8 Books Every Photographer Should Read
One of the best things about being a working photographer is absolutely getting to travel for work — but hours on an airplane (or a Greyhound bus) can get pretty boring, pretty quickly. Even if you're not traveling for work, if you've got summer adventures on the docket, it's wise to have a robust reading list ready to roll.
Yes, You Can: How Real Musicians Are Making Music for A Living
[caption id="attachment_5620" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Killer Infographics for the Seattle Office of Film+Music[/caption]
The Seattle Office of Film+Music released this infographic last summer, but we liked it a lot and wanted to share it again to help dispel the myth that creative jobs can, in fact, be lucrative ones.
The graphic was born when a young student asked then-director James Keblas the age old question: Can I quit my day job to be a musician?
The 180 Degree Rule, Explained by LEGO Star Wars
The rules and theories of cinema can seem pretty abstract without concrete examples — though few film schools opt to use LEGO Star Wars characters to do the explaining.
Filmmaker Victor Ha explained the 180 Degree Rule, a crucial spacial element which helps the viewer understand the physical relationship between two onscreen characters, in his CreativeLive course, Fundamentals of DSLR Filmmaking.
One Photographer, 10,000 Portraits: iO Tillett Wright’s Self Evident Truths
HBO: Where did the idea for this project come from?