[Guest Blog] Dear Aspiring Travel Photographer
I stumbled across this post on Mitchell Kanashkevich’s blog. It’s a great post and I felt it was definitely worth sharing. Please click here to go give his site a visit. Over the past couple of years I’ve had an increasing number of emails from aspiring travel/documentary photographers from all over the world. The three most ...
[Guest Blog] Should You Go to Photo School
You should go to photo school if you want structured learning. Groundwork from the fundamentals to the bigger concepts. It will move too slowly for many of you, too fast for others. There are lots of great programs, worldwide. If you don’t do better with structured learning and you are highly motivated and prefer real ...
4 iPhone apps the landscape photographer in you would love!
There are absolutely thousands of photo apps available at this point for the iPhone. This is probably the single greatest factor that has played a role in making the iPhone the most popular camera on flickr. In fact, at the time of writing this post, the total number of iPhone photos uploaded yesterday was over ...
Don’t Compare Your Work to Others
I have been a huge fan of Cole Thompson for quite some time now. Not only is his photography phenomenal, but his thoughts behind the photography resonate with me. He thinks things through and explains them well. I am constantly finding myself agreeing completely with his posts, explanations etc. One of the things that Cole ...
New Project Coming On…
Every once in a while, I decide to do something completely different than what I’ve been doing. It seems to be good for me! Almost like a creative recharge. Usually I won’t work on the project for long… just a quick jaunt into something new. I think it’s about to happen again…
29 Ways to stay Creative!
29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo. Struggling to keep your creativity these days? Check out this video. Some phenomenal ideas for picking things up a little. Found over at PetaPixel
Image A or B ….?
Chase Jarvis does this on his blog a good amount. And, it’s always interesting to read the comments. Sometimes, they even get a little heated. But, practically I find myself doing this a lot. Most of my scenic or landscape work is personal (not commissioned, but definitely for sale!). So, rarely (if ever) am I ...
5 Non-Photography Related Quotes Every Photographer Should Know…
I think there’s huge wisdom to be gained from reading quotes. That said, without much searching it’s extremely to find multiple well-known quotes which contradict each other hugely. One of my favorite things to do though is to do searches on quotations regarding topics I am interested in. Photography of course, is one of the ...
Photography as Art…
Since when have we gotten away from the idea of photography as art? I understand that various genres of photography may at times become more commercial or product related than art related. But, more and more, I’m hearing people criticizing a photo for the wrong reasons. Like it’s actually against the rules to have a ...