Today on an assignment, I had a chance to hear David Shenk talk about practicing your craft to succeed. Shenk, author of the new book, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong, talked about cellist Yo Yo Ma, and his path to success. The … Read more
Sometimes, for even the most talented of photographers, no strobes are necessary. Heck, not even added continuous light sources (besides the sun). Such is the case in this video from GQ behind the scenes with Mark Seliger.Video archived — restoration pending.I(Comments, if any, after the Jump)Please post your comments by clicking the link below. If … Read more
Usually, I wait to post a bunch of speed links, but this one’s worth standing on it’s own!Stop Accepting $200 Assignments! – This article is spot on and worth the read!Now go! Check ’em out, and come back soon!Please post your comments by clicking the link below. If you’ve got questions, please pose them in … Read more
Below is a video clip that’s 22 minutes in length, but don’t bother watching it all. Advance to 15:37 and watch 5 seconds of it, where White House Chief of Staff tells a reporter for Washington Life Magazine “The First Amendment is highly over-rated” while he arrived at The White House Correspondents Association Dinner in … Read more
For the last decade, I’ve supported the National Press Photographers Association Northern Short Course as a presenter. This year, for three days, we’ll be in New Brunswick, New Jersey (exit 9!) March 11th through 13th. I present on, what else? – the business of photography. Here’s the entire program, which includes William Foster on social … Read more
How many times have you been without a much-needed recharging solution with your non-battery-swapable iPhone? For me, it is all to often, and I just can’t risk losing a call because of a dead iPhone. So, friend and colleague, virginia corporate headshots photographer Mark Finkenstaedt had a solution. Mark did all the hard work doing … Read more
For World Press Photo 2010, the bar has been raised to a high level with the new requirement of the submission of RAW image files for review alongside any image that the judges suspected were excessively manipulated. Below is the collection of images for review:The DQ’d entrant, Stepan Rudik wrote over at PetaPixel (here) in … Read more
Yesterday, Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein was interviewed for almost four minutes about the Getty deal with the Olympics on CNBC. At about 2:28 into the interview, the issue of the Tiger Woods image made recently was raised (see link in ‘Related’ at end of article), and at approximately 2:47, Klein says “… we don’t … Read more
“Fair Use” when it comes to copyrighted works gets tossed around by so many people often trying to hide behind it so as to not have to pay for use when they should, or because they were too lazy to find the owner (or, to be fair, couldn’t, and decided to do it anyway.) Public … Read more
The FUTURE of all photographic uses is digital. No one doubts that print will be the antiquated backwater in just a few years. Learn from the mistakes of the publishing industry which gave away its content for free and then watched their print income evaporate, almost overnight. Learn from the publishing industry that ad/usage rates … Read more
