• 07
    Mar

    Challenges Faced by Photographers: Part 4

    By now, if you’ve stuck with reading my blog for the last three postings, you know the drill:  I strongly believe professional photographers are being clobbered by iPhones and photo booths.  Last post, I ranted about iPhones.  This post, I’m focused on photo booths. What makes a great photo execution?  The camera?  The software?  The […]

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  • 05
    Mar

    Challenges Faced by Photographers (Part 3)

    In the last two blog posts, I ranted about what I view as the greatest challenges facing both professional event photographers and photo production companies.  To recap: 1) Smart phone cameras 2)  Photo booths. So, what is the event photographer to do?  Eat a gun?  Cry?  Buy a photo booth? Buy stock in Apple?   […]

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  • 03
    Mar

    Challenges Faced by Photographers (Part 2)

    In the previous blog post, I argued that today’s photo market place is dramatically affected by smart phones, and their ease of uploading images to social media. And, it’s not just the traditional photo marketplace that has been affected!  Even greenscreen photography production is challenged — just recently, I came across a green screen iPad […]

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  • 25
    Jun

    On the wings of fate

    I’m a big believer in fate.  Not that I think our path is predetermined — actually, the opposite — but I do believe we are given tools that lie dormant, almost overlooked, until just the moment you need them.  Sometimes it’s big things — a new relationship that develops from an email and turns into […]

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