Ray Baker
A Buyer’s Guide to Landscape Photography
Almost any photographer will tell you that landscapes are a pleasure to shoot. This sentiment is shared by most viewers of the pieces; landscapes comprise a form of photography that is definitely not just for art collectors. Landscape photography attracts all types of people, showing up often around homes, stores, streets, and offices.
Career information about photography is a good area to focus initially because it is a competitive job where the work is attractive to many people. The photographer must have “a good eye”, imagination, and some creativity to do well in this field. Photographers love to going into their own business. Accordingly, they must be able to maintain a business and to take advantage of opportunities provided by rapidly changing technologies. While seeking career information about photography you should first speak to one of your local photographers for information. You can ask questions about the job market in your area and how much training was involved before he considered himself ready. You’ll find your local photographer will offer you insight that will be helpful.
The first fifty years of editorial stock photography were lean years for photographers. Few photographers imagined their photos were worth much more than the immediate compensation they received from a magazine, book publisher or assignment client. In addition, to save filing space, many photographers threw out extra “baggage” of “outdated” images. Little did they realize they were tossing away a gold mine.
One of the age old issues that will pop up from time to time when you have any business, be it small, medium or large is the dreaded drying up of sales. This article is an attempt to help you with that nasty issue should that ever come your way. Hopefully, your photography business will not be affected. Of course, one article will never be enough to solve all the problems in this area so I will follow up this article with a series of related articles with a view to giving you a number of potential solutions that you can implement. This first article will catch some of you by surprise and you may even feel that these first few tips are irrelevant to your photography business.
Sometimes the best opportunities for gaining business is directly under our noses but as humans we have difficulty seeing these opportunities because, we are so familiar with them. To help this along you can simply think of the day to day things where people congregate and usually you will have a photography opportunity in your … Read more
Christmas is here and so is the urge for us who love digital photography to get out there in the burbs and photograph the beautiful Christmas lights. It’s a beautiful time of year and when you are as passionate about digital photography as I am, then this is the time you whip that digital camera out.
Taking photos of Christmas lights with your digital camera can be a very disappointing experience for digital photography enthusiasts.
Photography is one of those things that everybody does, but few can do well. We’ve all had the experience of going on a shoot and having something really simple go wrong. But there are some simple but disciplined rules which
For a long while managing your photos was quite a task with photos being stuck in shoe boxes, ice cream containers, tax document boxes and you name it, it was probably used. Thankfully digital photography came along and swept us off our feet and produced heaven sent solutions for storage. We can now sort, store and retrieve much more effectively but this era is not without it’s own issues.
Photography of the Female Subject
Women as subjects have inspired the greatest artists in history to create some of their best work. I don’t need to explain, don’t even need to link to, the works or mention the artist’s names for you know what I’m talking about when I say “Whistler’s Mother”, “Lady Liberty”, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, and of course, “Mona Lisa”.
No one would argue that we have seen a massive explosion over this decade in the digital photography arena. Imaging and graphics just get better and better while costs are reduced and let’s face it, cameras continually get better as well. As a result most have abandoned the film platform for obvious reasons. There were of course those who forecasted the demise of film and few would argue with that prophecy now. Even Nikon, an icon in the photographic industry has announced that it will not be continuing many of its film cameras. The truth be known there still may be a flash left in the film industry yet.
