My wife caught me feeling sorry for myself one Saturday afternoon after yet another model failed to show for a scheduled shoot. She told me I needed to find something else to take pictures of – something that didn’t rely on the fickle feelings of female models.
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Five-ish years ago, my wife and I got our first dog, Max. Max was a road dump. Someone pulled over to the side of a country road, opened the car door, pushed him out, and drove off – leaving him alone in cold and dark. Fortunately, this
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Have you ever looked through a photographer’s online portfolio and noticed that his style and the quality of his photos varied? Not minor variations that could indicate an improvement in technique and talent, but wide variations where some photos just really pop out as so much better
Read more →Many photographers – myself included – constantly complain about being asked to shoot an event or a person for free. The usual justification for that request is, “You’ll get exposure.” Most photographers don’t need exposure. We need cash. We need to pay the rent or the credit
Read more →I got a call from a mother-of-the-bride asking if I was available to photograph a wedding on very short notice – less than a week from the day she called me. She said that they only needed me for an hour, were “on a tight budget”, and
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On Saturday June 18, I was (as usual) photographing the Atlanta Roller Girls. This season I have been using just my Nikon D300 with an on-board SB900 – changing shutter speeds and aperture to make the picture work best, and though the pictures this season have been
Read more →A six week turn around for repairs? That seems unreasonably long to me.
Read more →My very first digital camera was the now obsolete Nikon D70. I chose that because I was already shooting with Nikon film cameras and lenses and had no desire to buy a whole new system. A few weeks ago while shooting with my Lens Baby on the D70,
Read more →It is no big surprise that outfitting a studio with the latest and greatest tools and toys can be a very expensive undertaking. From backdrops to stands to light modifiers to props – the list goes on and on and the dollar signs keep rolling by.
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