tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67851720645723818872024-03-08T13:01:29.351-08:00Please Visit My New Website<a href="http://www.jainlemos.com">www.jainlemos.com</a>Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-81995980161704726552009-02-01T09:27:00.001-08:002009-02-01T09:33:43.592-08:00I've Moved!Hi -- Please visit my new website: www.jainlemos.com.Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-33255327725733090992009-01-01T15:41:00.000-08:002009-01-05T15:42:41.638-08:00~ TWENTY OH NINE! ~Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-59749327080711321512008-12-24T09:52:00.000-08:002008-12-24T10:58:07.635-08:00~ Merry Christmas ~Wooohooooo, Jain! Success! Thanks for using TUT E-Cards - Inspiration for every occasion! With every best wish, TUT's Adventurers Club"Give beyond reason... care beyond hope... love without limit... reach, stretch, and dream...." ~ The UniverseThanks so much for your support this year. Hope Santa brings you everything you want. Merry Christmas! It's going around. ~ JainJain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-49656316424040610742008-12-23T10:31:00.000-08:002008-12-23T11:02:43.041-08:00Old Cameras, New EyesNew York portrait and wedding photographer Linda Smith is walking the talk when it comes to social cause photography. She is setting up photo labs and workshops for former child soldiers and refugees of the Hutus-vs-Tutsi genocide casualities in Rwanda. Her program recycles disposable and discarded cameras and provides them to children in Rwanda and Uganda, allowing them to process what has Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-38362473055532761412008-12-14T09:33:00.000-08:002008-12-14T11:41:34.665-08:001940 to 2076Twenty-four weeks ago, I posted a note mentioning photo ops about dying car sales. What are you waiting for? Yesterday I drove south on Pacific Coast Highway from Hermosa to Laguna Beach, a route only suitable when travel time is not a factor. I had forgotten this 50-mile stretch of pre-freeway road is a car dealer haven. Gas prices were low ($1.65/gallon). The car lots, spooky.This photo I took Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-1368670695710411692008-12-12T13:58:00.001-08:002008-12-14T12:13:04.445-08:00Dear Santa (again):The new WordPress blog theme for photographers called ProPhoto2 has been released out of beta testing and you can see it here. Watching their demo, it looks easy to me and appears they have thought of everything. ProPhoto2 is on my Christmas wish list so if I get it I will test it to be sure. Let me know if you try it and find anything missing.Thanks to Tristan Tom for pointing it out to me and Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-53373671894879496552008-12-10T08:29:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:27:54.877-08:00December (!) Mentoring AssignmentJust when you thought you were done for the year along comes one more assignment for 2008 :-). You are to shoot the cover for a glossy magazine called "Nights" and the photo has to be a vertical. Make a night portrait using street/storefront lighting as backdrops. Your subject can be any adult but they need to display some type of trendy fashion accent. If you find good Christmas light displays, Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-85131315095851112432008-12-09T10:00:00.000-08:002008-12-09T10:01:35.486-08:00Words and PicturesI like Larry Mills' series on junk yards. Being the organized sort, I'm fascinated by spaces that are in disarray. Some days I purposely stop myself from straightening stuff on my desk but in the end, I need clean space around me in order to think. But enough about me. What Larry doesn't have that would, IMHO, make this series better are captions or introductory text. To become a successful Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-71176567561512099042008-12-08T10:38:00.000-08:002008-12-14T09:31:50.811-08:00A Sea of Photo BlogsIf you haven't listed your site with Photoblogs.org, what are you waiting for? Once you do, be sure to bookmark favorites and take notes as you swim through the massive current of 33,000 photoblogs. Maybe yours will make their Hot Photoblog list. Either way, jump in, the water's scorching. Be sure to let me know if I can help rank you higher. BTW: today's photo is from last week's visit to Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-19618590775315644292008-12-07T09:51:00.000-08:002008-12-07T10:03:03.151-08:00Spinning AroundMike Terry popped up on my radar today. I see future-great-sports-photographer written all over his work. Mike: Call me anytime you are feeling underwhelmed and I'll load you up with plenty of free suggestions to make your level head spin.Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-9518710848908382232008-12-06T08:47:00.000-08:002008-12-06T09:18:34.623-08:00Elegant & SophisticatedI am continually impressed with the offerings and features from liveBooks. Michael Costuros is doing a great job running the shop. I was looking at their platform for a client about six months ago and going back over to their website now I see they have really expanded their community channel. I think you will enjoy their interview section, especially the one with Harry Benson.Listening to Harry Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-15554256486695054062008-12-03T10:37:00.000-08:002008-12-03T10:48:05.733-08:00Deep and DeeperI received this note from Kelly Sonora today:Hi Jain, We just posted an article, "100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web". I thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you think your readers would find it interesting.Thanks, Kelly. This is a great resource. Photo people will find this post on the Read Write Web useful, too. It describes and provides links to some of the Deep Web Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-79040968912143738182008-11-27T10:28:00.000-08:002008-11-27T10:45:32.088-08:00Jain's Golden Gate Bridge History