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7 Mistakes To Avoid as a Photographer

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 1 June 2010

From the Chicago Tribune, photojournalist Alex Garcia offers these tips for any photographer to be ware of: Not asking for a picture, for more access, for more shooting time. As a photographer, let me humbly suggest it’s far better to give your full allegiance to your vision; not your gear. …contests, even though arbitrary and [...]

GigaPan Announces World’s Largest Photo

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 19 May 2010

Via pdn: GigaPan announced today that photographer Gerald Donovan has created what it says is “the world’s largest photo.” The image, a 45-gigapixel photo of Dubai, was created with the help of Gigapan’s EPIC Pro robotic camera mount. The photo is comprised of 4,250 pictures that took Donovan 3.5 hours to capture. He used a [...]

Photographer Documenting Graffiti Artists Charged With A Crime

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 8 May 2010

I just caught an interesting piece over on Photo Editor. It’s about a photographer who has encountered some legal difficulties while photographing graffiti. I found it interesting because a few years back I had played with the idea of photographing graffiti. The main difference is I was planning on photographing just the “art” and not [...]

Wait — A Magazine Cover Without Photoshopping?

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 25 April 2009

With all the recent hubbub about Photoshopped celebrities in magazines (which is frankly just a fact of life these days), French ELLE decided to feature three women with no makeup or Photoshopping for the April issue (the photos were shot by Peter Lindbergh). This is perhaps more shocking than any leaked photo of an un-retouched [...]

Gay Weddings: Growing Opportunity?

Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 24 April 2009

For wedding photographers, same-sex marriage shows signs of being good for business. Several states now allow gay marriages or civil unions. More states are likely to follow suit sooner or later, giving gay and lesbian couples across the country an impetus to throw weddings large and small. Of course, they need photographers and other wedding [...]


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