Lately I've been thinking about where we are on our photographic journeys, and wondering if we ever really come out of beta. They say it takes 10,000 hours to really master something, but does that mean that you have to hide in a closet until you've done your time?...
Today we're going to look at a new service for selling fine art prints, called Art Storefronts. Art Storefronts have built a ground-breaking system that enables you to set up a store and sell either self-fulfilled print orders, or have the prints created by Art...
My friends at Craft & Vision have just released an incredible new video series by Dave Delnea - SHOOT THE LOOK! If you want to really learn your craft, it's more than buttons and dials. You need to be able to take all the technical stuff you've got under your belt...
When you first get started in digital photography, it's much easier to just leave your camera in JPEG shooting mode. Sooner or later though, most people decide that it's time to switch to raw, and once we switch, we usually wish we'd switched much sooner. Today we're...
This week we talk about the idea of creating an introduction video for your web site and services, as well as some thoughts on time management mistakes that I sometimes make. Also, some exciting news about a new education platform called The Arcanum, which I've just...
I'm often asked how I package fine art prints for shipping to customers, so I've prepared a short video showing the process, and we're going to expand on that a little today in today's Podcast. I'm also going to be giving away the print that you'll see in the video,...
Every so often, someone writes a book that changes everything. A book so profound that everyone with a desire to live not only a creative life, but a richer, fuller life, will read. Well, my friend David duChemin has just done that, again. His earlier best-selling...
I'm often asked which color space to use in Photoshop, and when I tell people that it's best to work in ProPhoto RGB, I hear various reasons why people don't think it's necessary. One of the main ones is the camera's widest color space is Adobe RGB, but that of course...
OK, so just a quick episode this week, because things have gone a bit pear-shaped with my Web site and I don't have the time to do a full episode. I am in the middle of switching Wordpress themes, and despite some initial testing, there are some gaping issues and I'm...
Today we follow up on the portrait shoot that I did at the end of March, with an episode on how I fulfilled the first print order, including creating various print sizes on roll paper, and we'll also touch on trimming and decurling the prints, and a little reflection...
This week we're going to take a look at the very simple but incredibly functional Manfrotto Expan Drive Background Support system, that enables you to set up to three rolls of seamless background paper simultaneously, then raise and lower them as necessary using a...
Today we're going to look at the new Silverada Pearlescent Metallic Canvas from Breathing Color. As you'll see, Breathing Color continues to outdo themselves when it comes to bringing the fine art printing community and industry exactly what they need to create top...