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The Inspired Eye

niyazi — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:11:26 +0000

The Inspired Eye is the latest book of David duChemin who is a world & humanitarian photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader.

The Inspired Eye is contains Notes on Creativity for Photographers. For starters, with the exception of the cover, all the images are black and white, and presented much smaller. It’s a much different look. For another, there isn’t a lick of how-to in this book. Not even a creative exercise posing as a how-to. It’s discussion about the creative process, quotes from creative luminaries like Picasso and Frank Lloyd Wright, and a handful of my images.

It’s a 28 pages downlodable in PDF and $5 only

You can find the e-book from here

Making a Life and a Living in Photography

niyazi — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:44:24 +0000

VisionMongers: Making a Life and Living in Photography is a book for any photographer who’s ever felt compelled to combine their craft with the world of commerce and make the transition to becoming a vocational photographer.

More like a sketchbook of ideas and wisdom than it is a system to get rich quick on photography, VisionMongers takes a look at the changing landscape of professional photography and the various journeys that can be taken to get there. Driven by passion and vision, and guided by his own unlikely journey to becoming a full-time photographer, David duChemin leads you through his own thinking and experiences, as well as those of others, as he discusses aspects of the craft of photography as well as the business of it, touching on everything from branding to contracts, from logos to blogging.

The book is peppered with inspirational and real-world case studies from photographers from various disciplines, including: Chase Jarvis, Kevin Clark, Gavin Gough, Zack Arias, Karl Grobl, and Dave Delnea.

Illustrated by these stories of other photographers, VisionMongers covers the practical aspects about what it takes to turn photography into a career, such as knowing your market, discovering your brand, finding a mentor, listening to your critics, and more.

As encouraging as it is realistic, VisionMongers is about making a life and a living in photography.

About the Author
David duChemin has been creating compelling stories with a camera in hand for over twenty years. An impassioned travel and humanitarian photographer, David has shot on five continents for assignments and projects covering places as diverse as Paris, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. David’s portfolio can be found online at www.pixelatedimage.com.

Chasing The Look

niyazi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:08:57 +0000

New book from David duChemin who is a world & humanitarian photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader. His new book is Chasing The Look in PDF format and you can buy this e-book $5 (USD).

Chasing The Look is about making intentional choices about the use of our gear and the settings on our cameras based on their affect on the aesthetic of the image.

It’s a response to the question we all ask at some point while looking at the images of others – “How come my photographs don’t look like that?” Every setting on the camera, while a technical choice, is also an aesthetic decision affecting the look of our image.

This is a 49-page downloadable as PDF file.

More about the book you can read and buy from here