With Summer School starting in just a few days, whether you’re joining us or not, you need to be thinking about your network. A good network doesn’t happen by accident – it takes work to keep it maintained, active and useful. In this Real World Real Lessons post from GoingPro, I hit on a whole [...]

This post from good buddy Matthew Jordan Smith just ran last week on his blog, but I know there are too many of you who didn’t see it. While it’s photography 101, so many of you take short cuts and it often shows in your work, either in the end results or the time it [...]

It’s one of my favorite expressions, talking about the importance of recharging your battery. In fact, you’ve heard me talk a lot about it in reference to Summer School, but what about when when you really do need to charge your batteries? It’s one of those topics you rarely see discussed, especially from a photographer’s [...]

I’ve been writing a series for GoingPro called Real World Real Lessons and having a good time with the concept. This morning while wandering through Cyberspace, I read this post from a little while back by Scott Bourne. It might be one of the best lessons yet for professional photographers.
To Scott’s point, the industry is [...]

Some of you are already aware that I’m a regular contributor to GoingPro. Two to three times a week my posts run on that blog as well. I posted this last Friday, but it’s one of my favorites and I wanted to share it here on my own blog.
I consider myself one of the luckiest [...]

Over the last few months I’ve run a number of great videos leading up to Summer School.  In fact, I’ve found great videos on just about everybody, with the exception of Jules Bianchi and her sister Joy Bianchi Brown and Roberto Valenzuela, but both of them did a couple of terrific guest posts. Jules and [...]

We all get caught in type-casting those photographers we admire most. They seem to establish boundaries on what they’re best at and so often, just like Hollywood, we don’t think of them in other roles. I love this post from Doug Gordon, which is a solid reminder he can shoot anything! He loves working with couples and [...]

Last October, just prior to the PhotoPlus Expo show in New York, I wrote this post. Well, with Summer School just around the corner and a few different programs coming up nationally, everything I wrote is relevant. Time is your most valuable commodity and you need to make sure you make the most of it, [...]

Two weeks from today on August 2, eight photographers are going to be teaching two hour workshops at Summer School, most of them on lighting. Reflected light is so often either misunderstood or just plain missed.
I’ve seen Bambi Cantrell pop in a little extra light with the back of a poster board sign. Joe Buissink [...]

The fun for me about Summer School is getting time to hang out with a whole bunch of old friends while making new ones at the same time. Sure it’s great to have an incredible network, but it’s the friendships that come out of the mutual love for the craft that really make it all worth [...]