PhotoShelter shows its love for photographers with its own competition and by sponsoring other competitions.
(Credit: PhotoShelter, Jayme Burrows, Marili Forastieri)PhotoShelter's business is all about housing your photos and helping you sell photography, but the people who run it also seem to care a lot about photographers. As part of that, they recently ran a photo contest and have sponsored two upcoming contests. PhotoShelter's own contest was called Elevation 2008 and was judged by Paul Moakley, senior photo editor of Newsweek; Phil Bicker, creative director for The Fader; Michelle Egiziano, director of photography for Spin Magazine; Michele Outland, art director for Nylon Magazine; Stephen Walker, director of photography at Nylon Magazine; and Clinton Cargill, photo editor for the New York Times Magazine. The five winners--Tiana Markova-Gold, Matt Lutton, Mary Amor, Antonio Pulgarin, and Carla Richmond--will each receive a fancy portfolio, prints to fill it up, promotional cards to help build some buzz about their budding careers, three months of free PhotoShelter Personal Archive Standard account service, and are featured in the May PhotoShelter Editor's Showroom. They're also being featured this week on the photo blogzine flakphoto.com.
Since running their own contest wasn't enough for them, PhotoShelter has also signed on as a sponsor for the New York Photo Awards, which are a part of the about-to-kickoff New York Photo Festival. This Friday there will be an awards ceremony at St. Ann's Theater in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn. PhotoShelter's director of photography Meagan Ziegler-Haynes will be one of the judges for the Festival and the company's Personal Archive is hosting participating photographers' images to make it easier for the judges to see the work.
By now, you may be feeling a little late to the game when it comes to these contests, but if you want to compete in a PhotoShelter-sponsored photo competition, you still have a chance. They're also among the sponsors of the Exposure competition being put on by Artists Wanted. You can submit photos online from now until June 17 and the winner will be announced July 15. The winner will get $2,008, have her/his work displayed on the side of buildings in the Chelsea, DUMBO, and Williamsburg neighborhoods in New York City, will get a promotional campaign, and will be featured in Artists Wanted's upcoming publication The Annual. An opening event will take place at the Leo Kesting Gallery in Manhattan on August 9.
Flickr has temporarily disabled PhotoShelter's Flickr import tool until it fully complies with its API usage guidelines.
(Credit: PhotoShelter)Earlier today I wrote about a new tool that PhotoShelter announced to let its customers migrate images from Flickr accounts to their PhotoShelter Personal Archives. Since then, Flickr has disabled the tool. A company spokesperson for Flickr said, "Photoshelter did not follow the guidelines outlined by Flickr around API usage. We are currently working with them to correct the issue."
My contact at PhotoShelter said that the company is working on the problem and a message on the new tool's page notes that, "Flickr has temporarily disabled this feature. We are working to address it and apologize for the outage." In my previous post I said that it was great to see two photo sharing services find a way to play nicely together. I guess we'll just have to be patient while they synchronize their playbooks.
A new tool from PhotoShelter lets you import images from a Flickr account to your PhotoShelter Personal Archive.
(Credit: PhotoShelter)Barely a week goes by when I don't see a story about someone's photo being stolen from Flickr. I guess I'm not the only one, because PhotoShelter today announced that they've added a tool to their customers' Personal Archive accounts that lets them import images from, or export images to, a Flickr Pro-level account. Ultimately, it's a pretty slick way for the company to capitalize on the fact that PhotoShelter's Personal Archive provides a more secure environment for photographers, since it doesn't allow unauthorized viewing or downloads, though photographers can set selected galleries as public if they want to allow non-password-protected viewing. Plus, PhotoShelter's system includes an e-commerce engine, so you can set prices and sell your images.
The new tool also preserves any keywords or descriptions previously added in Flickr, and since PhotoShelter's system automatically recognizes EXIF data, you shouldn't lose anything in the transfer, except the possibility of your image becoming the unwitting star of an international ad campaign without proper compensation. The tool also lets you transfer images from a Personal Archive account to a Flickr account in case you want to take advantage of that service's photo sharing capabilities. If you use both services, this new tool gives you a nifty way to add watermarks to your Flickr photos, since PhotoShelter's system has a tool to do just that. Isn't it great when two photo sharing services find a way to play nicely together?
PhotoShelter is beefing up its executive ranks with new hires from AMEX and Getty Images.
(Credit: PhotoShelter)While Getty Images continues to look around for someone to buy them, the rising Internet-based stock image house PhotoShelter today announced that it has hired two new executives, one of which it hired away from Getty. When it launched its stock image business called the PhotoShelter Collection late last year, the company promised to invest $1 million toward promoting the Collection's images among buyers of stock photography. As part of this effort, the company has hired former American Express Senior Product Manager Andrew Fingerman to be PhotoShelter's new vice president of marketing, and Getty Images' former market development executive Genevieve Harley as the PhotoShelter's new director of sales.
PhotoShelter's history with Getty has been slightly rocky. Having started their stock business at a time when Getty was feeling heavy pressure from microstock sites, PhotoShelter offered a new model for stock photography sales with a much larger percentage of sales going to the photographers themselves. At the time, Getty had made a drastic cut in prices for all its stock images, offering them all for $49 for online use, while keeping the percentage going to photographers the same. That decision angered many of the company's photographers, and Getty modified its pricing plan again. However, many photographers were still less than pleased. Given Getty's tumultuous situation, you have to wonder if Ms. Harley's departure marks the beginning of a coming exodus as the company's employees prepare for tough times at the photo giant.
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