Fstoppers Monday September 25, 2023
Is stock photography worth it in 2023? At Fstoppers, Scottish photographer Gred Sheard runs through dreary stock-photo economics and explains how you might still make money shooting stock. “The key thing I have learned from stock photography is that if you want to earn a good side income ... you need to be committed. The payouts from most of my images are incredibly low; some of my sales have only gone for as little as $0.07,” he notes. Uploading more images will increase your chances for more sales.
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Open Culture Monday September 25, 2023
“After many years of work, I have now achieved excellent results in producing accurate colors,” Russian chemist Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky noted in 1908. Prokudin-Gorsky, who had recently developed a color photography process, made the claim in a letter to Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Prokudin-Gorsky wanted to photograph the famed writer as a way of promoting his invention. What resulted, notes Open Culture, was the only color photograph of Tolstoy, who would die in 1910, just two years after the portrait was made.
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FAA Monday September 25, 2023
Drone pilots who are unable to comply with the broadcast requirement of the Remote ID Rule will now have until March 16, 2024, to equip their aircraft, the FAA has announced. The rule requires every drone to have its own “digital license plate,” adds DP Review. The requirement was to have taken effect this month, but the FAA decided to delay enforcement, noting the unanticipated issues that some operators are experiencing finding remote identification broadcast modules.
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Bronx Documentary Center Monday September 25, 2023
“Armed with considerable charm and five cameras, including a battered Leica (for news or street work), a Hasselblad (usually for portraits) and a panoramic Widelux (often for parades and landscapes), Sylvia [Plachy] broke nearly every rule of composition, many rules of lighting and a few rules of decorum as she pushed or cajoled her way past police lines, into boxing gyms, high society galas and everything in between.” So notes the Bronx Documentary Center, which features the exhibition "Sylvia Plachy—Echoes and Omens” through Nov. 5.
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