Click here for a whole new [F] Network! 

To start out, why not give you the coveted and $2,599 valued Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection!

To simplify the contest process, sign up here!

We’ve used the Facebook App to help simplify the entries. We need your email only to notify the winner.

Once you click “enter” below you will be able to “share”  this contest on your Facebook wall.  You don’t have to share it, it would then just give you extra entries to win!  Each one of your friends that signs up through your link (posted to your facebook wall) will give you another entry in the contest, raising your chances of winning. On May 8th we will pick one winner randomly.

Remember, enter every day for more chances to win!  Good luck!

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Don’t forget to head to www.framednetwork.com May 8, 2012 for the launch of [F] Network!

Powered by Bay Photo Lab, we are so excited to have [FRAMED] Season 3 a part of [F] Network!  We can’t wait to introduce you to some of our featured [FRAMED] artists.  From Belgium to Los Angeles, to Las Vegas, to Texas, to Detroit, to Nashville, to New York….we did not hold back this season.  Prepare to be inspired only this May 2012 www.framednetwork.com.

If you haven’t been introduced to Joel Grimes‘ work, you’re in for a treat.  Joel is internationally known for his impeccable lighting and compositing techniques and now, he’s giving you his secrets for free on the [F] Network.  Powered by Westcott, we present to you “Lit Up” only on www.framednetwork.com premiering May 2012!

Finally! A show all about “Film”!  Ryan Muirhead, Tanja Lippert and Tia Reagan will teach us what they know about film, but they will also be bringing us amazing talent from all over the world to take us on an incredibly entertaining journey of film photography.  No matter what camera or median you use, this show is guaranteed to teach where this amazing world of photography all began.  Powered by our dear friends at Richard Photo Lab and Fuji Film, we present to you “Film” premiering on www.framednetwork.com this May!

And last but most definitely not least, it wouldn’t be complete without the one and only Kevin Kubota.  Last season he gave you Post Pro, a show all about Post Processing.  This season?  It’s more.  Post Processing, marketing, business, design, branding, and more.  We give you “Photo Pro” with Kevin Kubota.  You can count on learning a ton, with oodles of entertainment.  Don’t miss “Photo Pro” on www.framednetwork.com this May!

SEE YOU THIS MAY ON THE [F] NETWORK!

Where: Las Vegas, NV

Who: Models Needed, Makeup and Hair Stylists Needed

When: Tuesday morning Feb. 21, 2012 or Wednesday afternoon Feb. 22, 2012

Collaboration with Internationally known photographers in exchange for great exposure on [FRAMED] Season 3 and photos for your portfolio.

Email us your portfolio to info@framedshow.com.  Please put “Las Vegas Casting Call” in the subject line.  Please be sure to include photos of your recent work.  

CNN reports:

Amateur photographer Lee Jeffries was in London four years ago to run the annual marathon. While walking around Leicester Square the day before the race, he snapped a photo of a homeless girl across the street.

She noticed him taking her picture and yelled at him for being intrusive.

“I could have just left and walked away, but I actually went and talked to her and heard her story,” Jeffries says. She was an 18-year-old drug addict and both of her parents had died. “That changed my focus on photography, and that’s where it all started.”

Since then, he has captured intimate portraits of dozens of homeless people around Europe and the United States. What started as a hobby for the Manchester-based accountant has turned into a “personal crusade.”

“Obviously I don’t photograph every homeless person I see,” Jeffries says. “I have to recognize something in the subject. I can’t explain it. It’s something I feel – an emotion they’re giving me.”

He tries to emphasize that feeling in the post-processing, using light and shadow to create what he calls a “religious” mood. He says at times he has been moved to tears while editing the images, thinking back on the people he will likely never see again.

Jeffries typically spends about an hour with each person but once spent three days with a homeless man on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He says he watched helplessly as the man injected himself with heroin after taking a hit of crack.

“The most difficult thing is hearing the stories about these people,” Jeffries says. “I may have brightened their life for an hour or two, but it’s knowing that I can’t go back and change their lives that’s hard to take.”

Jeffries was recently named Digital Camera Photographer of the Year, and a book of his work will be published in the coming months byYellowKorner, a Paris-based art gallery.

Following the 2008 encounter in London, he almost always approaches his subjects and talks with them before shooting any pictures. Afterward, he offers to buy them a meal or gives them a little cash.

“You’d be amazed by what you get back from a person if you just stop and say hello,” he says.

– Brett Roegiers, CNN

Click here to see more of Jeffries’ photos.

If you have a photograph or personal story that shaped your career, we’d love to hear it.

Special thanks to Yotel New York for the excellent and fun accommodations.

The argument never stops.

To provide insight into this, we thought we’d get the most appropriate inspiration from a recent book we picked up from a friend called  The War of Art.  Steven Pressfield helps artists “break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles” through his most forthright language and inspiration.

If you are struggling by fear or what Pressfield calls “resistance”, this book might be for you.  Check out this chapter:

Professionals and Amateurs

“Aspiring artists defeated by Resistance share one trait.  They all think like amateurs.  They have not yet turned pro.

The moment an artist turns pro is as epochal as the birth of his first child.  With one stroke, everything changes.  I can state absolutely that the term of my life can be divided into two parts: before turning pro, and after.  

To be clear:  When I say professional, I don’t mean doctors and lawyers, those of “the professions.” I mean the Professional as an ideal.  The professional in contrast to the amateur.  Consider the differences.  

The amateur plays for fun.  The professional plays for keeps.  To the amateur, the game is his avocation.  To the pro, it’s his vocation.  The amateur plays part-time, the professional full-time.  The amateur is a weekend warrior.  The professional is there seven days a week.

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning “to love”.  The conventional interpretation is that the amateur pursues his calling out of love, while the pro does it for money.  Not the way I see it.  In my view, the amateur does not love the game enough.  If he did, he would not pursue it as a sideline, distinct from his “real” vocation.  

The professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it.  He commits full-time.

That’s what I mean when I say turning pro.

Resistance hates it when we turn pro.”

So the question is…are you a Pro or an Amateur?  Quite frankly, that’s up to you to decide.

Saturday, January 14th

9:00am

Location:  Greater Los Angeles area

(Exact location will be given to chosen participants.)

Send an email to info@framedshow.com and link us to your portfolio. 

Email submission deadline will be no later than end of day, Tuesday Jan. 10th.  The three participants chosen will then be contacted.

Now that the New Year is upon us, we have completely focused our efforts into making Season 3 the absolute best yet.  More shows, more talent, more exciting features that will rock your socks.  The first five months of this new year will be non-stop.  And when we say non-stop…we mean it.  Designers, coders, photographers, videographers, hosts, editors, and producers are working ridiculous hours to bring you something special for the new Season.

The new [FRAMED] Season will launch in May…will you be there?

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