This is the first in a short series of articles prompted by recent interesting email exchanges. Over the past few weeks, several people contacted me for advice on various topics and I felt that some of the discussion may be of interest to a wider audience. ~~~ A talented young photographer recently asked me about [...]
My earlier post, The Art of Copying, generated some eloquent and thought-provoking comments both on the site and via email. Though I could not respond individually to each post, I did want to offer my sincere and heartfelt thanks to those who took the time to consider and comment, whether they agreed with my position [...]
I recently read with great interest a Facebook discussion among landscape photographers. The premise was that if a photograph can be closely duplicated by another photographer, then it is not truly an original nor deserving of being considered art. Though I did not contribute to the exchange, I do feel this is a larger topic [...]
And his name is: CMYK. Some of you who follow my posts on Twitter and other forums know I’ve been very skeptical of the iPad. There is, however, one area where I can see tremendous potential for the device: electronic publishing of color photography. Anyone who ever tried to target color photography to a CMYK [...]
Ansel Adams is one of my greatest inspirations. And, though it may amount to sacrilege, I must confess: it is not because of his photographs. Having come to creative photography in my own way and with little reference to other photographers’ work along the path, I was exposed to the color work of modern photographers [...]
I fully acknowledge the vital importance of marketing and self-promotion to the financial success of an artist. Still, as a person, I hold in higher esteem those who engage in it reluctantly than those who do it with fervor. To me, the penniless desert rat staring silently into the dancing flames of the campfire is [...]
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Art, however you choose to define it, is ultimately a product of the human mind. Photographs, before assuming any other meaning, are essentially products of machines. Natural phenomena are manifestations of forces altogether independent of, and oblivious to, the emotions and meanings ascribed to them by human beings. In order for nature photography to enter [...]
Apparently not much, at least as it pertains to the goal of photographic technology. It seems comical that modern day film aficionados tout the benefits of a product that was really just meant to make life simpler and easier in the days of glass plates. Film ads of the 1800s and early 1900s boasted such [...]
It’s almost impossible to have a conversation with professional artists these days without some mention of SEO and Social Networking. Everyone seems to be engulfed in an all-consuming struggle to rise to the top of the search engine heap and to drown out the competition in sheer number of posts. An astounding amount of energy [...]
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