Linnie Schneider

Sigma FP2 teardown from Tony & Chelsea Northrup

Tony and Chelsea Northrup do a thorough job here of cutting through the spec sheet hype and getting into what this camera actually delivers in practice. I've been curious about the FP line for a while…

Worth sitting with if you've ever blamed a lens

Tony & Chelsea Northrup nail something here that took me years of crawling around in meadows to figure out on my own. The core message about slowing down and really seeing before you press the shutter…

Packaging unframed prints for a retail shop setting

I have a chance to place some of my floral prints in a small shop here in Germany, and I am realizing I have no idea how to package them properly for that environment. At local markets I have always u…

How did you figure out which pieces would actually sell early on?

When I started showing my floral close-ups, I had no real sense of what people would want on their walls. I loved my tight compositions of single petals with soft backgrounds, but the pieces that got…

Does the relationship with a buyer matter as much as the work itself?

Last month I sold a print of a bluebell close-up to someone who had been following my work for over a year. She told me she almost bought a different piece months ago but waited because she wanted to…

Selling originals from Europe when shipping costs feel prohibitive

Last month I had someone in the US ask about buying one of my framed floral prints, a large format piece from a tulip series I shot on film. I quoted the shipping and never heard back. That stung a li…

Finding subjects in overlooked, in-between places

Some of my best flower photographs come from spots most people walk past without noticing. Not the manicured garden beds, not the famous tulip fields. The cracks in old walls, the strip of wildflowers…

How long are your slideshow reels actually performing well?

I started putting together short slideshow reels of my floral close ups, mostly sequences showing different angles of the same bloom or a progression through a morning's light. But I keep going back a…

Do you actually override your camera's meter, or just trust it?

Last spring I spent a whole morning on my knees in front of white tulips, shooting aperture priority, and every single frame came back muddy grey. The camera saw all that bright petal and dialed every…

ADAA Fair Relaunches with a New Identity This November

The Art Dealers Association of America fair has announced 63 galleries for its first edition under a new brand, still taking place at the Park Avenue Armory. One notable shift: the preview gala will n…