## PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for February 2004 ## 401

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Hello Keywords, Goodbye Captions

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If you use a search program like Google, you already know the benefits. Why spend time in a reference library searching hours for information that you can find in seconds on the Internet? If you need hardcopy, well, then you can visit the local library. Or, you can buy the book through Amazon.com. But it doesn't end there. Rumor has it that Amazon.com is now developing a process to upload all of the world's literature and have it available for research. And, naturally, Amazon will have the hardcopy available for sale.

Does this give you a clue on how a stock photo collection of the future should be archived and keyworded?

TWO METHODS

Photobuyers usually have two classic methods of locating pictures. If they need a picture that illustrates a concept, they visit an on-line picture library and choose a picture that comes close. If they need a specific "needle-in-a-haystack" image, they choose to search for it on a text-based system because it's fast and easy.

Are you an editorial photo researcher? Photo researchers now are choosing to use text ("keywords") to locate specific images that they need. If a photographer includes keywords (what we used to call "captions") along with the images that they list or display on the Web, their chances to make sales have vastly improved, because you, a buyer, are able to quickly pinpoint a specific photo.

BUILDING BLOCKS

The amount of sales a stock photo collection gets will be based on the attention the photographer puts into providing complete text descriptors for each of his/her images. (This no longer means just "captions.") Web crawlers such as Google periodically go through the world's websites to gather information about images. If a photographer has definitive descriptions of each of his/her pictures, photo researchers can locate images on the photographer's personal website and negotiate sales. This cuts out much of the dreaded paper work.

A quicker way for photographers to succeed through this method of research that is now coming of age, is to place a collection of their text descriptions in a service such as the PhotoSourceBANK here at PhotoSource International. Photographers are provided with their own website, where they can enter 3,000 words or phrases describing specific photos available in their files. Each day hundreds of photobuyers check in to the PhotoSourceBANK to search for the source of photos they need.

Each time a photographer comes back from a trip, vacation, self-assignment, or assignment, they should add keywords to their Internet presence. These keywords are the "building blocks" for sales of images in their photo collections.

The possibilities for finding highly specific photos via the Internet are reaching new heights for photo researchers.

Changes

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Each month we report to you, moves among, within and between: publishing houses, stock agencies, photo buyers, photo researchers, and agencies, design firms.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE (1145 17<sup>th</sup> St NW RM 809, Washington, DC 20036) Contact person Leah Boonthanom, Illustrations. Former phone: 1 202 857-7185; current phone: 1 202 857-7199.

SUGAR Y AZUCAR is out of business.

DALLE, former address: 35 Cours Michelet, Paris La Defense 92060 France; current address: 12 Rue des Mares, Moisson 78840 France.

COLLEGE AND CAREERS PRESS (PO Box 13103, Chicago, IL 60613-0103) former phone: 1 312 691-1000; current phone: 1 773 248-6590.

COLOR COUNTRY (PO Box 1550, St. George, UT 84770-1550) Former phone and fax: 1 801 628-4171, 1 801 673-3540; current phone and fax: 1 435 628-4171, 1 435 673-3540.

DPI DESIGN PRINT INC (11875 W Little York, Ste 801, Houston, TX 77041) former phone: 1 281 463-1984; current phone: 1 713 849-6650.

Adventures in Digital

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…an intrepid photographer's foray into the wilds of digital photography…

By: Jeffrey Hoare, Travel Photographer

I've done it -- bought a digital camera. I was talking to a colleague at the World Travel Market, the UK's annual major travel trade fair in November, when he started asking about digital. I answered to the best of my knowledge but realized I was only giving secondhand information. I decided it was time to stop sitting on the film/digital fence.

Having read a lot about digital over the years, I worked out what I felt would be best for my work, and the next day bought a Fuji FinePix S2 Pro body, which takes Nikon lenses. With batteries, a charger, plus a 1GB CompactFlash card, I signed away £1,200 (US$1980) on the ever-useful plastic. The only other possibility I considered was a Canon 300D at £880 (US$1440) with lens. But I've been using Nikon long enough to accumulate ten lenses, so the choice was almost a foregone conclusion.

