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First Photojojo Photo Safari an Amazing Success!

Photojojo — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:45:25 +0000

To the nearly 100 of you that came out for our first Photojojo Photo Safari in NYC, we salute you! Amazing photos were taken, lots was learned, fun was had, and we even discovered two real-life street artists in-action.

Our next Photojojo Safari is coming up in one week in San Francisco, and we’re in NYC again in two weeks. Sign up for email updates for our events to get the dish!

Come to our NYC Photo Safari this Saturday! (10/25)

Photojojo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:19:29 +0000

Details: http://photojojo.com/safaris/details.html#10-25

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32071174020

Photos from our Lightpainting Meetups!

Photojojo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:21:11 +0000

We hosted a lightpainting event in NYC and SF last week with our good friends at Lomography and JPG Magazine and had an amazing turnout for an evening full of night photography fun!

Here’s a few shots people have been uploading so far from their night in Union Square and Dolores Park…

by ricky montalvo

by PJZ

by bhaggs

by urbanblitz

by citybumpkin

Group shot, by Amit

Photojojo Light Painting Meetup in San Francisco and NYC! (9/3)

Photojojo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:39:53 +0000

(Photo by our friend Matt Nuzzaco, who wrote a great light-painting tutorial for the upcoming Photojojo Book!)

As summer rolls to a close, what better way to celebrate than to get outside with friends and have fun with photography? We couldn’t think of any, so we teamed up with our chums at JPG Magazine and Lomography to put together a fun outing this week!
This Wednesday, September 3rd, at 7pm join fellow photo fans outside in NYC and San Francisco for some lightpainting fun!

There’ll be someone on hand to show you how it’s done, lots of others to help you create fun light paintings, cameras on loan from lomo (and bring your own) and even some coupons for the Photojojo Store.

Where (NYC):Union Sq Park, under the George Washington Statue
Where (San Francisco) Dolores Park, under the statue of Miguel Hidalgo in the middle of the park
When: Wednesday, 9/3 at 7pm
Bring: Your camera, charged batteries, friends, and a light source (flashlights, cell phones, LEDs, etc.)

Don’t miss it!

RSVP on Facebook: NYC Event ~or~ San Francisco Event

“Guess What” Photo Challenge on JPG Magazine

Photojojo — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:50:09 +0000

Check out out the fun photo challenge we cooked up with our friends over at JPG Magazine this week: Guess What.

Take a picture of something close up so it’s hard to tell what it is, then get people to guess!

The challenge is open through next Wednesday, so submit soon!

Getty Images + Flickr Make a Deal

Photojojo — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:22:31 +0000

You heard it here first! Getty and Flickr have just entered into an exclusive partnership to sell Flickr images.

Here’s how it’ll work:

Getty editors will scour Flickr for images they deem saleable
They’ll contact photographers whose images are selected to see if they want to make them available for licensing by Getty Images
Assuming the photographer says yes, the images become available through Getty’s Flickr collection, and accessible to all their existing customers in the image licensing space

It remains to be seen how many images Getty will select, what deal they’ll offer photographers, and how they’ll select images. But people have been wondering what impact Flickr would have on the stock photography space for years, and this is a pretty interesting deal!

More info:

The Flickr Collection (Flickr Blog)

The official PR release

more details after the jump…

Here’s the official FAQ:

What is being announced?
Getty Images and Flickr are announcing an exclusive partnership that allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members to participate in a Flickr branded collection on www.gettyimages.com that will be available for licensing to Getty Images’ creative and editorial customers in the coming months.

How does this benefit my customer?
We know that our customers were already going to Flickr for inspiration and they often would try to license images. This partnership allows them to more easily find the images that are commercially viable, and then to license them with confidence.

It also means customers will have access to even more fresh, authentic and regionally relevant content that expands our best-in-class imagery offering.
Are all images on Flickr going to be in the collection?
No. At launch (which is scheduled for later this year), we will have tens of thousands of high-quality images available for commercial licensing on Getty Images. Our goal is to make thousands more available over time. Getty Images editors will select the most marketable Flickr images and create a Flickr Collection for customers to license at www.gettyimages.com. They’ll select images for the Flickr collection according to Getty Images’ unique understanding of what our customers need, using insights gained from the creative research processes developed by Getty Images. Photographers will have the option to take part, or not.

The images selected will be cleared with their Flickr copyright owners, so that they are ready for license on gettyimages.com. Their prices will vary, depending on the licensing model assigned to each image and each customer’s intended use.

