$100 Gift Card Giveaway from Adorama If you’ve read any of my posts on gear, like this one about why I switched from Canon To Nikon, you’ve heard me say that I truly don’t believe great photography is about the latest and greatest gear. I think it’s about the way we each uniquely see the world, […]
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On Bali, Snuggly Chickens, and the Creative Entrepreneur There’s been just over a month between my last post and this one. In that time, a great deal has happened. Happily, my family and I traveled from California, where I filmed back-to-back programs for creativeLIVE (more on that very soon), to Bali (more on that here, […]
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Marketing Photography & The Work You Love In this new episode of ReDefine Show, I speak with Joy Bianchi Brown, the braintrust behind marketing photography and running the studio, as well as the business parter of Jules Cafe. We chat about her best ideas (within 10 minutes of conversation!) on how to create revenue from the work […]
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Posing Kids, with Free Music In honor of the upcoming Children’s (un) Posing Guide Workshop on creativeLIVE starting tomorrow (Wednesday, July 10th at 9am PST) – all about posing kids organically – we are excited to announce that we have teamed up with Triple Scoop Music AGAIN for a free $60 song and lifetime license with your purchase […]
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Photo Contest! In coordination with my Children’s Posing Guide Workshop starting July 10th, which you can watch for live free when you enroll here, creativeLIVE is hosting a photo contest – complete with some pretty fantastic prize packs. Huge thanks to I Heart Faces, Adorama, Animoto, Artsy Couture, and Peachpit for contributing some wonderful prizes – […]
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Call for Child Models In less than two weeks, I’ll be delivering two back to back programs for creativeLIVE in San Francisco – The Children’s Posing Guide (which will run July 10th, 11th, and 12th) and Relationships: The Heart of Life and Business (which will run July 13th and 14th). Both programs are very different. […]
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Relationship Workshop San Francisco Join our Relationship Workshop in San Francisco this July 13th and 14th as part of our in-studio audience at the brand new studio in the city at creativeLIVE. This 2-day program is entitled Relationships: The Heart of Life and Business. Interested in photography AND improving the quality of your relationships? […]
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Free Children’s Posing Guide Workshop Join me in San Francisco this July 10th, 11th and 12th for a FREE Children’s Posing Guide Workshop, to be broadcast worldwide on creativeLIVE! This class is NOT for you if you only photograph professional child models who respond to you exactly as you ask all the time – if, […]
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In this brand new episode of ReDefine Show, I speak with Matt Kloskowski, Lightroom guru, talented landscape photographer and Director of Education for Kelby Media Group, about his transition from sales to marketing to art. We met up at Photoshop World in Las Vegas, and he shared how he made his transition from an early job […]
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Free Song License with Posing Guide We have JUST released the 2nd Edition of The Posing Playbook … For Kids Who Don’t Do Posing with an additional 20 pages of content, for no additional cost. This new, expanded children posing guide now includes over 80 pages of content-rich direction, more metadata and even more detailed […]
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The Switch from Canon To Nikon – Why I Did This post may seem overdue, since I’ve fielded quite a number of questions related to my switch to Nikon, but I think it’s kinda timed perfectly. Sometimes all the answers aren’t delivered all at once, and I wanted a more comprehensive overview in response to […]
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Mother’s Day Mother’s Day is this week, in case you hadn’t noticed the deluge of marketing, print ads, radio spots, emails, post cards, commercials and sales! No doubt it’s a marketing heyday, but Mother’s Day is about a lot more than the commercialism of it (although, um, we are offering gift certificates in any amount […]
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In this new episode of ReDefine, I speak with well-known commercial photographer and long-time educator Bobbi Lane about about her best creative and business advice on the competitive field of professional commercial photography after 35 years of shooting. We sat down at Photo Plus Expo – in beautiful New York City (between our respective presentations!) – […]
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My good friend Matthew Jordan Smith has only a couple days left to get his Kickstarter project, Future Presidents, fully backed! If you haven’t checked out his project already, you can read a lot more details about it here. He’s got some great people involved, from former Samuel L. Jackson to President Jimmy Carter to […]
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Using The Posing Playbook I have to give credit to that genius quote to Don Herold, who also wrote one of my other favorites statements: Unhappiness is not knowing what we want – and killing ourselves to get it. Truth all the way around. Luckily, this sweet baby boy happens to have a very happy […]
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