The five chapters in your adventure:
1. an introduction to stock photography
2. taking the photos
3. nitty-gritty editing
4. how to pitch a model release
5. building effective keywords
— 1: an introduction to stock photography —
Stock photography is not art photography. If you’re looking … Continue reading
I wrote this for a fellow photographer and photo-blogger named Nokao, since he asked what plugins I’m using for this site. As you may know, Brilliant Photography is powered by WordPress: WordPress MU to be specific, since I’m in the … Continue reading
2009-12-20 Update: This article is #1 in Google for “photography sucks,” so I see why it gets so many comments. Don’t take me too seriously. Photography is really an art form and I am playing devil’s advocate here.
“I wish … Continue reading
You can search this site by going to Google and entering a query followed by or preceded by “site:richardxthripp.thripp.com”.
If I’ve given you a 4*6 print copy of one of my photos, and you want to find it’s page on my … Continue reading
I was fired an hour ago. It took me this long to write this (I’m slow, you know).
If you’ve read my first post about this, you’ll know that I was in trouble for telling my boss she’s in the wrong … Continue reading
I was contemplating how to get the word out about the resource I’m developing here at Brilliant Photography. I decided to send an email to everyone know a.k.a. mass spamming. But it’s not spamming, because it’s relevant. I don’t know … Continue reading
I’ve been working on the Thripp.com network non-stop over the past ten days. It’s looking great; I learned a lot and made a lot of progress with features. The next step is to move my blog, Brilliant Photography by Richard … Continue reading
2008-07-20 Update: They upgraded the site and broke the old URLs! Here’s my new Gawker Artists page.
I have a page on Gawker Artists now. The photo that got me in is The Rebel, one of my favorite portraits, taken for … Continue reading
I was looking for ways to optimize my website . . . to make it quicker and easier for me to maintain and update, while being fun to browse for my visitors. The problem with the old gallery and random … Continue reading
The definitive photo of blue marbles. These marbles are my grandmother’s, and the yellow table I arranged them on is on her veranda. I get to take creative shots of them like this, of course. The evening light was … Continue reading