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#photography Canon launched its Authenticity Imaging System this week — C2PA-based provenance built into the R5 Mark II and R1. The technology is real and the engineering is solid. The implementation is not. It requires paid activation, it's restricted to news organizations, and it launches only in EMEA. I'm grateful Canon is here. I'm disappointed in how they showed up. Full breakdown on the blog. robertjbell.com/blog/canon-s-c2pa-launch-is-real-progress-8779730 #C2PA #CommercialPhotography

#photography Canon launched its Authenticity Imaging System this week — C2PA-based provenance built into the R5 Mark II and R1. The technology is real and the engineering is solid. The implementation is not. Paid activation required. News organizations only. EMEA launch only. I'm grateful Canon is here. I'm disappointed in how they showed up. Full breakdown on the blog. robertjbell.com/blog/canon-s-c2pa-launch-is-real-progress-8779730 #C2PA #CommercialPhotography

A Commercial Photographer’s Take on When to Use AI (and When Not To)

Last year, a client came to me with a straightforward brief: they needed a full lookbook for their…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artsanddesign #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #clients #clientwork #commercialphotography #Design #Entertainment #fashion #opinion #xiaopengzhan
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/634918/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/477819/ A Commercial Photographer’s Take on When to Use AI (and When Not To) #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #clients #clientwork #commercialphotography #Design #Éire #Entertainment #fashion #IE #Ireland #Opinion #xiaopengzhan

A Commercial Photographer’s Take on When to Use AI (and When Not To) https://petapixel.com/2026/05/10/a-commercial-photographers-take-on-when-to-use-ai-and-when-not-to/ #artificialintelligence #commercialphotography #Post-Processing #xiaopengzhan #clientwork #Opinion #clients #fashion #opinion #ai

Photographers raise concerns as #AI use surges among clients: https://zorz.it/qhVOf

#MattGrowcoot #CommercialPhotography #fashion #FashionPhotography #GenAI #PhotoIndustry #photographers #clients #ProfessionalPhotography #Vogue #technology

Photographers Raise Concerns as AI Use Surges Among Clients

Are photographers competing against AI? It’s a question posed by a recent Vogue article after photographer Jack Davison…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #AI #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #AU #Australia #commercialphotography #Design #Entertainment #Fashion #fashionphotography #GenAI #photoindustry #professionalphotography #vogue
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/623612/

Photographers Raise Concerns as AI Use Surges Among Clients

Are photographers competing against AI? It’s a question posed by a recent Vogue article after photographer Jack Davison…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #AI #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #CA #Canada #commercialphotography #Design #Entertainment #fashion #fashionphotography #genAI #photoindustry #professionalphotography #vogue
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/621068/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/448137/ Photographers Raise Concerns as AI Use Surges Among Clients #AI #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #commercialphotography #Design #Éire #Entertainment #fashion #fashionphotography #GenAI #IE #Ireland #photoindustry #professionalphotography #Vogue

Photographers Raise Concerns as AI Use Surges Among Clients https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/photographers-raise-concerns-as-ai-use-surges-among-clients/ #professionalphotography #commercialphotography #fashionphotography #photoindustry #Technology #Features #Industry #fashion #genai #vogue #ai

#photography IPA 2026 regular deadline is April 30. If you have architectural work — exterior, interior, industrial, bridges, aerial — that you've been sitting on, this is the window. $10,000 top professional prize, Lucie Awards Gala in New York, global exhibition. photoawards.com #ArchitecturalPhotography #CommercialPhotography

#photography Quick flag: the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) 2026 International Photography Competition closes April 22 — nine days out. Open internationally across a wide range of genres including architecture, portrait, landscape, and documentary. €10 entry fee. One of the more accessible museum-affiliated competitions running right now. fmopa.org #Photography #CommercialPhotography

#photography Something worth saying plainly: clients who hire architectural photographers often think they're documenting what a building looks like. What they're actually doing is building the case for why the space succeeds — how scale reads, how light moves through it, how materials hold up under scrutiny, how the sequence of spaces tells a story. The photograph isn't the record. It's the argument. #ArchitecturalPhotography #CommercialPhotography

#photography The Canon vs Sony shutter argument has been running for a couple of years now — and it's still worth having. Global shutter eliminates rolling shutter entirely. Canon's multi-mode approach preserves image quality. Neither is universally right. I wrote up the full technical breakdown, with real-world test citations, on the blog. robertjbell.com/blog/canon-vs-sony-the-shutter-wars-2245526 #CameraGear #CommercialPhotography

