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 […]
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There are few things that seem obvious at least to us in the journalism world. And one of those is to not try to appeal to photographers by using AI Generated images. Why? Because you're using a method that replaces photographers to try to get photographers to spend money with your brand.
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.
Free stock photography website Unsplash has announced a paid version, one year after Getty acquired the company.
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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.