Financial Management I am quite conservative when it comes to debt. Prior to the recession I was told that I was ‘anti-American’ because I refuse to get in debt to buy things. Now that the bottom fell out people tell me I was smart to do so. My approach is to save until I have…Continue reading Financial management
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Personal Style and Portrait Photography
I hear a lot of portrait photographers today tell me that newcomers are taking away their business even though they only have a fraction of their skills and knowledge. That all it takes for these up and coming photographers is purchasing basic equipment and learning how to market their products. That is, unfortunately, very true…Continue reading Personal Style and Portrait Photography
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Making art and Selling Art
Making art and Selling Art Very often, people take the decision to create art and to sell art at the same time. Such a decision makes things twice as difficult because it means learning two professions at once: the profession of Artist and the profession of Art Marketer. I recommend you start by creating art…Continue reading Making art and Selling Art
About Art Competitions
About Art Competitions What to do Only you knows what you want to do. All I can do is help you do it by teaching you what I know. What I can say is this: without a plan of action that includes specific goals and deadlines, you are unlikely to get anywhere. My “big break”…Continue reading About Art Competitions
Vision
Vision Vision starts with personal taste. It starts with a conscious awareness of what you like and don’t like. One of the first exercises you can do is make a list of what you like and don’t like in photography and which photographers you like and dislike. Vision is about your personal taste, as well…Continue reading Vision
Waiting for Talent – Part 2
Waiting for Talent Part 2: Making a Plan It can be said that many people make plans. It can be said that artists, and more appropriately here, photographers make plans. Certainly. I am not by all means saying I am the only one who makes plans. However, what I am saying is that there are…Continue reading Waiting for Talent – Part 2
Waiting for Talent – Part 1
Waiting for Talent Part 1: Talent and Success In art, there is a lot of talk about talent. This is certainly a fascinating subject and I am not blaming those who talk or write about it. In fact, I spent a fair amount of time myself reflecting on talent, as demonstrated in my recent essay: Rethinking…Continue reading Waiting for Talent – Part 1
A Follow up on ‘Photographing Watches’
There is what we think of the product advertised (watches in this case but by extension any luxury product) and then there is how the photograph of this product was made. Notice I said “made” and not taken. There’s nothing about a photograph being “taken” here. It is made. Even better, it is constructed. Carefully,…Continue reading A Follow up on ‘Photographing Watches’
About Photographing Cars
The interesting thing about photographing cars is how most people look at car photographs. There is an assumption, especially when the photographs show my own cars, that the purpose is to brag about owning a specific vehicle. The fact is I photograph cars because I love cars, be it my own cars or someone else’s…Continue reading About Photographing Cars