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Professional photographer, author, instructor, speaker and philosoblogger™. Rolando has conducted hundreds of photography workshops across the globe. (photo workshop info) Gomez is also the "master photographer" star in the upcoming television reality show about models, photographers and photographer's assistants called, "Centerfold". Read his complete biography and view his publishing credits here. Photos From Our Diaries
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Photographers Strengths And Weaknesses
It’s About Ability, Not Inability I just returned from another successful photography workshop in the Virgin Islands, and like all previous 600-plus photo workshops I’ve conducted in the past 14 years, I see many photographers getting caught up in their gear. Contrary to all the marketing hype that slaps consumers in the face on a daily basis, it’s not the equipment that shapes the photographer....
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Purchase Ads From Facebook, Risk Account Termination
Open Letter to Facebook Management and Mark Zuckerberg Warning From Facebook Via Email “Hi, We’ve noticed that you are currently running Facebook Ads that violate our Advertising Guidelines or Terms of Use. It is important to us that a person’s experience with Facebook ads enhances their overall experience on Facebook. Our advertising system aims to show the most highly-relevant, social ads that...
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Photography and Modeling, It’s More Than What You Think
We Do More Before Nine Than Most People Do In A Day Recently while doing my daily social networking, a comment was left on a photo I posted on my private Facebook profile about how modeling and photography is often misunderstood as easy professions. While I’m no model,...
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A Perfect Lighting Solution For Shooting Beauty
Don’t Be Stagnate, See The Light, The Rosco LitePad Loop Ring Light This past weekend I was photographing a model I hadn’t worked with in seven years. I did my normal glamour style photography of her, using both ambient light and my Hensel studio strobes fitted with...
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Round Lenses, Rectangle Photos, Reasonable Answer
A Little Squared Humor Welcome back to the “Unfiltered” category of my photo blog. While this category will not often have photography related posts, there will be a few exceptions, such as this post where I don’t really see it as a photo tip, tutorial or appropriate...
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Style, Artistic Personality of a Photographer
The Adulthood of Photography Style, some photographers have it, others don’t, many people don’t even know what style is and in photography if you ask five professionals, chances are you’ll get five different definitions about the word style itself. Established...
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Intimacy, What Men Should Know When It Comes to The Ladies
There Is No Substitute I’m always asked about the ladies in my life, the ladies around me, and the ladies that model for me. Men tell me how lucky I must be, being around beautiful babes. Women tell me, “I bet you sleep with all the models.” I usually respond with a...
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JPEG, Save For Web or Save As, Don’t Be Fooled
Use The Right Tool For The Right Purpose One of the most misunderstood methods for displaying images on the World Wide Web, which is accessed through the Internet, is the proper method for saving images for websites, or on web pages in general. The same applies for emailing...
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Photography By The Numbers, Twitter That
I Am Who I Am Update: On Nov. 25th, 2013, we ran an updated status check on my Twitter account. The numbers reflected over 92,000 “good” or active followers out of a total of over 102,000 followers using the Status People Fake Checker tool. See photo...
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It Hasn’t Been Shot!
Inspiration Is The Key To Photography All too often I run into photographers, including “myself,” where we feel as though we just can’t come up with a shot when we’re actually in the mood to create photographs. It’s one thing to shoot on assignment, say like sports...
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Social Photographers Are The Most Creative—And Facebook Knows This
Prediction: Apple(Face)Book Will Rule Social Creativity I’ve often said and written about how the greatest photographers in the world are those that understand the three C’s, comprehension, communication and creativity. Though I borrowed some of that ideology from the...
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The Million Dollar Question In Photography
What Should I Charge? I’m constantly asked by photographers at my photography workshops, “What should I charge?” This seems like a million dollar question, especially in today’s economic times where some photographers have reduced prices just to secure paid shoots....
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Pinterest, Inspiration And Marketing For Photographers
Get Inspired While Getting Noticed In a previous blog article, I talked about how Instagram combined with Tumblr are not only free, but amazing marketing multipliers in showcasing your photographic talents—especially when combined with Facebook and Twitter. Well I finally...
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Folklore Photography, The Grim Reaper Concept
Out of Ideas, Recreate A Myth The Story Behind The Image: I’m a bit behind after conducting, back-to-back photography workshops in Las Vegas, Seattle, Nashville and San Antonio, plus preparing for my upcoming lectures at the University of Calgary, but I wanted to share...
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My Digital Camera Is Better Than Yours
Yep, But My Lens Is Better Than Yours There’s been a lot of chatter lately on the Internet about mirror-less vs. mirror cameras, the new Nikon D4 vs. the latest Canon 5D Mark III, iPhones vs. other smart phones, the new technology of the Lytros camera and more. Basically,...
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Fast WordPress Photography Websites Without Blogging
Practically Free, But Professional Having a website is paramount for photographers today and the easiest form is using the WordPress blogging software as it’s not only free, but battle-hardened by an amazing developer community and deployed by over 71 million websites....
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Size Does Matter In Photography
The Smaller The Harder, The Larger The Softer When it comes to size in photography, one often thinks of lenses, and while proper lens selection makes sense, it’s often dictated by a photographer’s shooting style, not necessarily hard rules. The same applies to...
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The 90-Percent Rule Of Lighting In Photography
It’s About Absorption And Reflection You often hear about percentages, sometimes in statistics, like 75-percent of all statistics are made up, which often leaves you wondering about the accuracy of such numbers, but when it comes to photography, one percentage that is...
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The Process Of Taking A Great Photograph
Mirror vs. Mirror-less Cameras Is Just The Beginning With today’s advancement in portable digital cameras, from iPhones to mirror-less SLRs, DSLRs have been catching negative buzz from well-known photographer personalities like Trey Ratcliff (see: DSLRS ARE A DYING BREED...
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New Year’s Resolutions To Improve Your Photography
It’s About Setting Goals To Get There Well it’s that time period again were we say goodbye to one year and welcome in another year, usually with a customary resolution, or a goal(s) to live by for the next 12 months. Many people also like to look back or recap the...
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