Articles filed in Mentoring.
My New Favorite Websites for Learning Photography
My reason for searching Since my banishment from DPReview—due to a post titled DPReview Against Photogs Receiving Credit —linking back to this Blog, I’ve been exploring the internet to find other quality outlets for learning about and sharing my passion for photography. And it’s been a positive experience. All the… Read More »
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Even Digital Camera World Doesn’t Give Photographers Credit
I first wrote about magazines not giving photographers credit for their images in a blog post titled Selling Editorial Photography, Demand a Credit Line way back on January 17, 2012. Unfortunately, things have not gotten any better. And, in fact, they’re getting worse. Astonishingly, even Digital Camera World often doesn’t… Read More »
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How to clean your tripod legs so they work like new
How to clean your tripod legs so they work like new is a skill all levels of photographers can benefit from. One of the things photographers are quite aware of is the expense of our hobby. Take a good tripod, for instance. Three carbon fiber legs and a ball head… Read More »
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Tom Walker: Alaskan Wildlife Photographer & Sourdough Extraordinaire
Meeting a Legend I can’t recall the exact date I first met the legendary Tom Walker. It was somewhere around the mid 80’s when I gained my first professional photography permit for Denali National Park. Venturing to Alaska for the first time was an awe-inspiring event in itself but meeting… Read More »
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Harness Your Passion to Help Others
I recently had to pull out all the stops to help some friends of mine with a big mission. This all falls under the heading of harnessing your passion to help others. The Owl Research Institute (ORI) was in need of a promotional video to help them raise money for… Read More »
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Lumix Stories Video Series GH5 World-Class Still Camera, Ben Grunow
The Lumix GH5 is a world-class still camera and this video, the first in a four-part series, drives the point. One of the most common misconceptions about Lumix cameras is the idea they’re mainly built for high-end video capture. The comments I often here go something like this, “The GH5… Read More »
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Photo Hero or Photo Zero: Two Points of View
A new company recently came to my attention and they’re making a lot of professional photographers unhappy these days. It’s called Unsplash and it’s nothing more than a very well done website that specializes in giving away FREE photography. Their tag line is, “Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world’s… Read More »
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Skip Cohen University Presents “Why?” with Daniel J. Cox
One of the truly most rewarding parts of joining the Panasonic Lumix Luminary team is the amazing array of talent associated with the brand. One such gentleman who’s become a good friend is Skip Cohen, the driving force behind the web portal Skip Cohen University (SCU). Skip’s an amazing man who has a… Read More »
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Letter to the Editor: Please Credit Photography
Please Credit Photography This blog post is the first of what will be an on ongoing campaign to point out publications, editors, and others who seem to have forgotten that it’s photography that sells their publications – magazines, books, newspapers, web pages, and the like. For the past ten years or more I’ve… Read More »
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NANPA High School Scholarship Program
How many photographers have you heard begin to tell their story about getting started in photography with a Kodak Brownie in their backyard? There are certainly more options today to heighten the interests of high school students in photography, but I’d like to ask for your support for one in… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries With High Arctic Polar Bears
July 14, 2015 – Oslo, Norway The Lumix Diaries with high arctic polar bears. It’s been three days since we arrived in Oslo. Tanya and I like to be on our destination continent at least two days before our guests arrive. There’s nothing worse than feeling the physically debilitating effects… Read More »
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US Copyright Reform for Photographers and Artists – Add Your Voice
US Copyright reform for photographers and artists is on the table and the American Society of Media Professionals is leading the charge. I recently added my voice to this debate and you can do the same. It doesn’t matter whether you are a some-time photographer, full-time photographer, or artist of… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries Heads to Patagonia
The Lumix diaries heads to Patagonia. Tanya and I recently left Kenya for the southern hemisphere. Our destination? The region known as Patagonia. All of our Patagonia adventures begin in Buenos Aires where we get everybody on the same page by spending a day in the city photographing the wonderful… Read More »
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The Lumix Diaries LX100 Colorado Avalanche and Nate MacKinnon
The Lumix Diaries LX100 Colorado Avalanche and Nate MacKinnon. This past two weeks of the Christmas season has been a whirlwind of family activity. The gift of being together is better than anything I could ever imagine under the Christmas tree. Along with family comes the opportunity for lots of pictures but… Read More »
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Join the Copyright Reform Debate Today at 3:00PM EST
Join the Copyright Reform Debate Today at 3:00PM EST. Below is the text from an email I received from my friends at the Copyright Alliance. These folks are fighting the war to protect our legal rights for the images we create. They have alerted me to a one-sided discussion taking… Read More »
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How to Make a Chapbook – Guest Post by NE Explorer Mark Pemberton
A while back, NE Explorer Mark Pemberton sent me a gorgeous, handmade book containing photos from our recent Invitational Photo Tour to Japan. I had never seen such a beautiful presentation, and I asked Mark if he would like to share the creative process with our readers. He agreed, and… Read More »
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5 Tips for Printing Your Own Photos
5 tips for printing your own photos are some tips I decided to offer based on popular request from our traveling Explorers. Unfortunately, it’s not a simple answer so I thought I would pick out the five most important things to know and understand to get the best results. If you want… Read More »
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Calling All Photographers & Artists-Help Copyright Alliance Protect YOUR Copyright
Calling All Photographers & Artists-Help Copyright Alliance Protect YOUR Copyright. It’s time to put down your cameras, art brushes, sculpting clay and design tools for 15 minutes of business that will help you earn a better living at what you love to do. Photography & Art. I subscribe to a newsletter… Read More »
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Olympus, “Our reason to exist is to push the envelope”. I love that attitude!
