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The Hard Life: Embracing and Experimenting with Small Light Sources: by Steve Korn

by Donald Giannatti | Oct 6, 2010 | LE News and Info

The Hard Life: Embracing and Experimenting with Small Light Sources by Steve Korn, Seattle Editorial Photographer “Avoid mid-day sun, it’s too hard and contrasty.” “Learning to light, start with an umbrella.” “If your subject is a woman, you should use...

A Positive Look at Today’s Photography Market by Eduardo Frances (El Salvador Beauty Photographer)

by Donald Giannatti | Oct 3, 2010 | LE News and Info

Guest Post by Eduardo Frances, El Salvador. Eduardo is a fashion and beauty shooter in San Salvador. Eduardo has been featured on LE before. Another look at today´s market: Positive and I hope inspiring too. (Or how adding a violin soundtrack is not needed when we...

Preparing Digital Files for Printing a Book by Jan Klier (Part Two)

by Donald Giannatti | Oct 1, 2010 | LE News and Info

Photograph from a book on northern Arizona to be printed by Blurb. Part two of the Jan Klier post on preparing your files for printing a book. We have a link at the bottom of the page where you can download the entire two part post as a PDF. Part One of this article...

Preparing Digital Files for Printing a Book by Jan Klier

by Donald Giannatti | Sep 29, 2010 | LE News and Info

Image from my book on Northern Arizona, to be printed by Blurb. Preparing the Digital File for Book Printing (Part One) by Jan Klier (I am deep into the writing of my first book so there will be some wonderful posts by guests coming this month. It is nice to have...

Photographer Michael Huxley and the Violinist. Breaking Down a Test Shot

by Donald Giannatti | Sep 27, 2010 | LE News and Info

Working the thought out from conception to realization. Pre-visualization and tenacity blend to help a photographer go from reacting to an image situation to creating an image situation. It is a very powerful technique. I saw this photograph by photographer Michael J....

Slightly Random Thoughts on Photography and Related Stuff

by Donald Giannatti | Sep 25, 2010 | LE News and Info

A bit of a different sort of post today. I have been working hard on getting to a point that I can take large blocks of time to myself. I need it because I have signed a book deal with Amherst Media and need to get the book finished in a short time frame. I am very...
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