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Comment on 2009 – My photo year in review plus a new contest by januari warner

januari warner — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:52:42 +0000

hi paul,
What a great read. you have alot of information on here i am hoping to get to a few different photo opps. with you up at triple d. love all the photos the one i like the most is the baby lynx in the tree stub. see you soon and have a great year.
januari
las vegas

Comment on Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. by Reader Recap for February 15, 2010 | the low five

Reader Recap for February 15, 2010 | the low five — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:40 +0000

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Comment on Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. by 10 Easy Steps to Failing at Photography

10 Easy Steps to Failing at Photography — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000

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Comment on BWG-Pro Gimbal Head Video Review by Paul Burwell

Paul Burwell — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:14:40 +0000

Rickie,

Thanks for the compliment.

The Wimberley head works exactly the same way as the Jobu. You need to tighten it down to prevent the lens/camera from returning to center.

Comment on BWG-Pro Gimbal Head Video Review by Rickie

Rickie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:14:00 +0000

Hi Paul,

Enjoy you video. Thanks for showing that. I have recently acquired a copy of 500mm and a “JOBU BWG HD2″ Gimbal head and I love it. My question will be is the Jobu design work exactly like Winberly? I have never use a Wimberly before.
Someone told me if you leave the camera and lens on a tilt position it will not move but stay on that position on a Wimberly. I can only do that with tightening the tilting knob on the Jobu to the extend that the gimbal will give me the movement and still maintain the stiffness and maintain the lens position when my hands are off the camera totally. Does it work the same way on Wimberly and had to tighten tilting knob a bit?

Comment on Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. by Carolyn Potts

Carolyn Potts — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:44:52 +0000

Having been in the business of getting assignments for photographers my entire career, I’d distill it down to just three:
1. Dismiss the critical importance of learning how to market your work,
2. go by what your friends or family tell you as to what images should be on your site or in your portfolio.
3. don’t learn professional business practices/pricing & licensing guidelines from industry professionals.

Bottom Line: It is not your talent as an image maker that makes you a pro photographer (and one that can make a living from your skills); it’s your business smarts that you have (or are willing to learn) about running a small business in a highly-competitive market.
In the past 30 years in the business, I’ve watched some super creative image makers sabotage their own potential success from ignorance in these areas. I’ve also seen many cases of mediocre photographers, but savvy business people, survive for decades.

Comment on Secrets of the photo workshop business by Eric

Eric — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:22:03 +0000

How about the ones relying on deposits to pad the bottom line? One internet photographer that often runs sold out A******** tours seems to profit greatly by the inevitable cancellations. One cancellation was announced and resold before noon. That’s sure some quick and easy way to make a thousand bucks there. Beats selling microstock.

Things like that lead to the involvement of the BBB and provincial consumer agencies. Right now it seems the internet is sorting things out. Good article Paul.

Comment on Photoshop Tutorial-Silver Efex Pro by Nik Software by psychprof

psychprof — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:47:04 +0000

Paul:
I jhave downloaded the trial version of Silver Efex Pro and just purchased the Complete Nik package. Your tutorials will make all the difference in boosting the quality of my output I am sure! Thanks so much.
Mark

Comment on Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. by uberVU - social comments

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Comment on Top 10 ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro. by Phill Price

Phill Price — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:46:22 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with this post. I’m starting to think you’ve bugged my brain.

Flash needs to die. It has no benefit other than the misguided hope that people won’t press print screen to copy images. The modern web has far surpassed the usability of flash and flash is a memory killer for modern browsers.

If I go to a site and it’s flash – I’m not coming back.