Java and the Photography Market

Coming from a three years experience in the professional photography industry and a computer science background, I can consider myself as a good observer of the ever changing relation between imaging and technology.

Actually I’m collaborating with Eikona Studio where I had the occasion to work on assignment for the major Italian’s magazines, corporations, events and activities. This gave me the hassle (and the opportunity) to deal with complex and various workflows as well as high demanding image storage and deployment necessities.

Nowadays the daily photographer’s work routine involve a lot of computer work. He does not only need to edit his images, but also store them, backup, deploy to clients, upload to websites and social networks, apply meta-tags, cataloging, etc… while it is quite a diffuse habits for young emerging professionals, for the older and affirmed ones there is still...