Blog Title: Blue Planet Photography

Brother, can you spare a dime ($1.00 - $1000)?

Today’s children (and adults) are being lured away from the outdoors by technology and, to some extent, over-endulged fear. Less exposure to the outdoors, unstructured play and use of their own imagination and sitting for hours in front of a computer screen, game console or television, is being shown to result in greater instances of read more..

Can technology eliminate an entire industry?

What’s the future of photography? What will be the next advances in digital image capture technology? How will those advances affect the professional photography industry? According to Ramesh Raskar, associate professor and leader of the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab, advances in the field of computational photography could eliminate the entire professional read more..

Email Newsletters - Part 2

I finally completed transfer of my newsletters to a new provider, got a design made up for 2 of the newsletters, began rebuilding my mailing list, and sent out 2 campaigns (one for each completed newsletter). The provider I selected to go with is MailChimp. I almost went with Vertical Response, but they didn’t have read more..

Real World Client Relationships

It’s not just a photography thing, creatives all over experience this at one time or another, some more than others. The client who wants to “make a deal”. Here is a very well done video illustrating some of the pitches creatives get from clients. A “friendlier” variation of the Harlan Ellison video. No Tags

Explorations in HDR-1

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PDNOnline: Censorship and Copyright Infringment in the same article?

I like PDN, but the mag has been getting some bad raps lately for being somewhat hypocritical in it’s reporting practices. On one hand reporting misuse and abuse in the photo industry and on the other hand participating in misuse and abuse. I also have some issues with their sometimes sloppy editing/proofreading, but that’s a read more..

Email Newsletters

Almost 2 years ago I started sending out a monthly newsletter. It was designed to send out in Outlook via my email list of former students and other interested individuals. Then, along came Outlook 2007 and it all came crashing down. My old HTML mail format didn’t work and I didn’t want to spend the read more..

Copyright video primer for clients and photographers

Photographers starting out, photographers who don’t understand or make use of copyright, and potential clients who aren’t sure how copyright works will benefit from viewing this video presentation by PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) counsel Nancy Wolff. The video is a bit over an hour long, but it needs to be to cover the read more..