When I am working on an environmental portrait assignment, I like to start off knowing as much about a subject as I possibly can. I begin with a simple web search to learn something about them, where they work, what they like to do. I usually try to meet with the...
Six recommendations for living a Creative Life: 1. Have something to say and develop that into a lifelong vision. If you don’t know what you want to say yet, then follow your curiosity – dabble in everything. 2. Be open-minded about your career and income stream. Look...
My practice requires me to work with professional actors and models as well as working with non professionals, sometimes on the same project or in the same scene. I learned a long time ago that each person may require different types of direction. The trick is to have...
When I speak to photographers about copyright, I often use a variation of William Patry’s metaphor from his book Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars: Picture a copyright battlefield. On the right-side are the traditional Copyright aggregators – publishers, record...
I discovered photography, when I was around ten years old. I was in the process of reading my way around the Ellwood City Public Library when I stumbled upon the Time-Life series, you know that collection of books – silver and black. From that day forward, books have...
In September of 2009 I took out my iPhone and using the camera app made a photograph. I made a few adjustments to color and contrast and uploaded it to Facebook. By the time I walked about 100 yards, I had “likes” on my Facebook page and I was seeing comments from my...
