Pro Photo SOS

I’m taking a sabbatical for about a year from shooting weddings, etc. Selling off all my Nikon gear. It’s all in great shape, should treat you well for years to come. I have one wedding on Saturday (8/29), my last, and will return from Seattle on Monday and everything will ship on Tuesday (9/1). Shipping [...]

One of the easiest design contests around. Just upload your favorite album design and you are entered. We’ll choose the top 5 designs, run a random number generator and the winner will get $100 cash. No coupons, no strings, just $100 cash. Rules You can only submit ONE spread per month. You must have taken [...]

Well, they didn’t just release new lenses. They also released the D3100. The only thing really exciting about it, is the constant AF while shooting video, and a dedicated video button. While, I’m not that excited about the camera itself, that means that video is going to play an increasing roll in Nikon’s cameras. We [...]

I was perusing Nikon Rumors this morning and found an interesting post. At Best Buy, the entire stock of D700′s is out. That might mean an upcoming release of a D700s? I’m sure this means 1080p HD video and maybe the, ever so good, D3s sensor. Probably not as they don’t let the D3 sensors [...]

The running joke in the studio last week was, “well, it has crystal nano coating.” I love to make fun of lens manufacturer naming. It seems like they spend all day trying to come up with new letters and words to tack onto the end of lens names. Some of my favorite names are from [...]

Photographers and weight gain? Did the title get your attention? I hope so!  I don’t see many photographers discussing this issue, so I thought I’d tackle it.  It may appear that living a sedentary lifestyle as part of a photography business, sitting next to a computer, processing images, posting to your blog, posting to Facebook, [...]

We had an awesome webinar with over 70 viewers this morning. We covered everything from beauty dish lighting to pricing. Next week we’ll do a full webinar on sales. Watch today’s webinar here, or tune in for next weeks.

Like Sony and Samsung, Nikon hopes to jump in the game of Mirror-less Interchangeable lens cameras. President of the company Makoto Kimura plans to release a “new concept” camera with enhanced video functions as early as this year. Nikon believes this will one move in a series to boost SLR sales by an amazing 80 [...]

As an ongoing series on the Sally Hogshead book “Fascinate” we are continuing with the third trigger “Alarm.” As many of you recall, Hogshead, is an expert in making consumers take action in advertising and marketing. We’ve already covered “Lust” and “Mystique”. Read more here. The Alarm trigger is what creates fear of something going [...]

The story that sounded too good to be true, was just that. A week ago A box of negatives and prints was falsely appraised as the lost collection of Ansel Adams, valued at around 200 million dollars. But since then numerous sources have been skeptical of the appraisal, and quickly the photos were revealed to [...]