Enhance Your Family Photos Without The Expense Of Photoshop

My studio has been using Adobe Photoshop for years. I am about to date myself but I remember learning Photoshop on my first Mac computer. It was a Macintosh Performa and it didn’t even have a CD drive,only a floppy drive. As if you can save a Photoshop file onto a floppy disk. Well photo… Continue reading Enhance Your Family Photos Without The Expense Of Photoshop

Shooting in Artificial Light-Do your family pictures come out yellow when shooting indoors?

Artificial lighting is not always as fun and easy as sunlight, but you can use it to create some wonderful photographs once you know how. Indoor lighting is often fluorescent and tungsten bulbs. Tungsten bulbs are used by professional photographers, as “hot lights” because of the high temperature they produce. In photography it is… Continue reading Shooting in Artificial Light-Do your family pictures come out yellow when shooting indoors?

#1 Complaint ” Why can’t I have a high-resolution CD of my pictures if I paid you to take them?

As a photography studio owner, our number on concern is why can’t I own my pictures if I paid you to take them: What most people don’t understand is that producing a quality photograph is not as simple as putting batteries in a camera, pointing the camera and clicking. Most photographers have camera equipment… Continue reading #1 Complaint ” Why can’t I have a high-resolution CD of my pictures if I paid you to take them?

Posing-Large Groups

Some Posing Challenges: * one or more subjects always seem to be looking away or in different directions * subjects blinking * someone being missing from the photo * different moods in the group (some smiling, some serious, some playing up to the camera etc) * the group being too far away or not… Continue reading Posing-Large Groups

Photographing Sporting Events

To keep it simple, here’s my summary recommendation for equipment and settings (note, you MUST NOT use flash (according to USA Gymnastics rules, for the safety of the gymnasts), so be sure you know how to keep your camera’s flash from firing!). Also, unless you are USA Gymnastics safety certified, you are NOT allowed on… Continue reading Photographing Sporting Events