To be honest, reading any kind of book about the legal aspects of photography—from taxes, to corporate structures, to copyright laws, to government regulations—not only makes me want to never shoot another image, it also brings out a seething, anarchic, vigilante side of me. I suddenly feel like hurling bombs at government buildings and torturing [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Lens Repair Blues (or Don’t Do What I Did)
I’m kicking myself. Maybe I shouldn’t be, because the guy at the camera repair shop says it’s probably not my fault, but still… Here’s the story. After returning from the Burning Man festival, I knew my cameras needed cleaning but I put it off for a long time. So one day recently I got them [...]
How to Take Better Photos at Burning Man (and Beyond!)
The annual Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert is a photographer’s dream: A surreal landscape populated by bizarre machines, monstrous, mind-boggling art projects, and the world’s most outrageously costumed characters all trying to outdo each other with sheer creativity. Each year approximately 50,000 people attend this weeklong event, and for many photographers it [...]
New Year’s Eve Party Challenge: How to Shoot an Event in a Dark Warehouse
If you’d like to view the photos before reading about it, see New Year’s Eve Party. It’s the worst possible conditions for photography: a vast, crowded warehouse, minimal light, and no ceiling to bounce a flash from. But somehow we’ve gotta light this scene! We know that on-camera flash sucks and will make everything look [...]
