SHUTTERBUG is gone!
Aug 18, 2018 06:33:14 #
radiojohn wrote:
Damn. First they said they got bought by a UK group, now I just got word that my subscription is being moved to "Outdoor Photographer." June was the last issue.
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
Yes, and the internet.
Far more information than a magazine could possibly hope to produce and most is free.
that is why most print media is dying including magazines and newspapers.
I can research a new camera that day rather than wait a month or two for a review to be made. Same with news being on a 24/7 cycle you can see it as it happens rather than wait a day or in the past for the EXTRA to be printed.
Sort of like digital cameras have put film equipment into a speciality niche. You don't see too many FTbs or SRt 202s being made and sold anymore.
Aug 18, 2018 07:11:31 #
Wasn’t ShutterBug one of the Internet offers that storaged your photos? What happens with them?
Aug 18, 2018 07:18:50 #
I get Outdoor Photography for many years. It is not as useful as it use to be
Aug 18, 2018 07:22:56 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
radiojohn wrote:
Damn. First they said they got bought by a UK group, now I just got word that my subscription is being moved to "Outdoor Photographer." June was the last issue.
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
I remember when they first came out. I was a big publication, large pages filled in the back with used camera's. I remember one ad was for a used camera store in Columbus Ohio located in an old church. Wow was that store fun to visit, all great used stuff all over the place. Anyway, Shutterbug downsized the size of the original magazine to a regular size, that was the beginning of the end for them.
As to where new photographers are going to learn things, they have something I did not have when I was starting out, U-TUBE, it is a great place to learn things.
Aug 18, 2018 07:43:22 #
can you really compare the relatively few ads in shutterbug to the ones in pop or modern photo back in the 70s and 80s when there were 20 times as many big stores? Now there's BandH and Adorama, with a few minor players like Cambridge. I miss Spiratone and Freestyle ads most of all.
Aug 18, 2018 07:58:25 #
leftj
Loc: Texas
radiojohn wrote:
Damn. First they said they got bought by a UK group, now I just got word that my subscription is being moved to "Outdoor Photographer." June was the last issue.
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
That and the endless number of internet resources as well as workshops all around the world. Hardly a crisis situation.
Aug 18, 2018 08:04:59 #
Anyone wanting to learn photography or keep up to date has all the information wanted in the Internet.
A sign of the times we are living.
A sign of the times we are living.
Aug 18, 2018 08:35:49 #
mborn wrote:
I get Outdoor Photography for many years. It is not as useful as it use to be
Try Outdoor Photography Canada magazine. I buy it at Barnes & Noble. They always have excellent articles. I save them up.
Aug 18, 2018 08:52:34 #
radiojohn wrote:
Damn. First they said they got bought by a UK group, now I just got word that my subscription is being moved to "Outdoor Photographer." June was the last issue.
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
I had the happy honor to write for them during the early days of digital photography and one of my "how-to" guides was a cover story that ended up very nicely for me.
What a loss. Where are new photographers going to go to learn things? Youtube?
Where? Almost everywhere today. Print media is going by the wayside and its all now digital/electronic. Technology changes and people have to change with it or get left behind. There are plenty of outlets to learn skills from and just because your 'favorite' publication is gone, its not the end of the photographic world....YouTube? BTW, did you ever sit in a classroom....to some extent YouTube before digital.
Aug 18, 2018 08:55:44 #
We live in a time of transition from analog to digital where algorithms rule. Information from digitized data reveals the unsentimental aspect of money-making, prompting business decisions under the doctrine and practice of capitalism. Accordingly, business ownership follows the revelations of the bean-counters, as always. The Internet has established the foundation of a universal library at the fingertips of individuals. In turn, collective human intelligence has become amplified. The implementation of artificial intelligence will further the growth of knowledge and understanding while accelerating it. The coming changes nobody can reliably predict. Yet, the function of a central control will emerge from a necessity to direct change and tame it to minimize chaos. To overmaster this control, the education system will soon recruit the smartest individuals early to shape them for this vital work. Next, the scientists will devise the procedures for boosting human intelligence.
We here today cannot say much more for unpredictability and its surprise will present as seeming routine in human affairs.
We here today cannot say much more for unpredictability and its surprise will present as seeming routine in human affairs.
Aug 18, 2018 09:00:12 #
Aug 18, 2018 09:05:52 #
When you get my age, RJ, you realize that absolutely Nothing is Forever!
Aug 18, 2018 09:09:08 #
wds0410
Loc: Nunya
nikonbug wrote:
Are you upset that you won't get paid for stories anymore, or because new photogs have no place to learn? Fake tears to me...
Aug 18, 2018 09:28:52 #
The word I had heard was that Shutterbug was going digital only. Now it's gone completely? I'm not much of a fan of digital magazines anyway.
Aug 18, 2018 09:48:03 #
I've been following this guy out of Australia for awhile. Right now he has five issues of his magazine out and they are all free. It is good down-to-earth info. Check him out at: https://shareinspirecreate.com/#magazine
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