by Donald Giannatti | Oct 17, 2012 | Featured, LE News and Info
As photographers, Social Media takes a hit on all of our time. We do it for various reasons. Because it is fun. Because it is a good way to reach people who are otherwise not reachable. Because it is certainly a powerful part of the lives of all of us in business....
by Donald Giannatti | Sep 26, 2012 | Featured, LE News and Info
This morning I followed a link on Twitter to a website devoted (supposedly) to helping photographers learn to be better photographers. The name of the post was something along the lines of “12 Super Awesome Ways to Make Epic Images” or something similar...
by Donald Giannatti | Sep 19, 2012 | LE News and Info
Instagram was a tiny app that grew at an amazing rate. Hipstagram is another app that has grown faster than most, and Snapseed was just purchased by Google. What does that mean? Is it, as one of the articles below suggests, the end of photography? Or is it a new, and...
by Donald Giannatti | Sep 17, 2012 | Going Pro, LE News and Info
… that the secret doesn’t exist. There is no secret. Has never been a secret. Lately I have been noticing a lot more “Secrets to Successful Whateverthehellitis-ness”. Secrets that are so secret that you can buy them in a book or an ebook or get...
by Donald Giannatti | Sep 16, 2012 | LE News and Info
I love this article on communication, photography and the distractions of gear and platforms. Photographer Jon Stanmeyer hits the nail smack on the head with this post on the distraction of the medium over the substance of the image itself. “Now here is what’s...
by Donald Giannatti | Sep 4, 2012 | Featured, LE News and Info
The good folks at UDEMY.com asked me to create a course for them. Portrait Photography with Simple Gear I chose doing a sort of overview for portraiture. Not your typical headshot stuff, although we do look at traditional beauty. In this course we look at using...