It all started for me when a client hired me to go to Hawaii to teach their employees to be creative on a corporate retreat. No kidding. The ideal assignment, right? Well I was petrified. I [...]
There are a lot of photographers out there all claiming to do the same thing, so it’s often hard to differentiate myself from others in the market. Until you take the photo, no one really [...]
Concluding the republication of my 2011 article on the business of photography: The Grand Convergence At one time your phone was plugged into the wall by a wire and your TV signal came through [...]
Continuing my 2011 article on the business of photography: At one time the Internet was going to be the “Great Leveler.” Small companies would be able to play on level playing fields with the [...]
Continuing my 2011 article on the business of photography: No matter how hard we professional photographers fought, when the clock ticked into the 21st Century, our old business models started to [...]
Continuing my 2011 article on the business of photography: Beginning professionals are rarely told that taking the picture is the easy part of the photo business. For the majority of you, finding [...]
A decade ago I was president of the American Society of Media Photographers. I wrote a column for the Bulletin. One of the topics was on pricing photography for professionals. You can [...]
I consult to a few major corporations about the freelance photography business and I continue to author papers that are “contrarian” in nature about the business. One of my most [...]
About 5 years ago I was president of the American Society of Media Photographers. One of the problems I had with the association, and the industry in general, was that they would teach the theory [...]