How To Use This Blog Now that blog is growing it also became a bit hard to navigate so here is a very brief explanation of how things organized here:
How To Help Your Model Relax Almost every webinar with Kiev group I am asked about how to work with tense model. This relates mostly to portrait work or working with an aspiring model. Here is 4 ways I
How Did I Start In Fashion Editorial This week I just wanted to write about this question, because I get that a lot. Ok, you are editorial photographer and you have a list of publications so it's easy to get
Next Year's Plan As you probably already heard, starting next year we will have something extra special in the group - we will start a curriculum. The reason I think we need to do it is
Photobook Tutorial: Printing and Shipping I was thinking maybe it's going to be a good idea to finish Photobook Tutorial this week. As you already know I raised nearly $4k and now it was time to actually fulfill
Should I pay for magazine submission? Thoughts I decided to share my thought on this question here because it's the most popular question that I get on my webinars. In fact almost every time, during Kiev or US webinar, someone
Photobook Tutorial: Publishing Now as we finished with the book design, let's talk about publishing options. I have some insider info for you:) So of course the first question was, publishing house or self-publishing? I decided
Final Prototype When you are finally ready with the design you need to print the book. It's a very important thing because you will, again, learn a lot of new information. To give you one
Photobook Tutorial: User Research After the first prototype was ready I scheduled five user interviews. The first was a woman who answered my IG announcement and she was a photographer herself plus graphic designer. Some of her
Photobook Tutorial: Design and First Prototype Just wanted to tell you before-head that I learned all I know about graphic design, design of the book and user research from working here. Ok, so what takes the book from some
Photobook Tutorial: Concept First of all I needed to figure out what kind of work should go in the book. I excluded my commercial work as well as my fashion editorials because I figured they are