Category: Photography

Photo Business Bootcamp: Power Your Photography Business

Photo Business Bootcamp: Power Your Photography Business – PhotoShelter Blog

Your typical personal trainer whips you into shape by making you do hundreds of squats and crunches. We like to think our free guides, webinars, and blogposts help whip your photography business into shape, minus the situps and excessive sweating. We’re

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we’ve taken the best of the best from all of our educational resources to create our first ever Photo Business Bootcamp. This comprehensive 5-week email series is designed to guide photographers who are ready to achieve greater success in their photography business

October 28, 2011
John Loengard Age of Silver

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An entire generation of photographers has come of age since digital technology supplanted film technology in photography. For those who have never wound a roll of film through a camera or dipped their fingers in darkroom chemicals, but have nonetheless wondered about that archaic process, let me recommend the following description from photographer and former Life magazine director of photography John Loengard. It is as succinct and eloquent an account of photography’s origins and chemical past as you will ever find:

October 25, 2011
Errol Morris on Photography: Believing Is Seeing

LightBox | Time

Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/18/qa-errol-morris-on-believing-is-seeing/#1

In his new book, the filmmaker investigates the mysteries behind some of photography’s most famous news images. Here, Morris walks TIME through five of his fascinating case studies:

October 18, 2011
Worth a look (and a few bucks!): Support the Focused Project

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The project is still in need of funds, and with only a day left for donations, the time to contribute is now. Head over to IndieGoGo to help Focused become a reality.

October 14, 2011
One Shot: Chip Litherland’s “FOCUSED”

One Shot: Chip Litherland’s “FOCUSED”

“For the last couple years, a small dusty bag of 35-mm. film peered at me from my desk,” the Florida-based photographer Chip Litherland told me when I …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/10/chip-litherland-focused.html?currentPage=all

“For the last couple years, a small dusty bag of 35-mm. film peered at me from my desk,” the Florida-based photographer Chip Litherland told me when I asked him about the genesis of his current project. “The internet, camera phones, and motor drives have burst the dam of photography, causing a flood of imagery into the world, and ‘FOCUSED’ is my attempt to stick a wad of gum in that dam to stop the leak for even a brief second.”

October 8, 2011
Steve Jobs: Visionary, Inventor, and Very Challenging Photo Subject

Steve Jobs: Visionary, Inventor, and Very Challenging Photo Subject | PDNPulse

The media is heaping accolades on Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday of cancer at the age of 56. Tributes have poured in from all over the world. Jobs was a visionary who changed the way we use and interact with technology. The iPhone and iPad

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-visionary-inventor-and-very-challenging-photo-subject.html

Asked to recount his experiences photographing Jobs, another photographer said, “I don’t really want to be the guy who pans iGod during this hour of national mourning!”

October 6, 2011
Law Firm Going After Photographers Shooting In CA

Law Firm Going After Photographers Shooting In CA – A Photo Editor

A California law firm is using an often ignored part of CA labor law to go after photographers, producers and advertising agencies. On the website for the Muse Law Group under the heading Model Rights they state that: Under California Law, actors, as well

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/10/05/law-firm-going-after-photographers-shooting-in-ca/

A California law firm is using an often ignored part of CA labor law to go after photographers, producers and advertising agencies

October 5, 2011
Photographer’s Lost Archive Turns Up at NY Flea Market

Photographer’s Lost Archive Turns Up at NY Flea Market | PDNPulse

Photographer-turned-filmmaker Alexi Tan almost lost his entire photographic archive because of an expired credit card. This past June, photographer and self-professed flea market hound Henry Leutwyler was browsing a Manhattan market when he came across bo

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/photographers-lost-archive-turns-up-at-ny-flea-market.html

“I couldn’t even begin to describe the feeling to see these lost works once more,” Tan says. “It really feels like part of me came back, in a good way. My photography was the foundation for what I do now as a filmmaker. So to describe the feeling to have them back, in one word: Unbelievable.”

October 5, 2011
I’m done spending time creating content for free

The Visual Science Lab / Kirk Tuck

Austin, Texas Portrait Photographer’s Blog about Photography, Art and Writing by Kirk Tuck.

