How important is the booth photo? Besides the artwork images, the booth image can easily make or break an artist’s career doing art shows by keeping you out of even the shows that are considered easy to get into.     Read More…>>

The next mock jury is scheduled for Tuesday January 7th, 2025    Read More…>>

Over 100 Examples of my artwork photography and before and after examples of jury images I’ve improved.     Read More…>>

Why “300DPI or Greater” is Not an Image Size. and How to Ask for Digital Images without being Confusing. How many times have you seen, “send your digital images, 300DPI or greater. The higher the resolution, the better to see your artwork.” That seems to be the most commonly asked for image specifications by art […]    Read More…>>

High key flowers photographed using diffusion filters and backlighting as the only light source. Traditional photographic techniques.    Read More…>>

I received a sales call telling me my web site could be marketed better. But what could have been better was that they could have actually tried to sell me marketing on one of my web sites.    Read More…>>

For $79 you can also be the best in your profession in your local community, or at least hang up a plaque that lets people think it.    Read More…>>

Xena loves to be wheeled around in a shopping cart.. Here’s she is with Elvis at    Read More…>>

Patriotic Xena and Elvis dressed for July Fourth    Read More…>>

The latest addition to my visitors gallery is the roofer who came to give us an estimate on a new roof    Read More…>>

There’s a movement on the art show circuit to not allow pop up type tents at shows because of the damage created when the weather becomes severe    Read More…>>

How to photograph a painting that is framed under glass. One of a series of articles about photographing artwork. Let me start off saying that this technique is for creating jury images, not necessarily for making reproductions of the painting. photographing a painting under glass What I do is photograph the painting from an angle […]    Read More…>>

I’m a big fan of getting business cards printed three up on a 4×6 print from Sam’s Club. Sam’s charges 17 cents for a 4×6 print and 13 cents if you’re willing to pick them up the next day. To get that price, choose “ready in days” instead of “ready in hours” in the console […]    Read More…>>

A few programs that I’ve discovered to be real time savers, or do what they are intend to do better than the competition, saving you time and money.    Read More…>>

The Ann Arbor opportunity or how art shows choose which weekend to schedule their event. July is the biggest art show month of the year, meaning there are more major art shows in July than any other month. And by major art shows, I mean shows that are nationally recognized as art shows where historically, […]    Read More…>>

A blog was started on ArtFair Insiders about Romance at Art Shows. Reminded me that  last month was 25 years since I met my wife at the Three Rivers Art Festival in Pittsburgh in June 1987. That’s when I was selling teddy bear photographs and she thought that anyone that could take pictures like that would […]    Read More…>>

After walking Three Rivers and Boston Mills, I drove to Ann Arbor to walk as much of the combined four art shows as I could in three hot days    Read More…>>

To condense the various web sites that I list my photographs for sale on, and hopefully sell more, I set up an account with Zenfolio and created galleries of all my different styles of work    Read More…>>

When artists do not cover their expenses it is often because there were not enough qualified buyers at those events. This has happened to all of us. The issue is simply “bodies vs. buyers”, a concept we are all intimately familiar with . In a time where artists are failing at record numbers, the Show […]    Read More…>>

2016 Broad Ripple Open Jury 517 artists competed for 230 spaces. Because of the severity of the weather forecast, I left after the jewelry category which took place immediately after lunch. Artists pay attention – if you upload images that are smaller than 1920, ZAPP is still adding wide black borders to make them 1920 […]    Read More…>>

Last week I got a call about scanning artwork to create high resolution digital images for reproduction. My web site contains a page that advertises my slide and artwork scanning services to Pittsburgh and it comes up number one when anyone searches, bringing me jobs from time to time. This job was different. The artwork […]    Read More…>>

Photograph your art in your booth, studio or wherever it’s convenient For years I’ve been recommending using your art show tent as a large diffused light source if you have large or difficult to photograph artwork. Think about how good your artwork looks when you set up at a show. Ideally you want to set […]    Read More…>>

Holy s**t, I just got accepted to St Louis. So, reveling in the high you can only get when those hard to get into shows invite you, I paid my booth fee and sat down to write about it.    Read More…>>

The most difficult type of artwork to photograph is jewelry. That’s because of it’s small size and that it can have many reflective surfaces. And because of it’s small size, it’s very difficult to keep the entire piece in focus. Also the jewelry medium is the most competitive. Most art shows receive more jewelry applications than any other medium. That’s why it’s important to have excellent images of jewelry that make the pieces pop when viewed by the jury.    Read More…>>

Here’s our new holiday card. Our puppies have been taking flying lessons this year.    Read More…>>

I learned about Tommy Emmanuel on the acoustic guitar forum. When I found out he was going to be in Pittsburgh on February 26th I was able to get seats about 20 feet from the stage.    Read More…>>

Gary San Pietro passed away on June 27th 2017. He was a true artist and his medium was photography. Camera equipment was inconsequential. In film days, when he created most of his images, his paint brush was a simple camera body with an inexpensive zoom lens and an inexpensive tripod.    Read More…>>