Sure we all dream about working for National Geographic and travelling to exotic locations, but have you ever considered the perils of being a photographer? Based on a recent survey of 45 National Geographic photographers, the PhotoSociety put together this graphic showing all the hazards they encountered. Hit the jump for the full image.
Well that didn’t take long. The iPhone 4s is already the 2nd most popular cameraphone on Flickr. I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised since they are selling like hot cakes and this version has improved camera features.
Artist Erik Kessels has an installation at Foam which physically show how many photographs are uploaded to Flickr in a 24 hour period. When we hear about large numbers, it is difficult for our brains to visualize the information. Installations such as Erik’s help us realize how large the data set actually is.
Most people don’t understand how much work goes into wedding photography. They think you show up, take a few photos, and that’s it. ISPWP put out a survey to which 50 photographs responded. As you can see in the graph, on 12% of a photographer’s time is spent actually taking photographs. The rest of the time is spent editing, advertising, and general business duties.
Maybe Michael Bay knows what he is doing after all. In the following infographic, we see that there is a direct co-relation between the number of explosions in a movie, and it’s box office revenue.
National Geographic’s has released an iPad app called 7 Billion. The app discusses important topics surrounding the growing population and is accompanied with photographs videos and articles. The app is Free for a limited time, so download it while you can. The ratings so far are mostly positive.
PhotoWeeklyOnline turns 1 year old today. We’ve evolved quite a bit over the past 12 months; there were 820 posts published, including 37 featured articles. We saw 285,000+ visitors and had 840,000+ page views. We also received about 60,000 spam comments. Our twitter and Facebook followers are still relatively low (at around 400 members for each), but we are planning for significant growth over the next year.
We`re not able to post every story on our website, so every Sunday, we will list some interesting photography related links.
PhotoStatsApp put together an infographic using data from the top 500 photographs on 500px. It shows details such as what time of day most photos were taken, and technical settings such as ISO and average shutter speed. Hit the jump for the full image.
If you love statistics as much as I do, then you might want to check out Photo Stats for the iPhone. This new app will create info graphics about all the photographs you have taken on your iPhone. Some of the statistics include what days the photos were taken, the time of day, as well as the country you were in at the time. Have a look at some sample charts after the break.
We`re not able to post every story on our website, so every Sunday, we will list some interesting photography related links.
Forbes released a list of the top 100 reputable companies, and a few camera makers made the list. Can you guess who they are? Find out after the jump.
It shouldn’t surprise anybody that photofinishing stores are less busy than they used to be. You may be surprised however, how much of a hit they are taking. Based on a recent survey in the United States:
GO-Globe.com created this cool infographic about internet usage. It’s really quite incredible when you look at the numbers.
For example, every 60 seconds:
600+ Videos are added to YouTube (the equivalent of 25 hours of footage)
6600+ photographs are uploaded to Flickr
13,000+ iPhone applications are downloaded.
Can you imagine these statistics over the period of a day, or week?
NPR published an article that shows just how far film has fallen from grace.
At the turn of the 21st century, American shutterbugs were buying close to a billion rolls of film per year. This year, they might buy a mere 20 million, plus 31 million single-use cameras – NPR
I don’t think film will ever be totally removed from the market, but it’s certainly becoming a niche area of photography.
Apparently Instagram is more popular than everyone realized. They recently announced they have more than 4 million users, and that 10 new photographs are uploaded every second of the day. By my calculations, that’s 864,000 photographs being uploaded every single day.
I love statistics so I couldn’t pass up posting another photography related infographic. Smartpress created it based on information gained by interviewing 20 photographers. See the entire image after the jump.
Wow. Yesterday Tumblr announced that they surpassed 250 Million Page Views per day.
If you use Instagram, then you might be interested in knowing about Statigram; the website that tracks the metrics of your photographs. There are many statistics such as Likes Received, Comments Received, Activity by Day, Most Filters Used, and Most Engaged Followers and Following.
Despite only being on the market for a few months, the iPhone4 is on it’s way to being the most used camera for photographs submitted to flickr. It also appears that point & shoot camera owners are rapidly declining, as show by the graph below. Perhaps not very surprising considering the increasing capabilities of Smart Phones these days, as well as the fact, they are mutli-purpose devices (phone, audio, camera).
