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photo credit: Crystl

And so the turkey is eaten, the beer is going flat, the Xmas jumper has been dutifully worn and thoughts turn to the New Year and the hopes and fears that may bring. Here’s PP’s handy guide to the 5 things you really do and don’t want to do if you want to make more money than last year. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: Vinay Deep

But it’s the web! It’s just a web image. It’s cheap. It’s not worth as much as print usage. It’s only 300 pixels wide. It’s small. It can’t be worth anything like a full page in the magazine. It’s just our electronic version. Nobody reads it online anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: CoCreatr

Back in March PP posted some tips for new photographers advising on what NOT to do if they were to have a successful business. You can see “12 easy ways NOT to succeed”here.

Meanwhile a new site called simply “Dear Photographer” has emerged in a similar vein with some really great tips on it like:

“HDR: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should“

Take a look and you can even submit some of your own too!

PP

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography

Back in the days of film photographers would use sticky labels to show a transparency or print belonged to them and copyright and contact info. Literally stuck on the slide mount or the reverse of the print. With the advent of digital there was no longer a physical object to stick these on. CDs could be labelled but once your client took those images off your CD and save them onto their machine your data was separated from your images. Read the rest of this entry »

photo credit: evelynishere

Reading one of my favourite blogs this morning “A Photo Editor” who references a piece in Advertising Age by Jeff Goodby on the relevance of Awards in advertising. Jeff asks his audience if they are becoming “award-chasers” rather than producing relevant advertising material that can really impact how people think. Read the rest of this entry »