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Editorial Photo Guide For Picture Professionals

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Most consumers will enjoy this coffee table book as an entertaining look at America today. But for the editorial professional, the book becomes a living textbook of what goes into a winning editorial photograph.

AMERICA 24/7, A Digital Time Capsule of American Life, was produced by Rick Smolan and David Cohen. They are the creators of the now famous series, "Day in the Life" books. Smolan and Cohen marshalled nearly 4,000 professional photographers and tens of thousands of amateurs to participate in the 24-7 project, to produce a number of television documentaries, traveling photography exhibits, and 53 large-format, lavishly illustrated books. The national volume, America 24/7, is a 305-page coffee table book which is the largest and weightiest of its kind yet.

In a one-week span, from May 12 – 18, 2003, the 24/7 photographers captured life around them, ranging from a NASCAR event in Concord, North Carolina to a baseball practice field in Caribou, Maine; from a teen fashion show in Chicago to a children's playground in Iowa.

TRAVELERS ABROAD

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Photobuyers: Watch this column. For the e-mail address, phone or fax number of the traveling photographer, call the PhotoSource International office and ask for Hanni Peterson (1 800 223-3860). For an expansion of this list: www.photosource.com and press the Travelers Abroad button, to learn of past international destinations of our photographers.

Maciej Rydel

January 30 – February 15, 2004

Athens, Greece

February 16 – March 11, 2004

Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand

Henry Westheim

February 4 – June 27, 2004

Taiwan

Rob VanNostrand

February 26 – March 2, 2004

Jamaica

Janie Mertz

March 10 – March 17, 2004

Beijing, China

June 2 – June 17, 2004

Alaska

September – October, 2004

Thailand

Charlene Peters

September 2 – December 18, 2004

Netherlands, Paris, Rome, Greece

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COMBINED "AUTHORSHIP," As It Applies To Stock Photos. The movie, "DINOSAUR," a Walt Disney film made back in 2000, can help prepare picture professionals to handle the issue of the use of parts of different photos to create "combined" digital images. In the case of "DINOSAUR," Hollywood created the film's creatures in the digital darkroom. As in other computer-generated movies, the credit lines list teams of artists along with their expertise. Individuals are credited for their work on just one small part of a finished creature, e.g. skin, voice, eyes, and so on.

In relation to stock photography, combined digital images are becoming more and more prevalent, because of pre-press convenience, delivery ease, lower costs, and research availability. It is important now for researchers, editors and photographers to recognize that "combined authorship" is only going to increase; it's a way of the future. To stay in the action, photographers may have to allow parts of their images to be combined with parts of other photographers' images, to achieve new saleable images. Issues like preventing loss of copyright, and payment and credit for these "parts," will be of prime legal concern for picture professionals in the coming years.

More info: http://www.animationartist.com/upcoming/Dinosaurs/dinosaurs.html

Photographic Exposure And the Simplified Zone System

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"The Confused Photographer’s Guide to Photographic Exposure and the Simplified Zone System," by Bahman Farzad, 2003, ISBN 0-9660817-1-4, $29.95, 290 pages. In this updated and expanded version of his Confused Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Spotmetering, Farzad takes the principles of Ansel Adams’ zone system for determining proper exposure, and applies them to modern-day SLRs. Farzad presents an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach with detailed illustrations and analogies, and unlocks the mysteries of in-camera meters, explains how to interpret and apply their results along a five-stop zone grid, and tells what to do if spot meter readings fall outside the five-stop range. Included are tips on when and how to use incident meters, and suggestions on handling various lighting situations. –David Arnold & Gail Rutman

Windows Messenger Service

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By: Bill Hopkins On-Line Editor, PSI

