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I can answer questions about all social photography (wedding, corporate, b`nai mitzvah). All general questions about digital photography and, of course, film. Photojournalistic and travel photo questions can also be asked as that is another specialty of mine.

Past/Present Clients

McDonald's, Sprint, GE, Ford, NBC, IBM, Princess Cruises, NCL and I work the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon every year.
I have worked for The New York Times, USA Today, AP and dozens of other international and national publications. I have shot hundreds of weddings, b'nai mitzvah and corporate social events.

What do you like about this subject?

Variety...as a freelancer, you can go from shooting a national politician to a bar mitzvah in one hour. You are constantly moving among different economic, social and political worlds. The learning curve is steep and most fascinating. I love the variety of the profession. Not much money but....

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I want to keep learning about all the innovations in my field. The more one learns, the better one gets.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

You are combining a machine with art.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Your curiosity is never satisfied when shooting different events.

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Recent Answers from Mark Gluckman

2009-10-17 Getting a blurry background:

Inherently, point and shoot digitals have more depth of field (you need very shallow depth of field to blur the background) than DSLRs. Set the aperture to the largest (2.8 is the largest not the smallest

2009-10-09 photo copyright concerns:

You never need permission to use a location shot. Sometimes you must ask permission to photograph in a sensitive area (power plants, retail stores, etc.). Since it was a photo of you, nothing is needed

2009-09-11 flashes:

Bounce the flash. I don't know if the SB-600 has a white card built-in, but if it does extend it and bounce the flash at a 45 degree angle towards the ceiling. If it doesn't use the diffuser that came

2009-08-01 A good yeild?:

If you get 10% that you think are good enough to publish, you should be working for Time Mag. or National Geographic. 10 shooting average is about right for good photos, but no publishable. I would say

2009-04-22 education and employability:

Deanna, Ambition and a willingness to work for next to nothing in this economy is what will help. Newspapers use very few 'stringers' and those they use have years of photojournalism experience. What

 

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