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Stages of a Photographer

I saw this over on kottke.org and thought it was pretty funny and of course mostly true.
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asdfasdf – Design Tips from Photocase

Proofread your design! This little beauty has been on our website for months now, and all of our Spanish users were too polite to let us know.

Let’s NOT Create a Two-Tier Pricing System for Stock Photography

There’s an article by Jim Pickerell called “Let’s Create a Two-Tier Pricing System for Stock Photography” that’s been making the Twitter rounds the past few days. In it, Mr Pickerell suggests that for Stock Photography to survive as a profession, a two-tier pricing system needs to be implemented: a commercial usage price and a small/personal [...]

Vote for me

Here’s something that everyone’s been talking about and I can’t help myself, I have to mention it too. The BBC reports that in Northern Ireland the DUP party bought a photo of a pretty young lady (who may not even be Irish) to use in their political ads. One of their opponents, the UCU found [...]

Quality vs Quantity: Photocase and Westvleteren

This morning, (just as I did last Wednesday) I woke up at 8:30 and instead of going to work, I set my computer up on the kitchen table, poured a bowl of cereal and got prepared to spend the next two hours dialing and redialing the same number. Last Wednesday between 8:59am at 11:10am I [...]

Midnight Update

Just so y’all are forewarned, our servers are going under the knife tonight for a couple of hours. We’re going offline starting at Midnight Central European Time (think Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam) and by 2am they’ll be out of the recovery room and back to normal.