I'm not talking about Instant Messenger (IM), but about a service built into Windows that was designed to send alerts and perform other tasks when the computer is connected to a network. Problem is, spammers and others have been using this service through the Internet (just another form of a network) to cause malicious damage and/or spread viruses. If you're running Windows XP (the latest flavor of Windows) you can easily disable this service. If you're on a home or small office network, it's still mostly OK to disable it, but those of you on a corporate network need to check first with your network administrator. Here's how to proceed for the disabling process: Click Start, then Control Panel. Double-click on Administrative Tools, then double-click on Services. Double-click Messenger. In the Startup Type list, choose Disabled. Click Stop, and then click OK. This also applies to Windows 2000, though the steps are a bit different. If you want to know all the details, check out http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];330904. As a final recommendation, ensure your Windows operation system is up to date with the latest security patches and fixes by clicking on Start, Windows Update (or directly at http://www.windowsupdate.com). And NEVER, EVER click on or respond to ANY e-mail claiming to have updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, etc. Microsoft does not distribute updates via e-mail--only through the Windows update Internet site.

What's the biggest issue you have with your consumer-level digital camera? If you've acquired a not-quite-pro-level digital camera, the main bugaboo is the time required to save each image (close seconds are the boot up time, and shutter lag time). Kyocera has just introduced a point-and-shoot camera with blazing (for digital) frame rates, called the Finecam SL300R. It has a 3.2 megapixel resolution, brushed aluminum case, and an LCD display easily viewed in daylight. You can fire it at a frame rate of 3.5 fps continually (or until the storage device is full). To do so, though, you have to turn off the flash, turn off the auto review feature, and use a special type of memory card (that does not come with the camera). These special memory cards are made by SanDisk, Panasonic and Lexar, to name a few. The cards come in 256Mb and 512Mb versions. If you have (or get) one of these cameras, or your buddy has one, drop me an e-mail and let me know your experiences.

Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/onlin140.html

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You may at times want to find a SKETCH, DRAWING or PRINT to serve your publishing project. Here's a website that will help you quickly locate the illustration you need: http://www.portfolios.com

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PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

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Magazine AD REVENUE Up 6.3%, Pages Show 1% Decline - December 2003 vs. 2002 Seven of the 12 major advertising categories experienced growth in ad revenue over December 2002, while five categories saw an increase in pages. http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/20765.html

Photography in ADVERTISING- The advertising photographer must illustrate, explain, excite, and help to create a desire for the advertised product. Today's advertising photographer must go beyond being just a camera technician.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20040125/arts/arts1.html

PASSION for photography, nature, click for Morsen - Photographer Paul

Morsen's subjects are fickle things. They can't always be counted on to

strike a winning pose, and they rarely appear the same way twice.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/entertainment/7793245.htm

Faces behind the cameras - To understand what goes on behind the camera and inside their minds, Daily Times talked with some of the top names in the competitive industry of FASHION photography.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-1-2004_pg7_18

Photographer brings FARMWORKERS' lives into focus - Celia Roberts wanted to remind people over and over again that 85 percent of the produce they eat is harvested by hand by people who work long hours for low wages.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1911385,00.html

Adobe, NMHA Announce Call For Entries - Adobe has announced a call for

entries in its fourth annual Design Achievement Awards, which recognize

talented student designers, illustrators, digital filmmakers and computer artists in U.S., Canadian and British design schools.

http://www.pdnonline.com/photodistrictnews/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu _content_id=2075222

Facing digital realities, KODAK to trim staff - Eastman Kodak announced

plans Thursday to cut roughly 20 percent of its work force, as it moves

further away from its traditional film and camera business and tightens its focus on digital markets. http://news.com.com/2100-1047-5145259.html

VEER adds Four Exclusive Rights-managed Collections From CSA Images - Veer, a provider of unique visual elements and design-related products, today announced that the company has been named the sole North American reseller of CSA Archive, CSA Plastock, CSA Printstock, CSA Snapstock rights-managed collections.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/20766.html

Want to read more "Photography in the News? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/pitn.html

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