The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017

Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast!]( TODAY'S POSTS [Walkthrough: How to Edit a Landscape Photo in Lightroom and Photoshop]( [This Graph Captures the Struggle of Organizing Your Photo Library]( [2017 Industry Figures Show Years Long Camera Sales Slump May be Ending]( [Waterbird Develops Innovative New Bendable Slider]( [Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark]( [Medical Ad Spoof Pitches Pill that Will ‘Cure’ Your Gear Acquisition Syndrome]( [Ok, We Get It. You Shot It With Your Phone.]( [An Interview with Photographer Jeremy Cowart]( [The Story Behind this Viral Photo of a French Policeman on Fire]( [The Only 3 Reasons to Work for Free]( [Walkthrough: How to Edit a Landscape Photo in Lightroom and Photoshop]( May 03, 2017 01:37 pm | [DL Cade]( [Watch the Video]( Lots of photo editing tutorials these days focus on one specific technique or edit—[how to sharpen]( or [how to use the HSL tool]( for example. But if you’re just starting out and you need a complete photo editing walkthrough, this tutorial will take you through a landscape photo edit from start to finish. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [This Graph Captures the Struggle of Organizing Your Photo Library]( May 03, 2017 12:33 pm | [DL Cade]( [A good lifehack is to use messy and unstable systems to organize your photos. That way, every five years or so it becomes obsolete and/or collapses, and you have to open it up and pick only your favorite pictures to salvage.] The photo organization struggle is real. Whether you’re a professional photographer shooting thousands of photos per client, or a hobbyist who can’t resist grabbing your phone for every sunset, [today’s xkcd comic]( captures your photo organization struggles beautifully. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [2017 Industry Figures Show Years Long Camera Sales Slump May be Ending]( May 03, 2017 11:59 am | [DL Cade]( After years of declining sales figures and the requisite reporting on the industry’s “imminent” collapse, it seems the camera market has finally plateaued. The [latest CIPA numbers]( show modest growth in some areas and neutral numbers elsewhere, hinting that a long sales slump might finally be over. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Waterbird Develops Innovative New Bendable Slider]( May 03, 2017 10:38 am | [DL Cade]( If you feel like your timelapses have gotten a bit stale, Austrian company [Waterbird]( has a creative new product that might break you out of that rut. It’s called the Multislider, and it’s the world’s first bendable camera slider. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Photographer Souvid Datta Appears to Have Plagiarized Mary Ellen Mark]( May 03, 2017 10:36 am | [Michael Zhang]( The award-winning photographer [Souvid Datta]( found himself in the middle of a controversy this week when his photo of a young sex trafficking victim [was used to promote a photo contest](. But now a serious new accusation has emerged that threatens Datta’s credibility as a photojournalist: one of plagiarism. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Medical Ad Spoof Pitches Pill that Will ‘Cure’ Your Gear Acquisition Syndrome]( May 03, 2017 09:52 am | [DL Cade]( [Watch the Video]( Need a little comic relief? Check out this medical ad spoof for Noventus, a pill that will cure you of the dreaded Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS)… as long as you don’t mind a little bit of rectal bleeding and an “atrophied sense of self.” … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Ok, We Get It. You Shot It With Your Phone.]( May 03, 2017 08:58 am | Allen Murabayashi Ok, we get it. You shot it with your phone. You brought your DSLR, but you fell into a fountain and waterlogged all your gear. The repair estimate was nearly $2,000, except you went to Thailand and got it fixed for $120. Good thing you had your iPhone. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [An Interview with Photographer Jeremy Cowart]( May 03, 2017 08:32 am | [Phil Mistry]( [Jeremy Cowart]( has done it all: celebrity photographer, app creator, photo teacher, photo book author, lecturer, humanitarian and in the future maybe a hotel owner, where he envisions “changing the world in your sleep.” … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [The Story Behind this Viral Photo of a French Policeman on Fire]( May 03, 2017 08:26 am | [DL Cade]( Photographer Zakaria Abdelkafi’s shocking photograph of a French anti-riot policeman set ablaze by a molotov cocktail has quickly spread to every corner of the world. And yesterday, only one day after Abdelkafi captured the photograph, he shared the story behind it. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [The Only 3 Reasons to Work for Free]( May 03, 2017 07:56 am | David Justice Working for free has a huge stigma attached to it, and for good reason. If you don’t know how to work for free properly, you can be taken advantage of and devalue other photographers’ work in the process. That’s why there are, in my opinion, only 3 reasons to work for free. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/03/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( YESTERDAY'S POSTS [How to Build Your Own Flash Trigger with an Arduino]( [Harper’s Projected 150 Iconic Fashion Photos Onto the Empire State Building]( [I’m a Wedding Photographer, and I Fell Into a Fountain with All My Gear]( [Photo of Illegal Drone in National Park Shows the Sheer Scale of Lava Spout]( [How To Scout a Location for Landscape Photography]( [Instagram’s CEO on Copying Snapchat, Handling Harassment, and More]( [Every Photo Comes with Built-In Debt, or: The Ethics of Photography]( [Do You Have a $4,000 Travel Photo Sitting on Your Hard Drive?]( [LG’s Latest 4K Monitor is a 42.5 Incher That Can Be Split Into 4 Screens]( [The Dos and Don’ts of Landscape Photography]( Copyright © 2017 PetaPixel, All rights reserved. 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