Category: Photography

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so many photographers and so few resources to finance them as professionals will lead many to search for other sources of income….however, the true visionaries will do just fine….and it has always been so…..

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Talk about crowded! With the development of auto focus the photo population quadtrupulated! And there ain’t much room on that rock.

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Number 13 on my list simply says:
“HAVE A LIFE! … OUTSIDE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
It’s very important to have balance in your life and have FUN in what you do. “

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Those who lament the price of cameras really have no excuse. Pinhole cameras can be made for practically nothing. They’re the simplest of cameras, usually consisting of a box with a single minuscule hole, photographic paper and no lens. Former Rocky Mountain News photographer Wes Pope, for example, made his out of used soda cans.

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There are an infinite number of ways to grow your business by just putting it out there. One of the things that we found was that whenever we were initially introduced to a client, they wanted to be able to see that we focused on them.

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Wow. I haven’t used this stuff in ages but as far as affordable 35mm color neg goes in India, this is it.

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Now Los Angeles has its own Month of Photography, which runs through April, just as the weather gets really nice there. The  L.A. festival is being produced by the same people who bring us the Lucie Awards every autumn in New York.

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Here are nine other business essentials to be ready for any assignment.

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I don’t know where the time goes but we are only six weeks out from the second annual New York Photo Festival aka NYPH’09 which returns to DUMBO May 13 thru 17. I have been meaning to do a posting for sometime and have to say I am somewhat relived to see that NYPH’09 is now a 5 day affair like last year and not the 10 or 12 day photopolooza that was originally touted. 5 days is perfect for New York, keep it a full on intense thrill ride just like the city itself.

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I was happy to see that a number of photographers featured in American Photo’s own Emerging Artists surveys were in the Hearst show. That includes Edith Maybin

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the value of an unlimited, worldwide, editorial license for a professional news picture has just fallen to $0.

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When I am asked about my work, one of the questions that often comes up is ‘How much difference does it make that I am a woman?’ And I have to agree that it does make a huge difference, that plenty of the situations I have been in would not have been accessible to a man, or if a man had been present the atmosphere would have been very different.

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One of the reasons I started this blog was to share my photographic experiences with other photographers. A major part of that experience is the business side of photography and in times like these how we, as photographers, as freelancers, as journalists deal with our clients is the of the utmost importance. Placing a value on our time, or vision, our creativity is getting harder and harder to do with magazines cutting budgets and work drying up.

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