What is a Make-up Artist Worth?

I just returned from a wonderful Glamour, Beauty and the Nude workshop in Atlanta where we had some great photographer and model attendees–not to mention one of the all-time, best, make-up artists any photographer could ask for, and like all workshops, we go for the best.
Prior to the fun and exhausting workshop, I had traveled [...]

Framing Industry Conspiracy

I’ve lectured and taught photography to thousands of people over the past decade with over 250 workshops and seminars around the world and often people tell me, or I see it when they are shooting while “chimping” with their LCD screen, how they leave room for cropping their images to make the photo fit a [...]

Amy Davis–American Idol Top 24

For those that haven’t heard, one my workshop models, including for my exotic Virgin Islands workshops, Amy Davis, has made it to the top 24 of this season’s American Idol television show on FOX.  We need your votes for this seventh season of American Idol to help Davis progress as contestants are whittled down to [...]

Editorial, Commercial, Photojournalism?

I’ve been working on a new web site and today someone posted about how to distinguish the difference between editorial photography and other genres of photography, so I replied and liked it so much that I thought I’d share it here, though cleaned up from my original forum post.
First, editorial photography normally has a photojournalistic feel [...]

i-Portfolios, the New Craze for Professionals

I’ve been running around lately, conducting photography workshops, shooting commercial, glamour, editorial, sports and other photography and even lecturing at photo centers and photo schools and even working with models and others professionals involved in my shoots and I’m finding out there is one common thread—some type of “I” technology. 
From I-Phones, I-Pods, I-Touch and everything [...]