It’s 5:00 a.m. on a Friday morning and I’ve got nothing in the pipeline for the blog today. There are no guest posts that I really want to run, but I do seem to have a lot of attitude. After all it’s Friday! Now remember, I’m not a wedding photographer, so as the weekend approaches [...]
I know this might seem to be a really basic post, but that’s what people tend to miss the most, the basics! We all do it. We take short cuts thinking we’re speeding things up, then we spend twice the time we should, fixing our mistakes. There are a lot of relatively new photographers who [...]
The expression, time flies when you’re having a good time, has never been truer when it comes to buddy JB Sallee and his wife DeEtte. I first met JB at WPPI. He was our first Hy Sheanin Scholarship winner, going back eight years ago. He was single, getting married a short time after the convention [...]
Last year we had an idea and decided to launch our own association. No, let’s correct that, we wanted to start your association. We got the site up and running, started to tweet and within a day had the industry wondering what in the world we were doing. After all, the last thing anybody would think [...]
Not sure why, but there seemed to be a common theme last week about following your heart. Maybe it’s just Spring fever and the need for all of us to get back to focusing on what’s really important in life.
On Facebook, last Thursday I quoted Tom Shadyac. Tom is the multi-million dollar genius who directed [...]
Okay, it’s a loaded question, but in this case it’s happening because Akron Children’s Hospital is about to open an Expressive Therapy Center and the most recent donation from the Akron Photo Series (APS) is going directly to help them! (scroll down on the link and see if you recognize anybody!) Expressive Therapy is all [...]
I met Terry Clark when he won the bid on me for some marketing support through the annual Mentor Auction done by Jim Hicks and his team for Thirst Relief last year. They do a terrific job each year on the auction, usually held just before WPPI. Terry bought a couple of hours of my time to help review [...]
A couple of months ago I wanted to change the direction of this blog and started to concentrate on building a great resource base of “how to” content. Posts from David Ziser, Scott Bourne, Clay Blackmore, Doug Gordon, Matthew Jordan Smith, Jared Platt, Rolando Gomez, Joe Farace, Bruce Berg, Dave Ashby and Nicole Wolf have all [...]
Last week I wrote a post about shooting Neurochromes as it related to an image of my parents holding hands. Nicole Wolf followed up with a post and the trailer for a 28 minute film about her grandfather, “Smiles” Green. Then last night, while surfing through Photofocus, I ran across an old post from Scott Bourne. [...]
Regardless of your photographic specialty, be it wedding, family, children’s portraiture, high school seniors, boudoir or even commercial work, sooner or later you’re going to be shooting in full shade. As buddy, Joe Farace, talks about in this post, it’s one of his favorites. Shade is more than just a quality of light, it has a unique [...]