LessonJain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-53041091836398090952008-11-21T13:29:00.001-08:002008-11-21T15:23:54.684-08:00No Yes WowPhotographer Marcela Taboada is a finalist in this year's Photolucida Critical Mass competition. Her work is among those pre-screened out of over six hundred entries. This image from her photo essay, "Women of Clay," was included in her entry (see Portfolio 1 on her website).As reviewers, our job is to look at all the finalists and rate each on this scale:NO = "Someone may be interested in this Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-67021511172287069632008-11-17T10:50:00.000-08:002008-11-17T11:11:42.377-08:00Advice for Young...and Old?Yesterday's Magnum Blog post gives advice to those starting out in photography from several members. Many provide the same basic suggestions but I think what Mikhael Subotzky had to say works for those aspiring to be a Magnum-type shooter:Q: What advice would you give young photographers?A: Stick to one project for a long time. And keep working on it through many stages of learning, even if it Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-14821489951606153102008-11-17T10:13:00.000-08:002008-11-17T10:43:16.865-08:00All Work and No BloggingI’ve been on a great project with photographer Jamie Williams producing new stills for the California Travel and Tourism Commission and their agency Mering-Carson. We covered dozens of locations in three weeks including Saint Helena, San Francisco, Big Sur, Hollywood, Joshua Tree, Newport Coast, La Jolla and Coronado.Along the way we had fun, a little rain, very long days, the pleasure of workingJain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-35628494576297520792008-10-21T08:23:00.000-07:002008-10-21T09:28:36.930-07:00How to Untangle Book ProposalsWhatever your book is about, remember the idea has to be sold three times:To the publisher or investor who will finance and produce your book,To bookstores and fulfillment houses that will keep it in inventory,To someone who will buy the book.Proposals must illustrate exactly how you will communicate to the potential customer. If you have a concept that readers will buy, then the booksellers are Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-46648570588369786502008-10-10T09:21:00.001-07:002008-10-10T09:24:24.306-07:00What's the Deep Web All About?A while back, I mentioned The Deep Web, and how most all photo researchers know how to use it when it comes to finding images. Several people asked me what that is all about so I thought I'd explain a little more.The Deep Web has also been called the Invisible Web, Deepnet or the Hidden Web. It is not the commonly seen Web that is driven (indexed/crawled) by search engines. According to some Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-23604495920749352152008-10-10T08:59:00.000-07:002008-10-10T09:18:31.798-07:00More Free Tips!If you haven't been listening to the radio shows on Inside Digital Photo, now is great time to head over there! It's all free, and you'll get the latest news, in-depth interviews, product reviews, live event coverage and tips featuring special guests. Host Scott Sheppard interviewed me for his Oct 4th program where I give some tips and insights about how to develop and market book projects. The Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-31643393512746883322008-10-02T10:48:00.000-07:002008-10-02T11:10:11.103-07:00Pay Isn't the Best, But...Today I discovered Vewd, "a documentary photography magazine continuing the tradition of storytelling through a visual medium."I sense that founder Matt Blalock is honestly passionate about photoj. Overall, Vewd is well done and provides another decent platform for image story circulation. My only hesitation is the exposure of your ideas without very much return, unless you bang the hell out of Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-69741925442027855382008-10-01T11:02:00.000-07:002008-10-01T11:38:43.036-07:00How to Hit a NerveWrite (photograph) what you know about is good advice but you may know more about something than you first realize. When it comes to subject matter, I like to ask photographers what they feel gives them “authority” to publish on their proposed topic. I’m interested to know about your significant credentials, time spent on the body of work and influential people attached to the project. Equally Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-22437554058394523862008-09-26T10:16:00.000-07:002008-10-01T10:33:28.428-07:00Interview with a Consultant (Me!)There is a new interview with me on After Capture this week about what it means to be a photographer's consultant. Part I: What She DoesPart II: How She HelpsThanks to host Ethan G. Salwen for asking me to particpate!Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-23018065555929409302008-09-23T08:27:00.000-07:002008-09-23T08:59:56.760-07:00A Great RecipePlease take a look at Masterfile's promotional magazine, Green World. Each spread in this 32-page booklet has depth and surprise. Note their seamless marketing focus on their own products while encouraging mainstream green support. This work is powerful and inspiring on many levels. They have blended the talents of editors, writers, photographers, designers, programmers and marketers into an Jain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-59861785068776714082008-09-19T11:25:00.001-07:002008-09-19T13:42:55.549-07:00Topical Use OnlyThe bulk of my experience is producing and editing documentary books but I have also worked on plenty of single subject titles (i.e., cookbooks, gardens, tiles, wedding design, cars). In either case, the proposal’s topic must initially be perceived as having the potential to connect with an identifiable audience beyond people with an interest in your fantastic photography.Here is an example. YourJain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785172064572381887.post-36701125021254566772008-09-19T07:46:00.000-07:002008-09-19T11:57:17.276-07:00more animalsJain Lemoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11088115038795860416noreply@blogger.com0