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Poll: What’s Your Local Photo Archive Storage Device?
November 3rd, 2008Photo Op: Zeppelin Arriving in San Franciso Bay Area
October 24th, 2008Here is a last minute notice for a wondeful photo opportunity in the San Francico Bay Area. Tomorrow, Saturday October 25th, a Zeppelin will be arriving in the San Francisoc Bay Area and doing a few fly overs. This is part of the launch of the Zeppelin sight seeing service offered by Airship Ventures. Airship Ventures is also looking to engage the local photography community with a photo contest. You can read more details at latoga photography. This is great reason for Bay Area photographers to pickup their cameras and get out and make some photos!
New Customer For Architectural Photographers
September 20th, 2008While cleaning up the stacks of papers from my desk today, I came across an article from the New York Times that intrigued me. It appears that in certain metro areas, some architectural photographers have expanded to a new set of clients. Picture, Picture on the Wall talks about a growing trend of some upper scale home owners having custom photography created of their homes; almost like a Architectural Digest photo shoot minus the publication. For some homeowners, they have photos taken of their vacation homes for display at the non-vacation homes or work. Others, seem to enjoy displaying the photos of their homes in their homes.
I found this an interesting targeted vertical market for some photographers to cater to. If you have experience capturing architecture, why not leverage it in a new way? Marketing this type of service as a high end service to a high end clientele is important. You want to remove the C and B clients from the A clients as soon as possible.
Of course, being a photographer in the right market helps. Offering this service in New York City, San Francisco, Miami, or Los Angeles and you can build a nice little revenue stream to feed into your business river. Offering this in Nashville, San Antonio, Milwaukee, or Los Alamos most likely isn’t going to be worth the business investement. However, keeping your eye out for new focused vertical markets is smart regardless of your locale.
Poll: How Do You Rate Jill Greenberg’s Actions?
September 15th, 2008Read more about this particular photo shoot at PDNPulse. See more of Jill Greenberg’s work.
Vote your opinion on the situation and leave a comment with more details explaining your opinion. FocalPower is interesting in a discussion about the professionalism around Jill Greenberg’s actions as a photographer, please keep the disucssion focused on the profession of photography. We reserve the right to delete comments that stray to far into political rhetoric.
9-11 Photo Tribute
September 11th, 2008
Photo By Jon C. Hodgson
About the Photos
World Trade Center Tribute in Light was taken by New York City photographer Jon C. Hodgson. It has been featured in various New York City area publications and used here with permission.
Bruised & Battered But Still Standing was taken by me during a trip to New York City in April of 2002. The Sphere was a sculpture that was part of the World Trade Center plaza fountain and (mostly) survived 9/11. It was moved, in it’s damaged state, to Battery Park where this photo was taken.
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