by Donald Giannatti | Nov 24, 2014 | Featured, Going Pro, LE News and Info, PROJECT "52"
One of the most under-rated and least mentioned genre of commercial photography is Industrial/Corporate. It isn’t sexy, and models don’t flock to the studio after hours. The travel is usually not to some awesome resort or fancy hotel, but rather to out of...
by Donald Giannatti | Nov 19, 2014 | Featured, Going Pro, LE News and Info
I have always been a ‘commercial’ photographer. While that included some wonderful editorial and fashion along the way, the bulk of my income was from good old commercial photography. Photographs made for advertisements, brochures, product sheets, illustrative uses...
by Donald Giannatti | Nov 12, 2014 | Featured, LE News and Info
Photo of the author by Mike Eller Even More Advice for the Aspiring Professional Photographer. These days a lot of people seem to be offering advice in the area of becoming a full time professional photographer. Some of those folks like Greg Heisler, Jay Meisel, Gail...
by Donald Giannatti | Nov 7, 2014 | Going Pro, LE News and Info, PROJECT "52"
The subject was money. And the assignment was for a brochure cover for a financial services company. Layout was included, but optional. The important thing was to not be totally cliche’ about the image, and also not to succumb to a boring shot. This is a most...
by Donald Giannatti | Nov 5, 2014 | Featured, Going Pro, LE News and Info
Are We? Two things recently formed today’s article. One was a note from a commercial shooter who was being setup to fail, and the other from a consumer shooter angry that the client kept wanting more and more retouching… and feeling trapped that it must be done. To...
by Donald Giannatti | Nov 1, 2014 | LE News and Info, Publications
“A Road Through Shore Pine focuses on a series of 18 never-before-seen photographs by Robert Adams (born 1937), taken in Nehalem Bay State Park, Oregon, in the fall of 2013. Adams documents a contemplative journey, made first by automobile, then by foot, along...