Economic times change and business models come and go. When my sister was very young she repaired parts of Linotype machines. I remember shopping for the best price on a Selectric typewriter. Duesenberg was once the luxury car of choice. Kodak and Fuji once sold boat-loads of film. And as the 20th century began, Westfield… Read More WHY BEING A PHOTOGRAPHER IS LIKE BEING A BUGGY WHIP MANUFACTURER IN 1902
Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward once famously said that he couldn’t define pornography but he knew it when he saw it. What he didn’t realize is that pornography is not a “thing.” It is somebody’s reaction to a thing. A 1944 Betty Grable poster was sexy in its day, seems quaint now but would have… Read More WHAT IS ART?
Beauty, it is said, is in the eye of the beholder. But what is beautiful is a matter of opinion and there are various different kinds of beauty because there are lot of people with different opinions. I see this as a photographer who has done a lot of work with the female athletic body… Read More NOT ALL SUGAR AND SPICE
The human brain is the most complex structure we know of in the universe. And visual perception is one of the most complex processes the brain undertakes. The area of the brain that deals with vision contains a huge number of specialized cells that register vertical lines, horizontal lines, shapes, motion and so much more.… Read More I’LL SEE THAT WHEN I BELIEVE IT
PRO PHOTOS ARE WHAT GET DRAMATIC RESULTS By Bill Dobbins Model: Carmen Garcia IMAGES THAT MATTER Want people to notice you? Want to be famous? Trying hard to market your image on websites and social media? Are you images all over Facebook? OK – then why isn’t this working? Why isn’t the world paying the… Read More PRO PHOTOS FOR DRAMATIC RESULTS
Back in the 1830s, you had to be a highly trained craftsman to be a photographer. Whether you were shooting Daguerreotypes or using wet plates, creating a photograph was difficult and technologically demanding. The transition to dry plate technology helped to simplify the process, but photography was still an undertaking for specialists. Then film was… Read More THE IMPACT OF PHOTO TECHNOLOGY
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work,” Woody Allen once said. “I want to achieve it by not dying.” Artists usually want their work to live on after them, to become part of the culture and be appreciated by future generations. The problem is that you can’t be around to experience this. Vincent… Read More IMMORTALITY THROUGH ART
Anyone who has followed the history of fashion knows that what is “in style” and popular changes constantly. This is true of the clothing, shoes, hats and other products that designers create, and it’s true for fashion photography as well. The kind of photos that the fashion industry prefers is highly variable. The photos change… Read More FASHION IS FLEETING
In this digital, Internet age – where hundreds of thousands of pictures are uploaded every day – it becomes extremely important in marketing a product, service or career to use photographs that have impact and are memorable – that stick in the mind and become part of the viewer’s consciousness. Repetition helps in achieving this,… Read More PHOTOS THAT “STICK IN THE MIND”
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