PetaPixel Friday November 19, 2021
Lensii, originally an artificial intelligence-assisted photo cloud platform that looked to challenge Google Photos, has announced that it’s adding another target to its sights: Instagram. “We figured it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to tell people which of their photos they should share without also giving them a medium in which to actually share,” the company’s founder and CEO, Sunghoon Park, tells PetaPixel. Park believes that Instagram is falling out with photographers for a number of reasons, including the existence of too many ads. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday November 19, 2021
There may soon be a new way for you to make money on Instagram. According to a number of reports, Instagram is ready to launch widespread testing of paid creator subscriptions, a feature that would
offer exclusive Stories visible on a creator's subscriptions, thus allowing you to generate income directly in the app. Instagram has recently added in-app purchase options to its U.S. app … Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Thursday November 18, 2021
“I have explored rivers on foot, canoe, raft, paddle board, and car,” the photographer Ansley West Rivers tells Feature Shoot, which spotlights her “Seven Rivers” project—a visual exploration of the Colorado, Missouri, Mississippi, Columbia, Rio Grande, Tuolumne, Altamaha, and Hudson Rivers. “I feel connected to so many of the early American landscape photographers, like Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge,” she admits. “But I have also shot sections that they would not recognize or know how to navigate,” she says. Read the full Story >>
Justin Mott Thursday November 18, 2021
Transitioning to video from photography can’t be challenging — shooting video requires different skills, such as recording audio. In a new video, photographer Justin Mott has tips for getting started in video. In a related video, he explains why video could save your photo business (see DIY Photography). Read the full Story >>
