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Your subtitle goes right here.First Live Broadcast: Discuss Photography and Promotion
This is for today's date: Thursday, July 29, 2010. It will not be archived unless I decide to, you know, archive it... we'll see. We are going to try a little something different. Recently we have discussed pricing and the perils of "shooting for free" and the perils...
Shooting Waverunners in Mexico – In the Ocean
Well, I am kinda with my buddy Kirk here. We have had some distinctly powerful discussions on working for free and what to charge. So we are going to lighten it up a bit with some discussions on images. So let's take a look at something I am working on right now. I...
Enough Negativity: Ten Things to Positively Affect Your Photography
While some pros are worried about kids shooting Facebook and concert pix for free, I think that the perspective is really skewed when we start to become more interested in what non-consequential folks are doing and forget to be excited about this wonderful thing...
No Assignments Without Experience, No Experience without Assignments… Yeah, That Makes Sense, Right?
Rant/Rave today. So it kinda sounds like this to a lot of young photographers: 1. You can't get gigs unless you have experience. 2. Without actual shoots you cannot get experience. 3. You must always charge for your work (see # 1 above) 4. Get an assistant gig. 5....
What is the Difference Between Shooting for Free and Shooting for Me?
And I should add to that headline... "and not giving a damn?" Today's RANT on common sense. A recent post at Blackstar Rising has created a mini fire-storm there. The post, by John Harrington, who runs the very popular and quite informative Photo Business News and...
Sometimes It Is About Being Able to Simply Get the Shot
A bit of a Rant - a bit of a Rave. Something for everyone. I just had lunch with a photographer friend of mine, Ken Easley. We were chatting about business when Ken brought up a recent assignment he had finished. It was a shoot of 13 or 14 corporate head shots. I will...

