By Roy Barker

As we have discussed there are many avenues open to a professional photographer. Some actually graduate from the world of business into corporate photography. Corporate photography has many facets; it is used for publicity, in the form of advertisements; for public relations, for historical purposes, and for in-house brochures. Some corporate photographers can work for the same company for many years. They cover special events in the companies’ history, as well as being as in some cases an important aspect of industrial history. The history of the steamboat, the transition from the Agrarian to the Industrial revolution has all been captured on film.

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By Robert Provencher

One thing I discovered during my experience with digital photography after 20 years of shooting film, and I teach this point in all the many seminars that I’ve put on to hundreds of other full-time pros, is that digital photography is very well suited for the portrait photographer. So why are we the last to jump on the band wagon? Many commercial shooters have known about and mastered the use of digital in their business’s for far longer than the portrait photographer.

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By Roy Barker

As we have discussed there are many avenues open to a professional photographer. Some actually graduate from the world of business into corporate photography. Corporate photography has many facets; it is used for publicity, in the form of advertisements; for public relations, for historical purposes, and for in-house brochures. Some corporate photographers can work for the same company for many years. They cover special events in the companies’ history, as well as being as in some cases an important aspect of industrial history. The history of the steamboat, the transition from the Agrarian to the Industrial revolution has all been captured on film.

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In this photo provided by WTMJ-AM radio in Milwaukee, a group of soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard stationed in Iraq, hold up a comically misspelled sign mocking recent comments by Sen. John Kerry about people who didn’t study in school being ’stuck in Iraq.’ According to Air Force Public Affairs Officer Capt. J. Elaine Hunnicutt, ‘the soldiers’ intent in taking this photo was meant as a humorous response to the current debate in the media and the command recognizes it as such.’ (AP Photo/WTMJ-AM)

Associated Press

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - A woman lost her footing after stepping over a retaining wall to take a photograph and went over a cliff, falling 500 feet to her death in a canyon, park officials said.

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By KARIN STANTON, Associated Press

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii - It started as a simple online advertising gimmick, but Brian Powers’ aerial photography project grew into something quite different. Powers, owner of Hawaiian Images Photography and Video, has photographed the entire coastline of the Big Island and posted the work on his Web site.

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Associated Press

TOKYO - Japan’s top camera maker, Canon Inc., will stop developing new single-lens reflex film cameras as more people abandon film for digital, company officials said Thursday.

The Tokyo-based Canon’s move followed a similar move by its closest Japanese rival, Nikon Corp., which announced earlier this year it would stop making seven of its nine film cameras and concentrate on digital models.

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Kodak to Increase Prices for Consumer & Professional Photographic Papers and Processing Chemistry

Increasing Raw Material Costs Lead to Price Action

Press Release, Eastman Kodak Company

ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 22, 2006–Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it will increase prices on its range of consumer and professional silver halide-based photographic papers and processing chemistry on a worldwide basis.

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In this handout photo from Yahoo! Shelly Fergus, left, competes against Sabel, a six-year-old chimpanzee, in Yahoo! Techs Man vs. Monkey Technology Challenge in New York Citys Bryant Park, pitting human against chimp in a race to shoot and print a digital image.

The event promoted Yahoo! Tech, a new Web site from the Internet company, that offers technology information in a language anyone can understand. According to General Manager Patrick Houston, Yahoo! Tech makes technology so easy a monkey can do it.

(AP Photo/Clark Jones,Yahoo!, HO)

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK - With its market eviscerated by digital photography, Eastman Kodak Co. last year stopped making black-and-white photo paper.

It was a loss most photographers could live with, except for a few who dreaded the loss of Azo, a paper with unusual characteristics that Kodak had made continuously since 1898. Other papers “just are not as beautiful,” said Michael A. Smith, a photographer who prints all of his work on Azo.

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