DPReview recently interviewed Mr. Hirofumi Imano, Division Manager of Product Strategy at Olympus, at the recent C+ 2014 show in Japan. I’m a huge fan of what Olympus is doing, though I’m not as excited about their camera’s ergonomics and ease of use. However, you can’t argue with their quality optics… Read More »
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Photographer Sues BuzzFeed for 3.6 Million
The social media sharing craze is being tested in a recent legal suit by a photographer out of Idaho. The photographer, Kai Eiselein, had one of his images copied from Flikr and distributed without his permission over the BuzzFeed social sharing network. I’m not going to highlight the entire situation since… Read More »
Read article →Aperture X? WWDC This Monday? Lets Hope The Sign Says It All
There have been numerous signs of Apple getting ready to release an updated version of my favorite photography program, Aperture. WWDC, the World Wide Developers Conference is this next Monday and Apple has been preparing the Moscone Center in San Francisco with graphics that are hinting at a redo of… Read More »
Read article →Flickr’s CEO Marissa Mayer Inserts Foot and Twists!
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new changes taking place at Flickr. Overall pretty positive other than the fact Flickr removes Metadata/Contact Information from all photos other than the largest, high resolution version. Then yesterday Flickr’s CEO Marissa Mayer stuck her foot in her mouth and gagged out… Read More »
Read article →The New Flickr ~ Stripping Your Photo’s Contact Information
Yesterday Yahoo announced they were improving their photo sharing site Flickr, giving every Flickr user one Terabyte of free cloud storage for photographs. “Wow” I thought. “What a deal”. I’ve had a Flickr account for a least a couple of years but I’ve never used it. So off I went… Read More »
Read article →Fix Your Photos Without Photoshop – 10 Options
This past week Adobe announced their new Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service that will force Photoshop and Creative Suite users to pay a monthly fee for the use of Adobe’s software. The idea is to get Adobe users to accept the idea of paying for software on a subscription plan.… Read More »
Read article →UK Photogs, Petition Against New Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill 2013
UK photographer Martyn Chillmaid recently made me aware of a petition being circulated on the internet taking a stand against the new Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill 2013. My only disappointment is you have to be a UK resident to sign the petition. So if you are from the UK you… Read More »
Read article →Hunt’s Photo & Ilford Present Fine Art Print Making Free Webinar
I’ve known Gary Farber since way back in the days of film. He’s a great guy and works hard for his customers. He and I recently reconnected at the NANPA conference and he sent me some information on a free webinar Hunt’s is hosting on March 29 at 1:00pm EDT.… Read More »
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Open Invitation to Photo Industry Players – Metadata Roundtable at PhotoPlus Expo 2013
I’m currently working with ASMP on a program to highlight the issues of Contact Information, known as Metadata, being stripped from our photographs when uploaded across the web. We’re planning to have a roundtable-like discussion this fall at PhotoPlus Expo 2013 in New York City. I’m interested in contacts representing any… Read More »
Read article →Watercolor Workshop With Mom – Boca Grande Art Alliance
One of my dreams has been to share a workshop with my mother who’s been a fairly prolific artist dating back to my earliest memories. I proposed the idea to her a couple of years ago. The idea would be to team up in order to help her art students… Read More »
Read article →New York Photographer Goes After DKNY For Illegal Photo Usage
I recently found this great article on the US News Bblog about photographer Brandon Stanton who was approached by DKNY to use his photos of street people from New York. As the article describes, DKNY offered an unreasonable fee for the use of so many images, so Brandon declined the… Read More »
Read article →Getty Gets Nasty With Photographer Who’s Finally Had Enough
Awhile back I wrote about Getty Images sealing a deal with Google that was announced on their Blog as “5,000 new photos of nature, weather, animals, sports, food, education, technology, music and 8 other categories are now available for your use in Docs, Sheets, and Slides”. 5000 images handed over to… Read More »
Read article →Update: Shooting the Panasonic GH3
In a recent Blog post titled Testing Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds Camera, the GH3, I promised I would be printing two images of a leopard I photographed with both the Nikon D4 and the Panasonic GH3. Before heading to Patagonia I had the chance to do that and I wanted to… Read More »
