“I strongly believe that people should assist and pay their dues, learning from the best,” was another thing commercial photographer Andrew Matusik said to me during a recent interview.
Matusik says there’s no doubt that assisting played a strong role in his rapid road to success. He started assisting the well-know fashion photographer Neil Kirk in 2000, and by 2005 he was ready to head off to New York on his own—where Matusik is doing very well.
The idea of beginning a career in commercial photography by assisting is as old as commercial photography itself, and the value of it is generally accepted. However, the digital era has Continue reading “Reconsidering Assisting in the Digital Era”
Tags: Andrew Matusik, Assisting, Chase Jarvis, Commercial Photography, Fashion Photography, Joey L, Neil Kirk
For a pro’s non-nonsense insights on the new Nikon D90, check out Chase Jarvis RAW: Advance Testing the Nikon D90. A commercial photographer, Chase Jarvis put the D90 through the paces and has dished up the results in a music video and down-to-earth review on his blog.
Jarvis, who is dedicated to using bodies from Nikon’s D3 series, says he is totally impressed with the D90. He believes that this new body will serve the needs of many pros. Reading about Jarvis’s experience with the D90 certainly seems to make this clear.
For more in-depth, technical information on the Nikon D90, find a detailed tech review at Digital Photography Review.
Tags: Camera Reviews, Chase Jarvis, Chase Jarvis RAW, Chase Jarvis RAW: Advance Testing the Nikon D90, Nikon D3, Nikon D90, Photography Blogs
Martin Santander hardly ever carries a camera. Chase Jarvis almost always does. Both are professional photographers and both feel strongly that their camera-carrying habits positively benefit their image making—and their lives.
How often we carry our cameras and how the action affects our work and lives is a critical, if often oversimplified issue to consider. Unfortunately, the “To carry or not to carry” discussion seems mostly limited to a few well known photographers insisting that other photographer should always carry their cameras. (I’ve noticed that these photographers often don’t have their own cameras with them when giving this advice!).
The always-carry advice seems like a no-brainer, with the advantages pretty obvious. But what about the disadvantages? In her pivotal, thought provoking book On Photography, Susan Sontag seems to suggest Continue reading “Always Carry Your Camera! – or Not?”
Tags: Camera, Chase Jarvis, Chris Salvo, Martin Santander, On Photography, Photography, Susan Sontag, “5 Reasons It’s Good To Always Carry A Camera"
How’s your blogging going these days? Are you having fun? Are you finding new ways to express your photographic creativity? And most important from a business standpoint, are you impressing potential clients and landing more jobs? If not, read on for a little help with Power Blogging 101.
“I blog, therefore I am,” Suzanne Salvo told me when I interviewed her for “Enter the Blogoshere,” an AfterCapture article that highlighted the blog-o-thinking of three photographers who jumped on the blog bandwagon with particularly adept insight into the marketing potential of blogs.
Continue reading “Power Blogging: A Professional Photographers Best Friend”
Tags: Blogging, Blogging Strategies, Chase Jarvis, Chris Salvo, Joseph Pobereskin, Self Promotion, Suzanne Salvo, Wayne Wallace, “Enter the Blogoshere”
