Who you decide to spend most of your days with will have one of the most profound impacts on who you become.
The Divisiveness of Mobile #de_Vices
Zack Arias’ personal project #de_VICE is a great way to end this week’s theme. A simple project with a poignant message that eventually got picked up by CNN. Amazing!
Advice for Old Timers vs. Young Whipper Snappers
My advice to seasoned professionals to create a 10-step system to counter The Photo System. In short: go to the mattresses.
The Top 11 Feather-Ruffling Posts of 2011
The top 11 posts of this past year that got people talking, yelling or asking the question “Ron, are you high!?”
The Flip Video That Launched a Giant
With all the talk of expensive cameras, I’m reminded that the career of renown commercial/music photog Zack Arias was significantly boosted based on a Flip video he shot.
Being Viewed as a Commodity Will Affect What You Can Charge
As a follow up to yesterday’s provocative post about whether to put pricing on your website, today I explore what it means if your business is viewed as a commodity.
How Often Should You Raise Your Rates?
Today I continue the series I started yesterday, “The Price is Right.” There’s been a lot of chatter lately in my circles around this topic of pricing, so I wanted to address it. Yesterday it was about strategies for setting your rates. Today let’s look at some ways for raising your rates. ‘Cuz you know […]
In Pursuit of the Truth
The firestorm of comments on my “haters gonna hate” post raised an issue that I think is prevalent in the industry: attacking one’s character or making an insinuation about one’s ethic without really knowing the person or their background. I’ve seen it done to others where I knew the background of the person attacked, and […]
Jesh de Rox’s “Beloved” Webinar Ignites a Twitter Tempest
Update: After you have fun reading this, read the follow up commentary.*** Last night multi-award-winning Canadian wedding photographer and speaker Jesh de Rox unintentionally ignited quite a fire storm in the Twitterverse. Jesh gave a free webinar about his upcoming Beloved Collective: an educational forum to learn about his “experiential technique” to photography. At the […]
Personal and Pro Bono Projects Can Prove Profitable
Can you say that title ten times fast?! When you earn a living as a photographer or filmmaker, it’s easy to get into the trap of feeling like unless you’re getting paid for a gig, you won’t do a gig. I speak from experience because I know at times that’s how I feel. But the […]