There’s a great expression in scuba diving: Plan your dive, dive your plan. Whether you’re into scuba-diving or not, you can appreciate the challenge. You’re headed to the bottom of the ocean for a very limited time.
It’s easy to get so wrapped up in creating unique images that you forget about the business side of things. That goes for both beginning professionals and seasoned veterans. There just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day.
Inspiration comes to us in many shapes & sizes. Put 10 photographers in a room and ask them to shoot a paperclip, and there’s no telling what will happen.
Recently I had the pleasure of being the first photographer in the United States to field test Profoto’s B1 Air 500 TTL Off-Camera Flash. One of the images from that shoot, taken on location in the historic Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, has garnered a lot of questions…
When I was in New York recently for PhotoPlus Expo, the situation back home suddenly turned dire. My husband left our boys with my parents and then joined me. Two days into the four-day conference, my mother called to say my youngest…
The sheer uttering of the phrase income tax makes many of us cringe. Nobody likes the thought of the tax man taking their hard-earned money out of their pockets. But with tax deductions, you can limit the tax man’s take.
Being a professional photographer is a dream for a lot of us. I think it represents hope. Hope that there is something beyond that desk job. I know I for one had that hope for many years as I dreamed of becoming a professional photographer.
In our industry, some degree of retouching is expected. Subtle retouching can have a very pleasing result for the client (key word being subtle). In October I wrote about retouching stray hairs. In this article, I tackle skin and eye retouching. I’m going to show you how to subtly retouch…
It’s that time of year. I really can’t believe that 2013 is almost over and it’s time to plan for 2014. It feels like I was just planning for 2013 and getting my projections on paper for the year!
Turning a concept shoot into a magazine cover So, many of you may recall our Shoot to Sell training series on the 1960s Mad
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