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How Yelp Scams Photographers (and Other Business Owners)
If you’re a local business owner, you know that your number-one priority, day-in and day-out, is marketing your services and finding new customers. And in this digital age, the available options for...
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This Photographer Built a Checklist to Help You Not Get Sued
If you’ve ever worked in commercial photography, you know how complicated relationships with brands, agencies, and sub-contractors can be. In this 11.5-minute video, photographer Chris Hau details how...
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Friends Brought Together by an Automotive Campaign
If there was a theme in automotive advertising photography for 2020, it would be minimalism. This not only applies to aesthetics, but also (and more importantly) to production. We have seen some...
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Khloé Kardashian: Ad Campaign Isn’t a Photoshop Fail — It’s a Wide Lens
Khloé Kardashian is taking to social media to defend her fashion label’s latest ad campaign, explaining to critics that the photos weren’t a “Photoshop fail” — they were simply shot with a wide-angle...
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Instagram Uses iOS Notice to Convince You to Accept App Tracking
Facebook and Instagram have been vocally against any attempts to curtail its apps from tracking users, but with the launch of iOS 14.5, the company has taken that up a notch by subtly threatening to...
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The Controversial History of Colorizing Black-and-White Photos
The ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI) image colorization were recently brought to public attention when several historical images were altered using digital algorithms. Irish artist...
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Google Buys Photographer’s Shot of Seagull Chomping on a Fry
You never know when one of your photos may catch the eye of one of the largest companies in the world, but social media services these days help bridge the gap between photographers and brands. That’s...
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Nikon’s Asia vs USA Z fc Marketing Reveals Divergent Philosophies
Like all major camera manufacturers, Nikon has different teams for different regions. As part of that, each gets its own budget to market new products, and comparing Nikon USA’s choices versus that of...
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Woman Sues McDonald’s After Burger Ad Photo Made Her Break Lent
It seems there’s a food photographer out there that deserves a raise. A woman has sued McDonald’s after claiming that a cheeseburger ad photo she saw was so tempting that it caused her to break her...
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Panasonic Appears to Edit a White Man’s Head onto Black Man’s Body
Panasonic’s marketing department produced a set of images for a new product made entirely from stock images, and as part of that edited a photo of a White man’s head onto a separate image of a Black...
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10 of the Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
1982. Michael Jackson releases Thriller, E.T. hits the movie theatres and Cats opens on Broadway. It was a great time to be a fan of movies, music, and theater. But it was also an amazing time to be a...
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How Watering a Grill Helped Me Shoot a TV Show Campaign
Lighting as a thought process is fundamentally easy to apply to schemata. Water is not. Sure there are the physics that govern the drops via gravity and pull them back to Earth properly, but the...
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How to Photograph and Composite an Advertising ‘Cosmetic Drip’
In this 15 minute video, we break down a step-by-step approach to capturing the images needed to composite an attractive cosmetic drip. We start by capturing the cosmetic portion of the image by...
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Elle Magazine Bans Photos of Fur Clothes to Support Animal Welfare
Fashion and lifestyle magazine Elle has become the first to ban animal fur from appearing in any of its editorial and advertising photos across its online and print editions. Owned by French media...
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Burger King Sued Over ‘Misleading’ Ad Photos of Its Burgers
A group of customers has filed a lawsuit against the fast-food chain Burger King alleging that the company's advertising photos make the food look bigger than what they were served up in reality. [Read...
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McDonald’s and Wendy’s Sued for Misleading Ad Photos of Burgers
McDonald’s and Wendy’s are being sued by a New York man who claims that advertisements for their burgers look much bigger than they actually are. [Read More]
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What is a .Photography Domain and Why Do You Need One?
One of the best things about photography is it is an art form that is currently easily accessible to practically everyone. From creatives shooting on analog systems with film to professionals with the...
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Instagram Adds New ‘Boost’ Option For Reels
As it continues to double-down on video, Instagram will now enable brands to turn their Reels into ads, with a new "Boost post" option built into the app. [Read More]
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You Are About to See Even More Ads on Instagram
As Meta is struggling to revive its falling revenue in order to reverse its downward financial spiral, it is adding new ways for advertisers to clutter up your feeds. Specifically, the Explore feed and...
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How Canon, Adobe, and Fujifilm’s Video Ads Reveal Business Strategies
Seeing television ads for cameras and camera products is not nearly as common as it used to be, but that is starting to change as companies realize they need more general consumer support to survive at...
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