Wootness | the blog of christine walsh-newton
master photographer | photographic craftsman | certified professional photographer
I’m sick. I’m “oh.em.gee. I just dropped my $3500 body on the cement floor and watched it smash to pieces!” ready to hurl. I’m waiting on a comp print to arrive from the lab. I ran some tests, I ordered 8x10s and different finishes until I thought I’d made the correct choice for how to …
Continue reading “Confessions of a print competition junkie…”
All hail, another article about Print Competition! Hear ye! Hear ye! Recently, I taught a Print Competition 101 class. I was allotted 90 minutes. In reality, I spoke 120 minutes and still wasn’t done. I could have talked an extra hour. And that’s sad. It seems we’ve created a barrier to print competition with the …
I’ve suddenly realized that I joined a fraternity that I didn’t even know existed. Some folks call it “family” but I think it goes more along the lines of “fraternity” than anything else. Deep down inside, you’ve recognized it. You’ve been traveling around and you spy someone else with a camera around their neck, you …
We’ve all done it. We’ve seen an ad for a speaker, we’ve gotten excited, gone to the gig, picked a good seat up front, and then gotten stuck there when the speaker started hyping their product line. With no graceful way to escape, we’re stuck in the 2nd row for several hours and walk away …
Continue reading “My Life from the Podium: Teaching vs. Selling”
I remember way back, when I was a freshman in college, MTV debuted, and college students across the world skipped classes all day long. There are hundreds of thousands of us who watched “Video Killed the Radio Star” aired as the first video. Like a slap in the music industry’s face, there it was. We …
Continue reading “Are Prints becoming an Endangered Species?”
Ahhh Facebook, the land of “one cannot unsee what one has seen.” All of you photographers who enter print competition are familiar (or you should be) with the fact that if you share your images with a judge, they are no longer allowed to judge your images and must disqualify themselves during the judging process. …
Continue reading “Print Competition Images and Facebook – yes they CAN play nicely together!”
Oh hello! Yes, the truth is out, I’m addicted to Print Competition. I write about it, I talk about it, I design speaking gigs about it and I schedule my vacations around it. If you consider annual convention print room setup days as “vacation,” like me, I’m here to tell you you’re addicted, too. When …
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Some interesting names get bandied about the photography world. There always seems to be wave after wave of “celebriity” names in the industry that are the flavor of the day. When I started, Sandy Puc was just starting with her Bellies to Babies tour. Newborn photographers were pretty popular across the board. Then, there was …
Oh for the love of all that is holy, let’s get this background thing straightened out once and for all. I am of the old school thought process: “GET IT RIGHT IN CAMERA!” More work now, means less work retouching. And since no one bothers with the retouching backgrounds, it seems, it’s VITAL to remove …
Finally! Yes, I know. This was promised last week & I’m just now getting to it. Well, Wootness doesn’t pay my check, my clients do and I was taking care of them. So sue me. Anyway… I said that I would come back and tell you how to USE those calibration shots that I say …
Continue reading “Custom White Balance is Your Friend – Part 2 How to Synchronize CWB in Adobe RAW”
