Archive for January, 2009

Slightly more than a month ago I wrote about that I started a photography business here in Hungary. Now I would like to add that I managed to improve my business related blog by:

1. bringing it under my domain name ( www.businessphoto.hu/blog )
2. integrating it’s design with my business Web site

The blog content there is  in Hungarian, however some of the older and newer posts can be found in English here on Photonovice.net as well.
Let me know your thoughts, but please don’t be too hard to me because I love that design.

What comes later:

• first steps of my marketing activities
• real assignments

Photographers often get inspirations from studying other artists’ works. My favorite media for that is still – even in the age of Internet – printed book. Nowadays I often have Ernst H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art, in my hands, which has seen several editions since the fifties, and is available mostly as used copies today.
No, in this book you cannot see magazin shots or commercial photographs from for example Annie Leibovitz, Joe McNally or Chase Jarvis. And yet, I find myself turning back to one or two great paintings of some painters. My current favorite is the Milkmaid from Jan (Johannes) Vermeer.
(I know that his most famous painting is the Girl with a Pearl Earring, but because very few would believe me that the original model of that picture was not Scarlett Johansson I write about some others. )

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You might have come across the photo below:

It was made by Annie Leibovitz who also photographed the Queen Elizabeth one time.

You can see a video below showing how the shooting of that photo actually happened.

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