Author: will

  • How to photograph strangers

    A practical post about how to photograph strangers. A photographer gets inspired to do portraits of total strangers and talks about the experience.

  • Short Attention Spans

      The study is a few years old, but assuming the numbers are still true, nearly 20% of viewers stop watching a video in the first 10 seconds! And close to half (44%) are gone after a minute. There is no reward for starting slow in your video – if you don’t get people’s attention…

  • Finishing is the Hard Part

    Eric Maierson of MediaStorm writes about sweating the details and the importance of taking the time to get it write in a blog post on the MediaStorm blog.   Funnily enough Eric is also the creator of www.whatisthemostimportantthingaboutmultimedia.com   Which proves how important those ‘details are….

  • What would you do?

    From NPR – worth remembering how it feels to be on the other side of the camera. For me, the photographer’s excuse for not getting a name feels pretty lame. “What It Feels Like To Be Photographed In A Moment Of Grief”

  • 50gb of free cloud storage

    Lots of options for free online storage these days: Dropbox  Google’s Drive are just two of many.  Just heard of a new one….I am not endorsing them, don’t know much about them, but it’s 50gb for free – Mega. Haven’t tried it yet….but might need to.