#photography clients: "we'll know it when we see it" is a brief that hasn't been written yet. In commercial photography, that phrase at the start of a project almost always becomes scope creep, reshoot requests, and disappointment at delivery. The fix isn't a bigger budget. It's a conversation about intended use before a camera comes out. #CommercialPhotography #AEC

#photography for business: the shift happening in how serious brands think about visual assets — from episodic campaigns to always-on content systems. Images aren't decoration. They're infrastructure. The organizations that treat them that way outperform those that don't — consistently, and not because of budget. Strategy is the differentiator. #CommercialPhotography #SmallBusiness

#photography for small business: stock photos signal inauthenticity faster than most business owners realize. Clients instinctively recognize generic imagery — and the subtext is that you don't trust your own business enough to show it. Real photos of your real operation are a trust signal no stock library can replicate. #SmallBusiness #CommercialPhotography

#photography for small business: the gap between a phone photo and a professional commercial image isn't the sensor. It's knowing where to stand, when to shoot, how to read a space, and what the client needs before they say it. Experience doesn't come in a software update. #CommercialPhotography #SmallBusiness

https://robertjbell.com/blog/why-your-business-looks-better-in-person-than-online-9131344

#photography discipline: before building a shot list for a commercial location shoot, ask where the images are going and what they need to do. The answer — award submission, leasing material, documentation, marketing — changes the compositions, the coverage, and the deliverable format. It's the most important question in pre-production. #CommercialPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography

#photography discipline: construction documentation photos need five things to hold up — timestamp, location context, condition clarity, systematic coverage, organized delivery. Missing any one of them is enough to make the record useless when it actually matters. #ConstructionPhotography #CommercialPhotography

#photography niche worth noting: data center construction is running at nearly 3x 2020 volume. Large, phased, compliance-driven builds with serious owner documentation requirements — and few photographers specifically positioned to serve them.
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/5-construction-trends-2026/808904/
#ConstructionPhotography #CommercialPhotography

#photography truth: Dropbox is not a delivery strategy. A professional handoff means organized folders, logical file names, full-res and web-optimized exports, and a licensing summary. That's what saves your client's team hours — and gets you called back next time. #PhotographyBusiness #CommercialPhotography

The real cost of a reshoot: client time, rescheduled access, delayed launches, damaged trust. A solid pre-production process eliminates most of them before anyone shows up on site. #PhotographyBusiness #CommercialPhotography

From the archives — early commercial work for Burger King. Some things never get old. #photography #CommercialPhotography

For architectural and commercial work, lens tilt solves a real problem: how do you hold sharpness across an entire facade, a long table, or an oblique surface without stopping down so far that diffraction kills your detail?
The answer is older than you think.

https://robertjbell.com/blog/the-tilt-shift-lens-a-working-photographer-s-guide-to-the-optics-that-actually-matter-5007868

#ArchitecturalPhotography #Photography #Optics #CommercialPhotography #Photography

Santa Clarita: I’m selecting 5 local businesses for a free commercial photo refresh. Includes: up to 2 hours on-site • 5 fully retouched images • delivered in 7 days. Use them on your Google Business Profile, website, socials, menus, and ads. Apply by March 31 (winners announced April 7). Apply at https://robertjbell.com/free

Comment FREE and I’ll DM you the link.
#SantaClarita #SmallBusiness #CommercialPhotography #Photography

How an #AwardWinning pro photographer fell back in love with photography: https://zorz.it/BtDpd

#JeremyGray #CommercialPhotography #documentary #FujifilmGFX100SII #LannaApisukh #ProPhotographer #lifestyle #portrait #professional

Authenticity matters in hospitality photography.
This real cave hotel in Cappadocia blends history, architecture, and modern guest experience in a way few locations can. Capturing spaces like this is about respecting texture, light, and emotion. @yunakevleri @yunakspa
#HospitalityPhotographer #HotelPhotography #CommercialPhotography
Model: @vi.levote Digital tech: @daveyrudyphotography
©Antonio Cuellar Photography all rights reserved

Architecture-as-experience is a solid creative constraint for shooting: sequence the story, show material + light + human scale, not only the facade. #ArchitecturePhotography #CommercialPhotography #Architecture

#photography
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Powerade Sports Drink

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/21/powerade-sports-drink/

Applied Arts 2026 Photography Awards close Jan 30. Deadlines are handy: they force editing and sequencing, which is what makes a portfolio feel intentional. #CommercialPhotography #PhotographyBusiness #Portfolio

