Occupation: Writer Birth: February 7, 1948
Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good phot….
It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop..
RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about….
It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt..
Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in t….
I drove a taxi at night during my last year at BU and then for another 18 months after graduating in order to buy cameras and pay the rent while I tr….
Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be ….
Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The ….
I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living..
With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable..
We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and ….
The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the ….
To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the ….
Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure ou….
Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I..
Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley..
I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before..
Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotion….
The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I cou….
I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut type….
Europeans still read rather than watching TV or listening to their clergyman tell them how to vote. The European magazines are far superior to Americ….