by Donald Giannatti | Dec 21, 2014 | LE News and Info
Nobody likes a clone. A clone is a copy, a non-authentic ‘ringer’ that has no soul, no guts, no passion, no quirks or guilts or pleasures. And it is way, way too easy to be a clone. Just copy something or someone and do that as you. But it is you. Case in...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 20, 2014 | LE News and Info
One of the more difficult things to wrap our arms around is that not everyone out there wants us to succeed. In fact, the numbers are highly stacked against us. More people will seem to want to douse your flame of passions before it gets lit than will block the wind...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 19, 2014 | LE News and Info
In the ‘business’ of photography some things have changed drastically since I started out a long time ago. From “day rates” to “snip tests” some of what we did as a normal part of our creative lives have either vanished or have been...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 18, 2014 | LE News and Info
Have you ever purchased a car? From a dealership? All the run around they do, the “let me take this to my manager” BS, and the “hey, what do you want to spend per month for this little honey…” makes me cringe. I am a marketer, and that...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 17, 2014 | LE News and Info
I know that being a professional photographer should be a bed of roses, a magical place where unicorns and rainbows are interspersed between the Bentleys and mansions. A place where creativity is simply something that everyone has in spades, and no one is ever without...