APA Partner United Funding Says

If you’re hearing nobody is lending money, you’re not talking to us.

Our money faucet is wide open!

We have over a dozen banks and investors eager to lend money to Professional Photographers.  Why?  With over 17 years in business,  and a history of processing over 4,000 photography applications, our portfolio [...]

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®3 software is available!

Lightroom 3 is the essential digital photography workflow solution that allows photographers to quickly organize, enhance and showcase their images from one application. First released as a public beta in October 2009, the final version of Lightroom 3 introduces a completely redesigned performance architecture that better handles growing image libraries and provides an unrivaled raw [...]

PhotoShelter: Where Your Website Fails, Your Blog Succeeds

Photography Blog Handbook

Terry Richardson has photos of himself palling around with super models and celebrities. Vincent Laforet has behind-the-scenes tests of the newest gear in exotic locations. David Hobby has a daily readership that probably eclipses your annual traffic. You’re probably thinking, “I’ll never be able to blog the same way as these [...]

ID RELEASE, New iPhone App

Contact:

Chrissy Reilly

212.274.1000

chrissy@win-initiative.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW IPHONE APP, ID RELEASE, WILL CHANGE THE WAY MODEL RELEASES ARE OBTAINED.

New York, NY (4/20/10) – A new iPhone application is set to change the way releases are obtained in the photography and filmmaking industries. iD RELEASE, the professionally-designed, easy-to-use application, walks the model through [...]

APA ALERT on Muench Photography Inc, v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company - (concerning use of the Corbis Copyright Assignment Affirmation Declaration)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                May 10, 2010

APA ALERT!

Do you have images with Corbis?  Did you sign the Corbis Copyright Assignment Affirmation Declaration?  If so, you may have invalid copyright registrations.

Last week, Judge Loretta A. Preska of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, issued a summary judgment in the [...]

Sneak Peek at Blinkbid 6.0

This time last year I wrote an article for Digital Photo Pro about the coming incursion of motion in the still photography world. The piece was received with the typical love and embrace you’d expect when delivering a message of radical change and upheaval.

“Dear Mr. Lesko, you have lost your mind.”

“Dear Mr. Lesko, we’d love [...]

Stop Accepting $200 Assignments! ... a post from A Photo Editor blog

A Photo Editor blog has a great article with comments from some up and coming photographers that are experiencing today’s economic reality.  The opening statement says a lot.

I’m a struggling freelance photographer just like many out there, I’m sure. I’m not widely known, nor have I been in the industry for decades with a client [...]

From ADBASE Insight… The Power of a Postcard: How the simple postcard offers a marketing edge

By Jen Charron

Sometimes the simplest of marketing tactics can be the most effective. At a time when art buyers are being inundated with promotional emails, a simple printed postcard featuring a strong image has the power to cut through the clutter.

Before email made it easy and very affordable to reach prospective clients, photographers and illustrators [...]

It’s just a little radical change.

By Lou Lesko – Founder, Blinkbid Software

When I walked into my office this morning my normally ebullient office mate was staring at his computer screen with the gaze of a doped up mental institution inmate. “Why so glum?” I asked. He had his last cigarette on Friday night. Just over forty-eight [...]

A Lesson In Reading The Fine Print (When Giving It Away Doesn’t Pay)

APA Notice, September 7, 2009
From Stephen Best, APA National CEO

One of our members, who is also an educator received an email last week that needs to be brought to the attention of all APA Student and Educator members. It is posted here:

Dear Professor xxxx,

I am the author of the upcoming book “Stocked Up”, a collection [...]