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The Treatment
Labels: BusinessThere’s nothing more embarrassing than moving up the career ladder and sitting in a room with your new peers, not understanding a single thing that they’re saying to you. This Article Features Photo Zoom ...
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Will Video Kill The Still Photography Star?
In 2003, I sat in a movie theater in Los Angeles, Calif., and watched a huge collection of still images from 1980s Hollywood come to life on the screen. The movie, The Kid Stays in the Picture, is a documentary about movie mogul Robert Evans. ...
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Staying In The Black
Labels: BusinessI’ve never started an article as many times as I’ve started this one. The mercurial shifts in the global financial markets in the fall of 2008 made my first paragraph irrelevant five times over. This Article Features Photo Zoom ...
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Miss Aniela: Master of Flickr
Labels: Art, Profiles and PortfoliosMiss Aniela is a photographic self-portraitist, or as I keep hearing with unbelievable regularity, “One of those self-portrait artists who likes to take pictures of herself.” When I meet her, I’m struck by her personality. It’s almost antithetical to...
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The Real Next Top Model
Soon after my seventh or so year in fashion, I began to notice that my perspective of the world began to skew a bit. Perfectly normal, lovely people I met were subject to aesthetic scrutiny in my head as if they were being cast for a job. I tried to...
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Thinking Outside the Studio
Thinking Outside the Studio Digital Photography for the Emerging Pro Great Photos Start with Great Equipment Top Techniques and How-Tos Archival Storage: How the pros do it. By Ibarionex Perello Behind The Design: A look at...
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Naked In The Courtroom - The Web And Copyright
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you're standing in the middle of a courtroom defending the copyright of one of your images when you look down and realize that you're naked? You will. There's an unprecedented number of copyright challenges...
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Your Studio And The New Economy
The landscape of the photography industry is changing rapidly. With fees for our services and other business issues, our work is becoming more akin to a commodities market. Effectively making money in a world that's offering more and more different...
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Shiho Fukada - A Different Kind Of Briefcase
Shiho Fukada speaks with an accent about which she's shy; it conjures an image of a young, diminutive Japanese woman—which makes no sense when you see her photography. Her bold, stunning images depict stories in exceedingly dangerous environs....
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Sex, Money And Drama
There are three universal topics of conversation that people like to blab about no matter what industry you're in: sex, money and drama. One or all of these topics will affect your career at one point or another. The secret to surviving a few...
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Military Style - Order On The Set
He sat behind a large 35mm movie camera with his eye glued to the eyepiece and a cloud of cigar smoke floating above his worn red baseball cap. There were dozens of other people on the set—extras, crew members, cops—all milling about a respectful...
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Cash Flow 101
I don't subscribe to the notion that artists should be starving—unless, of course, that's your look. But beyond that, the market concepts that shape the most successful businesses in the world also can shape the business that we build as...
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Sometimes A Lens Is Just A Lens
Within the psyche of the creative photographer resides a delicate balance between knowledge and ego. We're a band of visual storytellers. Perceptually, we're consumed by capturing or creating moments, those instances when an accidental collision of...
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Getting Through The Down Time
“What do you do all day?” she asked. She was an upwardly mobile, fabulous clothes-wearing corporate mover who made truckloads more money than I did. She was 23 and calling me out. Her assumption was that a 23-year-old photographer like me plodded...
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Control Your Casting Call
Modeling agencies are crazy places. Someone, usually an agent, is always having some level of tantrum. Everywhere you look, there are stunning faces and provocative bodies. It can be intimidating if you're not used to it. There's a famous...
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Tax Time Tune-Up
In his 20-plus years as a professional photographer, Louis Lesko managed to avoid the most dreadful word of tax season: audit. That was until last year, when he received notice from the Internal Revenue Service that his 2005 taxes were getting a...
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How To Work With Models
The symbiotic relationship between photographer and model is the rough equivalent of the relationship between ocean coral and their companion algae—take one away and the other will die. Forget the supermodels, those pampered darlings who end up on...
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Hustle & Flow - Self-Marketing Secrets
The compulsive urge to panic while waiting for a job should be recognized as a physical condition. Many times over the last 20 years, I've found myself on the edge of a complete breakdown, spending huge money on promo campaigns, e-mails and...
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It's About Sexy, Not Sex
“Are you gay?” The question came from an 18-year-old model wrapped in a partially see-through blouse. “No. Why do you ask?” I responded. She explained that in spite of my being very young, backstage at a fashion show and surrounded by stunning...
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Dealing With Image Theft
In fashion, we use the word “look” to describe someone's style. Why we don't use the word “style” to describe someone's style, I'll never know, but there it is. It's a person's look that differentiates him or her from the rest of society at large. Oh,...
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