Dealing With Rejection and 5 Unconventional Landscape Tips

Jim talks with Jeff about dealing with rejection (especially from clients) and 5 unconventional landscape tips based on an article at improvephotography.com by Chris MowersDealing with Rejection

* Jeff: Share story about a client who HATED my edits of her daughter’s senior photos.  Preferred the auto-toned, flat, blue-tinted proofs I sent her to cull.  For a couple of weeks I asked everyone I came in contact with which version was better.
* Jeff: {another story if time} Total rejection on shooting the local high school football team the first year I tried.  School said they had an exclusive photographer.  Asked numerous sponsors of they would help me get a pass.  No go.  As of this recording I have now shot two football games this season and am working on a pass to get up to the University of Utah field where the high school will play in the semi-finals of the State playoffs.  Worked my way in by shooting basketball.

5 Unconventional Landscape Tips (article by Chris Mowers)

* Capture Detail

* Jeff: Love this suggestion.  I don’t do enough of it, my wife is very good at it.


* Multiple Exposure

* Jeff: Have never really tried this.  Maybe a little to abstract for me.


* Flip a Reflection

* Jeff: Never done this one either, though I really haven’t had too many water reflection shooting opportunities so far.


* Intentional Camera Movement

* Jeff:  I do this one all the time, except for the intentional part.


* Stack Clouds

* Jeff: I have actually done this.  Makes the sky so much more interesting and have often had the clouds move so fast it didn’t take that long.



Announcements

* Looking for 8 people with something cool to share about photography
* IP+ is about to get awesomer

* Going to another country to spend 3 days with one of the most creative photographers on the planet to record a tutorial for IP+.  I’ll leave it at that for now 🙂
* I’m almost done with a new course called “Landscapes in Motion”
* I’m also working on “Lighting in a Flash II”



Doodads of the Week!

* Jim: Rode VideoMic Pro Plus On-Camera Shotgun Microphone
* Jeff: Fotodiox F60 Quick-Collapse Flash Softbox ($60)