I gave a talk on Abode Lightroom at the SparkArts: Digital Arts Festival. Here is the talk online… be sure to click the link at the bottom to watch all seven parts:

View the full talk at YouTube

Local photography interest groups can be huge assets to beginning photographers. There’s a common stereotype that photographers are mostly solitary and don’t like to share their secrets. Average photographers are afraid that if they share their secrets, they’ll lose business to competition. Great photographers are secure enough to share what they know. [...]

I got an email yesterday that reminded me a lot of my confusion when I first started out. Before you’ve established a name for yourself, gaining access to events can be difficult. Organizers know that access is valuable to new photographers, and they will do everything in their power to exploit that. [...]

This is one of the most important lessons I’ve learned since I dropped everything and started shooting full time about a year ago:
Learning who you are as a photographer, what you like to shoot, and how you like to shoot it, is the first and most important step you can take into the world of [...]

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to take professional looking photographs. While I’m always happy to answer individual questions, this particular question comes up every day, and the subject is fairly complex, so it’s easier to answer here on my blog. Here is an email I got yesterday:
Hopeful Amateur: [...]

So you’re interested in portrait photography, and you want to know what separates snapshots from art? Here are the things I consider vitally important:
Light

Light is the single most important aspect of photography!
STOP right now, and read that back again and again until it sinks in. After all, the essence of the photographic art [...]