Rant: I Love Photography, PhotoShelter Luminance Conference Begins
PhotoShelter, a leader in photography websites, is holding its inaugural photo conference, Luminance, this week. We are excited to be here covering it. We'll be posting here throughout the conference, also follow us on @MediaStorm for updates, hashtag #luminance. The day started out with PhotoShelter co-founder, Allen Murabayashi telling us loosely how the conference came to be. He brought it all back to a blog post he wrote some time ago called "Rant: I love Photography" where he talked about the photos that moved him, like one of a Japanese teenager levitating, among others. He told us that we are in a golden age of photography and it's an exciting time to bring people together to discuss what's happening in the industry, and what's next. Session One: The Manipulators The first segment of the morning focused on what Murabayashi calls "the manipulators," who spoke about the effect photo manipulation is having on…