What Every Photographer Needs to Know about Social Media Photographers are busy people. So too are our clients. More so than ever before we have an abundance of information available to us at the click of a mouse. It’s always evolving; full of opportunity and at times, a little overwhelming. The Theory and Psychology of [...]
Photography Links for August 8 2010
August 8, 2010 By 4 Comments
The Three Types of Photographic Criticism and How to Handle Them | Light Stalking Quote: Part of taking photographs is the enjoyment you get with sharing them. Along with sharing, comes learning, and along those lines are criticisms. This article will show you how to handle the three types of photographic criticisms without getting overly [...]
Photography Links for June 20 2010
June 20, 2010 By 4 Comments
Photographing Flowers – A How-to by Elizabeth Halford on Digital Photography School When many beginners pick up a camera for the first time, it sort of seems like an automatic first step to begin photographing flowers. They stand still and do as they’re told while you practice. For some photographers, they begin feeling more comfortable [...]
Photography Links for May 30 2010
May 30, 2010 By 4 Comments
If I Were Just Going Pro Today – Here’s The First Thing I’d Do- Going Pro 2010 “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Quick Tip: 3 Creative Uses of Slow Shutter Speed | Phototuts+ Experimenting with shutter speed on [...]
Photography Links for May 9 2010
May 9, 2010 By 3 Comments
Survival Strategies for Photographers: Using Facebook | Black Star Rising In this post in my video series on survival strategies for photographers, I offer a few tips for using Facebook as a low-cost marketing tool for your photography business. How to Clean Your Digital SLR Camera and Lens – PictureCorrect Quote: It is very important [...]
Inbound Marketing for Photographers
January 11, 2010 By 5 Comments
You take great photographs but nobody ever sees them. You’ve got tons of high-quality images ready for sale…but nobody ever buys them. You could shoot a wedding 100 times better than your competition…but you get few calls from prospective clients. Why is that? Well….assuming that you’re actually pretty good (and not deluding yourself), the only [...]
On Being Average
January 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
I just read a post on David duChemin’s PixelatedImage that really made me think. The post, titled “Doomed to Mediocrity“, and the follow-up posted titled “Doomed(?) Revisted” really hit home for me. The basis for the original post was a letter received from a photographer who felt that they were doomed to mediocrity because they [...]
Mockingbird with Canon 5D at 1600 ISO
December 22, 2009 By 18 Comments
I’ve been away from the camera for a while with school, work, business and life in general. I found myself with some free time this afternoon and walked out to the pond with my Canon 5D and 400 5.6 L. I saw a mockingbird sitting in a bush by the water and cranked out a [...]
Imagekind – A Review
April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I recently placed an order with Imagekind (a CafePress company) and was pleasently surprised. One day while goofing around on flickr, I noticed a few links on the page. One was for Moo (mini-cards and business cards…I’ll tell you more about that in a future post) and another was for Imagekind. Imagekind is a photo [...]
Rights of Photographers
January 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m a fairly inexperienced photographer (surprised?) and am always learning more about the field. I’ve always heard about photographers being hassled while taking pictures but didn’t realize it was as bad as being hassled while standing on a public sidewalk taking photographs of buildings. The folks over at discarted – life captured have recently posted [...]
