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August 19, 2009

• Playing with Photography — More on Vision

  My response to a Photographer who talks about playing with photography like a child in her post, which I certainly think also has an important place in the process, but for me it’s about taking the time to discover what you find beautiful, interesting or compelling about your subject and using your technical skills to [...]

August 17, 2009

• Importance of Vision in Photography

  I feel that it really does take a lot of shooting and work to find your own VISION. A vision is about the way you see, while a style is a set of technical parameters that apply to a set of photos (images done with a short lens, in black and white, with hard contrasty [...]

June 7, 2009

• Orange County Photographer Speaks out About Shopping Price

  When I speak with clients who are shopping price (those who aren’t seem to be far more likely to work without these strange blinders on), I try to suggest they put my images side by side with the other photographers they are comparing and ask themselves which set of images feels like it belongs to [...]

May 24, 2009

• My Images Should be Good Enough to Hang in Galleries

  I don’t think only artistic types appreciate good art. Good art evokes emotion and doesn’t require a degree. I don’t think everybody will get my work, however, but if they did then it probably wouldn’t be good. Please keep in mind that I’m in LA, and the motion picture community is well within my reach [...]

May 3, 2009

• Being a Photographer is in My Soul – Forum Post

  I’m a photographer, and have been for the last twenty years, because it is in my soul – it is who and what I am. It is more important to me than what schools I go to, how big my house is, and the neighborhood I live in. It’s certainly more important that the toys [...]

April 28, 2009

• Identifying Good vs Bad Photography

  There’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed. This applies in the commercial world as well – almost anybody can look through two magazines (one with great photography, one with mediocre photography) and pick out the higher end publication.
  Yet, when these same people need to buy photography they can’t tell good work from bad work – the [...]

April 25, 2009

• Digital Image Pricing – Orange County Photographer Forum advice

  The idea of pricing images based on usage has nothing to do with the transition to digital photography, but rather is a function of a completely different business model where we charge based on the many thousands, tens of thousands, or millions of times the image will be reproduced. It also takes into account the [...]