Wedding Photographer Stealthiness Fail
Say you’re shooting a wedding, and say for some reason you’re taking a food break, and say for some other reason you happen to be taking that break while the father is giving a toast you should probably be taking pictures of. You’d think that given all of that, you’d at least keep a low...
Winners of the 1st Annual APA Members Short Video Contest on Vimeo
Tweet Pin It Tweet I was blessed to be one of the judges of the American Photographic Artist Members Short Video Contest back in early April and I thought it would be fun to see the winners! Many of these entries were shot by folks who are photographers learning video. But before we get to...
Software To Replace Photographers [The Ones That Deserve It]
Photographer Mark Meyers just wrote up a nice enough story aimed at driving awareness fear in professional photographers … fear about the future of their career, their well-being, their jobs. Depicted in that article this image at left, which was completely generated by the author of the post using an emerging 3d modeling software...
Learning Speedlights – The First Step in Expanding Your Photography with Lighting
Beginner or emerging photographer? Well, once you know what’s happening with your camera and all those dials, it’s time to take on lighting and flash photography. In taking that next step – learning to light – you can do almost anything, and nothing opens up this opportunity more effectively and affordably than working with Speedlights,...
Three Items of Equipment No Photographer Should Be Without
The title of this article begs for part of the answer to be camera and lens but then I wouldn’t have anything to write about or I’d have to title the article Five Items… In other words, I’m going to assume that the camera and lens is a given and not count them. After those...
Rewatch of Guy Kawasaki On ChaseJarvis LIVE
Whether you caught the LIVE show or missed it, I recommend pressing play on the #cjLIVE rewatch video above. You’ll see why it was one of the most popular shows we’ve run. More than just funny and talented, Kawasaki is a fountain of knowledge on lofty topics like branding, marketing, and vision–down to really specific,...
Nadav Kander Discusses His Approach to Portraiture
Here’s a video in which renowned portrait photographer Nadav Kander discusses his approach to photography and portraiture. One thing that’s interesting about Kander’s method is that he tries not to connect with his subjects prior to photographing them: I really like the connection that human beings have when there isn’t a great knowledge, like when...
Six Tips For Overcoming Photographer’s Block
This isn’t going to be one of my usual 1,000+ word articles but for some people it may be more important than an article on the difference between bokeh and depth of field. Over the last two years I’ve seen enough comments here and on our Facebook page to make me believe that I’m not...
How to Ignite Your Creativity & Enchant Your Career — Guy Kawasaki is on #cjLIVE this Wed – March 21
——— UPDATE!! If you’re reading this now – the LIVE broadcast is TODAY. Read the post below, then be sure to tune into http://www.chasejarvis.com/live and enjoy the show. Giving away some serious prizes, below. See you on air in a few… ——- HUGE news here, friends. This coming Wednesday, March 21st, I am proud to...
Essential Equipment for the Serious Photographer
For discussion purposes let’s assume that a year or two ago you decided to take the plunge and upgrade from a point & shoot camera to DSLR. The first thing you probably learned was that in the beginning your photos weren’t any better with the DSLR and in some cases not as good. Fortunately, you...
The Canon 5D MK III is here.
Hey there photo nerds. We’re all in this together and today Canon just added more fuel to the HdDSLR fire – the much-anticipated Canon 5D MK III is here. They made some interesting choices on pixel count, recording modes, etc. So let’s review the skinny of it all. Here’s some highlighted specs: _22.3MP Full-Frame CMOS...
