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Bret Doss’s “Fallen Leaf” Series
Bret Doss is a photographer and an engineer in Seattle, Washington. He and I have traveled the PNW together on occasion and he was my assistant on the Creative LIVE workshops. He is a talented photographer with a wide range of interests. From fashionable portraiture...
Gear List / Links for the UDEMY Portrait Class
Class: Portrait Photography with Simple Gear Link to the Class Page. Stand (even better a stand and a boom) Umbrella Holder Umbrella (shoot through and bounce) Flash (the kind that goes on the camera, but also has the ability to set the power manually) A trigger set...
Facebook Slams the Door on Photographers
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....
It Costs What It Costs
I purchased a car yesterday. I haven't bought a car for a while, always getting the wife's hand me down... heh. But with the new business, a new ride is imperative. It was pretty painless. I told them straight up that I had no time or energy for haggling (and they...
Project 52 PRO – Works
At the Project 52 PRO group, there are an astounding group of photographers all helping to boost each other into professionalism. Most of them have gotten a paying gig this year, and we are well on the way to making that happen for all of them. The point of Project 52...
On Style: Personal Take
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 - and no, I am...
Instagram… it is Not the Devil (or is it?)
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...
The Secret Is…
... 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 them for a buck on...
Cameras Are Tools. Vision is Photography.
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 key...
My UDEMY Class on Portraiture is Live
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...
Yes, You Can Trust Your Professional Photographer (Essay Nine)
I don't have a photograph to run with this article. I wouldn't want to even think about what photograph I would run here. And, by the way, this is me being pissed off again. So if that sort of thing makes you uneasy, and you are all fine with an industry leader...
Does Vison Trump Gear? (Essay Eight)
Recently an article caught my attention over at TIME. "Last Launch: Dan Winters and the Shuttle Program. TIME had commissioned Winters to photograph the final launch of the Space Shuttle and they showed a few of the images that will soon be in the book. The images are...








