I don’t know who said it, but it helped me find my personal style. About a year ago, I was lost and felt disconnected from my own work. Everybody told me that nothing was wrong, that my images were beautiful.
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been a nerd. I grew up in Laurel, Mississippi. My brother and I would always buy comics at this place called Dexter’s Card & Comics. This is what started my nerdy obsession with superheroes.
As a professional artist, there is nothing more important than your portfolio. This is your calling card in the world of creative. It doesn’t matter how personable you are or how sweet you are, if your work sucks, no one is going to book you.
Weddings are a special moment for a couple that they’ll remember for the rest of their lives. For a photographer, they present an opportunity to capture absolutely unique romance and tension that you’d never be able to photograph anywhere else.
There is just something special about black & white imagery. Perhaps it’s the way we look back at the photographs of the masters like Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh and Ansel Adams to name a few, or perhaps it’s the way old movies have a specific feel to them as we watch them in monochrome.
Black & white photography has been around since the inception of photography, when the masters brought scenes of the west to life and changed the history of art forever.
Until recently, I rarely ever photographed in black & white, but this past year I decided to add a new genre of women’s intimate portraits to my session offerings.
It’s no secret that the key to good photography is balancing the seemingly endless array of options, styles, techniques, settings and so on.
In today's world, most of our images are captured digitally and remain digital. This is the modern way and there is absolutely nothing wrong with this.
As the saying goes, “There are many ways to do something in Photoshop.” This is accurate for most things, except when it comes to turning a color image to black & white.
