My apologies up front. Three minutes into this first video my trusty little Kodak Zi8 flip camera decided it no longer wanted to be my friend and quit working. Off I went to Best Buy to drop $300 on a new video camera – I’m not happy with the picture quality and I didn’t have [...]
Of everything I do to retouch a portrait image – I spend the most time on the eyes. And today’s video is titled; “Windows to the Soul – retouching eyes for maximum impact.” The video started to run a little bit long so I split it into two parts to make it easier to digest! In [...]
Here are your first two Photoshop actions and a quick video showing you how and where to install them and what they do for your work-flow. One action is called “Retouch Base” because it’s one I run on every image before I start retouching. Watch the install video and you’ll understand why. Additionally, in your [...]
Had to post this ’cause I’ve been laughing since I came in the back door. As you may have read already, Monique arrived last Friday. When I left for the day on Friday I thought I’d have a little fun with her. (Not that kind – for the cryin’ out loud – mind out of [...]
Ah Minnesota in the winter. Where else would the roof cave in on a professional football stadium – due to snow overload – than here in the frozen wasteland of Minnesota. We just received one of our top five snowfalls in the last two days and Kate and I have been digging out since yesterday. [...]
Hah!!! Made you look. I should really be waiting to show you these images but I’m just super-excited about this. I’m working on ideas for the lighting videos for the new High School Senior Portrait Expert member site. I contemplated hiring a couple past seniors to act as subjects for the videos but decided to [...]
I have to admit I found this video on the Shuttermom site; it was just too good not to pass on. The amazing power of the internet – this event occurred on November 10th of this year – THIS YEAR. In less than a month this video has been viewed over 15 MILLION times. The [...]