 includes improved movie playback and file conversion, better search … Read more
How the stock photo industry ate itself
The British Journal of Photography has very good summary by Betsy Reid on recent events in the stock photography industry. The changes in technology, the market, duopoly, dubious business practice, and the freemium economy saw the death of a once fulltime profession: high quality stock photography. As Executive Director of the Stock Artists Alliance, Betsy … Read more
Media Pro 1.0.1 update available
DAM software for creatives Phase One Media Pro updated to v1.0.1. Mostly bug fixes this is the version we should have seen from Phase One. Media Pro is now usable and for many will replace their old iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media applications. Compared to the latter products Media Pro offers: Larger catalog (less … Read more
PMA Australia this weekend
The PMA Australia 2011 Imaging & Entertainment Expo is on this weekend at Darling Harbour in Sydney. The Australian Institute of Professional Photography will be judging the Canon AIPP Professional Photographer of the Year. Judging is open to the public. Book your ticket online here for free entry or pay $20 entry at the door. … Read more
India’s $35 Tablet
Move over iPad, the Sakshat is a very basic 7 inch Android tablet computer due for release later this month. With Indian Government subsidies the tablet will cost even less to “help [their] students learn”. Video link: http://bit.ly/lyLK9j
Free Metadata Handbook by CEPIC-IPTC
CEPIC (Coordination of European Picture Agencies Stock, Press and Heritage) and the IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) have published a free Metadata Handbook full of useful information for businesses. Download your copy here.
QANTAS new one bag policy
The past two weeks had me flying to Melbourne > Armadale > Perth > Brisbane > Port Macquarie. And to Sydney in between. Half way through these trips on 1 June I knew QANTAS was due to change their baggage policy. You are now only allowed one item of luggage no more than 23kg (32kg … Read more
Lightroom 3.4.1 and ACR 6.4.1 update
Adobe have released updates to their raw image processing applications Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. As well as adding more camera support this release fixes several bugs. The main bug had the potential to corrupt JPEG images if they contained a large amount of metadata as explained here by Tom Hogarty. Download ACR & DNG … Read more