1ProPhoto.com (formerly known as PhotoAssistant.net) has posted an excellent 5-part interview with professional industry consultant Selina Maitreya. Selina is one of the top go-to people that commercial photographers seek out for marketing advice and portfolio presentation. She has also written two books, and has a newsletter that you can sign…
And so it goes. My weblog suddenly went blank for a few days last week. And I mean “Blank”. No errors, no messages indicating a problem, just a plain white page was all any visitors would see when trying to access my weblog. Of course I immediately sent in a…
Bad news for the stock market. No, the other Stock Market; the photo one. Today news came in the form of an email from Digital Railroad announcing drastic cuts in staffing and expenses due to a failure to procure new sources of funding. Almost immediately, John Harrington posted a very…
Picture: Red clouds at sunset over Lake Tahoe, California “Oh my God; Look at that light!” That’s usually what I am welping like a wounded dog when I see something that looks photographically fantastic, yet I have no camera. I was in Lake Tahoe for the weekend, with my wife,…
Picture: For Sale sign on the California Coast, Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California On my first visit to Shelter Cove about seven years ago, I took this image of a For Sale sign stuck right in the middle of this prime waterfront lot. This was a great example of the…
Picture: A ray of bright sunlight through dark storm clouds, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Here in the US, we’ve had a very rough week with our financial markets going into a seemingly dark abyss, and the scent of crisis and fear is spreading across the land. Listening to the…
Picture: Sunlit church steeple at sunrise, Ferndale, Humboldt County, California One of the things that makes for a good dramatic photo is contrast. Lights against darks, and warm colors against cool colors. Here, the church was lit by sunrise light that came through a hole in a thick blanket of…
Picture: Overlooking the rugged hills of the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California Now that I’ve uploaded images for my book project, I’m getting the chance to go back through some of the new material I created over this last year. One location that impressed me more than many…
Last week was extremely busy in the news, and not just on Wall Street. There has been quite a bit of fallout from the Jill Greenberg fiasco, and the closing of the Photoshelter Collection. On the Photoshelter side of the universe, one of the old forum moderators has started a…
In the modern visual world, some people want to use their photography to do more than just tell a news story, they want to make up a story using their photo. For editorail journalism, there is a fairly clearcut set of guidelines, while in the world of parody and opinion…
Picture: “Altered” headstone at the Ferndale cemetary, Humboldt County, California Many folks will obviously recall this reference to the Freddy Fender song; the new theme song for The Photoshelter Collection (PSC); the stock agency collective wing of Photoshelter. An email just arrived announcing the closure of the collection. Frankly, I’m…
Picture: If I put a caption here, you’d know what this is. In the mode of continuing to show images from my recent trips; I don’t consider myself an ‘artist’. A number of years ago, I played around with running a few pictures through Photoshop Filter upon Photoshop Filter. I…
Picture: Owl perched on top of Cape Mendocino Lighthouse, and crescent moon in evening light, Shelter Cove, on the Lost Coast, Humboldt County, California This is my “light at the end of the tunnel” photo, in regards to my current book project. This weekend I uploaded my collection of images…
Some of you readers had a chance to see my post this last week regarding a fake reflection filter used on a slot canyon photo. Although I’ve since deleted that post, one of my favorite shows brings this subject to light. I’m a huge fan of the PBS show, NOVA,…
Picture: Seagulls at sunset on rocks at Natural Bridges State Park, California I’m closing in on the end of my current book project. This image was taken last week while in Santa Cruz for a day. Back when I first visited this beach in the 1980’s, I seem to remember…
For the first time in several years, I’ve deleted a post at the request of Kristy Cannon. In retrospect, I’m a stand-up guy, enough to admit I probably had too much of a knee-jerk reaction to her canyon water filter effect reflection shots. In her Photo.net page, she asked if…
Picture: FAA Saftey Crews working on runway approach lights below a jet airplane landing at LAX, Los Angeles, California I had mentioned previously regarding my recent Southern California Coast trip, that some of my favorite images taken over the nine days were some of the very last one’s I took….
Picture: Sunset light on coastal cliffs at the Point Vicente Lighthouse, Palos Verdes Peninsula, California I just finished processing the images from my recent trip down along the Southern California coast. There was a grand total of 445 RAW image files that have been converted into 55MB Master TIFF Files….
Picture: Homes above the Upper Newport Bay Preserve, Newport Beach, Orange County, California And speaking of the Southern California mindset; I was tangibly aware of how different people looked at me with my camera. You can tell that their thoughts focused on my being a Paparazzi. People would turn to…
Picture: “Drill Now” oil banner hanging from front porch of affluent home with a Hummer SUV parked in front, Corona Del Mar, Southern California On my recent trip to Southern California, I came across this scene while in the Newport Beach / Corona del Mar area. Frankly, sometimes I just…
According to some, it has the potential to show us the mind of God, or if the fear-mongers are correct, deliver the entire planet to God. The Boston Globe’s photo-blog, The Big Picture, has recently run an awesome collection of images from the Large Hadron Collider. This machine has been…
Picture: Spray from waves crashing on coastal rocks at sunset along the Lost Coast at Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California It always feels like a reason to celebrate when I get through processing a bunch of RAW images from a recent trip. Last night, I finished processing the images from…
Picture: Some big ugly flaw on my sensor after the camera hits the ground. So there I am, standing along the bank of the Eel River in Humboldt County. I was close to wrapping up my trip along that section of the coast, and was shooting the Avenue of the…
Picture: Evening light over waves and rocks on sand beach at the Historic District of Crystal Cove State Park, Newport Beach, Orange County coast, California I just returned from a nine day trip to the Southern California Coast, specifically to areas of San Diego and Orange Counties. This was an…
