Blast from the Past
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I don’t often check out Wired’s Game|Life blog, but recently a few of my photos have been showing up on there. Late last year, Wired’s Epicenter blog used a silly picture I had taken of some smartphones in a blog post about smartphone sales growth. This last week, however, two (2!) articles used images taken from my flickr stream: one of Nintendo’s Miyamoto and another of (friend/colleague/former classmate) Jenova Chen. The Jenova picture isn’t half-bad, I think… but why did they use THAT Miyamoto picture? At least clean it up, do some sharpening on it or something. It’s an okay pic, but it’s painfully soft thanks to the quality of the lens I was shooting with (a rather cheap Sigma I was shooting long and wide open) and the rather slow shutter speed.
Back in the day, despite identifying myself as primarily a video game music composer/designer, I was recognized more as a video game journalist, and the work I had on the internet at the time bore that out. All the little bits of audio and music I did never showed up, while my insert credit and Gamasutra output just rose to the surface.
I wonder if this photography hobby of mine will work similarly.