Being a photographer is about much more than picking up a camera and pressing the shutter. This category is concerned with the essential stuff that goes on around a photography practice. Social media, Websites, YouTube etc
So at the beginning of October Affinity startled the world of photography by withdrawing all products, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher from sale via their website and promising to make an announcement on October 30th that would change the way we did creativity forever. Naturally this announcement spawned feverish speculation, it was the…
I’ve read a ton of “How to Make Money with Photography” articles over the years and none of them match my own experience of making money with photography, in fact, some of them are just misleading. Making money with Photography in the UK is not easy. However, photography has been good to me, I’ve made…
I was going to write an article this week extending the recent thread on colour grading into the realm of video. As some of you might have guessed based on the sudden interest in microphones and colour grading, I’m officially launching my YouTube Channel in August. I thought maybe some context might be useful! Chris…
How good are MPB? One constant for all photographers is the upcycling of gear. The problem with buying new is that the value plummets in the first year. Used equipment is much more stable, and if you are careful, you can get some good prices by shopping around the second-hand market. However, sites like E-Bay…
What do I mean by the business of photography? If the act of picking up a camera and pressing the shutter makes a person a photographer then I’m broadly ok with that, At least they are taking photographs. But what defines a photographer these days? A practising photographer, sustaining a living out of photography must…
What is the best alternative to Twitter for photographers? I’ve been looking for an alternative for some time as the prospect of the platform falling into the hands of the world’s richest man fills me for some reason with dread. In this article I’m looking closely at three candidate replacements, Mastodon, Vero and Tribel. I…
