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
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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
Photography is Changing
Photography is changing from documentation to expression It is quite obvious to me that photography as we have known it until digital took over is over. However, a new photography is emerging. What it is is still in the making, the actual emergence being hampered by the ongoing and constant technological improvements and changes. Now…Continue reading Photography is Changing
Optimization is part of composition
Optimization is part of composition Ooptimization is part of composition. As well as it should since a good photograph, one that has merit enough to go through a lengthy optimization process, has to be properly composed to start with. Otherwise, why bother to spend the time to optimize it properly. Plus, the goal of optimization…Continue reading Optimization is part of composition
Photographing Watches
Reflections on Photographing Luxury Watches Watch photography, when done at the top level like photographs created for companies such as Breitling, Rolex, Blancpain etc., is very work intensive and requires specific knowledge. Because watches are constructed with several different materials, each material requires a specific type of lighting to look its best. This implies several…Continue reading Photographing Watches
Fine Art Printing and “manipulation”
Fine art prints are by definition modified versions of what the camera captured. The concept of creating a “straight fine art print” from a negative, a transparency or a Raw file is a myth. A legend. A dream. It was so the darkroom age, it is still so in the digital age. It’s just not…Continue reading Fine Art Printing and “manipulation”