Archive for the ‘Photo’ Category

April 24th, 2013

What Do Photographers Make

Jobs Rated 2013: Ranking 200 Jobs From Best To Worst

Our annual Jobs Rated report celebrates its Silver Anniversary this year, 25 years removed from its inception in 1988.

From the outset, the Jobs Rated report has generated a lot of attention primarily because most Americans spend more time on the job than they do on anything else, and knowing how their job ranks against other jobs is compelling information. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates the average employee spends more than two-thirds of his or her day at work or on work-related activities. That’s more time than we spend sleeping or raising our children.

The findings we present here are more than just curiosities. Unlike many other facets of life, the jobs we work at are choices we make; ones we can stick with or change. Therefore the “measure” of a job can tell us a lot about the quality of our lives.

2013 Jobs Rated Report
The 10 Best Jobs of 2013
The 10 Worst Jobs of 2013
2013 Jobs Rated Methodology

No two work experiences are guaranteed to be alike, and different career paths cater to unique skills and interests. Ultimately, only the individual can determine the best job for her or his abilities and passions. However, the Jobs Rated report exists as a road map for determining the career field that is right for you.

January 30th, 2013

Slides Just Do Appear

We received an email from former photo editor of Australia Surfing Life Lee Pegus. He was looking for our physical address as he was re-hired by Peter Morris (publisher) to go through thousands and thousands of slides that had been at the Morrison Media office for years. His job was simply to return them to their owner. We cannot THANK YOU enough for your efforts and doing this for us and the hundreds of other photographers out there. In the past when you submitted any photos to any publication they did not have to return any images back to the sender unless the images we’re asked to be sent to them.

November 13th, 2012

Above New York City

Remember the days when ASA 3200 was the high. This cover photo of New York was taken by Iwan Baan the day after hurricane Sandy at ASA 25,000 using the Canon 1DX, with a 24-70mm lens.

October 23rd, 2012

A Camera Men’s Dream

Samy’s Camera located at 431 South Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

October 11th, 2012

The Making Of Print On Demand Photography Books

When: Saturday, October 13th 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: San Diego Art Institute, in Balboa Park
Cost: Free

Learn how to create stunning print-on-demand photography books from A&I Books publisher and editor Rex Weiner. From the basics of A&I’s free BookCreator software to image selection and choosing fonts, in this presentation Rex will explore the ins and outs of making outstanding photography books. Rex will discuss how to approach your own photography book, from the initial concept, to building your project in the easy-to-use page layout software, BookCreator with tips on printing, paper, and how to fund and promote your book. Rex will talk about editing how to make your book a coherent and singular product. Special emphasis will be placed on making good design choices, and how to present your photographs in the best possible way. You will walk away from this lively and informative seminar with new information (and inspiration) you can use to develop your own outstanding photography book.

Presenter: Rex Weiner Publisher/Editor-in-Chief at A&I Books (www.aandibooks.com) with more than three decades in the media industry, Rex Weiner is a New York-born journalist, publisher, author and editor based in Los Angeles. Weiner’s feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Observer and writes regularly for the Jewish Daily Forward. Weiner co-authored The Woodstock Census (Viking, 1979), a widely-hailed survey of the Sixties Generation’s impact on American society. As Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of A&I Books, he pioneers print-on-demand publishing for books of fine art photography.

August 17th, 2012

No Trust In Photography

Are people today just primed to distrust photos as never before, to the point where they will see deception where there is none?

I think that what has changed over time is that the photograph itself was once considered a trusted source. At the advent of photography, most people didn’t believe it was possible for a photograph to be manipulated. Thus, when they saw visual “proof” in a photograph, it would bypass their normal filters for determining what is or is not believable.

As people have become more familiar with how much photographs can be manipulated, and as the tools for doing that manipulation have become more powerful and accessible, that special status that photography once enjoyed has faded away. It isn’t that photographs are inherently distrusted, but just that they’re no longer inherently trusted. Today, I would guess that a photograph carries only slightly more inherent trust than the written word—and then only because people know it is still much harder to convincingly fabricate a photo than it is to fabricate a story. As tools like Photoshop continue on their path to becoming more powerful and easier to use, it’s likely that even that slight advantage will disappear. When it comes to trust, perhaps a photograph will no longer be worth a thousand words. Kevin Connor

July 22nd, 2012

GOODBYE VELVIA

As a photographer it’s kind of like loosing a loved one. In this case it’s our love for Velvia film as they will be discontinuing this by the end of 2012.

A film that took the place of Kodacrhome 64 in the early 90′s by surfing photographers for it’s rich blues and greens. R.I.P Velvia 1990-2012