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Advice from the Pros
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Written by Peter Ensenberger
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
 "A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
The statement seems disarmingly simple, especially when we discover it comes from Ansel Adams, arguably the greatest landscape photographer of the 20th century. Rudimentary on its surface but burgeoning with truth, it offers a glimpse into the mind of a photographic genius.
Tags: Peter Ensenberger, photographers, photography quotations
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Written by Peter Ensenberger
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
I learned the finer points of photo editing from one of the best in the business. He's a mentor I've never met, but he's with me every day.
When Arizona Highways hired me more than two decades ago, I thought myself the luckiest man on Earth. I'd made the leap from newspapers to the greatest landscape photography magazine in the world. The weight of carrying on the magazine's celebrated photographic legacy was not lost on me. These were my salad days. And this was my big moment.
Tags: Peter Ensenberger, magazine photography, photography editors, photojournalism
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Written by John Harrington
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
Is it a transit ad, or a bus back? Does POP really mean Point of Purchase? The way we have, for years and years, described the types, sizes, media, and locations of where our photography is used, is dizzying.
Enter the PLUS Coalition, a non-profit international multi-industry organization that has created image and illustration licensing standards applying to assignment and stock photography and illustration. PLUS is the Picture Licensing Universal System, a system of standards for use by photographers, illustrators, stock agencies, designers, publishers, ad agencies, museums, libraries, educational institutions and others.
Photographers may access and view the PLUS glossary and licensing codes for free, making it a no-cost system for you to integrate into how you license your work.
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Written by Dennis Brack
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
Most of my assignments start with a call from the client (or Anh Stack or Ben Chapnick) with some information about the shoot and then a follow-up e-mail. I talk to a client, but hardly ever see the client.
Tags: Dennis Brack, photography clients
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Written by John Harrington
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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Long gone are the days where we made the last frame, sent it to the lab via courier, and it returned to show us the glory of our work (or where we'd made a disastrous error.) Yet, this "ship and forget" system meant more time shooting -- doing what we love and, hopefully, are most talented at. Today, a photographer's time is spent far differently. And the biggest leech of our creative time is post-production.
Tags: photography, John Harrington, post-production
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
 In a previous post, I warned pro photographers against using Flickr as an archiving system. But while I wouldn't recommend Flickr for storage, it does have a number of uses that make it increasingly worthwhile.
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Written by John Harrington
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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
What, the cost of an assignment? Of course, there are photographer's fees and appropriate usage fees. There are also assignment-specific expenses, such as parking, mileage, and often an assistant. Equipment rentals, and expendables like gaffers tape, seamless, and for old-school assignments, film and Polaroids.
When it comes time to bill for the assignment, why then does it seem fair to the assigning party to pay only the exact total paid for things like seamless, gels, and so on? It's not.
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