Inside the Green Room In this week’s episode of The Photo Life, we speak with Hawaii photographer Mike Adrian about the challenges and rewards of building a community in a competitive industry as well as how he manages to balance a life devoted to family, work and personal reflection. About Mike Adrian Specializing in photographing
Archives for March 2011
Get Your Life Back: A Simple Guide for Organizing Your Business
**Great news! We’re hard at work updating this guide and will be re-releasing it shortly. In the meantime, check out The Photo Life Social Media Guide!** Passion and Productivity Can Coexist Balancing passion and productivity is a hallmark trait of successful creative professionals. When our workday becomes driven by extraneous elements and dangerous distractions,
Making a Rich Black & White Preset in Lightroom 3
In the last Lightroom Podcast, I talked about making great black and white images in Lightroom 3. Now, using this week’s podcast you’re going to make a great black and white preset in Lightroom, so you will never again have to touch all those sliders. In this follow up video, you will learn to make
The Business of Branding: The Future is Open
Being “open” in your photography business can mean a great many things. Being open to new ideas, practices and techniques. Being open to new markets and product lines. Making your business an open book. The open I want to talk about today is open source. Be it a philosophy or methodology, the definition of open
The Photo Life Podcast: An Interview with Mike Davis
Peeling the Onion In this episode of the Photo Life we speak with Mike Davis, former photo editor for The White House and National Geographic Magazine, about the role editing plays in making a powerful and cohesive story from a body of work. He also shares some of the secrets of the editing game that
Explore Photojournalism, Gain Confidence.
Every young photographer who wants to throw his or her hat in the ring as a professional should spend time as a photojournalist. It’s not easy- the money sucks, the work day is never ending, and you spend long stretches of time smelling funky because a shower is a luxury- but after it’s over, you feel
The Photo Life Podcast: An Interview with Craig Strong
The Dash of the Millennium Falcon In this episode of the Photo Life we speak with Craig Strong, photographer and co-founder of Lensbaby, about the photo gear that makes all of our art possible as well as the challenges and rewards of dreaming of tomorrow’s photo industry. About Craig Strong After working as an intern,
Making Beautiful Black & White Images in Lightroom 3
There is more to making a beautiful black and white image than just clicking on the Black and White button. In Lightroom 3, you can make some very beautiful black and white images if you understand just a couple principles and tools. In this video, you will learn how to use Adobe Lightroom 3 to
How to Use Your Event & Image Manager on Pictage
Streamline your Pictage workflow by efficiently using your Event & Image Manager. In this video explore new organizational tools that will help you view, organize, adjust and order images and print products. Event & Image Manager from Pictage Training on Vimeo. Get to Know the Event Home Page 1) The Header keeps you informed on
How to Build a Product Workflow in ShootQ
Product Workflows allow you to generate a list of Tasks that are necessary for the completion of a Product you offer. These can be as simple as uploading an image to your print fulfillment house and shipping it off to the client or as complicated as all the various steps and interactions that go into