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New Year’s Resolutions To Improve Your Photography

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Tweet 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 highlights of the previous 12 months, though many leave out...

iPhoneography, The New Genre Of Photography

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Tweet Instagram And iPhoneography Combine For Social Power I was doing some research on the newest genre of photography, iPhoneography, and found a claim that stated, “10-percent of all photos taken in the lifetime of photography were done in the past year due to the infusion of smartphones in the world population.” While...

Photographic Culture, Don’t Lose It, Adapt To It

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Tweet Do You Operate On Automatic Or Manual Mode? Back in the days of film, you’d find professional photographers prioritizing their time to include darkroom days, shooting sessions, and administrative time. Call it a part of the photographic culture, but, regardless to survive in any creative profession, you have to allocate time to...

The Death Of A Great Editor Made Me Feel The Light

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Tweet The Impact Of A Photo And Some Great Words Back during my sophomore year in high school, my photojournalism instructor, Barclay Burrow, pointed out to me that great photographers not only see the light, but they feel the light too. The conversation started with him showing me a photo, from the school’s 1976 yearbook, of...

Photography Basics—Three And Four Light Set-Ups

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Tweet Start With The Basics First I still remember the film days of the old photography books I used to read, almost all recommended a three or four light setup, usually a main (key), fill, back and background light when working with artificial lighting, such as studio strobes or continuous tungsten light sources. These same lighting...

Getting Caught Up

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Tweet Busy Life Of This Photographer It’s been a crazy past three months as I’ve spent weeks being filmed for an upcoming reality television show plus working with my mother’s medical conditions to get her in a rehab/nursing facility. Throw in several photography workshops in Baltimore, San Antonio, Boston, and even two,...

Editing Photos vs. Photo Editing, Know the Difference

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Tweet Post-Production Is Not The Same As Selecting Images Before digital photography became a reality, most people never knew about photo editing or editing photos, unless they were familiar with shooting photos for publication. Unfortunately, with the advancement of digital photography, many people get the terms confused, similar to...