Link: http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/

I should have been on the phone continuing to make calls to prospective clients. I should have been working on the two book projects I have in front of me. I should have been swimming or running. But instead I was writing a piece about a $499 camera that will be obsolete in a few months and lost to nearly everyone’s memory in a year.

October 4, 2011
Back to Basics: Analog Photography Project Aims to Slow Things Down

Back to Basics: Analog Photography Project Aims to Slow Things Down

Sometime in early November, Florida photographer Chip Litherland will load five 35mm cameras with color film, carefully pack them into shipping cases, and mail them to five different photographers around the globe. Each photographer who receives a camera

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/10/back-to-basics-analog-photography-project-aims-to-slow-things-down/

Sometime in early November, Florida photographer Chip Litherland will load five 35mm cameras with color film, carefully pack them into shipping cases, and mail them to five different photographers around the globe. Each photographer who receives a camera will be challenged to shoot just one picture before they have to ship the camera on to someone else.

October 3, 2011
There’s an awful lot of outrage about this statement on Nikon’s Facebook page

There’s an awful lot of outrage about this statement on Nikon’s Facebook page — duckrabbit

Very silly own goal, but I’m just wondering how many people complaining have bought kit they never really use because…

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A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses…

September 29, 2011
6 Tips to Get Your Fine Art Photography Featured Online

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Today we released free guide #15 in PhotoShelter’s library of photography business guides: Selling Fine Art Photography. Turns out, the perfect “recipe” to finding success in selling fine art photography, let alone defining fine art photography, proved to be a bit elusive. So we talked at length with 12 pros – fine art photographers, curators and gallerists (online and offline galleries), and one fine art printer to get their best tips and tricks, find out what’s working and what’s not.

September 28, 2011
SLR lens-thieves steal pricey optics from around your neck

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September 28, 2011
Once Magazine: A new revenue stream for photographers?

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Once Magazine isn’t really a photography magazine – it’s more a showcase for long-term photographic projects. Available as an app for the iPad, Once Magazine presents, each month, the work of three selected photographers. For each one, the magazine publishes around 20 images, with background information, interviews and audio files.

September 26, 2011
LUCEO STORE Grand Opening!

LUCEO STORE Grand Opening! | LUCEO

Link: http://blog.luceoimages.com/2011/09/luceo-store-grand-opening/

More than just a place to shop, the LUCEO STORE is the next step in our effort to assert more creative control over the production and distribution of our members’ work. This endeavor includes the creation of LUCEO PRESS, our in-house publishing arm; LUCEO STORE, a retail store for our collective works; and The LUCEO Print Gallery, a specially curated body of work by our members housed within the LUCEO STORE.

September 26, 2011
Harry Ransom Center acquires Elliott Erwitt’s archives

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The Harry Ransom Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin, has acquired Elliott Erwitt’s archives of more than 50,000 prints

September 23, 2011
Magnum: Advice for young photographers – part 2

Magnum: Advice for young photographers – part 2 – A Photo Editor

You must have something to say. You must be brutally honest with yourself about this. Think about history, politics, science, literature, music, film, and anthropology. What effect does one discipline have over another? What makes “man” tick? Today, with

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You must have something to say

September 22, 2011
Magnum: Advice for young photographers

Magnum: Advice for young photographers – A Photo Editor

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to pay your rent with your camera. Jimi Hendrix didn’t decide on the career of professional musician before he learne

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/09/21/magnum-advice-for-young-photographers/

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after. Don’t be in a rush to pay your rent with your camera.

September 21, 2011
Real World Estimates – Magazine Article Reprints

Real World Estimates – Magazine Article Reprints – A Photo Editor

by Jess Dudley Wonderful Machine Producer Most magazine assignments don’t have big budgets on the front end, but if you play your cards right, you can help make up for it on the back end. One way to do that is to be savvy about article reprint licensing.

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/09/20/real-world-estimates-magazine-article-reprints/

Most magazine assignments don’t have big budgets on the front end, but if you play your cards right, you can help make up for it on the back end. One way to do that is to be savvy about article reprint licensing.

September 20, 2011
An Amazing Photography Project Needs Funding: FOCUSED

37th frame:

They are running a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for this incredibly unique project

September 19, 2011