Archive for January, 2012

19JanHow to customize card templates – Two cool videos

Today I’m including two short videos on how to customize any of the card templates you might buy from the new Portrait Expert template page. Go here to check it out: CARD TEMPLATES The first video is basic customization of the invites and the second one details how to create your own custom school logos for your [...]

17JanExposure Adjustments for Darker Skin Tones

Last week I made a couple of video blog posts about adjusting your exposures in Lightroom and then checking them utilizing the Facemask Histogram. I received emails from several members asking if I would do a video on adjusting exposures on darker skinned subjects. Quite honestly I don’t have much experience with this so this [...]

12JanExposure Adjustments in Lightroom and a Photoshop Contrast Tweak

The other day I made a blog post about understanding the histogram – on your camera and in Photoshop. A member wrote to ask if this information was similar to something I’d published somewhere about adjusting exposures in Lightroom. So here’s another video that covers this topic in more detail. In the video I show [...]

9JanUnderstanding Histograms

Years ago when I first went digital I had a love/hate relationship Will Crockett. At the time Will was teaching a technique he referred to as the Facemask Histogram – a method through which you could determine if the “mask of the face” of your portrait subject was properly exposed. It is a great and [...]

4JanGarage Portraits Almost Here

I am super-pumped about the upcoming release of my new E-book, Garage Portraits. It seems like I’ve been working on it forever! I just put the finishing touches on the individual E-book covers and thought I’d give everyone a sneak peek. First there’s the new logo which, if I say so myself, is pretty awesome. [...]