by Donald Giannatti | Jul 5, 2011 | LE News and Info
This has been a heck of a wild week for me. I am finishing up my second book for Amherst Media, “Lighting Essentials II: Lighting for Texture, Control and Dimension” and it is taking a bit longer than I expected. The trip to New York was not as productive...
by Donald Giannatti | Jun 30, 2011 | LE News and Info
A kind of a hodge-podge post this morning. I am deep into the final shooting for the Lighting Essentials II book to be published by Amherst Media sometime in the moderately distant future. These days it seems like a year from completion to seeing it on the shelves. I...
by Donald Giannatti | Jun 28, 2011 | LE News and Info
Part One Part Two Part Three Now look, I don’t recommend anyone lie their way into a position anywhere. Unless of course you need to and no one will die if you screw up. (Personally I think a lot of the ‘resume’ process is highly over rated and not...
by Donald Giannatti | Jun 23, 2011 | LE News and Info
I mentioned in the last post (Part One) that a neighbor asked me to take a photograph for his company. And offered money for it. $100 bucks. That was 1975 and that wasn’t bad money at all. I had no idea why he would pay me $100 for a photograph of a small black...
by Donald Giannatti | Jun 21, 2011 | LE News and Info
It was 1963. We were on a vacation in California, and my dad wanted to see the town of Carmel. We would do that as a family. Head out from Phoenix to places (usually west of us) and find things that were interesting to my dad. Mom didn’t really care where we...
by Donald Giannatti | Jun 15, 2011 | LE News and Info
Well, the hot days are here. Believe me. 110 in Phoenix today. We experienced three of the heat wave days in New York, and then some great respite up in Old Orchard Maine. This is a gathering of some things I think you may enjoy as we prepare for the long hot days of...