by Donald Giannatti | Dec 24, 2014 | LE News and Info
Is making a photograph easy? Good question… although the question should really be; Should making a photograph be easy? We seem to expect it to be. I see the ads about how easy it is to “click” and get a picture. Kodak said it decades earlier:...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 23, 2014 | LE News and Info
Occasionally we run into the argument of whether or not ‘creativity’ can be taught, or does it have to be born within us? We read all about creativity and how important it is. We award little statuettes to really “creative” people. Creativity...
by Donald Giannatti | Dec 22, 2014 | LE News and Info
Photography at its best can be a reflection of the world in ways that we have never been seen before. It is the photographer’s vision that makes the image become more than it could have been. But at the heart of the photographer’s vision, there is a deep...
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...
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