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Short Guide For Photographers | Start Right Or Start Over

This guest post is by Livingston, New Jersey photographer Chelo Keys. If you’re a part-timer working hard to be taken seriously, save yourself from some of the mistakes I’ve made. It’s no secret that part-time and emerging photographers have to work hard to shake off the “weekend warrior” label. First, it’s hard to be taken [...]

Escaping Cliches In Photography

This is a guest post by Divya Manian, a standards-based web designer who now lives in Seattle. She publishes her own blog, Nimbupani. What pictures come to mind when you think of India? Wait, I do not need to ask you, all I need to do is to look at Flickr search results and it [...]

How Can Photographers Become Go-Givers?

This is a guest post by Alicia Candelora, a wedding photographer based in Connecticut. I was raised in a family where we were taught from a young age that you should give and share with others as much as humanly possible. As the eldest of three, that principle is not always something I liked following. [...]

The Wedding Photography Industry: A Rebuttal

This is a guest post by Don Giannatti, a photographer and teacher based in Phoenix, Arizona. The opinions expressed in this post are his alone and I am only providing him this space to hear his perspective on a rather tempestuous blog post by Gary Fong, also a photographer and now entrepreneur. I am not [...]

Confessions Of An Emerging Professional Photographer

This is a guest post by Hemant Naidu, an emerging photographer based in Saskatoon, Canada. About six months ago I had a thought of entering the professional photography scene. Call me stupid, but that idea started to blossom into something more than just something in my head. The thought of shooting professionally has been a [...]

When Did Teaching & Learning Photography Become Such A Controversy?

This is a guest post by Bay Area-based wedding & portrait photographer, Jigar Champaneria. Those of us in the world of wedding photography have been following a growing controversy about the variety of workshops offered to help photographers with everything. Whether it’s marketing materials, technical proficiency, or general “awesome-ness,” there seems to be a workshop [...]

Ethics & Etiquette For A Second Photographer

Doug Levy is a Sharon, Massachusetts photographer and former professional baseball umpire. You can see his wedding photography at douglaslevyphotography.com, and his portraits at douglaslevy.com. He also blogs at dougblogs.com and spends way too much time with his Blackberry updating those sites. With the wedding season quickly approaching, Seshu and I thought it might be [...]