Car Photography as Hobby When your hobby becomes your profession you need a new hobby. For me, photography was a hobby. Until I started my business that is. Then, it became a profession. Don’t get me wrong, I love photography. If I didn’t I wouldn’t have made it my profession. But regardless of how much…Continue reading Cars Photography as Hobby
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Financial Management Top 12 for Artists
Financial Management Top 12 for artists 1 – Do not get in debt – Pay off our debt – Collect interest, don’t pay interest – Not paying interest is the fastest way of saving money 2 – Live below your means – That’s the only way to get ahead financially – Otherwise we’re living day…Continue reading Financial Management Top 12 for Artists
Financial management
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
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
Connecting
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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