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Dave Siegel: Photographer. Arizona and the West
Meet my friend Dave Siegel. Dave is a photographer in Phoenix, but works all over the country for major advertising agencies and destination resorts. He has several specialties over the course of his career, and is now focused on the spa/resort industry. I met Dave a...
Gary Crabbe, Enlightened Images: Interview and Images
I am so glad to welcome Gary Crabbe to Lighting Essentials. I met Gary last summer when he contacted me to discuss designing a new website for him. We hit it off pretty quick and I was really happy when he selected me to do the redesign of www.enlightphoto.com. Gary...
Clarion Call II, and getting ready for the new LE Contest
Selina Maitreya, a great friend to Lighting Essentials, is having a second Clarion Call. If you were on the last one, you will remember how cool it was. And if you missed it, you missed one of the most important two days of photography information in a long time....
A Strategy for Going Pro as a Commercial Photographer: Part Three – Engage
A Strategy for Going Pro as a Commercial Photographer: Part Three – Engage We have gone through a basic discovery process in part one, finding out who is doing what in your area. Are there clients and agencies buying photographs and are you able to make photographs...
“Can’t We All Just Get Along?” – Well, no… apparently. SPAM rage in Adland.
(Photograph by Ryan Hyde.) (As was noted in the first comment, the CD who was the focus of this flap has replaced the website with something less onerous. That may take the heat off of the current situation, but it does NOT change the underlying situation, does it. I...
A Strategy for Going Pro as a Commercial Photographer: Part Two – Preparation
This part two of a series on Going Pro from my perspective, experience and research. (Part One here) This one we call "preparation" because before we can launch into strategical and implementation, we must be prepared. Just as a surgeon prepares for his craft with...
Potpourri Friday: Some new and some old – but all about Photography
From the series: Girls looking off camera at stuff." Well, it is Good Friday, and this weekend will be a blur. But I wanted to get some thoughts down before I hit the schedule for the upcoming Project 52 and workshops. First from the web: Some really good reads: From...
Need Inspiration: Try “Immersion”
Have you ever needed some inspiration? Maybe the batteries were a little low and the doldrums of creative deadlock begin to swirl around your camera. Maybe you had to do something really creative and simply needed to see some stuff to “get the juices going.” And then...
What Do You See When You Look at a Photograph?
What do you see when you look at a photograph? Simple question. How you answer it may reveal what you find important in imagery. I was once in a gallery at a large Arizona University. We were looking at a show of a photographer who had just completed his Master’s...
Some thoughts on Photography as I wait for a plane in Omaha
I am in a hotel in Omaha as I write this. Kind of a jumble of ideas and notes I wrote while thinking about my place in the world. I know what you are thinking… right now my place in the world is Omaha. Right, but I was really thinking a bit more metaphysically, so...
A Strategy for Going Pro as a Commercial Photographer: Part One: Discovery
It is one of the paradoxes of our business that one cannot get assignments until one has done assignments. “How do I get assignments if I don’t have any work to show the clients” is an often-heard complaint. And it is a complaint not without merit. It is tough to get...
One Light Portraits: Examples and Discussion
There is something about a one light portrait that gets to me. I don't really know why, but I do love the look. Sure, I can use the sun as a second light, but that's OK - I still let it be a single light portrait with a lot of backlight or sidelight or whatever. Heh....