Category: Technique & Workflow

  • Scott Strazzante on iPhone Street Photography

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    PDN Video Pick: Scott Strazzante on iPhone Street Photography | PDNPulse Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante has built an Instagram following of more than 18,000, and is also author of a popular blog called Shooting from the Hip. He sat down for a video interview with PDN at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph…

  • Push-To-Post: An Automated Wireless Photography Workflow

    Push-To-Post: An Automated Wireless Photography Workflow

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    Push-To-Post: An Automated Wireless Photography Workflow – PhotoShelter Blog Jaren Wilkey is the Manager of Brigham Young University’s Photography office. He works full-time shooting BYU’s athletics, events, news – and running the BYU Photo Store. BYU sports teams have an active following on Facebook and Twitter, so Jaren is under via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/06/push-to-post-an-automated-wireless-photography-workflow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 Here’s…

  • New Guide! 11 Secrets to a Great Photo Website

    New Guide! 11 Secrets to a Great Photo Website

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    New Guide! 11 Secrets to a Great Photo Website – PhotoShelter Blog Our latest guide, 11 Secrets to a Great Photo Website, offers key insights to attract potential clients and grow your business directly from your website. Learn why a website that’s responsive, SEO friendly, and easy to navigate (plus more!) can keep visi via PhotoShelter…

  • Advice For Photo Assistants: Traveling Smart

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    Advice For Photo Assistants: Traveling Smart – A Photo Editor by Demetrius Fordham I think I speak on behalf of most photo assistants when I say that travel’s easily one of job’s biggest perks. In my time assisting, I’ve worked in the Congo, Seoul, Monaco, Sydney and Rio among other cities, hung out with awesome new…

  • Size Matters: How to Build a (huge) Panoramic Photograph

    Size Matters: How to Build a (huge) Panoramic Photograph

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    Size Matters: How to Build a (huge) Panoramic Photograph Retoucher Mark Cornellison takes us throug building a 272 gigapixel panorama, from image capture to editing + all the details. This technique works for images of all shapes and sizes via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2013/05/size-matters-how-to-build-a-272-gigapixel-panorama/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29 Earlier in the week I shared my gear list for the…

  • The Perfect Portfolio: A Photographer’s Guide

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    The Perfect Portfolio: A Photographer’s Guide via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/perfect-portfolio-photographers-guide There’s nothing worse than having a portfolio that looks like every other portfolio. You want to be remembered! You want to leave a lasting impression

  • New Guide: Creating a Successful Photography Portfolio

    New Guide: Creating a Successful Photography Portfolio

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    New Guide: Creating a Successful Photography Portfolio – PhotoShelter Blog Our latest free educational guide, Creating a Successful Photography Portfolio, contains major insights from seasoned photography consultants on how to build an online photography portfolio that helps attract clients and win jobs. Topics include: 11 Secre via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/04/new-guide-creating-a-successful-photography-portfolio/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 Our latest free educational guide, Creating…

  • How to Get All The Best Looks of Film in a Digital Darkroom

    How to Get All The Best Looks of Film in a Digital Darkroom

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    How to Get All The Best Looks of Film in a Digital Darkroom If you want to bring the look and feel of film to your digital images, this one’s for you. We look at four apps and tell you which ones we liked, and why. via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2013/04/four-great-ways-to-get-the-look-of-film-in-the-digital-darkroom/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29 I decided that I…

  • Tony Gale’s Tips for Environmental Portraiture

    Tony Gale’s Tips for Environmental Portraiture

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    Tony Gale’s Tips for Environmental Portraiture – PhotoShelter Blog We were fortunate to have NYC-based photographer Tony Gale join us for an information-filled webinar on his approach to environmental photography. We were less fortunate to have me responsible for pressing “record” before the webinar started, because I so via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/03/tony-gales-tips-for-environmental-portraiture/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 we’ve compiled an…

  • On Process

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    Link: Conscientious Extended | On Process It’s fairly safe to assume that tor a sizable part of photoland, a digital image that looks like a wet-plate image cannot be judged the same way as a an actual wet-plate one. In the following, I will try to explain why that is a pretty severe mistake

