Marc's Story Marc Silber is the author of the #1 best-selling book Advancing Your Photography, an award-winning professional video producer, photographer, and photography educator who has been successfully working in the field for decades. Marc combines his passion for the visual art of photography with his love of life. He started out learning
Sunset over Point Lobos, Carmel, CA I wrote this a few years back about this time, so I thought I'd put it out again for 2018! Hey, like everything in life, if you don't set your photography goals, they're not likely to just happen on by and knock on your door. Let me ask you,
I’ve been a photographer most of my life and teaching is a role I’ve continually found myself in since becoming a mountaineering instructor at 19. After many workshops where I quoted notable photographers as having said this or that, a flash hit me—why not interview them and let others hear from them directly? One
Point Lobos Same Point, two different Views of Point Point Lobos, in Monterey County, California, near Carmel-by-the sea, has inspired countless photographers with its unparalleled lanscape and wildlife regardless of the time of the year or the weather. Rainbow over Carmel River Beach, Point Lobos behind it. Carmel Beach, with Point Lobos getting fogged in
7 Photography Tips to learn from a 3 year old Mac, a 3 year old, gave us a few pointers about photography, pay close attention to his wisdom and photography tips. You may think that 3-year-old Mac is learning to use a camera, but actually he’s teaching us adults some mighty
Hey, like everything in life, if you don't set your photography goals, they're not likely to just happen on by and knock on your door. Let me ask you, when was the last time you thought about your goals as a photographer? Lots of us keep going out and shooting the same pictures over and
Our mission with Advancing Your Photography: We connect you with photographers who have mastered their craft, sharing their insight and showing you their photography tips so you can go right out and use them. We give you 5 easy steps to advance your photography: 1. Watch AYP videos with our pros. 2. Get out and shoot to
Have you been brainwashed about photography? What me, how absurd! I'll bet you have been and it's so deep you don't even know it. Just like the Matrix, it's all around and so "real" that we think this is "reality." Right about now you're thinking, "come on Marc what the hell are you talking about?" Ok, alright, let's jump right in, are you going to take the blue pill and forget, or the red, and find out just how deep the matrix goes down the rabbit hole? (or is it the other way around?) Here's what you've been lied about: To take a great photograph you need the newest, fastest, highest ISO, multi media camera out there.
Remembering Steve Jobs, his home Palo Alto Even though we knew his stepping down from CEO the previous Summer was a foreshadowing of what might be looming, no one was prepared for the news on that Tuesday in 2011. Steve was our generation's grand wizard, transforming otherwise mundane objects into fun, creative and empowering machines. For
Four years ago today, Edith Shain, the woman depicted in an iconic photograph kissing a sailor in Times Square at the end of World War II, died at the age of 91. The famed photo, snapped by Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, shows a young woman in a nurse's uniform at the mercy of a particularly
