I found an interesting post on DP Review today, titled, “A Little Story for Aspiring Pros and Artists.” The author writes about his work as an art photographer, documentary photographer and building a body of work. It’s worth a read.

I got an email this morning from Omar, a regular reader of I Speak Film, asking how to copyright a photograph. I’ve never gone through the process, so I did a little research about how it works in the United States.
While it’s not absolutely necessary to go through the process of copyrighting an [...]

Behind-the-Lens: Interviews with Today’s Photographers
MATT ARMENDARIZ

Part foodie, part blogger, and always entertaining, Matt Armendariz is a food photographer and art director who inspires us with his images and makes us hungry! His style is simple, with compositions that highlight ingredients and draw the viewer in. Working at his home studio [...]

Starting next Monday, August 7th, I’ll be beginning a new feature here at i speak film:
Behind the Lens: Interviews with Today’s Photographers.
When I worked at Warner Bros. and The WB, part of my job was to interview actors and producers and create featurettes to promote our television shows. Sometimes, these interviews would end up [...]

I have a bone to pick about photography websites. This applies to websites for photographers and for galleries. Why is it that some sites feel the need to apply all kinds of animations to their websites? Images fade into one another, and rotate and zoom and use Flash to operate. Why? [...]

I found a great photographer online today, Dean Chamberlain. He keeps the exposure to bulb and then paints with light during the exposure. Very cool stuff. He teaches a class about his technique at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Marina Del Rey, California. Has anyone ever taken a class there?

If you’re getting married anytime soon and you live in either Los Angeles or the San Francisco area, then you’ve probably already heard of Jules Bianchi, one of the area’s most talented wedding photographers. I might be a little biased, as she was our wedding photographer almost five years ago, back when she was still [...]

One of the great Life Magazine photographers Gordon Parks died Tuesday at age 93. Parks was a ledgendary photographer who worked for the Farm Services Administration (the FSA), Life Magazine, and was also an accomplished filmmaker.
His films included “the Learning Tree” and “Shaft”, but I’ll always remember him for his eloquent photography.