If you are an outdoor adventure photographer or filmmaker, here is a new adventure sport sure to create demand for still images.
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Korean designer, James Kim has created picture frames that look like airline windows for framing photographs. Could this be your next hot product for your fine art business? You can purchase these at DesignBoom.
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We are almost a month into 2012 and I have been pondering what I want the year to look like and which goals I will set for myself.
I have read many posts and articles from other photographers with some emphasizing that 2011 goes down as their worst year ever and I can relate to some degree. It sure was not my best!
While the economy is certainly the main reason for many, it is the changing world of professional photography that has played a large role in the downturn for many photographers.
There are others who write that this new era requires a new business model and they are right, but just what is that business model?
I am not sure myself so I have brainstormed this issue for sometime and compiled my own list of challenges and how I plan to address them.
2011 was my lowest year of shooting that I can ever recall. I need to do that for my peace of mind and to rejuvenate the artist in me, and of course, to produce images for license. But I will change my strategy when it comes to what and where I shoot.
15 years ago I had a six figure income from stock image sales and today only a fraction of that. My shooting then fit the business model of the times: production! I traveled and shot the Lower 48 three times in 15 years and added adventure and recreational sports into the mix as well. … Continue Reading
Talk-A-Phone Co. needs quality photography of our products in the field. We manufacture the emergency phone towers and wall mounts that can be found on thousands of college campuses, hospitals, and parking structures. We need someone local to the Newberg, Oregon area with a good camera (over 10MP).
We need them to travel to George Fox University and take 20-30 photographs of a few of our units. Good work will make us consider you for more work in the future. We require no post work, just the photographs (we will do post work). We expect this job to take 45min-1hour of your time.
We are offering $50 for this first job (very easy work) and possibly more if we choose to use you for more work in the future. Please reply to us via email and we will go over more details.
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When good photographers require expensive equipment to create ‘quality images’ as this posting requires, insurance, gas to get there, and enough money to ‘have a life’, assignments like this wont get you there nor keep you in business. When clients ask me for ‘quality images’ then that includes lighting gear and the tools to create quality indoor images in locations that often have poor lighting, I light the product and create a quality image. 20-30 shots would take all day!
During 32 years in the business shooting exactly this type of assignment and on occasion being promised more work if I did this first assignment on the cheap, I can only recall getting all the gravy stuff once. Most of these offers never happened and it was not because I provided inferior work since the images I shot were all published and on some occasions, published widely. It is a ruse to get things cheap by making a beginning or hungry photographer ‘hope’ for more.
I think I will call United Airlines and offer $50 for a flight to Maui (it’s freezing here) and promise them I will fly United again.
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There is a very cool state park I try to stop and shoot at when visiting the region near Glendive, Montana. It’s called Makoshika State Park. The name Makoshika is Lakota for ‘land of bad spirits’ or Badlands.
Similar to the badlands of North and South Dakota, with eroded hills and outcrops of various rock layers, cut by the Yellowstone River a long time ago, Makoshika will satisfy those photographers who enjoy shooting badlands type landscapes.
Sitting on the edge of Glendive in Eastern Montana, Makoshika is 40 miles west of the North Dakota border.
There are numerous hiking trails including Kinney Coulee and the Caprock Trail. The park also has camping available. This park is open year round and can be photographed early and late in the day for great results. Here is a picture and website info. … Continue Reading
Corey Rich is a superstar in the ranks of the outdoor adventure photography and filming field. He recently completed production on a new film: Why, shot for Nikon using the new D4. Corey has done a lot of stuff and seems to hop continually from one high profile project to another.
He was recently on the TV series Flying Wild Alaska which ran in December and featured him and an expedition team heading in to remote Alaska to climb some unclimbed routes.
Here is the D4 film, WHY and also the link to his interview with Adweek Magazine regarding the shoot. And if you want to read how he did the shoot you can find it on his blog post .
WHY – Nikon D4 Release Video from Corey Rich on Vimeo.
Editors note: I discovered Cole Thompson’s beautiful photography and website while wandering the net. Cole is a true artist whose passion for nature photography is very obvious. He does not ‘shoot for the markets’, he just shoots and his imagery is presented in a manner we often don’t see and I am sure you will agree. Many of images would in my opinion, not be as powerful in color as they are in B&W. I had to know more about him and his work so I asked him if he would tell us about himself and his photography.
I am an amateur as measured by the old definition of the word; I am self taught, I create out of love and do not use my art to earn a living. I feel extremely fortunate to create only that which inspires me, without regard to how the markets or critics will receive my work. My only measure of success is how I feel about my art.
I am often asked, why black and white? It may be because I was born into a black and white world. Television, movies and the news were all in black and white. My heroes were in black and white and even the nation was segregated into black and white. Perhaps my images are an extension of the world in which I grew up.
I cannot categorize my work since my subject matter is so varied and diverse. In addition to several traditional landscape and seascape projects, my portfolios have ranged from “The Ghosts of Auschwitz-Birkenau” in which I portray the spirits of the dead who still linger at the death camps, to a distorted architectural series entitled “The Fountainhead.” From a street portrait series entitled “Ukrainians, With Eyes Shut” to unique look at “Ceiling Lamps” which were photographed from directly below. … Continue Reading
European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Chris Gomersall’s new book: Wildlife Photographer: A Course in Creative Photography is officially released today. His book addresses the creative aspects of nature photography in this fresh and accessible guide, taking account of developments in photography without dwelling on technical details.
As nature photography has shifted decisively towards digital in recent years, much has been written offering guidance and tips on technical matters, but there has been little published on the creative aspects. In Wildlife Photographer, ten thematic chapters on subjects such as Space, Light, Time and Developing a Narrative are generously packed with examples, advice and suggestions for projects and exercises. The second part of this book features sixteen case studies, where Gomersall describes how he achieved some of his most outstanding images. … Continue Reading
For the past 5 years I have produced a yearly calendar of my landscape photography, and apart from being commercially successful, is also one of my best marketing tools. My experience has shown me a successful calendar needs three things: compelling images, a good design and layout, and a good dosage of marketing.
The first step in making a calendar of course is choosing the images. I try to select from images I’ve made during the past year or so, making sure I’m not repeating any from past calendars. I create a collection for each calendar year in Lightroom, and this makes organization and processing a breeze. Once I select the images, I make virtual copies and place them into the collection (ie. Cal 2012), this way if I crop or otherwise modify them specifically for the calendar, I am not modifying my original RAW files.
I look for images that are appropriate for each month and season, and this seems to create a natural flow and continuity to the calendar that might not exist if the images were chosen at random. Because I also include 12 inspirational quotes, I may choose an image specifically because it adds a strong visual component to a particular quote. … Continue Reading
