jack hollingsworth

LensFlareLive is a show created and brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, panelists Deborah Kaufman, Rosh Sillars and Lindsay Adler discuss Facebook Twitter and Websites for Photographers. In addition, they answer questions from the live listening audience.

Lindsay is a professional fashion and portrait photographer in New York and London. Her work has been featured in dozens of fashion and photography magazines internationally, including Sublime, Existence, Oasis and Chic Today Magazines as well as MindFood Magazine, Popular Photography, Shutterbug and dozens more.

She currently owns a successful portrait studio and continues to shoot fashion editorials on commission for a variety of publications. Her first book will appear in stores in March. Lindsay travels throughout the Northeast, US and abroad to teach photography workshops and share her knowledge at conferences and seminars.

Deborah previously was the President and co-founder of Bremond House Gallery. Her area of focus was art acquisition, market strategy, and profitability enhancement for client fine art print programs. Kaufman was also one of three founders involved in the development of the Earthman Art Center, an artist incubator in Galveston, Texas. Ms. Kaufman is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in developing marketing strategies for technology and publishing companies. Kaufman has founded six companies throughout her career, working in the areas of book publishing, online content publishing and software development.

Prior to Bremond House, Kaufman co-founded Embella, Inc., a technology infrastructure company for regulatory content and applications. Kaufman was Director and President of IBT Technologies, one of the first e-learning technology companies providing a Web services platform to adapt content based on user profiles and device. At IBT, Kaufman was responsible for securing over $14 million in capital from venture and investment banking funds. Kaufman grew the company from four founders to 115 employees within one year. Kaufman also played a key role in securing top accounts for the company in the healthcare sector such as Columbia HCA, University of Texas Medical Branch, and AGA-Home Healthcare. These three contracts were estimated at over $10 million in potential revenue.

Earlier in her career, Kaufman founded two traditional publishing companies: Dockery House Publishing of Dallas, Texas, a boutique book publishing company targeting the Fortune 1000; and Mountain Home Publishing, Inc. of Kerrville, Texas, a healthcare publishing company targeting the consumer geriatric market

Rosh is a photojournalist, magazine and corporate photographer and specializes in capturing images that tell a story, evoke an emotion or represent the subject in its natural context. He also contributes regularly as a staff and free-lance photographer for multiple daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines. Rosh has photographed presidents, pro and amateur athletes, pop stars and local heroes through his 20 year professional career and he shares photography, new media and creative business ideas at Prosperous Artists.com and New Media Photographer.com.

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LensFlareLive is a show created and brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, panelists Jack Hollingsworth, Rosh Sillars and Lindsay Adler discuss Blogs for Photographers. In addition, they answer questions from the live listening audience.

Lindsay is a professional fashion and portrait photographer in New York and London. Her work has been featured in dozens of fashion and photography magazines internationally, including Sublime, Existence, Oasis and Chic Today Magazines as well as MindFood Magazine, Popular Photography, Shutterbug and dozens more.

She currently owns a successful portrait studio and continues to shoot fashion editorials on commission for a variety of publications. Her first book will appear in stores in March. Lindsay travels throughout the Northeast, US and abroad to teach photography workshops and share her knowledge at conferences and seminars.

Jack is one of the most well known names in stock photography and not only sells stock through Getty, Corbis and his own site, but was a founder of BLEND images as well as redchopsticks and PhotosIndia. Jack has been described as “Indiana Jones with a camera” due to his constant world travel. Jack teaches, lectures, blogs and has a column in Shutterbug magazine.

Rosh is a photojournalist, magazine and corporate photographer and specializes in capturing images that tell a story, evoke an emotion or represent the subject in its natural context. He also contributes regularly as a staff and free-lance photographer for multiple daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines. Rosh has photographed presidents, pro and amateur athletes, pop stars and local heroes through his 20 year professional career and he shares photography, new media and creative business ideas at Prosperous Artists.com and New Media Photographer.com.

Podcast on iTunesTo listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a pop up window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. To find out when the next live show is going to air, visit our Live Shows page.

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LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Jack Hollingsworth. According to Jack’s bio, he is one of the most well-known names in stock photography and not only sells stock through Getty, Corbis and his own site, but was a founder of Blend Images as well as Red Chop Sticks and Photos India – all stock agencies. Jack has been described as “Indiana Jones with a camera” due to his constant world travel. Jack teaches, lectures, blogs and has a column in Shutterbug magazine.

(C) Jack Hollingsworth

In this episode, Jack talks about how he has adjusted his approach to stock with the addition of micro-stock agencies, whether they are good or bad for the industry, how video is impacting the stock world, and how YOU can get picked up to do stock on a commission basis, as well as the best way to become a stock photographer and the specific steps you should take to become one. He also talks about social media and his top ten tips photographers should have in order to use Twitter successfully.

List of Questions (PDF format)

Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Adobe Photoshop CS4, Aperture, iMovie, Final  Cut Pro, Get Totally Rad, South by Southwest Interactive, Hashtags, Twitter 101, Photo Plus Expo, MrTweet, Twellow, TweetDeck, TweetVisor, TwtApps, TwitPic, TweetStats, TwitterFeed, Ning.

Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe

To listen to the full podcast interview, click on the player’s forward arrow below. You can also play the Podcast in a popup window, download it OR subscribe to it via iTunes. We created a special video of Jack’s images with his explanation of each that opens in a popup window, just click, watch and listen.

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