What does your website say about who you are as a photographer? Does your site clearly define your goals or do you use your site’s pages as a dumping ground for every photograph you’ve ever made?

In this episode of Camera Position, I look at the way in which web pages can tell us whether our photographs – and what we tell the world about them- are on-target or missing the mark.

Links for this podcast:

• Michael Kenna’s Website
• Julie Blackmon’s website
• Photo District News Online
• Jeff’s Website – My website’s  homepage
• Evidence of Hands on Stone – My domain that points to my main project

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In order to make photographs that are meaningful, it really helps to know your subject in intimate detail. In this episode, I talk about subject research, and about how knowing your subject can be one of the best paths to good photographs.

Gubbio, Umbria – Photograph by Jeff Curto

Links for this episode:

• Alec Soth – Photographs
• Alec Soth – Blog post about project titles
• Peter Murray – Architecture of the Italian Renaissance @ Amazon
• George Sullivan – Not Built in a Day @ Amazon

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What do you do when you get “stuck” photographically? Here are a few ideas about how to find your way out of “Photographer’s Block,” with some references to how other photographers handle the problem.

Photograph by Jeff Curto (left) and David Quigg (right)

Photograph by Suzanne Szucs (left) and Nicholas Nixon (right)

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In this episode, I talk about shallow depth of field as a creative tool and its use by several photographers who are using it in inventive and interesting ways. I also look at how focusing yourself on a project can help you be more creative.

Photographs by Jeff Curto – Jeff Curto’s Website

Photographs by Keith Carter – Keith Carter’s Website

Photographs by Keith Loutit – Keith Loutit’s Website

Other resources for this Podcast:

• Lensbabies
• Miklos Gaal
• Toni Hafkenscheid
• An interesting review of Toni Hafkenscheid’s work when it was shown at the AKA Gallery in Saskatoon. At what point is trickery legitimate?

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This episode of Camera Position is about combining passion with profession. We need to photograph what we love, but we also can’t lead an insular life; we need to be out there, casting our lines into the river of photographic experiences.

This week, March 15 to 18, is the Society for Photographic Education conference in Miami, FL. If you live near Miami, you really should consider attending this event. There are day passes available for non-members of the organization and it’s a great way to meet a large number of like-minded folks, see some fabulous photography and hear some inspirational and interesting speakers.

If you do happen to come, please stop by the presentation I’ll be giving on Friday morning entitled “Teaching Your Students, Teaching The World: Podcasting In Photographic Education” where I’ll be talking about the “hows and whys” of Podcasting, attempting to get more of my teaching colleagues involved in this exciting medium.

I’ll be podcasting the presentation, of course, so stay tuned for that in the next week or so.

A Podcast Listener, courtesty of Paul Strand

If you can’t make it to the conference, you may be interested in attending an excellent seminar (which is open to the general public) to be presented on Sunday March 18 from 1 to 5 by the noted photo marketing expert Mary Virginia Swanson. Entitled “FINDING YOUR AUDIENCE: An Introduction to Marketing your Photographs,” Mary Virginia will be talking about how to place your work in front of people who will be able to help get you more visibility.

Mary Virgina Swanson working with a photographer

Regardless of these opportunities, a quote by photographer Ralph Steiner reminds us that it’s important to photograph what matters:

Photograph by Ralph Steiner

“Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensly yourself. Don’t try to be outstanding; don’t try to be a success;don’t try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.”

-Ralph Steiner, A Point of View

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