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#1 : Fred Levine - On Location Head Shots - The Mother Lode
In the past few months we have discussed various ways to add income to your studio while the economy and better consumer equipment has eroded your business. This installment discusses what I consider the mother lode of outside of the box business, On-Location Business Portraits. We have discussed in prior smArticles [...]#2 : Rob Provencher - Secrets To Photographing The 3 Month Old Baby
The Baby's First Year Continuing with the baby's first year series of portraits sessions, let's look at what you need to do for a great looking three month poses and portraits. In our studio we create many babies first year programs and I follow a system for creating certain poses at [...]#3 : Will Crockett - Who does the US Military call for lighting help?
presented by Bogen Imaging and Durys.com. I was honored this past week to teach 14 of the militarys' finest photographers how to improve their lighting skills at the annual DINFOS workshop. It was an amazing week to say the least, and we ROCKED the workshop by producing [...]#4 : Nick Coury - New Gear Gremlins
New Gear Gremlins and Tips Getting new gear of any kind is exciting! It doesn't make any difference if it is an entire camera system or just one piece of it. I track it online to see when it will be delivered and make sure that someone is here to get [...]#5 : Peter Friedman - Why I Use Raw for Natural Light Portraits.
See Photo 01 When I am hired to do a portrait of families and children on location, I choose to use raw capture when I am using natural light. Raw capture is a powerful tool because it gives us the ability to correct, to some extent, exposure and color problems after [...]#6 : Michael Clark - Making a Connection with your Subject
The Goal In portrait photography the goal is to connect with your subject and capture a bit of their personality or mood. That is obviously pretty hard to do, especially when you have just met the person a few minutes before beginning the portrait shoot. As I am not strictly [...]#7 : Suzette Allen - Gallery Wraps- The Latest Rage!
presented by LabPrints. Gallery wraps are the hottest boutique item on our portrait price list and here is how to make one perfectly with an unlikely file! So many times we don’t shoot loose enough for the extra image that wraps around the frame….time for some creative Photoshopping and super [...]#8 : James Hodgins - Add On's That Brides LOVE!
presented by the noBSphotosuccess.com forum. Sometimes its the little things you do for your clients that give you the most rewards. I'm not just talking about the warm fuzzy feelings, I'm talking about big 'ol' sums of cash. It may not be cash directly placed into your hands, but I [...]#9 : Deborah and Rick Ferro - Church Posing and Lighting
Presented by Ultimate Light Box. Getting Started Deborah and I just completed a wonderful week at Texas School with 28 very talented new photographers. I can tell you they came to learn, and boy did they. Quite a few did not even own a light meter, and had never Custom [...]#10 : Peter Friedman - The Background of a Location Portrait
Scouting Your Background For the past few articles, we have been talking about finding and creating beautiful lighting on the subject's face – directional lighting with good modeling. Good backgrounds are probably the next most important component to creating successful portraits on location. There are several things to look for when [...]
