If you were to look back at all the posts written over the last few years by me and good buddy, Scott Bourne you’d find hundreds that relate to expanding your education and networking. They’re two key topics you just can’t hide from if you’re headed down the road to being a professional photographer. If [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2012 in Upcoming Events, communication
“What good is working to create the finest images of your life if nobody knows who you are?” That’s pretty much the foundation of every marketing workshop I’ve taught over the last couple of years, along with my long time favorite, “Just because the media tells us it’s going to be a bad year, doesn’t [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2012 in Children's Portraiture, Education, Social Media, Storytelling, Summer School, Top-Shelf, Upcoming Events, Workshop Update, film-making, wedding photography
Going into its fourth year, Skip’s Summer School just seems to get better and better, but this year it has little to do with anything I thought of. This is about input from all the alumni from past programs together with many of the instructors.
I absolutely understand how hard it is to decide on what [...]
Posted on May 08th, 2012 in Website
When I added a website review as part of this year’s Summer School program I had no idea what to expect. I knew from looking at so many sites and portfolios over the years everyone needed a little help, but there are some new things I’ve learned. One of them is the fact that many [...]
Posted on May 07th, 2012 in 2011 Summer School Profile, Lighting
The year is 1987 and I’ve just taken over as president of Hasselblad USA after being with Polaroid for over 17 years. Hasselblad was just in the process of kicking off a workshop series with a young commercial photographer I’d never heard of, Dean Collins. I had spent virtually all of my Polaroid career, at [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2012 in Education, How2 Series
Yervant loves to get his audience involved in his programs as he did in this shot from Skip’s Summer School 2010. It’s a sure fire way to make the presentation more fun and at the same time demonstrate a point. Photograph by Kenny Kim
Okay, we’re down to the wire and it’s time to wrap up [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2012 in Education, How2 Series
This is part two of an encore post from GoingPro a year and a half ago, but the point I made yesterday hasn’t changed – it’s that time of year. The major conventions are looking for speakers. I’m still getting requests from speakers who feel they should be teaching at Skip’s Summer School, and the [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2012 in Education, How2 Series
While this is an encore post written in three parts for GoingPro a year and a half ago, it’s that time of year. Everybody at some point gets the bug to do their own workshop or be a speaker at some convention. It’s not as easy as it seems and considering that shows like PhotoPlus [...]
Normally I don’t use my blog to wish good friends “Happy Birthday”, but this one is kind of special. In February Scott Bourne and I spent a day with Michele at GoingPro Bootcamp and her message was amazing. She started out her part of the program sharing images from her first wedding and by everyone’s [...]
Posted on April 03rd, 2012 in Miscellaneous, Networking
Last week good buddy, Michael Corsentino, was in Orlando visiting his mother. We decided to get together and spend some time just hanging out. He drove over from Orlando. Sheila, Michael and I had dinner together and then he and I proceeded to get into a marathon conversation about photography.
New photographers don’t realize how small [...]
