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Photographer and Author, John Harrington joins host Scott Sheppard to share some details about his work and an update on his recent talk about the Orphan Works Bill at this year’s MS Pro Photo Summit. Based in Washington, DC, John is often on assignment covering staff at The White House in addition to his broad range of commercial, portrait, and occasional wedding work. John’s websites include a blog "Photo Business News" that allows him to share his passion and wealth of information on the business side of photography. John and Scott also discuss some issues and commentary about the recent partnership between Getty and Flickr. John points out, which is also well documented on his blog, Flickr’s early partnership with Photoshelter.net. John explains some examples of how Getty may be leveraging their new partnership via stock image searches.

John recently finished his book "Best Business Practices for Photographers"where he shares his experiences and interactions with clients that have helped him build his successful, and fulfilling, photography business. John explains some highlights including very valuable lessons in negotiating pricing and contracts.

His passion for educating photographers and working with interns led him to create another valuable resource site "Assignment Construct". On this site, John actually explains in detail how to setup your gear and environment for a range of photo assignments. The videos are also available as a podcast on iTunes and offer time saving tips, and techniques.

Find out more about John’s client work at: http://www.johnharrington.com/ or visit his blog sites at: http://www.photobusinessnews.com and http://www.assignmentconstruct.com

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara

This week’s topic: Digital photo projectors come of age, but beware of smoke
and mirrors.
Almost overnight decent digital projectors dropped in price from thousands of dollars to under $500. Now the best projectors offer image quality that is compelling enough for photographers to consider as showcase for their favorite photos and portfolios (or use on the side . They’re also more portable than a wide screen TV, and cheaper than making prints to show off. But just as until recently the digital camera industry focused too heavily on megapixels to determine image quality, there are misleading specs and several smoke and mirror acts that can mislead you into buying the wrong projector for showing photos. In fact there’s a war going on between the projector manufacturers, split nearly 50-50, and it all came to a head at the Projection Summit and Infocomm 2008 trade show in Las Vegas last month.

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David Riecks, Developer, Controlled Vocabulary joins host Scott Sheppard for an in-depth look at keywording and metatagging your images. Controlled Vocabulary is a unique plug-in that makes it easy for you to add pertinant keywords to you image library. Versions are available for Aperture, Lightroom, Bridge and many other cataloging applications. The plug-in contains a list of defined keywords and categories and makes tagging your collection as easy as picking an item from a dashboard list. For more information visit: http://www.controlledvocabulary.com

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara

This week’s topic: Did Nikon shoot itself in the foot with the D700?
The D700 is priced 2G less than the D3, but why did Nikon introduce it now when the D3 was in such hot demand? There’s not much more that the D3 offers over the D700 for the price, and the D700 is lighter and even has a pop up flash to control wireless SB-800s and the new SB-900. Was Nikon trying to shoot down any remaining sales of the much older, but full-framed Canon 5D? I don’t think so—in fact, I thing the D700 is just a distraction for a big Nikon coming attraction at Photokina in September.

Click here to listen to Nikon’s position on D700 in our recent interview with Steve Heiner.

Photographer, Peter Krogh, joins Inside Digital Photo to give us an update and shares some tips on digital asset management for photographers. Peter wrote the definitive book on this subject "The DAM Book:Digital Asset Management for Photographers". Peter clearly explains the dilemma faced by any digital photographer which is managing the thousands of images which have now replaced the old chrome archives. Peter offers some simple solutions for primary storage and also on the best configurations to manage multiple drives and of course secure backups. For more information about Peter’s work, his book, and many other projects visit: http://www.thedambook.com or http://www.peterkrogh.com

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