PicApp: Quality images for your blog from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Have you noticed that blogging has been getting more professional lately? Part of it is the wealth of classy-looking templates and widgets available for users of WordPress, TypePad and other blog platforms. But it’s also due to plug-ins like Zemanta (which I now […]
Photography
Photo Finder will find you wherever you are
The Facebook photos application has been by far Facebook’s biggest success: The easy to use interface for uploading pics from your computer and then brilliant point-and-click tagging of friends has proved intensely viral. There are now more than 15 billion photos on Facebook, making it the largest collection of pictures in human history. More than 850 million […]
The four personas when shooting a portrait
I loved this wise passage — from the Sunday New York Times Magazine in Behind 'Obama's People' — about the nature of portrait photography, which I've been slowly getting into: In "Camera Lucida: [Reflections on Photography]," his searching reflection on how photographs convey their meaning and emotional power, Roland Barthes suggests that any time a […]
Photographers find unwitting success with social media
LA Times: Photographers find unwitting success with social media. Or, how pro-am and amateur photographers are attracting a following on Flickr and other photo-sharing sites (such as Richard Peters’ Spring lamb photo, above). My Flickr sets are here.