[photopress:whiteglove.jpg,full,centered] But don’t think of it like a four letter word. It’s a good thing. A real good thing. When I was a young man, my agents sent me to a prestigious gallery for a possible showing. They told me that the series they were interested in had a great visual style but was a […]

Shooting a series on one subject always feels like a great exercise to me. Not that it just builds a visual muscle, but it can become a very natural part of your day and help you continually look at a subject many different ways. And discover something new along the road. Now you don’t think […]

Just Stumbling around: Click on this shot-[photopress:pana.jpg,full,centered] Trippy.

[photopress:aperturemagx.jpg,full,centered] For our last Weekly Giveaway of of 2007 we have 2 folks who will be enjoying a subscription to Aperture Magazine this year. And even if you didn’t win, it’s a mag you should be getting. Fine print quality, excellent choices of photographers, and overall, a top magazine that has been around for many […]

[photopress:palmtreexmas.jpg,full,centered] (Some of you were hitting the “Refresh” button on the photoinduced.com HOME page and nothing changed. For like, 10 days. Read on for an explanation.) Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas…whatever. How about we call it the year end celebration? And perhaps throw in an assessment? And to be TOTALLY PC , we can say it’s about […]

He wants to stay in town, you reap the benefits. [photopress:versace1.jpg,full,centered] After years on the road shooting, lecturing, spokeperson-ing, and generally living out of a suitcase, Vincent Versace has started a new company gathering some of the best talents in photography to bring you an upscale set of learning materials. And maybe he’ll get to […]

It may be really cold where you are, or a chilly 55 degrees at night as it is in LA, but nothing beats putting your feet up and watching a cool DVD. We hope we have something for everyone here this week: Movies/docs with photographers as the main protagonist /subject. [photopress:Pepper_1930_large.jpg,full,alignright] With Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. […]

Not this green: [photopress:300px_Kermit2005.jpg,full,centered] Or this green: [photopress:images.jpeg,full,centered] But this green: [photopress:24trut.2.600.jpg,full,centered] Think about it: the media cards we use recycle the images, computers don’t add fluorocarbons, the batteries for the digital cameras are rechargeable.Most consumers use the internet to share images instead of printing, saving paper, inks and chemistry Everything seems to be “green”. […]

I’m sure by now you have discovered StumbleUpon , a very cool web service which helps you discover the sites you may miss out there. This site from haha.nu :Creative photos by Chema Madoz [photopress:311294194_441a3e3ae3_o.jpg,full,centered] [photopress:311294343_a16fb1186f_o.jpg,full,centered] Click on the site to take a look at a whole series of these visual mixtos. And if you […]

Congrats to Theodore T. of Northfield, Ohio for winning the signed Alison Jackson book ” Confidential” . Wow. lots of great response for this one. And now for todays On-Site only giveaway. [photopress:44_product_image_20310881_1.jpg,full,centered] [photopress:76_product_image_1586108196_1.jpg,full,centered] Software-Cinema makes some of the best educational DVD’s. And we’d like to share. Soooooo……. Send us an email @ [email protected], put […]

OK, get home last night, drop the mail on the table and settle in for a little dinner. Start flipping through the mail and catalog, catalog, catalog, donation request, bill, bill, Advertising Age, and Newsweek. Start flipping form the back of the mag (old habit) and hey…there’s a Cindy Sherman photograph. [photopress:nw_gal_DeadPhoto_SLAH.jpg,full,centered] © Cindy Sherman […]

A few weeks ago, we wrote about geotagging. Well, we haven’t stopped the research. As a matter of fact, we obtained 2 different units for testing. What they do is add GPS data to the digital file of your photographs. You do need software that can read that, but Adobe Lightroom is our software of […]

[photopress:AJ_0312_Bush_RubiksCube_L.jpg,full,centered] © Alison Jackson In her recent book of photographs, ” Confidential “,Alison Jackson has created a new reality. One based on perceived truth and, perhaps, our deep suspicions. Celebrities are revealed in situations that you may have suspected, or are relieved to know, as you see what does go on behind closed doors. But […]

In this last part of the series with Albert Watson, his passion for photography and what a photographer is, gets laid out pretty simply here. There is one video that has not been featured on the home page and this is available (with about 31 others on photography) at this YouTube address, shortly all will […]