#photography
https://rgkit.co/cwSWr4fG

International Photography Awards (IPA) 2026 is open; Early Bird deadline listed as Jan 31. Put yourself out there, you might be surprised. #IPA2026 #PhotographyAwards #ArchitecturePhotography #CommercialPhotography #Portfolio

#photography
https://www.photoawards.com/how-to-enter/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Robert+J.+Bell+Photography&utm_campaign=publer

Deadpool Lucha Libre: Chromatic Drama in Miniature

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/19/deadpool-lucha-libre-chromatic-drama-in-miniature/

Elkins Apple Spiced Liqueur: Vernacular Object as Subject

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/17/elkins-apple-spiced-liqueur-vernacular-object-as-subject/

Gabby: The Architecture of Gesture and High-Key Simplicity

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/15/gabby-the-architecture-of-gesture-and-high-key-simplicity/

Kelly

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/14/kelly/

Mike Groth: Classical Studio Portraiture and the Language of Formality

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/11/mike-groth-classical-studio-portraiture-and-the-language-of-formality/

Festive Commerce in Cork

Brown Thomas on Patrick Street, Cork, is all lit up again for Christmas. On Oliver Plunkett Street they’ve put up the usual decorations and they look fabulous!

#2025 #architecturalLighting #atmosphericLighting #brownThomas #christmas #christmasDecorations #christmasLights #cityCentre #commercialPhotography #communalCelebration #cork #decorativeLights #departmentStore #festiveAtmosphere #festiveDecoration #festiveLighting #festiveSeason #holidaySeason #holidayShopping #illuminatedFacades #ireland #irishCities #irishRetail #luxuryRetail #motionBlur #nightPhotography #oliverPlunkettStreet #patricksStreet #pedestrians #photo #photography #publicSpaces #retail #seasonalDecoration #shopping #shoppingStreet #sonyA7rv #storefront #streetLighting #streetPhotography #urbanChristmas #urbanRetail #windowDisplay

5 ways to make #money from portrait photography: https://zorz.it/VdTVq

#AlexBaker #BusinessOfPhotography #JuliaTrotti #photographer #PortfolioBuilding #WeddingPhotography #NewbornPhotography #CommercialPhotography #PortraitPhotography

The Spotlight Awards Celebrates the Very Best of Commercial Photography https://petapixel.com/2025/09/22/the-spotlight-awards-celebrates-the-very-best-of-commercial-photography/ #advertisingphotography #commercialphotographer #commercialphotography #Spotlight #News

Airbnb Guest Says He was Fined $10k for Taking Selfie Inside Viral ‘Invisible House’ https://petapixel.com/2025/09/18/airbnb-guest-says-he-was-fined-10k-for-taking-selfie-inside-viral-invisible-house-joshua-tree-california-desert/ #commercialphotography #invisiblehouse #california #photoban #airbnb #News #fine #Law

Over the last few months we have had great assignments for corporate and industrial photography from clients such as GO Infra (BAM Energie & Water & Siers Groep Oldenzaal B.V.), MET partners, Cobra - Salesforce Partner and many others. So the gallery 'bedrijfsfotografie' on the STUDIOVHF site has been updated. Want to see more? Have a browse:

https://www.studiovhf.com/bedrijfsfotografie

#bedrijfsfotografie #industrialphotography #commercialphotography #Zwolle

Here’s Dad’s Guardian obituary.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/mar/07/obituary-peter-williams

#photography #filmphotography #commercialphotography

New images added to the gallery corporate & industrial photography:
https://www.studiovhf.com/bedrijfsfotografie
#commercialphotography #commercialphotographer #industrialphotography

How an Award-Winning Pro Photographer Fell Back in Love With Photography https://petapixel.com/2025/07/11/how-an-award-winning-pro-photographer-fell-back-in-love-with-photography/ #commercialphotography #lannaapisukh #professional #documentary #Interviews #interview #lifestyle #Features #features #fujifilm #portrait #News #gfx

Any day is a good day to post from my studio session with Mandy from back in 2019. Mandy's got amazing presence in front of the camera, and she's one of the kindest people you'll ever meet!

OMD-EM1 mkii
Olympus 14-54 2.8-3.5 II lens
Interfit Honeybadger strobes
22″ beauty dish main light
1/200 | f 4.0 | iso 200

#brandonjacksonphoto #brandonjacksonfoto #valenciafotografo #valenciaphotographer #studio #model #beauty #hair #eyes #glamrock #commercialphotography #pose #portrait #omsystemes

‘Down to Earth’
1975. My dad shot this for a German magazine.

Photoshop, eat my ass.

Bonus: he made the sand into a diorama for us to play on with our toy soldiers.

#commercialphotography
#photography