Photographic Training & Tools for Success
A while ago, a photographer friend Bryan Welsh was in town, and we taught a full-day workshop to photographers on the business of photography. One of the big takeaways is to think about marketing in better ways. Instead of having Read More …
Today, Adobe has announced a second Adobe Lightroom desktop application. There are now two versions of Lightroom, and I have two videos explaining everything you need to know. This first video talks about the difference between the two, why you’d Read More …
I have been a full time portrait photographer for 20 years, and here is exactly what I do on each shoot. It’s a system that is customizable to any type of portrait shoot, families, children, individuals, groups, weddings. This works Read More …
Have you tried Adobe Spark? It’s a free way to create a web responsive page or story that you can share. Earlier versions of Spark were called ‘Adobe Slate’ (for text and photos), ‘Adobe Voice’ (for video and animations), and Read More …
WHAT IS “TEXAS SCHOOL?” Once a year, there’s a big event where photographers from all over fly to Texas to train for an entire week with one Master Photographer of their choice. It’s a chance to learn hands-on with photographers 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 …
It’s here! Photographers who’ve attended my workshops have asked for something they could take home that covers my lighting program, which is the biggest and most important part of photography. This is it, over 3 hours of training, broken up into bite-size Read More …
There are tricks to mixing flash with sunlight or any other ambient light. Here’s a video explaining the 3Fs, a trick to getting the perfect exposure with both the foreground and background perfect — manually!
I taught a weeklong photographic workshop called ‘Evergreen’ outside of Seattle in a small town called Port Townsend. Here are some of the images from that event. Usually as I travel and move, I create images — it’s like a Read More …