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NEW Steve Thornton smArticle
Landing On Your Feet
(Or what to do when the airline looses your bags) This story starts July 2nd in Milan, Italy at 5 am when I got up, cooked breakfast, finished packing & got in the cab to take a train to go to the airport to fly to NYC to change planes and finish up in LAX (Los Angeles) 28 hours later. My [read this smArticle]
NEW Fred Levine smArticle
Thinking Like a Restaurateur
Like most professional photographers I didn’t always shoot full time. I shot ‘on the side’ while having another full time job. I spent some time as the National Facilities Manager of A&W Restaurants, the root beer people, running the mechanical operation of 250 restaurants from Bangor Maine to Baja California. I learned a lot working there: 1. You can [read this smArticle]
NEW Suzette Allen smArticle
Refine Edge in CS5
Presented by Bay Photo. Faster and More Accurate See photo 01. Last month I promised I would show you the new Refine Edge Feature in CS5 and I also got quite a few requests after my articles about swapping backgrounds to see the new CS5 options. Yes, it is way [read this smArticle]
NEW Jon Yoshinaga smArticle
Update or Wait?
Technology marches on at an incredible rate. Computers are faster, hard drives bigger, cameras are better and software keeps doing more crazy stuff. So when do you know it's time to get the latest and greatest? If money is not an issue for you, great, but the rest of us, we need to weigh it out. Here are a few [read this smArticle]
NEW Will Crockett smArticle
New Will Crockett DVD, Save $10 This Week Only
Tired of only hoping your print comes out ok? Confused by the difference between what you see on the monitor and what you see on your prints? Put an end to "guessing at color" on your screen by learning the simple solutions of SCREEN TO PRINT MATCH with the new 2 hour long ShootSmarter DVD with Will Crockett. "You [read this smArticle]
NEW Bonnie Berlin smArticle
Disappearing Light Modifier
This past week, I was out shooting a session at a busy college campus. Parking was a major problem – there wasn’t any available! This is the kind of place where if you attempted to leave your car in the wrong spot it would be towed away before you even had the key out of the ignition. [read this smArticle]
NEW Nick Coury smArticle
Change is good
I'm not looking to debate the whole Nikon vs Canon, Mac vs PC or even Ford vs Chevy. Recently though I took a fresh look at what I do and the tools I use to do it. Trying to start with a fresh slate and no preconceived ideas, I decided to try out some new camera gear. Cameras - [read this smArticle]
NEW Rob Provencher smArticle
Do You Make These Mistakes When Posing Families?
Presented by the noBSphotosuccess.com photography forum. Creating great looking family portraits is not as easy as it looks. There are many things you need to watch for, and in order to make your life a lot easier, I've created a list of the top five mistakes I see photographers make when posing family portraits. See Photo 00. Mistake number [read this smArticle]
NEW James Hodgins smArticle
Successful Prom/Event Photography
Presented by the noBSphotosuccess.com photography forum. For the past five years we have photographed one of the local high school's semi-formal and prom events with great success. We have streamlined the shooting, viewing and post processing to really maximize our profit margin. This system can be incorporated into any event you might be commisioned to photograph and [read this smArticle]
NEW Peter Friedman smArticle
Lighting Family Groups Outside
Lighting family groups outside poses certain challenges. Getting consistent lighting across the group, getting enough light, getting a good quality of light, doing it all effectively and easily so that you can concentrate on posing and eliciting good expressions. See photo 01 The approach that I prefer is to use available light and supplement it with strobe light. Available light usually [read this smArticle]
NEW Ty Fischer smArticle
On Location Senior Portraits: Efficiency & Impact.
On location senior photography is a much different monster than studio senior photography. An on location photographer is unable to shoot as many seniors in a day, while working with uncontrollable elements such as wind, sun, clouds, rain, etc. Also, a great deal of travel may be involved if working in a large area. To be successful and profitable [read this smArticle]
NEW Nick Lovell smArticle
Modeling Portfolios and Comp Cards
If you're like me and your taste leans towards fashion and advertising, building model portfolios is a wonderful way to hone your skills and create a body of work demonstrating your ability to create the looks that you see in magazines, on billboards and in stores. What Exactly is a Model Portfolio? All models looking for print work [read this smArticle]
NEW Lynette Kent smArticle
Lightroom 2 & 3: Vignettes and Process Versions
If you moved your photo library from Lightroom 2 to Lightroom 3, you have undoubtedly noticed some differences, mainly in the Import window. Other major improvements are visually more subtle and yet very powerful! Two of these improvements are the Vignette options and the Process Version changes. See Photo 01 Vignettes Lens Vignetting, or the light falling off in the corners of the image, [read this smArticle]
NEW William Innes smArticle
Free Facebook Marketing for Photographers
Presented by harbordigitaldesign.com. Social media is all the rage today. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare – the list goes on and on. As photographers, we need to be aware of social media and how it is best used to generate business. We need to use social media to market ourselves in manner that our potential clients can find us and hopefully make [read this smArticle]
NEW Bonnie Berlin smArticle
Beat the Heat!
Day after day, the weatherman has reported the news of record-breaking heat in many parts of the country, including mine. Looking for a way to escape the oppressive humidity and melting temperatures, I took my subject to a charming, abandoned cabin located in the cool mountains, about a 90-minute drive away. I was delighted to see the thermometer drop over [read this smArticle]
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