The pandemic hit photographers particularly hard as public get-togethers and events paused for the better part of two years. It appears now that things are improving, and a new study of 3,300 global photographers shows a majority of optimism. [Read More]
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A market research study has concluded that the commercial photography business is growing, largely thanks to a surging e-commerce industry. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-19 17:38
A new study from the University of California, Riverside has found that students who take photos of PowerPoint slides in class or during online presentations were better able to remember content than for slides they did not photograph. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-18 22:19
Immersive virtual reality (VR) headsets may reduce the amount of anesthetic that patients need during a procedure, a study has found. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-22 20:10
A new report has shone a light on photographers’ earnings in the wake of Covid-19 and highlighted how the pandemic was particularly detrimental to minority groups. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-04 21:37
A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody else’s. petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 00:17
A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody else’s. petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 00:17
Photography website and commerce platform Zenfolio has published its "2024 State of the Photography Industry" report, exploring the changing trends among photographers and their thoughts on significant topics like business and artificial intelligence. [Read More]
Over the past few years, video has been pushing its way to the top, shoved largely by social media algorithms. The change has encouraged some photographers to diversify and begin offering video alongside photography — but how long lived is that trend? A new survey by Zenfolio and Format suggests that the amount of creatives offering both photo and video has dropped dramatically over last year’s numbers.
Zenfolio has published its 2023 State of Photography Industry Report that seeks to answer questions about how photographers are doing and how the industry is evolving. [Read More]
Zenfolio is resurrecting a long since thought dead cloud feature: unlimited storage. The company says it is part of the ProSuite Service platform, which also includes marketing, workflow, scheduling, and e-commerce features. [Read More]
Every professional photographer has asked at some point: How much should photography cost? It’s a longstanding question to which there’s no easy answer. But, could this be yet another annoyance that photographers could instead delegate to software? Zenfolio thinks so.
Zenfolio has announced what it calls Smart Pricing, an "advanced data-driven technology" that uses pooled historical transactions to help photographers competitively price their prints and photo products. [Read More]
The start-up software Optyx was based no a simple idea -- what if artificial intelligence could help ease the burden of photo culling? The A. I. photo manager caught the attention of Zenfolio, who purchased the software and added it to its subscription options.