I’ve been looking at the web sties of young photographers over the last couple of days, and the question I ask them is:
Who are you marketing to? Who is your customer?
Put yourself in the position of your customer/client when you are putting portfolios together for your website. What does the client want to see?
On the [...]

I’ve been watching some behind-the-scenes videos that my students are producing.  After we watch, I always ask them: where did you get the music for your video? The response is usually a mumbled “You don’t want to know.”
Music is not free, just like pictures are not free.  You must license or get permission to use [...]

I read this interview yesterday and Jim Pickerell (on John Lund’s Blog,) one of the foremost writers on stock photography, gives the reader a clear thesis: If you shoot stock for a living and haven’t found another source of income, find one now. Photographers will be able to make additional income shooting stock, but not [...]

Some readers have been asking where to find these cruise photography jobs, so my wife Michelle did a little research.  Here is a job posting for Princess Cruises.
And here is another Photography job posting for the Carnival Cruise Line.
Again, I am not saying these jobs are the most amazing jobs in the photography industry, but [...]

This week’s New Photographer, Megan Fingleton, is a documentary photographer based in New York.  She earned her BFA with honors from New York University in 2008 and is continuing her education at The New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs concentrating in Media and Culture and will receive her masters this spring.  She has married [...]