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Perfect Group Portrait Secret in 9 steps
...with making a very large number of images. There I’ve said the most important thing you must do. While in film days we always made plural images of a group pose (or of an individual for that...
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Profit Secrets from family portraiture in a depressed market
Would how to pre-select, serve and provide the right products for our clients in this cost-cutter, amateur wanna-be, do-it-yourself world help your business model for now and ten years from now as...
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High Flying Photographers
What is this crazy contraption with little propellers, spider legs, a Canon camera and all kinds of wierd gear hanging all over it? A "hexacopter" of course! (Read on) Robo, radio remote controlled...
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Don’t miss free canvas wrap contest
For just 150 words a 16x20 canvas wrap from The Giclée Factory could be yours! There’s just a few days left to enter. AND THERE IS LITTLE COMPETITION! Did you miss the original posting? Here’s the...
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Free Photo Contest/Exhibit Clearing House
CallForEntry.org, or CaFÉ for short, is a great place to find opportunities for artists in general and photographers in particular. It’s hard to find venues hosting serious imaging. Researching...
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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,...
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Planning “National Geographic” style photo travel
Great photographic experiences are often hit or miss, when you don’t have travel support and pre-arrangements to meet the right people, the right places and be there at the exact right time of day....
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Secrets of High School Senior Picture Experience
If you’re building a portrait business or working as a weekend photographer, senior picture time is a great place to cut your teeth and make money. But only if you push the envelope. Your competitors...
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Super Heroes of the digital world unite!
If you haven’t gotten serious about protecting your image files, why not? Image safety isn’t rocket science any more, and it’s name is Drobo® - we love it! And it didn’t cost an arm and a leg. Why take...
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iPhone Travel Photography Hits it Big
We’ve all done this wrong. We travel a long way to Paris or Venice or Bangkok. We’d like to have some we-were-here shots of famous city buildings, monuments, public art and places. Often we get just a...
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Death Row Report
How on earth did he do this movie? Get permission from the Texas Department of Corrections to film in the death chamber, inmates, corrections workers? Get cooperation and willing interviews with death...
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When "Attorney" is Spelled Abuse...
We, and our art, are being hit in the face just as hard as if police took batons to our bodies. In a misguided effort to create a niche for one artist client, an attorney is bludgeoning aside our much...
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Five Pro Tips for Selling Your Portrait Photography
It’s all about editing and presentation. Most photographers miss out on better sales because they ignore this second, behind-the-scenes stage of successful portraiture. Experience tells us that these...
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How to Blend Still Photography and Video in Hybrid Presentations
Can’t wait to share this 4th of July celebration in beautiful Vail, Colorado. My little homespun hybrid movie - plus the 3 basic tips that make it possible to do good still/video projects right from...
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Photo Workshop Travel Opportunity to Guatemala at Easter
Are you working with a hybrid camera or just getting started in making both stills and video? Here’s a fabulous opportunity at economical pricing to capture once in a lifetime color and action. Karl...
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How to earn with your iPhone
It has always been hard to make a business of real estate photography. No time, little money. This is not Southern Living magazine or Architectural Digest. But realtors and builders, especially for...
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How to Use Telephoto Lenses
We’re all glued to the fantastic photos coming out of those giant lenses and through the mind’s eye of the talented artists photographing the Olympics. Long, expensive glass is everyone’s darling. To...
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How to Use Clothing Color to Drive Portrait Quality
What would you do if faced with this disparity of clothing color and pattern for an important portrait? Clients never pay big money for amateur looking family group portraits. I have found that no...
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Contemporary Baby Pictures
My opinion: the specialized field of newborn to young children’s pictures has always been the natural province of women photographers. Currently, more and more young women, often with babies of their...
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Color and light in Guatemala
Whatever photographic medium you prefer, there is something for everyone at indigenous festivals. We love festivals and events not just to grab unusual color and local costumes, but as personal insight...
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