By Jay Dickman In my last post, I talked about how to choose the photography workshop that’s best for you . I suggested that one good question to ask is how your work will be critiqued. At FirstLight Workshop , part of our model is to work with each photographer in a daily edit session. We provide a...
By Jay Dickman Even after 38 years of shooting for a living, I am always amazed at how my camera can open doors into the lives of people I might not otherwise meet—both in the US and internationally. Journalistic photographers such as myself are constantly approaching someone to ask permission to take...
By Jon Canfield . I recently had the opportunity to give a talk on photography to a group of high school kids. Walking into the room it was pretty obvious that a good number of them were there because they had to be, not because it was something interesting or meaningful. By the time I was done though...
By David Saffir I just finished teaching the three-day Imagemaking for Photographers workshop on the Central Coast of California. Our students included a mix of professionals and serious amateurs. Skill levels ranged from many years of experience with digital to “I bought this thing (a digital SLR) three...
By Marc Aguilera Flickr is a great place for the new amateur, the accelerated semi-pro photographer, and working professional photographer. The flickr community is vast and amazing and I never get bored of looking at images from my contacts in the community. I have had a flickr account since July 14...