My sub to DIGITAL CAMERA MAGAZINE just ran out and I thought I would ask for recommendations before renewing. This is a UK pub which I find generally superior to the US rags both for quality and content - however, the price to Canada is steep. Any suggestions would be welcome. Carlton McEachern
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Carlton McEachern wrote: > My sub to DIGITAL CAMERA MAGAZINE just ran out and I thought I would ask for > recommendations before renewing. This is a UK pub which I find generally > superior to the US rags both for quality and content - however, the price to > Canada is steep. Any suggestions would be welcome. > Carlton McEachern
Hi,
I love the British photo mags and I sub to several of them. They cost a little more, but are certainly worth it.
Although the price to Canada is steep, it's a LOT cheaper than buying them on the newsstands (and usually a month late there).
- Scott -
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Behalf Of Scott MacQuarrie Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:11 AM To: STOCKPH...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [STOCKPHOTO] Magazine Recommendations
Carlton McEachern wrote: > My sub to DIGITAL CAMERA MAGAZINE just ran out and I thought I would ask for > recommendations before renewing. This is a UK pub which I find generally > superior to the US rags both for quality and content - however, the price to > Canada is steep. Any suggestions would be welcome. > Carlton McEachern
Hi,
I love the British photo mags and I sub to several of them. They cost a little more, but are certainly worth it.
Although the price to Canada is steep, it's a LOT cheaper than buying them on the newsstands (and usually a month late there).
- Scott -
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>Photography Monthly >Digital Photo >Digital Camera (the one that just expired for me)
>Any other recommendations ?
>-----Original Message----- >From: STOCKPH...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STOCKPH...@yahoogroups.com]On >Behalf Of Scott MacQuarrie >Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:11 AM >To: STOCKPH...@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [STOCKPHOTO] Magazine Recommendations
>Carlton McEachern wrote: > > My sub to DIGITAL CAMERA MAGAZINE just ran out and I thought I would ask >for > > recommendations before renewing. This is a UK pub which I find generally > > superior to the US rags both for quality and content - however, the price >to > > Canada is steep. Any suggestions would be welcome. > > Carlton McEachern
>Hi,
>I love the British photo mags and I sub to several of them. They cost a >little more, but are certainly worth it.
>Although the price to Canada is steep, it's a LOT cheaper than buying >them on the newsstands (and usually a month late there).
>- Scott -
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I have parted with f2 (Freelance+Digital) which, seven years after the original relaunch as Freelance Photographer, was proving too much of a loss-maker to continue with. It's now published by EC1 Publishing in London, and is slowly focusing more on case histories of photographers. I'm still writing the main technical reviews. The cost of f2 is lower than some UK mags because it's bi-monthly, and the emphasis is entirely on freelance stock and editorial work. The new publishers are no more inclined to write about cheesy digital manipulations and stuff than I was. It's largely about raw workflow, IQ, and subject matter plus a lot of marketing insights. They have made it break even by cutting all paid contributors. I was spending about $20,000 a year on external material. They are doing interviews instead and keeping all technical stuff in-house, but that includes me although I'm not 'in house'. I continue to have about 600 subscribers through my own company, and in return for these, I write three articles for every issue.
It's still possible to subscribe via my old website, as the new publishers have not taken over that yet. The website also has a large stack of past articles, and I am putting articles from our current pro magazine, Master Photo>Digital, on line for download. I don't recommend anyone buys Master unless they are seriously into wedding, portraits and commercial studio work. It is entirely aimed at full time professional business owners, generally with studios, staff, etc and dealing with the public. We occasionally cover stock, as most of the best members of the MPA do shoot stock - it's only the real specialists with massive fees, or the unambitious ones at the other end of the scale doing free promotions, who *only* do 'weddings and portraits'.
Info at: www.iconpublications.com and www.f2photo.co.uk (for the downloads - latest one is the first part of our currently in progress review of the Mamiya ZD system).
In general UK magazines are aimed at a fairly non-technical public. The best all-round read for any professional is, without doubt, the British Journal of Photography - this is weekly and the expense overseas is no small commitment. But it's where you will find all the adverts for international tenders, contracts, jobs, degree courses, university appointments, etc. 'Professional Photographer', for a long time my main rival, is a bit of a mixed bag. It's a nice looking magazine with a successful advertising team, quite good in pagination, but lacks an overall character. Goes with the flow (commercially). Photography Monthly is the amateur, mass-market sister to Professional. It is even more vapid - 'not another one of s*dding misty water flowing round THOSE bl**dy stones'. At least PP is not predictably full of this same identikit am-pro camera club stuff, which also fills Practical Photography. We fall about laughing every time an issue of either drops in; you couldn't tell the pix from 1995, or 1990, or 2000. You could draw a photo map (horizon two-thirds of the way up the shot, an ultrawide, a grad, a warm-up, a time exposure) with twenty sets of tripod holes round the UK and that would be sum-total ambition of the average reader. 'Sorry, love, got to get up early to repeat Joe Cornish's shot of the beach'... 'Can we go and freeze to death looking for that stream with the Cuillins in the distance?'... 'How the hell did Lee Frost ever find the footpath to the place where you can get that shot of Dunstanburgh Castle?'
