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I was recently interviewed by Bill Ramsey on The PhotoTellers podcast, and today it went live. You can listen to it online or in iTunes by going HERE to their official website. It was a fun interview, and we covered Read More …
ImagingUSA just ended in Atlanta, and while I was there I did 8 short interviews from top people in the industry – those with a special insight into what we do as portrait photographers running a business. I asked each of them Read More …
For 2016, let’s all read more. It’s important for our business, for our mind, and for our outlook. In today’s world, we each get paid based on what we know, and successful people make it a habit to read. So here is Read More …
Earlier in part 1, I talked about overcoming the obstacles of creating this beautiful family group in a rain storm. The final obstacle was selling this as a 7-foot by 4-foot framed canvas, especially when the client put off solidifying Read More …
As I packed my truck for the shoot, the ominous skies were dumping rain. My client, a lovely and quietly affluent mom called me stressed. Her large family had come especially for this event and she was worried about postponing. Read More …
Adobe just released a lot of changes and updates to Photoshop CC. Since Christmas is coming, here is a video showing how to use some of the best features for portrait photographers. I show how to use the new Open Read More …
UPDATE: Dec 2, 2015, 1 Day Later So apparently my video was all garbled, so I re-recorded it as part of my weekly Q&A videos. You can now watch that here. Original Post As part of #GivingTuesday today, every half Read More …
It is Adobe Photoshop’s 25 Anniversary. I began started using Photoshop in version 4.0 which was pretty archaic compared to what we have now. But here is a fun video of well-known experts trying to go back to version 1.0 Read More …
Article Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Continuing where we left off in part 3, we need to remember that quality (not quantity) is the goal, regardless of the time or length of a shoot. Now let’s look at the rest of the shoot. Login Read More …
Article Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 In the last two parts of this series, I shared my one rule of fashion posing along with my systems for being creative in your shoot. So let’s see those points in action using a shoot I did Read More …
Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Fashion shoots are fun, but we need to go into the shoot with a system. Shooting fashion isn’t easier than other styles, it doesn’t mean just shooting thousands of haphazard images hoping something Read More …
Article Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Posing in general is hard, let alone fashion posing. But everyone wants to break the rules and be different, and that usually means wanting to shoot fashion-style images. However, fashion photography doesn’t mean that you don’t Read More …