How to buy photography for your business for the first time
Part 3 of 3: How do I find the right photographer, and what’s this going to cost? If you missed the earlier posts on this subject, they seem to have disappeared from my website when
Author: Ed Lefkowicz
Headshot and executive portrait mistakes you don’t want to make
Everybody needs headshots, and most people hate to have them taken, myself included. (Really!) You need a headshot—or a few—for your company website, for social media, and for promotional distribution. To do it right is
Travel photography while sailing in Maine
Not that I get tired of New York City, editorial photography, advertising photography, or corporate photography, but it’s good to get away once in a while. I recently spent 5 days with some friends sailing
2013 in review
I don’t often look back in review—too busy looking ahead, I think—but I’ve got a few minutes, and this seems like a good opportunity to do it. Last year’s shoots were for a wide a
Portraits of young cancer patients for Flashes of Hope
Once again I was privileged to photograph some portraits of young cancer patients and their families for Flashes of Hope, a non-profit that provides free portraits for cancer patients and their families. I like portraits,
Portrait photography and the brain
I just got tipped off to this blog post on The Decisive Moment and the Brain. It came at a good time—maybe even a decisive moment, no caps, but decisive none the less. Not just
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind
“Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.”—Louis Pasteur Matthew Richards, a photojournalist based in Thailand, left a kind comment on an image on my wire service news feed, and
Photography for a newspaper restaurant review: a follow-up
I was finding some shortcomings in the photos I had been taking for the restaurant reviews in the NY Times (don’t tell my editor, OK?) so I revised my methods and gear a bit for
A restaurant shoot for a newspaper review: Part 2, The Gear
Given the low light I so often find myself in, I sometimes think what I do is more “skotography” than “photography.” (“Photography” comes from the Greek “phos”, or light, and “graphi”, or drawing, so “drawing
A restaurant shoot for a newspaper review: Part 1, Planning
I was asked to shoot a new restaurant for the local paper, and thought the experience would offer some insight both for photographers new to the restaurant photography scene and photo editors as well. (OK,