05 Nov FInding The Light Switch
When you enter a dark room in your own house most of you reach for the light switch...
November 2018
02 Nov For Whom Do You Work – Part Three – Building Lines
I've met photographers who have changed their entire systems when a competitor came out with a camera that had a higher shutter speed. However this was achieved - mechanically or electronically - it was the primary factor in their photography. For some, it was because the subjects they photographed were in constant rapid motion with peaks of an even more frantic pace. None of these shooters was shooting architecture or real estate. Buildings don't move. Jolly well everything else does, however, from the traffic to the clouds to the sun to the wind - and not to mention the people who inhabit the buildings. And the building photographer - inside or outside - has to take this into account. a. The professional architectural photographer. They are paid by the builders, architects, owners, and tenants to record what a building looks like as it is being constructed, finished, occupied, and changed. They have a strong streak of landscape shooter in them as their subjects are large and occupy large spaces. Their equipment can be expensive and the way they are required to employ it can...
01 Nov The Budget
Do you have a photography budget? Is it an annual one? Do you have to present it to The House on a special night in the year, and then justify it to the Leader of the Opposition? And are you hounded for weeks afterwards? This may sound funny, but consider your photographic spending in the light of politics. It might help you to govern yourself better. At least it will make Question Time in The House easier to bear. Every year you have a certain amount of discretionary money to spend. If you are in straitened circumstances it may not be very much - if you’re luckier, you have more. But for nearly everyone, however much you have, it is less than the makers of new photo equipment would have you spend. Thus you must budget for your year. The temptation not to do so is strong - I would charge like the Seventh Cavalry if I had unlimited credit. I don’t, so I don’t, and am happier for it. But I still whistle “ Garryowen “ while looking at the new lens cabinet. In all budgeting,...