Comments on: What Makes A Great Photographer?

By: Vincent Chan

Vincent Chan — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:49:05 +0000

“What Makes A Great Photographer?”

Great Article I love this writeup …..

Spot on with the pointers will always remind myself and believe in it….

Vincent Chan

Singapore

By: Barbara Yasuhara

Barbara Yasuhara — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:42:50 +0000

Skip its fuuny you should mention Kirk. Just last week we were just watching our Kirk Volcain segment on High School Seniors (with Ed Pierce).

Watching him work, talk and move on a senior shoot made me come alive!!! Although I can’t imagine being able to sit next to him in a QUIET public library, I would love to tag along with him on one of those all day High School Senior on location shoots!

He truly is amazing and I can’t wait for the article.

We are so blessed to be a part of giving back!

By: Ihor Vorotnov

Ihor Vorotnov — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:10:21 +0000

Curtis, you say this because you also have a flash website HTML sites are more user-friendly, search-engine-friendly, handheld-device-friendly etc. And with modern technologies (AJAX etc) you can do a lot of beautiful and interactive things without Flash.
But anyway, Flash vs HTML is just a matter of taste. The only thing I hate – auto playing music. Nothing, you hear – NOTHING should start playing without user’s permission. Imagine you’re surfing the net on your laptop while sitting in your bed in the evening, your wife’s laying by relaxed… And suddenly here comes some music while some site loads! And even more – imagine what happens if you load several sites with music in different tabs…
Respect your user!

By: Curtis Farmer

Curtis Farmer — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:53:45 +0000

Ok, first of all, you must not be familiar with Triple Scoop Music, because everything they sell comes with copyright privileges.

Second, Flash is where it’s at. Most major photog’s use it and clients like it. His website is actually quite simple IMO. Easy to navigate and well planned out.

Just my opinion, though…

By: Monie

Monie — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:50:17 +0000

A friend once shared with me a quote, “A great photographer makes photos that get looked INTO not just looked AT.” And I have develop my photography skills based on it.

By: Jeff Jochum

Jeff Jochum — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:17:32 +0000

I love it when something as perceptively complex (like “great”) can be defined succinctly in 5 clear points. Dead on, and thanks for making the effort to create the baseline, Skip.

jeff

By: Matt Vanecek

Matt Vanecek — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:09:29 +0000

Found this on Twitter via Scott Bourne. I’m sure Kirk is great, but I can’t tell. Kirk needs to redo his Web site without all that Flash crap. It popped up another window and launched some song. Hopefully he’s got the song licensed…in any case, his Web site is too annoying to view–I had to close that extra window right quick. Perhaps you could pass that along…no popup windows, no Flash unless you’re streaming video…