Want to earn some cash? Kevin Jordan at Improve Photography has a nice article titled 20 Ways to Make a Side Income with your Camera.
Here’s the short version:
Apple has launched a microsite called How to shoot on iPhone 7. There are 16 videos, each lasting about 30 seconds and presented in a snappy Apple way. You can pick up some quick and easy photo tips.
Here are some samples:
The PhotoSecrets logo has been modernized to match a new typeface I’ll be using on future guides. The typeface — called “Montserrat” — has a more rounded and friendly look, a larger x-height (the lower-case letters are closer in size to the uppercase ones), and I’ve dispensed with the italics on Secrets.
For over 20 years (since my first PhotoSecrets guide book in 1997), I’ve been using Helvetica Black for the logo typeface. But now that my website and books are using a more modern typeface (Adobe Source Pro) for the body text, I’m changing the titling logo to match. Designed in 1997 by Julieta Ulanovsky, Montserrat is based on “old posters and signs in the traditional neighborhood of Buenos Aires called Montserrat.”
PHOTOSECRETS is a registered trademark.
For your safety, PhotoSecrets now uses SSL security. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a form of Transport Layer Security, that allows websites to transfer data over HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL). All PhotoSecrets webpages are served over HTTPS, which is effectively a secure layer on top of the standard HTTP web protocol. You may see a green padlock in your browser address bar to confirm that the site is secure.
“HTTPS doesn’t just protect user data, it also ensures that the user is really connecting to the right site and not an imposter one. This is important because setting up a fake version of a website users normally trust is a favorite tactic of hackers and malicious actors. HTTPS also ensures that a malicious third party can’t hijack the connection and insert malware or censor information.”
— Motherboard
“What a security certificate is: When you go to a site that uses HTTPS (connection security), the website’s server uses a certificate to prove the website’s identity to browsers, like Chrome.”
— Google
Google is pushing for all websites to use HTTPS and is increasingly noting those that do not. Here are the top holdouts:
Websites that are popular but unsecure | ||
|---|---|---|
| Website | Rank U.S. | Rank World |
| EBay | 10 | 36 |
| >CNN (Time Warner) | 25 | 102 |
| Bing (Microsoft) | 26 | 42 |
| >IMDB (Amazon) | 30 | 55 |
| >BBC | 79 | 107 |
| >Go (Walt Disney) | 102 | 400 |
| Selected major websites not using SSL/HTTPS, using ranking from >Alexa, as of May 2, 2017 | ||
Sony says that “their continued growth has vaulted them into the #2 overall position in the U.S. full-frame interchangeable lens camera market” (source, 4/14/17). This is based on research by The NPD Group using dollar numbers for January and February 2017 for what they call the “U.S., Detachable Lens Camera, Full Frame” market. Although not mentioned by name, presumably Nikon is the supplanted company (and presumably Canon is still the #1 overall).
However, there are several caveats that should be noted. The conclusion is based on:
Meanwhile, over at Flickr, camera usage has been stable for the past year. The rankings are:
On the plus side, it’s nice to see vigorous competition, and it provides an excuse to show the new $4,500 α9 camera, which I would like someone to give me:
Photos from Sony.
