{"id":52,"date":"2009-02-10T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:20:19","slug":"grab-shots-zelman-reputation-and-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Grab Shots: Zelman, Reputation and a Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"200\" height=\"166\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/19qlhRovbbA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/19qlhRovbbA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\"><\/embed><\/object><strong>* Inside Bill Zelman: <\/strong>Strobist David Hobby <a href=\"http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/hanging-loose-with-bil-zelman.html\">does an interview<\/a> with photographer Bill Zelman. Among other pearls he lays before us swine is this one:<span class=\"fullpost\"> &#8220;Shooting good portraits is equal parts psychology, trust and technical expertise &#8212; with the technical part probably being the least important.&#8221; Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/hanging-loose-with-bil-zelman.html\">whole interview<\/a>. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=19qlhRovbbA\">video<\/a> as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><strong>Wish You Were There? <\/strong>So, you couldn&#8217;t make to Joe McNally&#8217;s lastest lighting workshop, heh? No worries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemcnally.com\/blog\/category\/seminars-workshops\/\">Click here<\/a>. Plenty of good photos and explanations of how they were made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>* Word of Mouth, Word of Mouth: <\/strong>That&#8217;s what Tom Miles, a 16-year commercial photographer in England, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photosmudger.com\/2009\/02\/quick-student-qa.html\">tells a college student<\/a> is the secret to his success. He adds: &#8220;Doing a good job, being reliable and professional will get you more repeat work than any other method.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>* What the Duck, Man?<\/strong> Economy dragging on you? Editors treating you bad? Need a laugh? Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whattheduck.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>* No Wimpy Photos: <\/strong>That&#8217;s the new mantra of Santa Rosa newspaper photographer John Burgess (and not a bad slogan for the whole newspaper industry). 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