Sylvia Linares Photography

mattvogel:

Here’s a little thought to aid some of you budding photographers, and something that had an emphatic effect on me when I was starting out.

Try to promote yourself through one or two avenues of photography. When I look at a lot of websites for people trying to get hired for some of their first…

mikelernerphotography:

vanessadenise:

As of this morning, I will no longer be able to continue to do photography for a while. I hate doing this and it breaks my heart to even be writing it at all. I want to be clear that this is in no way shape or form indication on giving up. I’ll be back after I’m able to repurchase everything…

help a girl out

mattvogel:

danbassini:

I woke up this morning to find that another one of my photos have been used without my permission for a bands merchandise. I’m not going to call them out on here, but they are a band who has done this to me in the past and resulted in a pretty messy struggle. I will be contacting them to sort this…

Good post by Dan. I haven’t had to deal with bands stealing images, but it happens far too often. The “there’s no money” argument is what everyone hears, constantly. And it’s not that there’s no money, it’s that nobody is willing to spend it on something intangible like rights to a photo, which sucks. It’s the same reason people don’t want to spend money on music. It’s the same fight. 

themerchdude:

I can’t be the only one that sees the talent that many photographers have. A talented photographer can take the most simple thing and make it have 100’s of different interpretations from a picture of a dog to a crowd of 1,000’s they manage to see what we take for granted. It…