Category Archives: Where I’m coming from
Who Is Your Silent Support?
Editing a video is a very time-consuming process. That much I’ve learned over the past two weeks. It wasn’t a surprise. I knew from the short films I’ve produced on my own that the editing process is very involved. On … Continue reading
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The Lucky Photographer
Aodan Enright got a plug here last week when he invited me to write a piece for his own blog. He gets another one for sending me a link to an interesting article about luck that appeared on the New … Continue reading
Housekeeping
Non-photographers would be astonished at the amount of hard disk space photography consumes. It’s an insatiable beast. I don’t want to bore you, but I do need to throw some numbers out there. My own office system has at its … Continue reading
“There Are No Commercial Applications For Documentary Photography”
Just over a year ago I had a series of meetings with a dozen or so advertising and marketing agencies in Dublin. I wanted to show them the commercial possibilities of my documentary approach to imagery. The good news was … Continue reading
Coloured Vision
Is it an inevitability, this sense of being a cheat? Does every documentary photographer eventually arrive at this unsettling juncture at which they question whether black-and-white documentary photography is, in fact, a contradiction? Big questions. The answers have great consequences. … Continue reading
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What Is The Point Of Wedding Photography? – Part 3: To Preserve
Parts One and Two of this short series of posts generated a great deal of comment on the blog – at least, compared to its very modest traffic numbers. Encouragingly, the debate has been civilized and a consensus has emerged … Continue reading
Filed under Ethics, Videographers, Where I'm coming from
What Is The Point Of Wedding Photography? – Part 2: The State We’re In
Photographers have attached themselves almost indelibly to weddings. This raises two questions that I’d like to explore here. 1) How did this happen? 2) Is there a negative consequence? The answer to the first question is fairly simple: habit. Once … Continue reading
What Is The Point Of Wedding Photography? – Part 1: Crossing The Line
Something happened at two recent weddings that upset me greatly. Both involved videographers, which I’ll deal with in part 3 of this series of posts. For the time being, it’s the individual instances that concern me here, as they are … Continue reading
Filed under Other photographers, Videographers, Wedding, Where I'm coming from
And Now For Something Completely Different
You need to grow as a photographer. It’s vital. If you don’t you stagnate, and stagnation leads to erm… smelly work. A bit like a stagnant pond. You know what I mean. I’m a people photographer. More specifically, documentary people … Continue reading
Filed under Awards, IPPA, Personal Work, Photographs, Photography, Where I'm coming from
Changes
This blog was born out of two others when I decided documentary was the way forward for me. It seemed time to bring all the strands of the business and marketing together under a single banner. Thing is, it has … Continue reading
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