  • Overcoming My f/Entekaphobia

    Overcoming My f/Entekaphobia

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    Overcoming My f / Entekaphobia Entekaphobia – fear of the number 11 Or. . . How I Learned to Appreciate Small Aperture Photography If you read my blog much, you know I’m a resolution fanatic. I test every new lens for resolution. For personal use, I’ll choose the lens with higher resol via LensRentals Blog:…

  • 3 Examples of Defunct Photography Websites Turned Great

    3 Examples of Defunct Photography Websites Turned Great

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    3 Examples of Defunct Photography Websites Turned Great – PhotoShelter Blog David Brabyn wears two hats: he’s a working photojournalist based in New York, and also a website consultant and designer with his own business, digitaltechparis. As a consultant, David recommends and builds solutions for photographers who want to get the via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/02/3-examples-of-defunct-photography-websites-turned-great/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 We…

  • The Photographer’s Checklist for Designing an Outstanding Homepage

    The Photographer’s Checklist for Designing an Outstanding Homepage

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    The Photographer’s Checklist for Designing an Outstanding Homepage – PhotoShelter Blog As the saying goes, your first impression is often your last. That’s why designing an outstanding homepage should be one of your top priorities. Think of your homepage as the entry point to your entire website; it needs to grab your visitors and get…

  • Opening a Sketchbook and Finding a Spark

    Opening a Sketchbook and Finding a Spark

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    Opening a Sketchbook and Finding a Spark Ina Jang, the photographer behind our cover article on victims of child pornography, reveals the process behind her work. via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/opening-a-sketchbook-and-finding-a-spark/?partner=rss&emc=rss Ina Jang opened her sketchbooks for us to reveal the ways her drawings have informed her photography.

  • Fat vs Tall — Horizontal or Vertical: Which way should you shoot?

    Fat vs Tall — Horizontal or Vertical: Which way should you shoot?

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    Fat vs Tall — Horizontal or Vertical: Which way should you shoot? Horizontal photography and design is becoming more pervasive – and with good reason. It’s a trend that image makers should be paying close attention to. via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2013/01/the-new-horizontal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29 I’m shooting more horizontals. I’m consuming more content in that orientation too. And,…

  • How We Made Snow Fall

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    Link: How We Made Snow Fall – Features – Source: An OpenNews project In the days before Christmas, we asked the Snow Fall team about their process, and they responded with a mosaic of answers from their designers, reporters, developers, end editors.

  • Introducing Gavin Gough’s New eBook, The Photographer’s Workflow

    Introducing Gavin Gough’s New eBook, The Photographer’s Workflow

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    Introducing Gavin Gough’s New eBook, The Photographer’s Workflow – PhotoShelter Blog As photographers, we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to make our daily workflows more effective and efficient. The age-old saying, “time is money,” seriously holds true in the photography industry. If your images aren’t uploaded, edited, and deliver via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/12/introducing-gavin-goughs-new-ebook-the-photographers-workflow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 There…

  • 5 Common Mishaps in Product Photography Lighting

    5 Common Mishaps in Product Photography Lighting

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    5 Common Mishaps in Product Photography Lighting – PhotoShelter Blog We’re going to give it away right up front: lighting is probably the most important element to shooting solid product photography. When isn’t it in photography? But because getting the nitty-gritty details is often so important, there’s a lot more involve via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/10/5-common-mishaps-in-product-photography-lighting/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29…

  • Going Pro

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    Link: Going Pro this television operator caught the eye of everyone on the sideline during pregame as he slung around 20 GoPro cameras on a rig. Not only would I love to see the clip, but I want to pat him on the back for giving me something to tell everyone about. This was the…

  • For One Instagram Celebrity, the Secret’s in the Secrecy

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    For One Instagram Celebrity, the Secret’s in the Secrecy Sure the iPhone made everyone a photographer, but it also made everyone a spy. Just ask Richard Koci Hernandez: His Instagram stream of surreptitious black-and-white portraits has captured more than 140,000 followers and made him one of the first Instagra via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/pl_instagram_/ The key to…