Presentation slides for Trends in Communication & Information Technology, JOUR 4871-003, fall 2012, CU-Boulder

1. Photography trends
in the digital age
Trends in Communication & Information Technology
JOUR 4871-003

2. The biggest change...
Good old days:
Dedicated photojournalists,
videographers who teamed More reporters expected to
with reporters, correspondents do their own photos, audio,
video, etc.

3. Tools for the do-it-all journalist

4. More photographers in the news soup
Staff photographers, videographers
Freelancer photographers (especially to work with foreign
correspondents)
Wire-service staff photographers, freelancers
Photo agencies: Getty Images, Corbis, Magnum, Black Star, et al
Reporters, columnists, freelance writers doing their own photos
Eyewitness photographers: found via social-media posts (e.g., via
Geofeedia: Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, etc.)
On-demand eyewitnesses (Rawporter)
On-demand photographers (Demotix, GigWalk, Tackable, Amazon
Mechanical Turk, eLance, Guru.com, oDesk)
Open-to-all stock photo services
Flickr (e.g., GigaOm uses many Flickr photos: Creative Commons
License)

5. Pixoto: A different kind of stock photo service

6. Pixoto Image Duels: crowd-sourced photo ratings

7. Next step: crowd-sourced stock photo service

8. FOAP: crowd-sourced phone stock photos

9. FOAP: crowd-sourced phone stock photos

10. Today’s environment for photography
More competition for professional
photographers, photojournalists
Consumer cameras more sophisticated
Even phone cameras can take pretty good photos
Eyewitnesses with cameras are everywhere (pro
photographers are not)
Non-pro photo often “good enough” for news
purposes (e.g., reporter’s pics; eyewitness shots)
High-end stock photo agencies threatened: More
clients will choose “good enough” (e.g., from
Pixoto, iStockPhoto, etc.)