Photography’s Place in the Art World
I am an artist and a photographer. My work is posted on various art and photography websites for sale and has been for several years. Day after day, I log into these websites to see how many visitors I’ve had, to read new comments, and check on sales. My work attracts a lot of visitors which always delights me, and I adore it when my work has moved someone enough to comment, yet I’m invariably disheartened and frustrated that all this attention results in minimal sales.
One of the websites where my work lives offers continual member-sponsored contests designed to help artists get their work seen. I enter them even though it seems this particular artist community holds a certain prejudice toward photographs, evidenced by entry rules that state “NO PHOTOS”, “paintings only”, “all mediums accepted and photographs”, and “all media including photography”. (The last two suggesting photographs are not art or something of an afterthought.) Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: annie leibovitz, photography websites, world renowned photographersFirst Time Through the Lens – Starting Photography
Well, you’ve got your camera and you’ve been happily snapping pictures left and right. However, you want to take it a step further. This is when you want to learn about photography. You may want to learn it because you want to get serious with your hobby or you want to earn a living out of it, but the result is all the same – to take your skills to another level. Here’s a simple photography tutorial to polish up some of your photo-taking skills:
1. Learn about your camera: Like a carpenter, you need to know your tools and your camera is your biggest tool as a photographer. Be familiar with all the features of your camera. This way you’ll be able to have a better feel for it and know just exactly how to work it to bring out the best results. Read the rest of this entry »
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Art is beautiful, and most of the time, is beauty itself. May the medium be painting, sculpting or writing, the artist knows how to capture the essence of the moment, and has the innate capability to make it stand still as time moves on. In photography, a single moment can be captured for a lifetime. So it is not surprising that these days, more and more people are thinking about taking formal training of the said craft.
Many aspiring artists seek for the best photography colleges around. And you ask, what is it exactly should you be looking for in a school? What are the types of courses they give out for a shutterbug like you? More importantly, are these schools capable of honing your passion? They are not called the best photography colleges for nothing. Read the rest of this entry »
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