What license model will the images be under?
At launch, the edited collection of Flickr images will be available to Getty Images customers through the Flickr branded collection on gettyimages.com – which will span across all three licensing models – rights managed, rights ready and royalty free. Prices will vary, depending on the license model, but the pricing will be similar to other RM, RR and RF imagery at gettyimages.com.

When will the collection be available?
The collection will be available to customers in the coming months (it is not available right now). Prices will vary, depending on license model, but the pricing will be similar to other RF, RR and RM imagery at gettyimages.com.

Will customers be able to find the selected images available for license on Flickr?
A “license this image on gettyimages.com” button or function will be enabled on Flickr for images included in the Flickr collection, to enable Flickr visitors to license such Flickr images through Getty Images.

Can Flickr photographers distribute the images they have on Getty Images through any other distributor, or is this an exclusive deal?
This is an image-exclusive deal. If a Flickr photographer decides to have an image distributed through www.gettyimages.com, they cannot distribute that particular image, or any similar image, through any other site. They may, however, choose to distribute other images anywhere else.

Does this deal mean that our customers can legally use images from Flickr?
Yes. When the Flickr collection launches on www.gettyimages.com, customers can be confident in the rights and clearances of any Flickr image licensed by Getty Images.

What customer segment does this deal address?
All of Getty Images’ customer segments: media, agency and corporate.

What is the goal of the Flickr collection on gettyimages.com?
This partnership represents the continued innovation that moves the industry forward to meet the changing needs of Getty Images customers. This relationship offers a responsible way to bridge the world of Flickr’s photo-enthusiasts with traditional photography, offering a customer experience that is different than microstock. Getty Images customers will have even more fresh, diverse and regionally relevant imagery to use for their communications projects, with confidence.

What does the deal mean for each company?
Getty Images will have an exclusive partnership with Flickr to source and license select, potentially marketable photos discovered on Flickr for Getty Images’ creative, commercial and editorial customers.

For Flickr, this partnership gives members a potential entry into the world of stock photography, leveraging Getty Images’ strengths and expertise for their members’ benefit. The Flickr collection on Getty Images is a testimony to the photographers who have influenced the aesthetics of commercial photography with authentic, creative and personal images.

What to Do if your Eye-Fi + CF adapter won’t work with your Canon 20D, 30D, or 40D

Photojojo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:16:09 +0000

One of the cool things about buying Eye-Fi at the Photojojo Store is that we sell a Compact Flash to SD adapter with firmware especially tailored for the Eye-Fi. This means you get super-speedy Wi-Fi speeds in your CF camera.

Occasionally, we hear of customers who have problems using Eye-Fi with the CF adapter and their Canon 20D, 30D, or 40D, and in talking with several of them, we’ve determined that the problem often occurs when the camera is running an older firmware that doesn’t deal as well with SDHC cards, like the Eye-Fi.

When you see a CF error in a Canon, the first thing we recommend is people try formatting the Eye-Fi in their camera.

This only erases photos, and doesn’t touch the part of the Eye-Fi that’s responsible for its Wi-Fi smarts.

If that doesn’t work, it’s worth trying a firmware update. Reader Matt Beller was kind enough to send us a list of the steps he used recently to get an Eye-Fi plus adapter working with his camera:

First I checked my firmware on my Canon 30D.. I was one behind.. My camera was running 1.0.5 and I downloaded 1.0.6 from canon.

After the camera was updated I put the Eye-Fi in the card adapter and put it in my 30D camera.. I still got the CF error. So I tried formatting in the camera and that corrected the CF error. I could take pictures with it.

I put the Eye-Fi card in the USB reader and plugged it into my computer and the Eye Fi manager was able to initialize the card again and restore the wireless settings.

The card now works both in my SD550 and my 30D.

Hope that’s helpful to some of ya! Also worth noting: If you ever need the Eye-Fi desktop software that came with your Eye-Fi, you can download the most recent Eye-Fi software here.

The Flip Video’s Little Brother: Flip Mino

Photojojo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:00:25 +0000

We were fond of the tiny $100 Flip Video when we looked at it a year ago, and now he’s got a baby brother: The Flip Mino.

2 GB of memory, rechargeable battery, and 40% smaller (about the size of a Blackberry Pearl). $180.

We’ll have one today or tomorrow and will let you know what we think on our photojojo twitter account!

Improv Everywhere’s Camera Flash Experiment

Photojojo — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:56:54 +0000

Gather 700 volunteers with cameras:

Line ‘em up on the Brooklyn bridge:

And create a ‘wave’ with camera flashes from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

Watch the video above and ready the full story and peep more photos on the Improve Everywhere site!

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Photojojo — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:29:50 +0000

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