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Creating The New Family Portrait

Recently I was hired to photograph a family for a Father's Day story.  The magazine wanted to photograph fathers with their children for the June issue, which comes out in May. I was excited about the assignment and started right away doing my research. [...]

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 [...]

To Tether or Not

On most commercial photo shoots the photographer needs to tether their camera to a computer monitor, which allows the client to see the image the moment it's taken.  Tethering our cameras became the norm when digital invaded photography and client's [...]

One Light Portraits

When I was seventeen I wanted every lens and light I could find.  I thought, if I only had one more lens or one more light I could do so much more.  I thought my photographs would be better if I simple had more.  I'm not sure when I snapped out [...]

Magnificent Magnolias

Magnolia flowers are quite irresistible, no matter how many times you take them, each year they lure you in for a closer look and then you are hooked.  2012 has been a tragic year for avid magnolia snappers here in southern Britain. After an abnormally [...]

PORTRAITS: Decades of Evolving Personal Imagery in Photography, Part 5

Photography Lessons from the Silver Screen

This week I've been talking about the movie, The Sound of Music, and how this classic film has helped me as a photographer.  I've asked photographers to watch the first hour of the film (without sound) to help them focus on the visuals, lighting [...]

Sound of Music Helps Portrait and Wedding Photographers

This week we are discussing how watching a movie can help improve your photography.  The movie we are watching this week is "The Sound of Music", and the aim of this exercise is to focus on composition and lighting so watch the movie with the sound turned [...]

Eleanor Callahan dies at 95

The New York Times - Obituaries  Eleanor Callahan "Eleanor Callahan, the muse for her husband, Harry Callahan, whose varied and sensual photographs of her taken over more than 50 years can be said to rank with Alfred Stieglitz’s of Georgia [...]

Photo Tips

I have always loved making people "feel" beautiful.   As a photographer making people feel beautiful is the first step before you can make them look beautiful.  This is really the secret to my 20 year career as a photographer, making my subject's [...]

Santa Pictures + Marketing for your Photography Business

By Andrew Jenkins Ho Ho Ho!!!  Santa portraits are a great way to partner with another business in your area!   This is the type of partnering that can become a win win for both businesses.  Let me share an example with you.  Let’s [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

One of my favorite holidays is Thanksgiving.  As a kid I practiced taking pictures of my family during the holidays and those memories help to create new images today.  When asked to photograph a family portrait recently I called upon my early [...]

I Hate Fashion

I Hate Fashion! I recently heard from a photographer who expressed how much they hated fashion photography.  I asked what his interest were and he said he loved taking portraits, families, wedding, etc.  I told him even if he hates fashion [...]

How to Use Multiple Lights for Dramatic Portraits

The Profoto beauty dish is one of my favorite light shaping tools.  I have used it many times as my main light for years but today I want to show how to use the beauty dish as a fill light.  The two images shown are both created using the beauty [...]

Selecting the Right Lens

I am working on a new series of environmental portraits and this past Friday I made one of the first images for the series.  I selected a good friend and artist, Chaz Guest as my first subject.  Not many living painters can say they have one of [...]