Review of Forget Mugshots – David DuChemin’s new eBook
Most of you are no longer strangers to the excellent Craft and Vision series of eBooks that were conceived by my friend David DuChemin but have now been expanded under his guidance to include other well-known photographers that David leverages for their particular expertise. The Craft and Vision approach is characterized by well written, engaging [...]
Review of Mitchell Kanashkevich Rabardi ebook
I’ve known Mitchell Kanashkevich for a while. That it to say that I have known “of” Mitchell Kanashkevich – or Mitch, or Mitchell K – for a while. He is good friends with some of my photographic buddies, though we have never met. He was also one of the inspirations behind Focus For Humanity, though [...]
Announcing Focus For Humanity – helping photographers focus on helping humanity
We are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new Not For Profit Organisation, FOCUS FOR HUMANITY that I have co-founded with Santa Monica based Loren Roberts Focus for Humanity (FFH) is a US based non profit foundation that supports amateur and professional photographers throughout the world to focus their work on telling cultural [...]
The Inspired Eye – latest ebook from David duChemin
David duChemin has just released his latest eBook, The Inspired Eye, Vol.I, Notes on Creativity for Photographers. As the title suggest this is first of a two volume set about the creative process, and as such is not at all like the last 4 eBooks that David has produced. These previous eBooks have focused primalrily [...]
Youth, Wisdom and Great Photos – Eric Ryan Anderson
Eric Ryan Anderson is a truly interesting man…..and not just because we share a name! He is a commercial photographer base in Brookyln, NY whose work has been published in Italian Vanity Fair, Vogue Hommes, Computer Arts, Sherman’s Travel, Pollstar, ENVY, D Magazine, Dallas Observer and National Geographic Traveler. All well and good you say, [...]
New depth of field Interview
Matt Brandon has just released a new a great new episode of his Depth of Field series – interviewing David duChemin during their recent workshop, Lumen Dei. This great series of audio podcasts – also available via iTunes (just search for Depth of Field) – interviews working photographers and give you a beyond the scenes [...]
Edoardo Agresti launches blog
Some key steps on my own photographic journey can be traced back to a couple of seminal moments – the emotional reaction I felt when I first saw Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl; An exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s work; The reading of David DuChemin’s “Within the Frame” which helped me focus on the “why” and not [...]
Chasing The look – 10 Ways to Improve the Aesthetics of Your Photographs
That clever man David DuChemin has been at it again. Not content with writing a third book, doing publicity around the second, blogging daily, podcasting frequently and twittering multiple times a day – oh and celebrating his wedding anniversary – he has somehow found time to author another eBook. “Chasing The Look, 10 Ways to [...]
VisionMongers – Making a life and living in Photography
VisionMongers is the Second of David DuChemin’s books. The first, “Within the Frame” – has quickly become one of the best ever selling photographic book on “Why” to take photographs, and deservedly has raised David’s profile, reputation and following globally hugely. David’s passion is not the “how to ” photograph something, but the “why to”. [...]
Creating stronger images through visual mass
The recent release of “Drawing the Eye – Creating Stronger Images through Visual Mass” – is David DuChemin’s third part of his ebook series. This one is equally as good as the other two and continues David’s theme that “Why” rather than” How” is the question to be asking as you shoot pictures. “Drawing the [...]
Using Blurb.com to Publish your book
Ever wanted to publish your own Coffee-table book of your photographs? There are a host of different on-demand digital publishing houses out there and all offer very similar services. There is however a vast difference in quality, price per book, distribution and shipping costs. After some extensive research I chose Blurb.com to publish my first [...]
Perfection is not just a snap
I regularly look at work of photographers that I admire and wonder how they got such an amazing image. As I read more and more, and talk with pro travel photographers so I understand more that they are using all the same tools as me, going through all the same angst (well may I have [...]
Sculpting with Light
Micthell Kanashkevitch has just produced the second of his “eBooks” – this one focusing on how he “sculpts with light”. It is the most extraordinary insight into how to create stunning images using a combination of available, reflected or artificial light. Mitchell uses artificial light in such a way that you think it is natural. All [...]
Ten more with David duChemin
David does it again. Following on from his first eBook “Ten”, David has scored a hit with “Ten More” – an additional 10 ideas to help photographers of ll expereince levels. In true David fashion he combines his extraordinary ability to communicate his passion and his ideas in a manner that engages and encourages, without [...]
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