Reading Time: 5 minutesNikon D4, 70-200mm, ISO 11,400, ƒ/5, 1/500 Be Prepared Here are a few tips before you start shooting the
Tips for Parents shooting sports
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When you “hit the wall” in your business
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn endurance sports, “hitting the wall” is characterized by a sudden and dramatic decrease in energy and performance and
Helping hurts when communication is overlooked
Reading Time: 5 minutesI believe photographers need a good PR agency, and since no one is volunteering to do it for us,
Photographers: How to Avoid Obsolescence
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Photographers are becoming obsolete, unless …
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow we are becoming obsolete Professional photographers are becoming increasingly obsolete because their work is becoming a commodity. In
Shooting a photo package on a person
Reading Time: 3 minutesShooting a package This is the bread-and-butter assignment for the editorial/photojournalist. You get a call from an editor who
How to recover when project doesn’t go well
Reading Time: 5 minutesTypes of clients I believe there are two types of clients—Educated and uneducated. I am not talking about how
Only Photography can capture the “Microexpressions”
Reading Time: 4 minutesMicroexpressions Lie to Me is the hit TV [January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2011] series based on
If Photographers had union like the musicians …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI am in Los Angeles this week on our family vacation. We stopped by our family friend Pam Goldsmith’s
Photography Tax Tips
Reading Time: 5 minutesBookkeeping??? I want to shoot. If you don’t like keeping track of your spending or budgeting and can never
How Photography Helped Me: Part 2
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How Photography Helped Me: Part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutesStanley on a school bus in Kinston, NC While I have always wanted to be in control, I wasn’t
Hand held light/flash meter
Reading Time: 3 minutesFlash/Light Meter simplifies lighting. Anyone using studio strobes will significantly benefit from a flash meter. Here is the older
Lighting Setup: Table-top Product Photography
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhite or transparent objects on a white background can be very challenging to photograph and can become quite frustrating
Off-camera flash and gels for the sky
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I get this kind of situation on a cloudy day in Kona, Hawaii, sometimes I fix it with
















