Inspirations
June 2021 Inspirations: Best Child Portraits
Inspiration can come when you least expect it. As photographers, we are visual artists. We express ourselves through our camera and the images we create.
06/01/2021
Post Production
Post-Production Best Practices For Printed Artwork
Post-Production Best Practices For Printed Artwork with Holly Lund Whether you printed artwork of your photography for yourself, for clients, for galleries, or for any
06/01/2021
Shutter Magazine
A Beginner’s Guide to Underwater Portrait Photography
Being underwater can feel amazing! That weightlessness, the silence, the way our bodies move—it’s truly a unique place, and taking our cameras underwater is a great way to create images that are unique as well.
06/01/2021
Babies
Newborn Photography | 6 Tips for Choosing Props
Newborn photography continues to grow each year, and with this growth brings props that can transform your sessions and creativity. I love finding new, unique props and my clients appreciate the many artistic ways I use them.
06/01/2021
Business
Staying Competitive in a Saturated Market
In more than 24 years of providing wedding videography services to the greater New York City market and being married to successful wedding photographer, Vanessa Joy, for nearly 12 of them, I’ve had to adapt my business model more than I’d like to admit.
06/01/2021
Post Production
Down & Dirty Creative Editing in Lightroom Classic & Photoshop
When it comes to creative editing my work, I am constantly pushing quality, but I also need to edit faster where it makes sense. Sneak peeks, or what I like to call down and dirty edits, are something I love to offer days after a session to take my client’s experience to the next level.
06/01/2021
Children
How I Got the Shot with Barbara Macferrin
I love creating fine art portraiture. For better or worse, I don’t usually visualize a final portrait ahead of time, or have an exact idea of what I want to create. Most of the magic just happens in the moment as I’m shooting, then I make the image come to life in Photoshop.
06/01/2021
Business
Are Print Competitions Worth It?
2014. I will never forget that year. I was in a place with my work where I did not know how to move forward. My friends and colleagues at the time could no longer offer me advice other than “this is amazing.”
06/01/2021
Children
5 Expert Tips for Child Photography
As I write this article from New York, it’s mid-April and the world is still grappling with the effects of the coronavirus. I can only assume that by publication date, not much will have changed. My career has always revolved around spreading joy, and like many of you I’ve found the last 15 months or so very challenging with the virus
06/01/2021
Posing
How to Get the Best Poses Out of Men
When you work as a photographer, you’re often dealing with subjects who aren’t professional models. This puts more responsibility on you to coax good poses out of the subject. Today, I’d like to give you some useful tips for doing this when your subject is a man, or someone who wants to portray a masculine image.
06/01/2021
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