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Feb 18, 2010 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Leave A Comment »
The matter with your meter is that it has different metering patterns or modes and these patterns/modes operate (suggest exposures) in different ways.
Dec 12, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: evaluative meter, matrix meter, metering and exposure, metering modes, Online Photography Classes, Online Photography Instruction, Online Photography Lessons, Online Photography Workshops, partial meter, photographic exposure, Spot meter | Leave A Comment »
The easiest way to start to learn about basic flash photography is to start by using the pop-up flash on your camera.
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Flash Photography, Online Photography Classes, Online Photography Instruction, Online Photography Lessons | Leave A Comment »
You must look at your own photographs with a cool, critical eye and if the person giving the critique is more interested in your photography than their own, then you’ll leave with useful information on how to improve your photography.
Nov 02, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: blog, improving your photography, lessons, photographer, Photographic Composition, Photographic Composition And Design, Photography Critiques, take better photographs | Leave A Comment »
It seems that every time I get settled somewhere on the web, I learn of a new service being offered that comes closer to my “wish list” for my home on the internet. This latest incarnation of “websites hosted and designed for photographers” seems to be the closest to my dream home on the web that I’ve seen yet.
Oct 28, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: blog, Business Of Photography, e-commerce, Graph Paper Press, instruction, photographer, photographer websites, photography, photoshelter, Rights Managed Stock Photography, SEO, Visual Society, Word Press, workshops | Leave A Comment »
“Manuel Garcia — has now moved to intervene in the action, claiming that he — and not the Associated Press — is the owner of the copyright in the photograph.”
Mannie Garcia has finally intervened in the lawsuits surrounding the famous Barack Obama Campaign Posters [1] According to A Photo Editor [...]
Jul 17, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Barck Obama, copyright, lawsuits, Mannie Garcia, Obey Giant Art Inc, Shepard Fairey, The Associated Press | Leave A Comment »
If I pass a store and it has an outdoor display on the sidewalk, I could take whatever is out there, right? After all, the display is on a public sidewalk, so whatever is in public and easy to take, is anyone’s property, yes ? Of
Jun 29, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: A Photo Editor, Business Of Photography, copyright infringemnt, copyright issues, Flickr, home decorating, New York Times, NY Times, photography, Sonia Zjawinski, stealing | 2 Comments »
The hypocrisy and greed of these corporations is astounding.
Jun 21, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: ABC, AMPTP, Art, artists, Ben Silverman, Bob Iger, Business, CBS, comedy, commerce, copyright, Daily Show, Disney, Fox, intellectual property, Les Moonves, NBC, photographer, photography, Rupert Murdoch, satire, Sumner Redstone, Viacom, WGA, writers strike | Leave A Comment »
Why would someone pay $500.00 for a trash-bin or $200.00 for a toilet brush ? Believe it or not, for those of us in the creative industries, there’s a lesson in the answer.
Jun 19, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Art, artist, artists, Business, commerce, Harvard Business School, money, Robert D. Austin, Vipp | Leave A Comment »
You know the sad thing is that, at least in photography, there are plenty of photographers who cave in to this crap.
Jun 02, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Art, artists, Business, Business Of Photography, clients, commerce, copyright, creative, creative industry, intellectual property, vendors, work for exposure, work for free | Leave A Comment »
Just like Fagen from Oliver Twist, Google will ” adopt” the orphans, give them a place to stay, and then put’em to work earning money by taking it from who it rightfully belongs.
May 11, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: anti-trust laws, copyright, Google, infringement, monopoly, Orphan Works | Leave A Comment »
The truth of the matter is that giving a useful critique on subjective matter, like someone else’s photography, requires a collaboration, or dialogue, between the one giving the critique and the one being critiqued.
May 11, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Art, classes, critiques, instruction, online, opinion, Photographic Composition And Design, photography | Leave A Comment »
In terms of the color temperature of the light source, it is what it is. Any color cast comes from the relationship between the White Balance setting (Kelvin/Color temperature) on your camera and the color temperature of the light source; Where do they lie in relationship to one another on the Kelvin scale?
Mar 23, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Color, color cast, color temperature, Kelvin temperature, light, photography, white balance | Leave A Comment »
If you are in the business of reporting the news, you should be doing just that, REPORTING, truthfully and accurately without bias and opinion.
Mar 07, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: bailouts, Bear Stearns, Business, CNBC, credibility, economy, ethics, financial news, housing, Jim Cramer, john stewart, Lehman Brothers, media, Merrill Lynch, money, National Press Photographers Association, news, Photojournalism, pundits, reporting, Rick Santelli, scams, stocks, The Daily Show, wealth | Leave A Comment »
Beyond adding more or less light, aperture is an important element in our compositions because it allows us to control something called depth of field.
Feb 27, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: aperture, Basic Photography, depth of field, f-stop, Introduction To Photography, lens, photography | Leave A Comment »
Like many of us, Annie Leibovitz is having tough financial times[1]. As anyone in her position, Ms. Leibovitz needed some cash in the form of a loan. What did she have of value to put up as collateral? Her copyrights. [2] At
Feb 27, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Annie Leibovitz, Business, Business Of Photography, copyright | Leave A Comment »
Facebook’s terms of use are still unreasonably greedy and as such I’m careful about what I’m willing to post there.
Feb 26, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Business, Business Of Photography, copyright, Facebook, photography | Leave A Comment »
“…It’s NOT camera to subject distance it’s flash/light to subject distance. Replace the word “camera” with the word “flash/light” and your thinking is correct…”
Feb 18, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: bounce flash, flash, Flash Photography, vivitar 285 | Leave A Comment »
…a student stated that he could use someones work if it was ” changed” into a new and different piece of work. What he was was talking about was creating a “derivative work” based on another persons copyrighted work.
Feb 10, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Barck Obama, Business Of Photography, copyright, derivative work, fair use, Manie Garcia, Shepard Fairey | 3 Comments »
As I tell students in my business of photography classes; in the business of photography if you don’t have your copyright, you’ve got nothing.
Feb 09, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Business Of Photography, copyright, fair use, Washington DC | 1 Comment »
According to this quote by Claude Adams, luckily it’s not our camera. “Having a camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter.” – Claude Adams
Jan 26, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: Art, artist, camera, creativity, personal perception, photographer, Photographic Composition And Design, photography, vision | Leave A Comment »
On January 14, I received an e-mail inviting me to submit my thoughts and ideas directly to our newly elected President. The cynic in me, especially when considering our government, thought “why waste my time” however it felt encouraging that this was an opportunity for everyday people, not just high powered
Jan 16, 2009 | Categories: Free Photography Tips | Tags: copyright, copyright infringemnt, copyright issues, economy, H.R. 5889, intellectual property, legislation, Orphan Works, orphan works bill, S.2913, work force | Leave A Comment »
