I have many to thank.
During a couple of photography consultations this past week, I was asked why I’m a photographer. This isn’t a question I’m often asked, and I was pleasantly surprised. Usually my clients and prospective clients don’t inquire about my motivation as part of the reason they should commission me. I do it for the love of [...]
Photography That Tells Your Story
I was in a breakfast meeting the other day when someone said to the group: “Whenever Dean talks about photography his eyes shine!”. Unexpectedly, I was suddenly the focus of attention, and I prayed there weren’t any scrambled egg morsels hanging off my lips. They were tasty eggs. Hat off to the chef. It is [...]
Conceptual Stock Photography and Managed Rights
Any photographer who produces stock photography knows that the stock world has experienced a massive shift. What was typically a resource of high end images has how shifted to a goulash of mixed quality. One would suppose that may give a new meaning to the expression “The media is the message”? But I digress. Microstock [...]
Check us out on Toronto Wedding Professionals
Yesterday I posted a “Question and Answer” about the process of photography. I went into some detail about why professional photography costs what it does, based on experience and my perspective. Toronto Wedding Professionals has featured it on their website. Check it out here.
Wedding Photography Demystified
Wedding photography can be a bit of a mystery for people. It makes sense; it’s not as if one gets married every day of the week, so why should you be expected to know all there is to know? I’ve prepared some updated information on the process of wedding photography based on my years of [...]
Converting Digital Colour Images to Black and White
There’s a wonderful intimacy that comes with black and white photography. With only the composition, light and tones of gray to tell its story, a black and white image can capture the essence of the image in a way that colour cannot. In fact, there is a wonderful expression that I use to help explain [...]
Headshots and Portraits for Business
If you’ve been considering having your headshot or portrait done, or updating the one you now have, this article will be of interest to you. Recently I’ve been asked to create headshots and portraits for various types of companies. Franchisees, law firms, big insurance co’s, creative outfits, actors, authors, public speakers and more. Depending on [...]
The Beauty of Images and Words on Paper
Paper! Beautiful, sustainable, inspirational, protective, tactile. These are words that may leave you scratching your head when thinking about paper. True, most of us don’t often think about paper. And when we do, it may be in a limited way: “Hmm I’ve got to print that report.” “Urrgh! The photocopier is out of paper again!” [...]
Beauty Where You Least Expect It
When I was a young boy (young as in a single digit age), my mother would take me on long walks. It used to drive me nuts; not because I didn’t like walking, but because she stopped what seemed to be every 10 seconds to look at something. It would take hours to make it [...]
How Do I Choose a Photographer?
This article is focused on wedding photography, but it applies to any type of photography where you’re interacting on an active level with the photographer, not only as the client, but also as the person in front of the camera. Ok, so let’s get down to business. We’ve all seen wedding images. What sets images [...]
Weddings: How guests and their cameras can affect the commissioned photographer
Who do you know that doesn’t own some type of camera? Probably very few. Almost everyone has one. But owning a camera does not a professional photographer make. There were a few wedding celebrations I photographed last year, where 100+ guests had their own camera, and wanted to take photographs of their own. Dozens and [...]
Image Theft on the Web
If you took away all the images we see in everyday life, such as in the newspaper, on the web, magazines, art galleries, or in marketing & advertising, those worlds would be a pretty dull place. The fact is we’re visual creatures, and we like to look at things. Viewing photographs of friends and family [...]
Why I’m a Photographer
A relative of mine had, until recently, not really understood my approach to photography. He’s the type of person who has lived long enough to be tired of being sold to when the product or service isn’t worth getting excited about. While I had told him earlier, it was just one of those things where [...]
RSS vs. Email
For those not familiar with RSS, trust me, you’re going to love it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. When most of my blog readers were subscribing via regular email, a few would tell me that I was sending them a lot of emails. Thing was, I was only blogging up to 3x a month! [...]