Pro Photo Summit 2008

David Riecks presented findings from the Stock Artists Alliance Photo Metadata Project at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit. The project looked at how stock agencies ensure that their digital assets have the right kind of metadata so that they can accurately search through (and find…

Skip Cohen, president of Rangefinder Publishing and WPPI was at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit and spoke about the ever-changing marketing challenges facing professional photographers (which Skip defines as anyone paid for any level of photographic services - including…

Natalie Dybisz - also known as Miss Aniela - is part of a new breed of photographers circumventing the traditional path to success in the world of fine art photography by utilizing photo sharing/social networking sites like flickr to build a fan base, launch a portfolio and get…

Seven years ago, world renowned nature photographer Frans Lanting took a photograph of horseshoe crabs coming out of the ocean on the east coast of the USA and remarked to himself that the scene he had just captured probably looked the same as it did millions and millions of…

Kostas Mallios, General Manager of the Microsoft Rich Media Group, chats with me about the 2008 Pro Photo Summit. We discuss the importance of photography in the technology space, why Microsoft hosts the summit each year, who attends the summit, what do they talk about and "where…

The Microsoft Icons of Imaging is an exclusive group of (thirteen) industry leading photographers and digital imaging experts whose workflow is based within the Windows environment.At the 2008 Pro Photo Summit we brought the Icon's together for a series…

Traditionally laptops have been the lower-performance compromise you make for leaving your desktop. Lenovo has changed that paradigm by producing this monster machine. With the first Quad Core Extreme CPU ever on a laptop, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 (with 1GB video memory), RAID 0 or 1, and 8GB (!) of…

Photographer Lou Lesko's presentation at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit was titled 'Let the photo pirates have their way: the advantages of not worrying about image-theft and actually giving some of your images away'.A somewhat controversial subject, Lou's argument is that allowing your…

For the past three years the Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Competition has been held in conjunction with the annual Microsoft Pro Photo Summit to find talented up and coming student photographers from around the world.This years winners - Arjan Koetsier, Whitney Dafoe, Colin Miller,…

For the past three years the Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Competition has been held in conjunction with the annual Microsoft Pro Photo Summit to find talented up and coming student photographers from around the world.This years winners - Arjan Koetsier, Whitney Dafoe, Colin Miller,…