“Rephotographer” Richard Prince Loses Copyright Infringement Case
Update: The ruling has been overturned, and a judge has ruled that Prince's usage is fair use.
Update: The ruling has been overturned, and a judge has ruled that Prince's usage is fair use.
When PetaPixel reader David Anderson opened up the April 2011 edition of Shutterbug magazine, he was shocked to find a terrorist in one of the advertisements. Someone should alert the TSA to this, since they published a poster warning us of this type of terrorist back in 2010.
Jonathan over at PhotoWeeklyOnline created a couple photography-related word search puzzles that contain words like "aperture" and "shutter". There's two puzzles, one for analog photography terms and one for digital. Print out the PDFs for a fun handout at a photography-related event or a quick diversion from work if you need a break.
A couple weeks ago we reported that a lawmaker in Florida was trying to make photographing farms a felony. Turns out the Florida Senate Committee on Agriculture actually approved the bill this week, but only after passing a couple amendments that make the bill a little more reasonable. The new version of the bill only concerns photographs taken by people who trespass onto the private farmland, and instead of a felony the crime will now be a misdemeanor. Whew.
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below.
Made in the early 1960s, Fisher Price's Picture Story Camera was the first "camera" owned by many photo-enthusiasts. They're built out of paper-covered wood and plastic, and contained a tiny disc with eight different "photographs" that could be seen by looking through the viewfinder -- similar to the View-Master, except not in 3D. To change the photo, you simply hold down the shutter and turn the "flash", a yellow block with pictures representing the four seasons.
An old lady brings her newly purchased Canon T2i and kit lens back to a camera store in Toronto claiming they were defective.
