Style Week on Lighting Essentials: Day 5: Kirk Tuck
Style Week Posts: Selina Maitreya Day One Daron Shade Day Two Christian O'Dell Day Three Ivar Teunissen Kirk Tuck Day Five There are few things I love more than taking a photograph of someone. From family to strangers, there is always something to learn from the...
Style Week on Lighting Essentials – Day Four; Ivar
Style Week Posts: Selina Maitreya Day One Daron Shade Day Two Christian O'Dell Day Three Ivar Teunissen Kirk Tuck Day Five Point of View is a defining piece of a photographer's style. Where is the camera in relationship to the subject? It can be confrontational and...
Style Week on Lighting Essentials : Day Three; Christian
Style Week Posts: Selina Maitreya Day One Daron Shade Day Two Christian O'Dell Day Three Ivar Teunissen Kirk Tuck Day Five I recommend starting at the beginning if you haven't already. Today I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about the 'presentation' of the...
Style Week on Lighting Essentials – Day Two; Daron
Style Week Posts: Selina Maitreya Day One Daron Shade Day Two Christian O'Dell Day Three Ivar Teunissen Kirk Tuck Day Five If you have come in at this point, be sure to go back to the first post and start there. I believe that style is innate within each of us. It is...
“Style” Week on Lighting Essentials – Day One; Selina
It is "Style Week" On Lighting Essentials. Each morning at 10AM Pacific we will post a new set of images and an audio interview with a photographer. Style Week Posts: Selina Maitreya Day One Daron Shade Day Two Christian O'Dell Day Three Ivar Teunissen Kirk Tuck Day...
Five Ways to Differentiate Your Photography Business
... and 5 ways you shouldn't differentiate. There are a lot of photographers out there. Actually, there are a lot of really talented photographers out there. What separates you from them? How can you differentiate yourself from the throng? How to stand out, be...
How Do Photographers Learn the Business? Some Thoughts…
My friend Trudy posted a great little article with the question "How Do Photographers Learn the Business? I read it and asked Trudy if I could take a few of her questions and answer them here on my blog. Wednesday evening, September 1, we will have a show based on...
Ten Myths of Professional Commercial Photography
Err... at least the 10 that I hear a lot of chatting about. I get questions about these at nearly every workshop. So a quick post on what some folks think is reality and what IS reality. Yeah, I know... you saw it on the interwebs. Shoots with all the latest and...
Speaking in Seattle Tonight, Teaching Tomorrow
NOTICE: Because of a late plane schedule today, there will not be a Lighting Essentials LIVE show tonight. I will still be in the air at 6PM, and doing it later will mean it is too late on the East Coast. There will be a LE LIVE this Wednesday evening at 6PM. Sorry...
Increase the “Power” of your Speedlights with Photoshop
Lighting Essentials LIVE: Tonight we discuss pricing strategies for emerging photographers. Log in to ask questions. Thanks all for joining us this evening. This post from a year ago has some good information. Yeah... that's right. We can actually create an impression...
John Ricard, NYC Music Photographer: Interviewed on Lighting Essentials
The interview with John Ricard comes after the jump. Click on the "more" link below. Our next Lighting Essentials LIVE Broadcast, Sunday, Aug 22, 2010. Expanded edition (90 minutes). Here is the pre-show material you may want to read before the show. Up first is a...
10 (More) Website Strategies for Photographers
A little over a year ago I posted "10 Web Site Strategies for Emerging Photographers." I think the article holds up very well and is as relevant as it was when I posted it. So please read it if you haven't done so, then come back to this article for 10 more web...
Editing a Portfolio: Ed Z, Philadelphia Photographer
This is the audio discussion to introduce Ed to you all. A discussion with Ed Z, Philadelphia Photographer You can visit his website at EdZStudios.com. We are working on creating his print portfolio in this discussion. I will have done a preliminary edit before we get...
Keith Taylor: Atlanta Photographer. Interview
Meet Keith Taylor, a photographer out of the Atlanta area. Keith has done a bit of everything and his insights into getting started as a photographer are fantastic. Take a few minutes and view his work, and his words and meet this talented shooter. He will be live...
Finding and Identifying Clients for Commercial Photographers
OK... we got the gear and the portfolio is looking pretty good. So now we need to find clients to actually pay us for the images, and help us go from a part-time Pro-Am to a full time photographer. You see, clients may not seek you out - even if your portfolio is...
Then and Now: A Matter of Style
----------- (NOTE) Tomorrow, August 8, 2010 we will have a live discussion on how to go about identifying clients who would be consumers for your work. This is for commercial photographers, we will not be discussing direct-to-consumer photography (wedding and...
If You Have No Customer Skills, No Problem, You Will Soon Have No Customers
I saw the tweet above and just smiled. Yeah, I know what she is going through. I emailed the 'tweeter' and she sent me an email back (reprinted below). I have removed specifics so as not to cause any undue embarrassment of the people who should be embarrassed. So...
Interviews on Lighting Essentials: Get to Know These Photographers
I have had the wonderful opportunity to hear from lots of terrific, upbeat and successful photographers at Lighting Essentials. We have posted interviews with many talented people working in this most incredible business. They maybe aren't the most famous around, but...
Discussion: Social Media and the Emerging Professional Photographer
Well, we tried it with UStream and that was a bust. I think this solution may even be better. You will have the opportunity to ask questions live (and if you have a vidcam, you will stream right on up to me and be seen). I have tested it a bit and seems to work pretty...
Interview with David Giral, Montreal Photographer
Our Interview with Montreal Photographer David Giral. I met David in Toronto at the Workshop. I loved his work and asked him to do this interview with us. 1. How long have you been in business? Was it a slow transition or did you just open shop? Until recently, I...
First Live Broadcast: Discuss Photography and Promotion
This is for today's date: Thursday, July 29, 2010. It will not be archived unless I decide to, you know, archive it... we'll see. We are going to try a little something different. Recently we have discussed pricing and the perils of "shooting for free" and the perils...
Shooting Waverunners in Mexico – In the Ocean
Well, I am kinda with my buddy Kirk here. We have had some distinctly powerful discussions on working for free and what to charge. So we are going to lighten it up a bit with some discussions on images. So let's take a look at something I am working on right now. I...
Enough Negativity: Ten Things to Positively Affect Your Photography
While some pros are worried about kids shooting Facebook and concert pix for free, I think that the perspective is really skewed when we start to become more interested in what non-consequential folks are doing and forget to be excited about this wonderful thing...
No Assignments Without Experience, No Experience without Assignments… Yeah, That Makes Sense, Right?
Rant/Rave today. So it kinda sounds like this to a lot of young photographers: 1. You can't get gigs unless you have experience. 2. Without actual shoots you cannot get experience. 3. You must always charge for your work (see # 1 above) 4. Get an assistant gig. 5....
