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Photography trendsin the digital age
Trends in Communication & Information TechnologyJOUR 4871-003
The biggest change...
Good old days:Dedicated photojournalists,videographers who teamed
with reporters, correspondentsMore reporters expected todo their own photos, audio,
video, etc.
Tools for the do-it-all journalist
More photographers in the news soupStaff photographers, videographers
Freelancer photographers (especially to work with foreign correspondents)
Wire-service staff photographers, freelancers
Photo agencies: Getty Images, Corbis, Magnum, Black Star, et al
Reporters, columnists, freelance writers doing their own photos
Eyewitness photographers: found via social-media posts (e.g., via Geofeedia: Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, etc.)
On-demand eyewitnesses (Rawporter)
On-demand photographers (Demotix, GigWalk, Tackable, Amazon Mechanical Turk, eLance, Guru.com, oDesk)
Open-to-all stock photo services
Flickr (e.g., GigaOm uses many Flickr photos: Creative Commons License)
Pixoto: A different kind of stock photo service
Pixoto Image Duels: crowd-sourced photo ratings
Next step: crowd-sourced stock photo service
FOAP: crowd-sourced phone stock photos
FOAP: crowd-sourced phone stock photos
Today’s environment for photography
More competition for professional photographers, photojournalists
Consumer cameras more sophisticated
Even phone cameras can take pretty good photos
Eyewitnesses with cameras are everywhere (pro photographers are not)
Non-pro photo often “good enough” for news purposes (e.g., reporter’s pics; eyewitness shots)
High-end stock photo agencies threatened: More clients will choose “good enough” (e.g., from Pixoto, iStockPhoto, etc.)