tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86613 2013-05-09T22:03:35-07:00 Photography, video, life. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef01901c0384c4970b 2013-05-09T22:03:35-07:00 2013-05-10T06:22:38-07:00

I'm spending two days this week at the Content Marketing Retreat on Whidbey Island, put on by the Langley Center for New Media. This event has industry leaders talking to a small group of professionals, split roughly evenly between marketing...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/05/report-from-the-content-marketing-retreat.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017eeac780ca970d 2013-05-02T20:35:38-07:00 2013-05-02T20:35:38-07:00

“You're absolutely right,” said Kristi, the one Photo Review buddy I made here. “I've never been to a conference where it's so hard to make friends.” It was nice to know it's not me. Something about the tone of this...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/05/palm-springs-photo-festival-the-outcome.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef01901bc1c440970b 2013-05-01T21:39:01-07:00 2013-05-01T21:39:01-07:00

On top of recent debacles, a review with an art rep that I had on my calendar for this morning was, in fact, really supposed to be yesterday morning. I was a no show. A PSPF volunteer, Megan Miller, miraculously...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/05/back-on-track.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef01901bb7e0e9970b 2013-04-30T11:39:16-07:00 2013-04-30T11:39:49-07:00

Then there are the days when all the reviews are bad. But bad in different ways. The photo editor, younger than my children, had I had any, who said, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can tell you, and no one...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/04/but-on-the-other-hand.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef019101a93130970c 2013-04-29T21:04:08-07:00 2013-04-29T21:12:22-07:00

There was a group of women in the lobby of the Hyatt in matching yellow t-shirts that said on the back, “If Lost, Return To Bachelorette Party.” “So, what are the circumstances that would lead to having to implement this...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/04/the-reviews-are-in.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef01901baf82e1970b 2013-04-29T09:16:17-07:00 2013-04-29T09:16:17-07:00

I'm at my first photo review event since my last whack at one 6 years ago. Photo reviews are speed dating events for your career, with way higher stakes. You get 20 mintes with an influencial "mover and shaker" in...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/04/palm-springs-photo-reviews.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017eea034d61970d 2013-04-05T13:32:41-07:00 2013-04-05T13:32:41-07:00

I've been suspicious about my new camera and whether the autofocus was accurate in critical situations. Before I head out for a 3 day assignment next week, I wanted to run some tests. I use a specialized lens alignment rig...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/04/are-you-in-focus.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017ee9699a1e970d 2013-03-16T15:21:33-07:00 2013-03-16T15:22:03-07:00

Today's "Today I Saw" photo is not as simple as it appears. Sometimes I like to geek out in my image making. I try not to let it show, though, and I want to have the image make the point,...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/03/geeking-the-flower.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017c374d4509970b 2013-03-04T14:38:02-08:00 2013-03-04T14:38:02-08:00

This winter the Vera Project approached me about producing the video to be shown at their big fundraising gala and auction. They loved the piece I did for the Northwest Stories series on the All Ages music scene, and wanted...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/03/the-vera-project-video.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017d3fafdb58970c 2013-01-09T10:03:06-08:00 2013-01-09T10:03:06-08:00

I'm just finishing up the accounting on my 2013 Contradance Calendar. For many years my contra dance photography has been my photographic passion project. For the last two years its most visible expression has been a product, the Contradance Calendar....

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2013/01/the-contradance-calendar-verdict.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017d3e4ce76f970c 2012-11-29T21:13:58-08:00 2012-11-29T21:13:58-08:00

I'm on the plane to go to my father's funeral. I'm listening to Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, and the Fugue in C#, begins. It has one of the most beautiful, melancholy, descending musical passages I've ever heard, and...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/11/about-grief.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017ee3d21a18970d 2012-09-27T14:12:04-07:00 2012-09-27T14:12:43-07:00

I often have a circular conversation with clients when we get around to discussing the deliverables. Much of the confusion derives from our different professional backgrounds and language about how we talk about image size. It often goes like this....

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/09/tall-grande-or-venti.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef017d3be01e84970c 2012-09-06T16:47:06-07:00 2012-09-06T16:47:06-07:00

This is what I've been doing this summer. I'm still uncovering my office from the disruption.

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/09/the-remodel-a-time-lapse-project.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef01676869f6f4970b 2012-07-11T18:17:29-07:00 2012-07-11T18:17:29-07:00

One reason the contradance calendar looks so good is that I have a great team. The designer, Joanne Kelly-Lauterjung, is a dancer and understands the community. She is living in Myanmar these days, and we worked on the calendar via...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/07/my-secret-weapon.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef0176163534df970c 2012-07-06T21:58:28-07:00 2012-07-10T07:55:22-07:00

Workshops are a crucial ingredient for a photographer. They formed my sensibility as as photographer early on, when I was a student at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho in the late 70's. I still draw upon...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/07/the-workshop-report.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef016306a9292e970d 2012-06-16T22:18:09-07:00 2012-06-16T22:36:31-07:00

One of the hardest environments to make good photos is in exotic, sensational situations. This may not be evident on the surface; after all, what better place could there be to get a great photo than someplace where strange and...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/06/sense-and-sensibility.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef0168eba5d495970c 2012-05-20T23:14:57-07:00 2012-05-20T23:14:57-07:00

What was most notable were the birds. As the peak of the eclipse came to an end and the sky began to brighten, the birds started to sing. As though it were morning. An eclipse is the world as we...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/05/the-annular-eclipse.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef0168ead12b0f970c 2012-04-27T13:48:19-07:00 2012-04-27T13:49:33-07:00

In preparation for the workshop I'm presenting this summer, "How to Take Dance Photos that Don't Suck," I've begun practicing with lo-fi camera capture. Most people don't have pro cameras and fast lenses. I want to do a workshop for...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/04/dance-photos-that-dont-suck-a-work-in-progress.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef0168ea30dc55970c 2012-04-15T22:22:53-07:00 2012-04-15T22:22:53-07:00

This came from these using this I have a long history of panoramic images as my go-to format for my personal work. I composed an entire book once, on my travels through Ireland, with largely black and white panoramics shot...

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/04/stitched-panoramics.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c9b4653ef016303640dc0970d 2012-03-28T11:55:56-07:00 2012-03-28T11:55:56-07:00

They say they've been dancing in Nelson for 200 years. It feels completely true, regardless of the actual historical facts of the matter. If the heart and soul of traditional contra dance lives anywhere, it is in Nelson, New Hampshire....

Doug Plummer http://dougplummer.blogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/the-contradance-calendar-march-page.html