Most of us have heard the old adage: “You’re known by the company you keep.” This can be especially true when it comes to collaborative efforts. Collaborative projects often present an opportunity to raise the bar for our own work. Foremost when considering...
Without exception, anytime I’ve had a difficult, unresolvable conflict or misunderstanding arise as part of a project, it was the result of not having a written contract. That’s not to say that misunderstandings don’t arise at times even when I have a solid contract...
Taking the plunge from being a still photographer for 30+ years to creating motion projects was a huge one for me. As I started out, I thought the greatest obstacles were going to be learning the technical aspects of editing and audio or the learning curve related to...
Creative people often don’t understand that to produce creative work, you need boundaries. While it’s true that too many limitations inhibit creativity, not having any boundaries reduces creativity in much the same way. Finding the sweet spot is what we all seek. In...
The ability to ask good questions and draw people out of their anxiety over being photographed has always been an important skill set to have as a still photographer. But over the past several years, I’ve gone from being behind the camera exclusively to taking a more...
For several years, I avoided the idea like it was a virus. I associated it with the sleazy spam-meisters of the business world. Until I realized its value and embraced it. As I looked around, increasingly more and more creative people I respected were not only doing...
