by Donald Giannatti | Jul 15, 2011 | LE News and Info
A recent heated discussion on a photographer making her political affiliations known led me to another thought… is there a line you won’t cross in your work? Should there be? It is a competitive market out there. There are bills to pay, and gear to...
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...