“Connected” – A Travel Photographers Visual Diary of the World and its People
Matt Dutile is a young, emerging, and very talented people photographer who specializes in travel and lifestyle editorial. His newest project is a book of his more enigmatic imagery. What started as a promotional piece, has grown into a larger, more robust publication...
More Portraits… I Love Portraits
From the current 8 Week Class: Inspired by Skrebneski.
Gettin’ the Adventure Spirit
Perhaps it is because it is the Saturday after Thanksgiving, or maybe the wanderlust of the highway calling to me, but today's update is a bunch of cool stuff about adventure photography that makes me want to get out the door, fire up Sarek and "head out on the...
Find and Keep Commercial Photography Clients: A Free Training Series.
I have finally put the finishing touches on the Training Series I have been working on: "How To Find and Keep Commercial Photography Clients" has been a long time coming. I have been working on it for about 4 years now. Not the system - I have always used the system -...
What We Learn from Studying Master Photographers
IMAGE BY GLENN HARRIS AFTER STUDYING THE WORK OF ANDREW HETHERINGTON I am just about full on my newest portrait class (starting November) and we have been discussing a lot of things in the current portrait class that has me thinking. Yeah, that can be sorta dangerous,...
P52 Member Adi Talwar Shooting for the NYT
Adi Talwar is one of my Project 52 alumni. He just got featured in the NYT online magazine and the P52 family could not be more proud. NYT article. Adi is a go-getter. He always focused on getting the shot he saw in his head, and found the possibilities in the medium...
Some Amazing Portraits from The Current Class
The goal of the portrait classes I teach is to look at a prominent portrait photographers work, and find those aspects of the work that resonate with our work. The goal is NOT to copy those we study, but to be inspired by their work. This week we looked at the work of...
“Monsoons”
https://vimeo.com/mikeolbinski/monsoon2 I live where Monsoons create havoc a few months out of the year. Mike Olbinski, a photographer here in Phoenix is an amazing storm shooter, and this video he did of this past monsoon season is a killer. His video will keep you...
What Riding a Motorcycle Taught Me About Life (and Photography)
I started riding motorcycles when I was 14. Back in the day a kid could own a 'scooter' at that age and get a permit to drive it. A scooter was considered anything under 5 horsepower. There was no possible way I was going to ride a 5HP 'motorcycle'. My friends and I...
Challenging Times; A Few Ideas to Positively Impact Your Business
Here are a few ideas that I use to impact my business quickly and also help me move from a creative block. A few years ago I wrote about the things I do when given a chance to jump out and spend a little time on a project. That list is still pretty timely, so here it...
The “Dating Game”
"The Dating Game?" I was recently involved in an email discussion (mini consultation I guess...) with a photographer who was pretty incensed by my constant upbeat evaluation of this business of photography. His concerns were voiced well, and although he was civil...
Five Things to Share on a Wednesday
A WORDPRESS TOOLKIT FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS My friend Jon Mather keeps adding more to his amazing Wordpress Photographers Tools Plugin. From galleries for images to contact management and bidding - and he just added a CRM module. Customer Relationship Management is one of...
What’s It Like on a P52 Annual Meetup/Roadtrip
I could try to explain what it is like, but we had a videographer on the trip with us last time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSQqCGRKkM
Because Jerry… (and it’s Friday)
Because Jerry... (and it's Friday) Jerry Hall. One of the best ever. Links: Interview in Bazaar. More images:
Shooting to Layout: A Point of Purchase Display
One of the most difficult parts of commercial photography is shooting to layout. A designer or art director has an approved layout, and your shot must work within the elements on the page. We see it a lot in catalog, advertising, collateral, and web oriented...
A WordPress Plugin for Photographers
A Kickstarter for Photographers to LOVE. My friend Jon Mathers is a photographer / programmer down in Perth, Australia. He and I were chatting about some new and better tools for photographers using Wordpress, and Jon decided to build a...
Because… Natalia (and it’s Friday)
Jake Stangel on Starting Out as a Professional Photographer
Jake Stangel is one of my favorite photographers. I love the fresh way he shoots, and his no-nonsense approach to making images that reveal more than what may meet the eye in the real world. First: here is an hour talk he gave at CCA, and it is really good. (Below is...
Shooting to Layout: P52 Members are “Cooking” with heat!
The assignment was given with a "napkin" layout. A very simple sketch similar to what we get from AD's from time to time. Then the photographers got to download the layout - and shoot to that layout exactly. It is one of my favorite assignments because we get to see...
A Few More Portraits
The 8 Week Portrait Classes are now finished. I added a bonus photographer on for each of them (9 photographers per class) and this is the gallery of inspired images from the bonus photographer for the 8 Week II class, Mark Tucker. We look at the work of the...
Ten Things to Remember As You Begin Your Photographic Odyssey
Ten Things to Remember As You Begin Your Photographic Odyssey I stopped doing what I was doing and began to be a photographer one day. I had been around photographers, but I didn’t have any clue what being a "professional" really meant. I simply started out as a...
Portraits, Portraits!
More amazing portraits from the last portrait group. Just so impressed with the hard work and growth that was the hallmark of all these classes. [gallery link="file" columns="4"...
Catherine Vibert Delivers Social Media Headshots
P52 Alum and member Catherine Vibert explains the necessity of having a perfect headshot for Social Media. This kind of client centric marketing will create an interest in those needing to have the best headshots they can get. And - that is EVERYBODY on social media...
An Easy Tool for Shooting to Format
Project 52 Alums Anna and Filipe (McGunn Media) have created a set of templates (mattes) for shooting to formats that are many times required - especially by social media. They have made them available free on their site as well, so you can download them if you need...
