I read an interesting article about excuses for shooting for free and why they’re bogus. Â Most of the excuses are variations on a theme: For the most part, I agree with these points. Â I thought some of his comments were a bit smarmy, such as excuse #7: I like my day job in IT, but…
Notice: That’s a professional photographer, not a professional model. Yesterday, I espoused the reasons why I don’t consider myself a professional photographer, and quite likely, don’t see it happening anytime soon. I do this for the love of photography and don’t want to turn it into the drudgery of work. It’s nice to shoot what…
I had a nice surprise when I came home today. There was a box at the door. I knew it wasn’t my shirts from Eddie Bauer (yes, I’m tragically hip) and I was surprised to find out that my canvas print from Artistic Photo Canvas already arrived. It came in a nice cardboard box with…
This weekend, Thomas Hawk wrote a couple of posts about copyright infringement by Imagelogr.com and Wapfever.com. Â They were basically scouring Flickr and other parts of the Internet to grab images without regard for the author’s copyright, downloading them to host on their own servers ,and then offering those images up to their customers. Â At…
For my trip to the Washington D.C. area last week, I decided to try renting a lens to give me some different perspective. Â I’d never rented glass before, so this was all trial and error for me. Â There are several businesses that serve the rental market and I wanted a way to narrow the field….
Taking and storing photographs is easy. Â I use Aperture, other folks may use Lightroom or some other digital asset manager. Â The trick is to find the images you want after you’ve stored hundreds of gigabytes. Â There’s a plethora of metadata available when you import your images, but I’ve found that the method that works…