High Key Portraits Minus the Studio I have to admit I struggled a little with high key portrait lighting in my Garage Portraits business model this year. Part of it was in my own head – thinking I was taking too long getting it set up correctly. But the thing is – once you have [...]
Charitable Photography – The Perfect Marketing Opportunity Had a question recently from a member who’s been asked to provide a photo booth for a local celebratory event. They have some ideas on what they’d like to provide but needed help with how to make it profitable for themselves. ALWAYS the key – charitable or not. [...]
Had a question recently from a member who needed some help with cropping their images. While it may be second nature to many of you there are numerous options to consider so I created a short video. If you have questions by all means let me know. We’ll also add this to the Photoshop Lessons [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
As much as I like writing and/or recording those inspirational messages I need to remind myself occasionally that you’re here to learn about photography. Certainly we need to remain inspired – but we need some meat once in a while too. Today in this longer-than-I-expected video I talk about Cowboy Studio radio slaves. Pardner, if [...]