5 Signs You’re Ready To Turn Pro As A Photographer
You’re finally ready to turn pro. Congratulations! Are you ready? Do you know what to expect? You’ll be banking your entire livelihood on your skills as a photographer … or so you think. Being a good photographer is a small piece of a larger professional puzzle. Our list is by no means a complete list, […]
5 Things I Did To Have My Best Year Ever
Things Are Not Always As They Seem 2016 started off with a bang for me as I covered the presidential elections in Taiwan for Corbis and found myself negotiating with them over a better contract. And then, without warning, a press release was issued saying that they had been sold and were no longer going […]
How Photographers Should Use Social Media
Let’s see if we can put this together in a single sentence … “If you want to run a photography business most of your time will be spent marketing, not taking pictures.” That said, marketing costs money, but it doesn’t have to cost you a 3rd mortgage. With all these social media sites available these […]
The 2017 XEQUALS Field Guide
Last year, we asked an important question: Take a moment to think about your passion, your creative spark, your inner light that drives you to create, and pair that with the unique perspective that already exists within you. As creatives ourselves, this sort of inward thinking is meant to elicit a deeper meaning for your […]
Work/Life Balance For Photographers
If you’re like many photographers, you became a working photographer because you had a passion for the craft and thought it would be a good way to earn a living. And really, how hard can it be? You’re living the exotic life of supermodels, stunning locations and lots of very expensive, cool toys. Then reality […]
What Skateboarding Taught Me About Style And Business
You don’t just wake up one day and decide you are going to do this. Yep, that’s me, trying not to break myself, enjoying every minute of it. I had one obsession as a kid … to master my skateboard. It took me places I never dreamed imaginable, and in turn taught me that practice, […]