with Ed Verosky
If you love photography, Zen and the Art of Portrait Photography will make more of a difference for you than any new piece of gear, software, or technical instruction can. As a photographer, your most important piece of equipment is your mind. Zen and the Art of Portrait Photography is a guidebook for developing a [...]
But right now, you need to give it all you know. Always giving a hundred percent in everything you do ensures you measure your work from within and motivate yourself into getting better…For a skill to get better, you need to invest time. There are simply no shortcuts to mastery. Investing time for your creative [...]
Earlier, I posted a link to a great little quote by Ira Glass. Basically, Ira’s saying that it’s hard to become good at creative work; it takes time and lots of practice. In other words, you have to put in the hours and keep working in order to improve. This echoes Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 Hour [...]
What are you passionate about? I realize for those of us who love photography, it’s easy to claim it as our passion. Some of us are just drawn to the gear and the challenge of understanding how to make the best use of it. Some of us could care less about all the technical stuff [...]
James asks: “In shooting models what are the ‘rules’ on cropping, what poses require or permit cropping at certain points as in arms, legs and other places?” This is a pretty common question for photographers, especially as they start to look at what their doing with a more critical eye. Just as with composition, there [...]
Note: I’m pushing my “shoot with feeling” message again. It’s probably because I’ve seen way too many questions on the web this week where photographers are focusing so much on achieving a specific “look” to their images. Many of whom should probably be more concerned with developing their eye for simple composition and the ability [...]
I received a question from one of our newsletter readers about watermarking (we’ll use the word “watermarking” here when we talk about digitally overlaying some conspicuous logo or text on an image). She asked if she should sign, or put her logo on her portrait and larger artistic prints, and if she should “watermark” her [...]
Zach Arias is big on film as we speak. You know, you get all excited about something and you just go with it. When it comes to film, I’m just happy to work with something so tangible, if that’s the word. It’s got a feel, a smell, and a bit of mystery to it. Here’s [...]
For people who like the look of lomography but want the convenience and relative costs savings of digital, there are ways to have both. Of course you can just take a digital picture with your camera (or any device) and transform it with the software of your choice. If you lack the patience and skill [...]
