A few years ago, I decided that teaching and shooting stock and shooting commercial jobs was the way to go. Little did I know the economy would completely hit the skids. As I have mentioned previously on this blog, many photographers that I knew in the previous economy have been e mailing me to ask [...]
I was in NYC last week and I thought the interview with Shannon Fagan was so good that I didn’t put up a post… One thing I’ve noticed over the past few months is the change in food photography, led by Bon Appetit.
Photographer Shannon Fagan just returned from Dublin, where he spoke at the CEPIC New Media Conference. Shannon was part of a panel entitled “What’s next?: How will the stock media business evolve?” Shannon is President of the Stock Artists Alliance and an Advisory Board member of the Young Photographers Alliance. He has deep knowledge of [...]
6 years ago, shooting tethered on advertising shoots was really cool, and new and amazing. Without Adobe raw file processing, checking highlight values and shadow values was very important: if you didn’t nail it, there was no going back and using sliders to correct your over or under exposure. A photographer could also check [...]
Here is an example from our latest resort shoot where 11 images were combined to make the final image. We aren’t finished with the final yet, but this is one new way to produce images…. keep the camera on a tripod and make an exposure for each area of the image that will be used [...]
I just got finished with a shoot at a resort in the Outer Banks of NC. The idea going into the shoot was to set up for stills and “b-roll” video at the same time. If we light the interiors with hot lights balanced for daylight, I reasoned, then we could shoot stills and video [...]
This week’s new photographer is new SCAD Photography BFA grad, Kasey Keown, of Newnan, GA.
Saw this on The Week about bands suing politicians for using their songs without permission. Apparently libertarian Ron Paul has been blasting Rush songs at his rallies without first obtaining the rights. And he’s not the first. There’s a long string of recent incidents, including a whole bunch by repeat offender John McCain, who used [...]
For the first time in my career, Fed-X didn’t deliver and did not even call me to tell me that the package went to the wrong airport! I had to call them and spend 30 minutes asking them questions about where my package was….
No gyro for the helicopter!
I’ve been shooting at a resort all week… and haven’t had any time to blog with 4:45AM call times and finishing at 10PM.