Dylan Patrick’s The Cinematic Headshot is a tutorial from Fstoppers. In six hours Dylan shows how he shoots and Photoshops his headshots. His signature style is a bit of Hollywood style lighting and a blurred background. He’s one of those photographers that likes to shoot outdoors with studio lighting. During one of his sample shoots I was reminded of a scene from Lust for Life where van Gogh tied his canvas to his easel in a strong wind. I would have been tempted to find someplace else to shoot or wait for another day. Dylan talks about gear and how his…
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Selling Photos Online-Or Not So Much
One of my Twitter Buddies asked me advice on selling photos online. I’m a professional photographer. Taking portraits is how I pay the bills and what allows me to travel around the country. I don’t sell portraits online. I now do Shoot and Show, as the Assembly Line Portrait business calls it. I take portraits and then turn around and show the subjects proofs of their images. On a good day I sell around a thousand dollars worth of portraits. On a bad day, a few hundred dollars worth. I’m not very good at selling. The hot shots at The…
Finding Vivian Maier
Finding Vivian Maier opens with a number of older people staring off into space. One by one they give a one word description of Vivian. Words like Private and Enigmatic finally came to most of them. Then we see this rather nerdy fellow with an unfortunate haircut and horn rim glasses. He says he was at an auction and he bought a bunch of negatives. He found that he liked what he saw in the images. He bought more negatives and then found even more in a storage unit. He found around a hundred thousand images in undeveloped film and…
Selling-or Not-On Etsy
An online buddy of mine sells her jewelry and scarfs on Etsy at Chrysalis Jewelry TX, she offered me a bit of advice once I decided to give a shot at selling my fine art photography images there. She helped me and I appreciate it, but I haven’t really done my part. If eBay is an online flea market, than Etsy is an online Craft Mall. Like real world craft malls, there is an interesting array of items for sale. The prices range from really cheap to really not so cheap. Like eBay it’s up to the seller to set the…
Film Vs Digital Is this Still up for Debate?
As a photographer, I met a lot of people that want to make small talk, often enough about photography. I have been taking photos professionally for about ten years, I started off with long roll CameraZs, used Medium format Mamyias and then moved on to Digital. The names and brand of digital cameras are meaningless, and this is one of the prime reasons that people who love thier Liecas have a hard time dealing with digital photography. Just as a car used to be a Ford or Chevy or Buick, but is now nothing more than a jellybean and many…
I love that New Job Smell
But I not getting a new job just yet. As always I am hoping that I will leave the regular rat race and become a self-employed rat, or a business owner rat, or something like that. In the mean time, I keep reading the want ads. As I may have mentioned, I am a professional photographer, just not the kind that gets his images on the cover of Vogue, or Newsweek, or even The National Enquirer. No, just a working stiff on the front lines at a big, heartless corp that makes Church Directories. Now I have a dream, that…