Photography Update Blog

Five Favourite Fine Art Photographers

2010-03-13T23:35:00+00:00

There are so many talented photographers out there, and today I want to introduce you to just five of my favourite fine art photographers.

I want to spotlight other brilliant photographers in future posts, so if you would like to be featured in a future post please contact me with a link to your web site or blog so I can view your work. I’m looking for photographers across all disciplines.

Also if you have a favourite photographer and think they should be showcased please contact me with details. I would love to see their work!

Today’s 5 wonderful photographers (in no particular order) are:

Kamil Vojnar
After years of making images for book and CD covers in New York City, Kamil found refuge in St. Remy de Provence, France, where he is now fully concentrating on creating his own personal world of images...
Website: www.flyingblindpictures.com

Jen Kiaba
Jen’s fine art photographs aim to explore the realms of the unconscious. The worlds of reality and fantasy collide and blend in her work. Each image tells a story and her work has a vintage romantic feel to them...
Blog: www.jenkiaba.com                Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/jenkiabaphotography

Ashley Lebedev
Ashley, of Bottle Bell Photography, is a 26-year-old artist & fine art photographer, specializing in conceptual portraiture, abandoned buildings, and moodscapes. Her images are emotional, atmospheric, and nostalgic. She stopped shooting commercial photography a couple of years ago to focus on her passion of being an artist, relaying her personal vision through photos...
Website: www.bottlebellphotography.com
Blog: http://bottlebellphotography.blogspot.com

Tom Chambers
Tom creates photomontage images that reveal a personal vision about the nature of children, animals, and their interactions. The images he creates illustrate fleeting moods in the form of improbable, yet possible, views of the world characterized by an aura of mystery and spiritual narrative...
Website: www.tomchambersphoto.com

Alison Overton
Alison captures pictures that have an ethereal and timeless quality. She strives to explore and expand her definition of the unique and the mysterious in life and nature. You enter into a dreamy world and on to another plane of existence...
Website: www.alisonoverton.com

7 Ways to Make Money With Your Camera

2010-03-11T15:14:09+00:00

You love to take pictures, and the good news is you can make money doing what you love. After all, you see pictures everywhere, right? You see them in magazines, on posters, on product packages and lots of other places. So you can make money with your camera, and there are many ways to do so. Here is an overview of a few of them:

1. Portrait Photography - The most common way of making money by taking pictures is to set up your own portrait studio. Individual people, families, friends, and even pets come into your studio either by appointment or as a drop in, and you take pictures of them. This can be an extremely lucrative way to make money with photography, but it does take time and effort to become established. It also takes money. If you want to set up a studio, you'll need to pay for the space, utilities for that space, and lots of studio extras such as photo backdrops, props, and speciality lighting. There is also the profitable field of wedding photography.

2. Stock Photography - Another great way to earn money with your camera is to take stock photos. Stock pictures you have taken can be marketed for you by professional stock photo agencies to a range of clients worldwide, or you can handle the entire marketing of stock images yourself through your own photo library business.

3. Magazine Photography - This is another commonly seen type of photography. Magazines need photographers and great pictures just as they need writers and great articles... and they're willing to pay for them. Some magazines pay small amounts for pictures while others pay £100 or more each.

4. News Photography - This one is a great option for someone who lives in a busy urban area, particularly if you love getting out and seeing what's going on. With this type of photography, you sell your pictures to newspapers, so the photos must be newsworthy in some way. You can take pictures of a fire for instance or other emergency situation, or of public officials and famous people.

5. Product Photography - This is also referred to as catalogue photography, because you're usually taking pictures of products and those are most often used for sales catalogues. Sometimes businesses will hire photographers to take product photos for packaging or other advertising too, such as the company brochure.

6. Fine Art Photography - If your work is more arty, sell your work in galleries and enter work into exhibitions. Set up your own website or sign up to one of the many online venues where you can sell your work as fine art prints.

7. Enter photography competitions and win prizes. It is also a great way to get your name out there, many professional photographers have competitions to thank for getting them started on the road to a successful career.

As you can see, there are a variety of ways to make money with your camera, but they're not usually as quick, simple or easy as they might first sound. In most cases you need to have talent and skills first, then you need to build up a reputation and or a photography portfolio.

Once you have these basic things, you'll also have a good idea of what types of photography you like best, and this will help you determine the best way for you to start earning income from your photos. To your success!

Landscape Photography Tutorial

2010-03-09T00:12:24+00:00

Professional photographer Nasim Mansurov has an excellent tutorial on his blog about how to post-process a landscape image in Lightroom.

In this tutorial, Nasim shows you how to transform boring landscape pictures to vibrant and beautiful images in Lightroom in quick and easy steps. He shows you the real benefits of using the RAW image format and some of the possibilities it gives you to non-destructively enhance your photographs without ever leaving Lightroom.

He personally uses this technique for post-processing his landscape photography all the time, to check out the tutorial visit: http://mansurovs.com/landscape-photography-post-processing-tutorial-in-lightroom

Free Stock Photography E-Book!

2010-03-07T04:49:00+00:00

March 7th to 13th is official Read an E-Book Week so we are running a special offer. If you are new to Photography Jobs Update and sign up during this week, you will receive a free copy of: How to Make Money With Stock Photography.

All you have to do is send us an email when you subscribe to the website. Include `Free Stock Photography E-Book' in the subject line and we'll email a copy to you.

Don't forget to spread the news to your photography friends and associates!

Enter "Images of People" Exhibition

2010-03-04T19:36:09+00:00

The exhibition has been set up to raise awareness for Sightsavers International and to charities providing photographic education to children with learning difficulties and social problems.

The exhibition will showcase images that depict peoples lives reflecting ENERGY, EMOTION and FEELINGS. They are looking for 100 final images for the exhibition. These images will be digitally printed on archival quality paper, mounted and framed ready for the exhibition.

There will be a public auction to sell the prints to the highest bidder, all funds raised from this auction will be split between the charities mentioned earlier.

For more details visit Bruce Smith's Pro Digital Fashion Photography blog.

Irving Penn Exhibition + Competition

2010-03-03T23:04:05+00:00

Irving Penn (1917–2009) was one of the great photographers of our time. Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits is a glorious celebration of his work in this genre. The exhibition is brought together from major international collections and includes over 120 silver and platinum prints, many vintage, ranging from his portraits for Vogue magazine in the 1940s to some of his last work.

The exhibition runs from 18 February to 6 June 2010 at the National Portrait Gallery.

Competition: Enter their prize draw for a chance to win a copy of the Irving Penn Portraits catalogue and a meal for two in the Gallery's rooftop Portrait Restaurant with its spectacular views of the London skyline. Five runners-up will receive a copy of the book.

Closing date 6 June 2010...www.npg.org.uk:8080/irvingpenn/comp.php

Scotland ~ Landscape Photography of Bruce Percy

2010-03-03T20:26:16+00:00

Scottish landscape photographer Bruce Percy is attracted to the wilderness and believes photography is a great way of getting closer to the land. He runs photographic workshops in Scotland, and in this video you hear him describe some of his work and why he shot it the way he did...

Website: www.brucepercy.co.uk

The 7 Truths About Successful Wedding Photography

2010-03-02T23:20:00+00:00

Missy McLamb remembers when wedding photographers were considered outcasts by editorial, fashion and commercial photographers. In the early 90s the photography industry hardly lauded wedding photographers for their artistic talents and relegated them to the bottom of the photography food chain.

In the last decade however, irony has yielded to deference, as weddings are now one of the most profitable and successful fields in photography...

Click here to read the article.