My Buddy MarK recommended this website.
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The importance of a using a digital work flow for commercial work became most obvious when Ivey Seright, a lab I used for over 15 years, closed in Seattle in 2008. Prior to Ivey closing, I considered using medium and large films formats, as a reasonable tool in shooting images for a work for hire context. After Ivey closed, I quickly realized that film, except in select instances, was no longer a viable tool for much of my business. After locating another lab in Portland for my film work (it closed in 2009) I began developing a plan to move towards shooting predominately in digital. This included setting up a Digital Assets Management system (DAM), learning software such as Adobe Lightroom, and upgrading my photo gear to include a "Professional" full frame digital camera.
Over the next several weeks I will take the opportunity to write and post several articles on the business aspects of a work for hire photographer. More specifically, I will discuss my own experiences and process involved with Studio Stratus. Each article will blend both personal experience, with useful information on developing a work for hire photography business.
Shortly after arriving on Orcas Island in 2008, I decided to develop a work for hire photography business. After nearly a decade in Academia, both as a graduate student and Assistant Professor, it was the perfect opportunity to expand my knowledge and experience in photography. The first thing I decided upon was to separate my fine art photography from the work for hire business/services. I am still not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but at the time I thought it would be a safe way to enter new territory. For my own organizational purposes, I decided to create Studio Stratus. My idea was to use Studio Stratus as an umbrella for several of my photographic services. I chose the term Stratus, which is a "low cloud that forms in grey sheets" for both regional significance (I live in in the Pacific NW) and a personal reference.
"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it is so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes you life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other. "
-Stewart Brand, 1984. Quoted in the book Free.
You can listen to Chris Anderson Book, Free, for free at:
www.hyperionbooks.com/free
Associate Professor of Photography Ellen Garvens exhibits her constructions, photographs, and drawings which are of fragments of bodies and their surrogates as a reflection on the experience of touch, balance, and memory.
Underwater photographer and Jesica's cousin Marc Shargel will be showing work along with selling his new book and cards.
I'm pleased to invite you to a reception for the opening of "The Otter Zone," a show of otter-related art in multiple media including several of my own photographs of otters, their habitat, their predators and food sources. The show is at the The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History from September 25 through October 24. Check their website for address and directions: http://www.santacruzmuseums.org/ If you need further information, call the museum at (831) 420-6115.
Cascade Falls, Summer/Winter, Each print 12"x36", Archival Pigment Print, 2009
So anyhow I picked Blank Spots on the Map because I was interested in the metaphor of blank spots and also because Rebecca Solnit recommend it on the back of the book. Long story short, it is a really interesting book. Perhaps one of the most compelling arguments that Paglen bring up is the degree of secrecy around both the financial and physical activities of the US military and CIA operations. Paglen writes in depth about how the constitution states explicitly that all government spending need be transparent, which of course is not the case. Blank Spots on the Map can be read on a number of levels and even if you don't buy all of Paglens arguments, it is an interesting read.
Bird Hunt, Archival Pigment Print, 13"x36", 2009
Dennis DeHart, Fine Art Photography exhibition at Christina's
August 6-September 9, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday August 6, from 5-7, Wine and Appetizers will be served
Orcas Island photographer Dennis DeHart will be exhibiting his fine art
photography, which includes new work from the series "Land of the Stratus."
DeHart's recent photographs include large format panoramic images that Diane Edkins, a curator at the
Aperture gallery in New York City describes as " A classical approach to the western landscape and space,
which is both dissident and disturbing while functioning aesthetically and provocatively."
DeHart will also be showing a selection of color prints that he created in the attic of his apartment while living in Buffalo, NY.
A Northwest native, DeHart and his family returned to the NW last year from New York. Dennis and his wife Jesica are currently involved in building a house on the island. They also own and operate Stratus Studio, which is a work for hire/commerical photographic business based on Orcas.
Read an interview with Terry Toedtmeier:
Q: What do these photos say about what's happened to the gorge area?
A: It makes you look at the consequences of our decisions. The world has an awful lot of people living in it. We are at a point where we have to think about how we deal with our resources because it's conceivable that we could run out of air (laughs). That doesn't work real well. At some point, you know, what's good for all of us is what we all need to participate in. At the same time, the lights are on in this room because of the Bonneville Dam. So how do we look at those effects, and what do we use to gauge the quality of our judgments?
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Stevenson, Washington (on the Columbia River) Archival Pigment Print, 13x38, 2009 I am headed off to the Columbia river gorge with the two boys for some camping and visits with the grandparents. We plan to explore some places that I grew up in including Hood River, Stevenson, High Prarie, Klickitat, Lyle, and Portland.
