Nov
27
http://www.viddler.com/simple/7a644389/In May of this year I was invited--along with photo Illuminati compadres David Hobby (Strobist) and David Nightingale (Chromasia)--to Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, UAE to give a little chat to some photographers. The seminar was called "Making the Web Work for You". If you're at all thinking of blogging, video, the web, or sharing information, then you will pick up a thing or two, guaranteed. Keep in mind, it's almost entirely unedited. But there...
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Nov
20
"Sure the economy is in the outhouse, but I can't help but fixate on the tremendous opporunity that awaits the saavy photographer or digital artist who is well-equipped to address the next digital photography era." So I have this thought above, and it's pinging around my brain this morning over a split-shot Americano, when a friend flips me this great piece by a Forrester-Researcher-turned-social-technologist named Peter Kim called "Comments on The Next Digital Era". Turns...
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Nov
03
If you don't know where to cast your ballot, Google has a really simple website to help you find your local polling location. Just enter your address and it'll tell you where to go. Please get out and vote. [International readers, please bear with us ;] (link via CreativeTechs.)
Oct
13
People write in regularly, daily, asking how to "make it" as a photographer. For one--respectfully--I've never had the vision to be able to jot down my life's work in recipe format in an email. If I could summarize it in a few sentences, I certainly would have done that blog post a long time ago. For two, I read a great piece today written by a Court Crandall of the Los Angeles agency, Ground Zero,...
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Oct
07
I was surprised to recently learn that, just like Hollywood celebs have their kooky mathematical rankings on "box office power" or whatever, visual artists are also apparently not immune to a ranking system. Over at Artfacts.Net, they seem to have a reasonably sophisticated algorithm that ranks heavy hitting visual artists. Andy Warhol is #1. There are two photographers in the top 20. Can you guess them? Click the 'continue reading' link below to find out...
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Oct
04
Legendary photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a new, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis that's touching off a global medical crisis.Watch this video to see how a photographic master embeds himself passionately into a personal project. And to follow Nachtwey's wishes, please share it with your friends and learn 3 vital ways to take action to stop XDR-TB. Click the 'continue reading' link...
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Sep
25
What's in a photographers portfolio is often there for intensely personal reasons. It could also be argued, on the other hand, that intensely personal reasons have no place in a professional photographer's portfolio. As a part of my search for personal clarity on this topic, and in an attempt to better understand my own demons and heroes with portfolio image selection, I recently asked for your feedback on my online portfolio. Anyone who was interested...
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Aug
17
More than a decade ago I was in a PhD program studying the philosophy of art, with special focus (pun intended) in the philosophy of photography. Aside from tired undercurrent of learning a lot about dead white men, and despite my quitting after just two years, it was an amazing and engaging endeavor that I wouldn't have traded for the world.It's that background that makes documentary filmmaker Errol Morris' recent piece in the New York...
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Aug
04
...is finally in the game. Pay Vincent Laforet a visit today, and put him on your regular hit list. His Pulitzer Prize winning eye and his New York Times journalism brain should combine to give you plenty of good stuff to devour (especially about the Beijing Olympics in the very near term).[Oh, and in case you think the cloud is falling, join me in focusing on the end of his article. Think big. With great...
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Jul
08
I've made so many mistakes in my career. Lacking backup gear, forcing pictures, forgetting to reformat the card, crushing hard drives, etc etc. This list is long.But in the past several years I made one mistake far too many times, and it was this: not leaving enough time, reminding the client to leave enough budget, or directing the proper energy toward the post production of my pictures. I learned my lesson finally in the last...
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