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The Perfect Senior Session From Start to Finish
The Perfect Senior Session From Start to Finish with Carlee Secor The perfect senior session is always a work in
Top 3 Ways To Set Up Lightroom Classic for Faster Editing
One of the biggest complaints I hear from photographers is how Lightroom Classic is slow when they edit tons of images. While there are many reasons why this happens, there is certainly some responsibility on the user.
How To Decide if an Image Should Be Color or Black & White
When modern-day photography was invented in 1839, the only option available was black & white. It wasn’t until Kodachrome came around in 1935 that color photography became more widely available and started gaining popularity.
Conquer Creative Slumps Effectively
I’d like to start by talking about a window. A broken window, specifically. A man by the name of Nathan Howe introduced this idea with his own story of a broken window, wherein a child threw a ball through his window and shattered it, so they boarded it up.
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5 Tips To Create Impactful Black & White Portraits
Black & white portraits are absolutely classic. Many times, you can have a standard beautiful image but when you make it black & white… it comes to LIFE!
Black & White Photography: Tips for Creating the Best Images
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.
Getting Started in Cosplay Photography
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.
Building a Strong Photography Portfolio
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.
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Capturing Serious and Romantic Expressions in Wedding Photography
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.
Ideas for Impactful Black & White Images
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.
How to Take Better Black & White Landscape Images
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.
How To Shoot Moody Black & White Portraits
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.
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Tips to Use Perspective in Photography
It’s no secret that the key to good photography is balancing the seemingly endless array of options, styles, techniques, settings and so on.
Best Practices for Printing Black & White Photography
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.
The Two Best Ways to Create a Black & White Image
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.
Shades of Gray: Black & White Photography for Boudoir
Contrast and all the shades of gray is what makes photographs dynamic. Muddy and muted pictures don’t do it for me.
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