Articles about Photography In Today's World
My inner-geek loves early January. That’s when the Consumer Electronics Show takes over Las Vegas. CES is the biggest annual gathering of techies, geeks and electronic gadgeteers on the planet. With 1.4 million square feet …
I received an email from a student at Brooks Institute this morning. He asked me to share my thoughts on his portfolio site. If he’s got the courage to ask, I’ve got the time to …
As we begin to celebrate the departure of the ‘Decade From Hell‘, I’ve spent a good bit of time looking at photos from the past year and the past decade. Here are a dozen of …
‘Vin as Pablo Picasso by Arnold Newman’
It’s more than healthy to take a break and have some fun… it’s essential. Here are a handful of snapshots I took of my middlest son Vin while touring …
Many photographers hope, as their skills and portfolios continue to grow, that they will be able to get paying jobs by shooting for magazines. As I wrote in Digital Photographers, Welcome Back to 1999, the …
This Week’s LIDLIPS
13. Learning photography is just like becoming fluent in a foreign language.
14. Invest more in your education than you do in photo gear.
15. Understand that the meaning of “traditional photography” is relative …
Many thanks to Scott Kelby who courageously let me drive his blog today. Coming up with something insightful for the legions of readers who follow Scott’s Photoshop Insider tapped all of my blog-juice over the …
I headed to Las Vegas recently to search for the future of photography at the Consumer Electronics Show. Every January, the world converges in Vegas and sets up an electronic city within the city. …
This month’s “Best Web Video” is actually an entire series — the Genius Of Photography produced by the BBC (site here). If you are trying to figure out how to be a photographer today, I …
As photographers, we are visual creatures. We need to feed that vision by spending a lot of time looking at the works of other photographers. No, I’m not thinking of Flickr. I’m thinking of photography …
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. This year, I’m giving thanks for the gift of creativity.
Our world needs creatives and the new ideas they create. Creatives live well beyond the realms of art, music and …
Let’s face it – October’s been a tough month. The world melted down financially. There’s coast-to-coast vitriol over the election. A thief decided that he needed one of my cameras and a favorite lens more …
New York-based, Pulitzer-winning, editorial shooter Vincent Laforet has written an epic piece on the state of editorial photography. Find it here on SportsShooter.com. I say “epic” both in terms of content and length. Anyone who …
Dove’s Evolution of Beauty video was released just over 18 months ago. By my tally of the various posts on YouTube, it has been downloaded by more than 10 million viewers. I’ve watched it at …
It’s almost too hard to believe… the 500th ‘What The Duck’ comic strip is approaching. Second only to the invention of Photoshop, WTD is what keeps the photo world in a stable orbit. Aaron Johnson …
