Update, News and Stuff

I have nothing against painters, sculptors, potters or weavers, I just happen to be a photographer and being one I subscribe to the usual glossy, add-filled magazines, no Virginia I don't just look at the glossy, semi-nekkid girls I read the articles. And in this month's Shutterbug I found several which apply to photographer, painter, sculptor and carver alike. Fortunately you don't have to subscribe to the magazine because they have a wonderful website where for absolutely nothing at all you can read the good stuff and take away the parts which apply to your discipline and ignore the parts which do not.

And for starters, I found this item about Copyrights complete with model release.

http://www.shutterbug.com/

The full article can be read at this link if you want more than a passing glance at the Copyright thingy.

http://www.shutterbug.com/content/copyrights-privacy-rights-update-vital-issue

Now if you burn with an unrequited yearning for more information on Copyrights, take this link to the ASMP, American Society of Media Photographers where you will find a bullet-proof model release and a simplified model release and you will be armed with enough legal firepower to survive the French Revolution!

http://asmp.org/tutorials/simplified-model-release.html

The full-flavored model release is at this link...

http://asmp.org/tutorials/adults-model-release.html

And while you are there take a look at the articles on working with light in portraiture.

http://www.shutterbug.com/category/portraiture

You may not use all, you may not use any. but it never hurts to have a refresher on where the heck the light is coming from and what are you going to do about it and what color is the stuff anyway. Take a look and see if you've forgotten any of this since the dim, long forgotten days in art school when you had to study light to shade that damned ball so that it look round.

Good resources are hard to come by and I have read a bunch of slick magazine articles over the years. This one has the goods and you won't be hurt by reading any of them, Who knows, you might get so much out of it you bookmark the site. You might even wind up subscribing to the magazine, but don't say I didn't warn ya.