Here at The Phoblographer, we’ve written an ungodly amount of words about this so-called artificial intelligence, both reflecting on its negative aspects —a majority of them, actually— and the few positive ones we’ve managed to appreciate.
I'm curious if people think using AI images in the photo industry is fair. Specifically, we found a company that caters to photographers by offering support services: but they use images that curiously look like AI.
Recently, Peak Design launched the Micro Clutch: a variant of a wrist strap that has been around in one way or another for many years. The company makes several products that are loved by many photographers.
At the start of December, the BBC released an article looking at the most striking images of 2021. Few of the photographs painted a positive image of the world. However, that's something we should expect, considering how mainstream media uses photography to tell its stories.
I’m sure most photographers have heard of Unsplash, the free-to-use stock image website. You upload any of your photographs, then after a short moderation process, they become available in the Unsplash library for anyone to download and use in any way they like.
I recently received a promotional email from Unsplash. Like the rest of The Phoblographer team, I'm don't support anything the company does. Its model is built on the foundations of a photographer's desperation to be seen.
This article isn't for photographers. It's for the many people who want images and end up ripping off photographers. They know it's wrong. They know that they're using images without consent or permission.
In the race to the bottom, Getty Images always seems to be first. They bought Photo Disc in 1998, one of the first royalty-free photo stock agencies. Then in 2006, they bought iStock, one of the first microstock agencies.
Unsplash has announced that as of today it is being acquired by Getty Images. In a blog post, Unsplash’s founder Mikael Cho says that it will continue to operate as a standalone brand inside of Getty and that the free content model won’t be changing.
If you've read this site for a while, then you know and understand our hate for Unsplash. From their way of blindsiding photographers to their lack of ethics--the list can go on and on. And we've recently taken to discussing it a bit more in-depth.
If you're unfamiliar with Unsplash, don't worry. You're going to get a crash course in why this virus of a company is hated by photographers worldwide. You see, Unsplash is a community-driven stock photography website that prays on photographers who don't know better.
Making a sustainable income as a photojournalist isn't easy at the best of times. To do it during a global crisis where everyone is feeling the strain is pretty much impossible. To help keep the flow of quality photojournalism running, National Geographic is offering applicants between $1000 to $8000, so that they can keep working on stories.
Late last week, controversial free stock photography website Unsplash announced that the Library of Congress, CDC, the New York Public Library and 10 other major institutions would be adding hundreds of scientific and historic images from their collection to the site’s archive.
Stock photography used to be an incredibly lucrative way for photographers and creatives to make good money. The rise of smartphones and everyone having a camera turned the industry sour, though as the market became flooded with images, and then organizations like Unsplash not only stuck the knife in, they twisted it too.
Stock photography used to be an incredibly lucrative way for photographers and creatives to make good money. The rise of smartphones and everyone having a camera turned the industry sour, though as the market became flooded with images, and then organizations like Unsplash not only stuck the knife in, they twisted it too.
For those who ever wondered how Unsplash has been making money since they have been giving away photos for free, the company says they now have the answer: a new advertising model that, they say, was in the works since the platform started.
Back before everyone had a phone in their pocket stock imagery used to be a lucrative platform for photographers to get their claws in to. Now that stock images have completely flooded the numerous services out there the money that can be made has dwindled down to a pittance.
Back before everyone had a phone in their pocket stock imagery used to be a lucrative platform for photographers to get their claws in to. Now that stock images have completely flooded the numerous services out there the money that can be made has dwindled down to a pittance.
If you've been considering posting stuff on Unsplash to get traction for your work, we've been very vocal about what you stand to lose. This time, we want to share what it's like when you're on the other side of the fence, and the legal problem you could find yourself grappling with when you source a photo from Unsplash for use on your blog or website.
On May 30, 2019, controversial free stock photo site Unsplash announced that it crossed the 1 million images uploaded mark. That had much of the photo blogosphere up in arms. Many photographers hate Unsplash because it encourages people to give away their pictures for nothing — not even credit. But I’m going to argue that […]
We have spoken in quite some depth about Unsplash, and how they are unraveling the threads of photography as we know it. Unfortunately it seems as though the threads are being pulled faster, and faster as the company has just announced that over 1,000,000 images have been shared with them by photographers, and creators who may not understand just what they are doing to themselves, or the industry as a whole.*Heavy sigh*
The motivation for this piece comes not only from the message that I've been actively preaching about Unsplash and the companies supporting them, but also because I've noticed that a ton of new photographers who enjoy showcasing their work on Reddit just don't know any better.
Just when we thought things couldn't possibly get much worse for photographers who unknowingly give up their image rights to services like Unsplash, things take another turn for the worse. The real bad part here is that Dropbox, one of the largest cloud based services around, has now got in on the act.
There are a ton of services out there that market themselves as the perfect way for photographers to get their work seen by, and possibly even purchased by major brands and organizations, all you have to do is sign up to use, upload your images and then wait for all of that exposure to pay off; only there's a catch.
You've probably read the Photoshelter Blog post about Unsplash and why their competitor Squarespace is screwing photographers. I've kept my thoughts to myself for a while until a buddy showed me the scope of the Unsplash awards.
Professional photographer Zack Arias has posted a rather passionate video about the issues he sees with Unsplash, a web site that gives away photography for free. “Is this the race to the bottom that we’re all tumbling towards….
We didn’t start Unsplash to reinvent an industry. We started Unsplash because we thought it might be useful. Unsplash is a community where anyone can share high-resolution photos for anyone to use freely.
It was so close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: the gentle freedom-loving all sharing company would be selling to the greedy capitalistic money-making titan. Or, in other words, Getty Images was acquiring Unsplash.
Well, that’s one month in the books for my 365 project. There were some days where the ideas came easy and some nights filled with tears. (Okay not that dramatic. ) According to Lightroom, I took 1244 photographs this month.
Free stock photography website Unsplash has announced a paid version, one year after Getty acquired the company.
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Unsplash has just released “the most complete high-quality open image dataset ever”: an open-source collection of over 2 million images captured by over 200,000 photographers, now available to download in bulk for free.
It is now exactly 2 years since I started uploading stock photos to Unsplash, the “slightly” controversial stock photo platform where everything is free for everyone. I thought this would be a good occasion to share what I’ve gained from my presence on Unsplash.
Ever since I decided to start learning photography, I’ve been looking for a good catalog of composition ideas. Once you figure out the mechanics of how a DSLR works, getting good at the composition of your photos seems to be the 80/20 of rapidly improving at photography. I looked around and heard that the best […]