Weekly Photog Fuel Up: May 16-22, 2010

Introducing our weekly round-up of Fuel Your Photography’s weekly posts including  the hottest links and podcasts and other fun stuff from around the web.

Fuel Your Photography

Switching Gears

Mathieu Jarre takes us through the transition of getting into your first DSLR camera, while giving us the lighter side of choosing your ‘beginners’ gear.

While it’s always fun to spend money on the gadgets you need, this can be a stress-inducing time as some of your choices can influence your photography future…

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An Interview With Fife Photography

Our first interview in our new series, featuring the hottest names in the photography business. We get up close and personal and bring you along for the ride.

The Comparison Bug. No matter how good you get, there will always be someone better (and someone worse). The times where I start to get overwhelmed or anxious about comparing my work or our business, I have to close my Google reader and go pick up my camera. I can look at other people’s images and appreciate them, but in the end it’s my vision…

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Art in Unusual Places

Last weekend’s photo focus round-up

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headless by ~LittleBlackUmbrella

Headless Portraiture

This weekend’s photo focus, centered on taking portraits that don’t include the face. The point of this focus is to say something about the person you are taking the photograph of, even though we don’t get to see their face

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Hot Articles & Links From the Web

Article of the Week: Jeremy Cowart’s guest article on Scott Kelby

Jermey Cowart shares his journey to becoming the photographer he is today.

I recently heard an assistant (24 years old) mocking a 30-something year old wedding photographer. He said, “Man, how terrible. I’ll never be 33 years old and still shooting weddings.

Is it Photography

Zack Arias seemed to get caught flat footed when he responded to critiquing some photos in his forum, he addresses a post from a forum member, and the response is classic. Touching on the debate of what is photography.

I was embarrassed to tell any of my photographer friends about my job. I never ever mentioned it on the forums I was active on. Pride would not allow me to breath a word of it. It wasn’t “photography”. I could train a monkey to do the job.

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Podcast of The Week

Podcast of the Week: Photofocus #39

Scott Kelby rejoins Scott Bourne to discuss great Q&A in Photography, talk a bit about the major changes and reasons for upgrading to Photoshop CS5 and even touches upon using the iPad as a portfolio piece.

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Photogs To Put On Your Radar

Photog of the Week: Fife Photograpy

We sat down for an interview with Amber and Dustin earlier this week, and there is a reason we featured them for an interview. Thier work is great, check out these hot photogs from Oklahoma.