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.
Photography
iJustine guest-stars in new Internet series
My friend Justine Ezarik (aka iJustine), who blogs at Tastyblogsnack, now stars in a new Internet TV series, Take180’s in2ition. In the latest episode of the fictional series, she gets kidnapped. The Program gave Hope Fox everything she needed: friends, a home – even parents. She had no major complaints, until the day they abducted […]
The Library of Congress meets Flickr
From Robert Scoble, at the outset of his two-week travels: Visiting the Library of Congress and Meeting the Flickr team. I’ll admit I didn’t know about Flickr’s “commons,” launched earlier this year, which includes images from many of the world’s best public photo collections, or the Library of Congress’s Flickr account. Excerpt: By opening up […]
150 photos of TechCrunch50
Finally uploaded the last of my photos from last week’s TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. Here’s the Flickr set with 150+ photos, including Chris DeWolfe, co-founder of MySpace (above), Mark Cuban, Marc Andreessen and Ben Metcalfe with Ayelet Noff.
4 tips for shooting live events
Last month social media consultant and photographer Josh Hallet (Hyku on Flickr) not only took some spectacular photos at BlogHer under difficult lighting conditions — but also managed to upload them in near real time. I asked Josh for his tips, and here they are: Shooting live events and publishing them quickly 1. Gear: I […]