'Digital Photographer' is excellent. Digital Camera and Digital Photo, not so really. 'Outdoor Photographer' while suffering slightly from the stereotype desirable image syndrome is much cleaner in layout than most, and more focused and varied.
The very short print runs of UK magazines (anything from 2000 to 15,000 copies for many of the pro ones - the BJP for example is about 6,000 print run) means they can be very up to date, going to press maybe 48 hours before they are mailed, and are often sheet-fed, which means higher image quality. All of my magazines over the last few years have been in the order of a 3,000 print run. There are only about 10,000 bona fide professionals in the UK.
Carlton McEachern wrote: > Thanks Scott. So far I have a list of 3:
> Photography Monthly > Digital Photo > Digital Camera (the one that just expired for me)
> Any other recommendations ?
Practical Photography, Digital Photographer, and Professional Photographer (not the PPA magazine of the same name) are all pretty good.
Digital Photographer and Professional Photographer are more business oriented, while the others are more training oriented.
If I recall, you are in Canada, so I would suggest checking out the selection at Chapters to see which ones work for you. Once you find one, subscribe to it, as I find ones on the stands here are usually about a month old.
Regards, - Scott -
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David, thank you for this most excellent post to my original query. It is hard to research publications in the UK from Canada and get an accurate feel for quality and content. Thanks again - Carlton
Behalf Of David Kilpatrick Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:35 AM To: STOCKPH...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [STOCKPHOTO] Re: Magazine Recommendations
I have parted with f2 (Freelance+Digital) which, seven years after the original relaunch as Freelance Photographer, was proving too much of a loss-maker to continue with. It's now published by EC1 Publishing in London, and is slowly focusing more on case histories of photographers. I'm still writing the main technical reviews. The cost of f2 is lower than some UK mags because it's bi-monthly, and the emphasis is entirely on freelance stock and editorial work. The new publishers are no more inclined to write about cheesy digital manipulations and stuff than I was. It's largely about raw workflow, IQ, and subject matter plus a lot of marketing insights. They have made it break even by cutting all paid contributors. I was spending about $20,000 a year on external material. They are doing interviews instead and keeping all technical stuff in-house, but that includes me although I'm not 'in house'. I continue to have about 600 subscribers through my own company, and in return for these, I write three articles for every issue.
It's still possible to subscribe via my old website, as the new publishers have not taken over that yet. The website also has a large stack of past articles, and I am putting articles from our current pro magazine, Master Photo>Digital, on line for download. I don't recommend anyone buys Master unless they are seriously into wedding, portraits and commercial studio work. It is entirely aimed at full time professional business owners, generally with studios, staff, etc and dealing with the public. We occasionally cover stock, as most of the best members of the MPA do shoot stock - it's only the real specialists with massive fees, or the unambitious ones at the other end of the scale doing free promotions, who *only* do 'weddings and portraits'.
Info at: www.iconpublications.com and www.f2photo.co.uk (for the downloads - latest one is the first part of our currently in progress review of the Mamiya ZD system).
In general UK magazines are aimed at a fairly non-technical public. The best all-round read for any professional is, without doubt, the British Journal of Photography - this is weekly and the expense overseas is no small commitment. But it's where you will find all the adverts for international tenders, contracts, jobs, degree courses, university appointments, etc. 'Professional Photographer', for a long time my main rival, is a bit of a mixed bag. It's a nice looking magazine with a successful advertising team, quite good in pagination, but lacks an overall character. Goes with the flow (commercially). Photography Monthly is the amateur, mass-market sister to Professional. It is even more vapid - 'not another one of s*dding misty water flowing round THOSE bl**dy stones'. At least PP is not predictably full of this same identikit am-pro camera club stuff, which also fills Practical Photography. We fall about laughing every time an issue of either drops in; you couldn't tell the pix from 1995, or 1990, or 2000. You could draw a photo map (horizon two-thirds of the way up the shot, an ultrawide, a grad, a warm-up, a time exposure) with twenty sets of tripod holes round the UK and that would be sum-total ambition of the average reader. 'Sorry, love, got to get up early to repeat Joe Cornish's shot of the beach'... 'Can we go and freeze to death looking for that stream with the Cuillins in the distance?'... 'How the hell did Lee Frost ever find the footpath to the place where you can get that shot of Dunstanburgh Castle?'
'Digital Photographer' is excellent. Digital Camera and Digital Photo, not so really. 'Outdoor Photographer' while suffering slightly from the stereotype desirable image syndrome is much cleaner in layout than most, and more focused and varied.
The very short print runs of UK magazines (anything from 2000 to 15,000 copies for many of the pro ones - the BJP for example is about 6,000 print run) means they can be very up to date, going to press maybe 48 hours before they are mailed, and are often sheet-fed, which means higher image quality. All of my magazines over the last few years have been in the order of a 3,000 print run. There are only about 10,000 bona fide professionals in the UK.
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