Interesting discussion yesterday on KQED San Francisco’s Forum with Michael Krasny on “Photography and Its Future”.

Photo: FPG via Getty Images

Really cool video of a presentation by Dr. Ariel Shamir at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference where he demonstrates a new image resizing software application

Seems like this will give heightened meaning to “photoshopping” an image, or at least make it that much easier to perform certain potentially shady operations. Are photos even allowed as evidence in courtrooms anymore? If so, probably not for long.

In the 2007 PDN Photography Annual awards (notice Getty Images contributor Tim Flach’s bat photos, animated on the cover) 8 of the 24 winners in the stock photography category are from Getty Images, all seen below

Joe Baran / AD: Joe Baran

Mark Richards / Nikolaevich / AD: Andrew Delaney

Greg Ceo / AD: “Ceo’s entire crew”

Chris Strong / AD: Adam Sternin & Sarah Foster

Gary John Norman / AD: Sarah Foster

Matthias Clamer / AD: Rolf Sjogren

Michael Duva / AD: Adam Sternin

Philipp Nemenz / AD: Anita Bechloch

Louie Psihoyos, who is a prominent contributor to Getty Images’ image partner Science Faction, is suing Apple for ripping off his photo below for their Apple TV ad campaign.  That Louie’s original photo below probably brings to mind the Apple TV campaign without me even showing any actual campaign photos or clips means that he probably has a good case, but for a better illustration go here.  That Apple had previously been in negotiations for use of the photo but backed out is even more incriminating.

Maybe this shouldn’t be too surprising though, considering Apple has been quite busy building a long sordid history of this type of thing, compiled nicely here by engadget.

Here’s a funny follow-up to this story comparing the packaging from the Atari 2600 Packaging circa 1982 to the Apple TV site.  Oops - curiously the pics are gone from flickr, but you can see them here.