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Secrets of High School Senior Picture Experience

If you’re building a portrait business or working as a weekend photographer, senior picture time is a great place to cut your teeth and make money. But only if you push the envelope. Your competitors are three-fold: popular, experienced studios, aspiring [...]

Coexist!

Coexist! The world is rich in its diversity. Our differences are what make us great. Ignorance is our worst enemy. What is needed is knowledge, open minds and acceptance. Love thy neighbor means having mutual tolerance, acceptance and respect for everyone. [...]

Is beauty skin deep?

High school senior portrait season is beginning, and if you’re a seriously aspiring portrait photographer this is a great place to gain experience and get paid as well. But just snaps won’t do, because, next to wedding pictures, this is one of the [...]

Family Beach Portrait Season

Family Beach Portraits I am leaving for a weekend of beach portraits sessions at a fabulous location. I am doing a workshop with another photographer and we have lined up many groups to photograph. While I will post my new images later, I have enjoyed looking [...]

Profit Secrets from family portraiture in a depressed market

Would how to pre-select, serve and provide the right products for our clients in this cost-cutter, amateur wanna-be, do-it-yourself world help your business model for now and ten years from now as well? Family portraiture used to be big business all around. We [...]

Perfect Group Portrait Secret in 9 steps

...with making a very large number of images. There I’ve said the most important thing you must do. While in film days we always made plural images of a group pose (or of an individual for that matter), digital needs a different approach. Here’s [...]

Oreo Cookie portrait project

I’ve never seen anything like this before. Portraits inside Oreo cookies! My client’s great grandparents were children in the post Civil War era, just as the Industrial Revolution gained momentum with all sorts of innovations and new products. [...]

Artmatic Baby: variations on a theme

Photographing Children in the wedding party

Children in the wedding party used to be cute accessories; now quite often they take center stage.  With today’s blended and mixed families, children of the bride and groom are more frequently the norm rather than the exception at wedding [...]

Inspiration - Pale Blue Dot

From time to time…                     …I intend to post video and other media to inspire creativity. Inspiration can come from anywhere. However, in order to feel it and see it, you also [...]