DRAWING INSPIRATION Drawing Inspiration – Anup Shah Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. Here’s a link to their work.–> Anup Shah Who are the photographers that inspire you? Please leave your comments and replies below.
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Question: “How do I start a sports photography business? I have built up a sizable portfolio of sports photography (spanning years) and get hired occasionally for specific events. Where have you found success in sports photography?” Answer: While I’m not a “Sports Photographer” I think that whatever type of photographer you describe yourself as, the
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“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti Can we apply his thought on his process as a sculptor to our process as photographers? Let’s give it a go. The photograph is already
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Framing is what we do as an activity of camera operation and composition when viewing through our viewfinder or viewing the LCD screen on the back of camera if a viewfinder is not available. Content is what we put into the frame. Paying attention to the arrangement of the content within the frame is something
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Photography Is Like Cooking. We take what we get or make what we want. Photography Is Like Cooking Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the way I eat changed and how the way my photography changed. In many ways, I think photography is like cooking I’m not a chef, but I’d consider myself a
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During a recent meeting of an Introduction To Photography class, a participant mentioned that they didn’t do their homework because they didn’t have time to got to “an interesting” place to make pictures. Are places inherently interesting? For that matter, is anything inherently “interesting” ? I would suggest that “interesting” is only “interesting” from the
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Ya’ ever see something and you think that what you’re seeing would make a great photograph but what you see is so fleeting that you don’t have time to take out your camera to make the photograph? Yup, me too. As Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around
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I ain’t no Einstein. In terms of my smarts, I’m probably closer to Frankenstein. While physicists discuss the speed of light, as a photographer I’m more comfortable discussing the speed of reflective light sources. Reflective light sources such as cars moving, people walking/running, stuff moving in the wind. Even things that ain’t moving. When I’m
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That for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere… That the days are getting longer? The shadows are getting shorter? The daylight is getting brighter? As the earth moves in relation to the sun the characteristics of the light that illuminate (and warm certain areas of) the earth change in relation to our position with
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Yup, you do. As soon as you create something original in a “fixed tangible” form, you’ve got copyright and you own it, unless you give it away or give parts of it away. Why give it away when you can make money with it? Learn About The Business Of Photography
