7 Simple Tips To Improve Your Portraits
Over the years of teaching studio portrait lighting, I have slowly been creating a small tips list that I share with my students. I have never just stopped and said hey, here are ten tips…
Month: November 2022
Wax On, Wax Off
Often, I feel like I am watching people pass me by as they reach their destinations while I seem stuck in life. Today I know differently. I often only saw people way into their journey…
One Week Lighting Workshop With Stanley
Since 2006 I have been doing a one-week lighting workshop as part of the School of Photography program of YWAM with Dennis Fahringer in Kona, Hawaii. This year I was asked by two of his…
College Recruitment Photography
This past week I spent a few days in the small town of West Point, Georgia, photographing a reasonably new college at Point University. Colleges need strong images to sell their campus life to prospective…
Success & Failure Are Often The Results Of Our Communications
Communication plays a critical role in everything we do here on earth. We communicate in so many ways. When we talk to another person face-to-face, we have our words, tone, body language, and the ability…
Best Addition to the Nikon Z9 Camera Bag
Whenever I create a blog post on gear, I get five to ten times the number of people reading those posts. There are a few things that people are looking for when they click on…
2 Levels Of Culling Images
In his Lettres Provinciales, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal famously wrote: “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” While most people understand this when it comes…
Oops! & The Fix for Group Photo
The group photo is the most crucial shot for this event. The client needed the plane included. I arrived early and set up strobes to light the group. Nothing is worse than having a lot…