Offer to help those around you with your photography. Venues need good photography of their rooms, their gorgeous landscaping, their events in progress, their food. Friends need headshots. Friends need family shots. Spread the love (i.e., do these things for free) and the love comes back.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Seems everybody’s got a camera at weddings nowadays. One way to make your pictures look different than everybody else’s is to get up real close, and to pull way back. Get close with a long lens, or by walking right into the action (not advised during the ceremony!) You’ll have captured the feelings of the…
Invest in Yourself. Take Workshops. All clichés aside, you’re worth it! If the workshop is good, and you put that learning into practice, then you’ll quickly earn back its cost with your next several shoots. If you don’t have $1,000 or $500 to go sit at the feet of someone you consider a master, then…
Hire an Assistant. Once you’ve learned to notice reflected light and distracting objects etc., and once you start using off-camera lights and reflectors and you understand how to use a Key and a Fill and a Kicker light, it’s better to hire someone who will execute your thoughts while you’re shooting, rather than interrupt yourself….
I’m embarrassed to remember how many of my mentors I’ve disrespected by being a know-it-all around them. Photographers by nature are independent risk-takers. But displaying your own vast knowledge instead of listening to someone with something to teach you, who is willing to teach you, is to squander a gift. [Sorry Derek! Sorry Brian!] Find…