Read article →CENSORED! By Facebook For Criticizing Instagram’s New Terms of Service For Photos
A couple of days ago Instagram’s New & Improved Terms of Service plot to steal our photos was brought to my attention. I was alerted to the completely useless new language by PhotoBizCoach Beate Chelette’s excellent blog. So I wrote a blog post of my own titled Instagram’s New & Improved Policy To Steal… Read More »
Read article →Instagram’s New Policy To Steal Your Photos Returns
Instagram is at it again. They’re approaching their online community of professional photographers, photo enthusiasts, mom and pops, school kids and grannies, with a smile on their face and a hand shake. As their right hand squeezes down, like the grip of any crook who’s about to make off with… Read More »
Read article →Red Digital Cinema’s History & How To Video Series
Red Digital Cinema continues to steam roll the competition and impress the image creation world with phenomenal new technology for still and moving images. I first heard of the Red One several years ago. The Red One was Red Digital Cinema’s first barn storming camera that turned the video creation… Read More »
Read article →Support Embedded Metadata/Contact Information Manifesto
I was recently made aware of a great new website called Pro-Imaging. It has a lot of good information on all things for professionals as well as advanced amateurs and even the up-and-coming photo enthusiasts. It’s never too early to learn about the need to retain the rights to your… Read More »
Read article →Fred Kurtz Shows The Beauty of Blurb Books
One of our favorite people, Fred Kurtz, who has traveled the world with us, recently sent me a link to a book he’s published on trains. Fred and his wife Kathy are two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and Fred loves photography. He’s fairly new to the game… Read More »
Read article →Quick, Easy, Free! Video Editing on the Mac With Quicktime
Many people often ask what program I use to edit my movies. Most of the time it’s Apple’s iMovie, and soon I plan to move to Apple’s Final Cut Pro X. Not sure if that will replace iMovie but we shall see. iMovie is so powerful and easy. Its main… Read More »
Read article →Major Publication Wants Free Photos Yet Charges $155,000.00 For One Ad
I just received an email from a good friend, who has requested to remain anonymous. He’s an enthusiastic photographer with a day job as an attorney and his email highlighted a situation he recently ran into with Travel and Leisure magazine. We’ll call my friend and fellow photographer Igor, only… Read More »
Read article →Winners of The Art of Nature Photo Contest by PhoozL
I recently judged a photo contest organized by an online Internet site called Phooz that’s organized by a friend of mine, Harald Johnson. Harald and I met during our time working together with Hewlett Packard. The entries were superb and it was hard selecting the three winning images. Over all… Read More »
Read article →Another Successful Mentor Trek – This Time in Oregon
Last week Reed Hoffman and I spent a few days with a group of Trekkers exploring the Columbia River Gorge and Crater Lake National Park during our Mentor Trek to Oregon. We had fabulous opportunities to capture stunning natural landscapes as well as the serene evening colors of the city… Read More »
Read article →Jeffrey Conger, Mentor Extraordinaire, Hot Rod Photographer
A good friend of mine, Jeffrey Conger, who is a professor of design and program chair at Montana State University, also has a passion for motor sport photography. This past week he showed a collection of his documentary work in the bygone days of custom hot rod cars. Jeffrey has… Read More »
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Mentor Series Photography Tour in Acadia NP and Bar Harbor, Maine
I just returned from northern Maine where I was one of two mentors for the Mentor Series World Wide Photography Treks. The other mentor was my old college buddy Layne Kennedy, and as always we had a great time teaching the craft of photography as well as getting to know… Read More »
Read article →Yellowstone National Park with Montana State University Students
This past week I spent some time with a group of passionate young design students from Montana State University. MSU is located in my home town of Bozeman, Montana, and each year a good friend of mine Jeffrey Conger who is a professor as well as Chair of Graphic Design… Read More »
Read article →Polar Bears International 2007 Leadership Camp
About three weeks ago I spent time in Churchill, Manitoba helping Polar Bears International (PBI) with a program they call Leadership Camp. More than a dozen kids from around the world came to the Tundra Buggy lodge to learn about how the warming climate will affect the Arctic and polar… Read More »
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