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This blog features post six days a week. We focus on helping family portrait photographers with motivation, technique, interviews every Friday, stories from our studio, how to's, business advice, etc. If you are interested in family portrait photogra
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Photo of the Week - Week Ending 1-31-09, Uplifting Love
This week’s Photo of the Week is called Uplifting Love and comes to us from Jigarchamp.This week we were kind of slow with entries. Yet, there were several really good entries. I chose Uplifting Love because the love that this mother has on her...
Spotlight interview with Amber Hughes
The market is flooded with wedding photographers. As you’ve probably noticed if you are involved with that market or have tried your hand at it. It is a fun and exciting genre to be involved in, however, to be a master of this area or to truly ...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #8 - Vibrant Color - Part 1
I have photographed older people and one thing that many of them have in common is that when I show them portraits of themselves in black and white, they’re not so crazy about them. To paraphrase, I hear comments like, “I spent half my life g...
Rules are meant to be broken
We haven’t had a “Thought for Thursday” in a while. Well today is the first day of 2009 and I thought to myself, what the heck, let’s do it. Today we’ll look at the idea of making sure every single shot you take is perfe...
Spotlight interview with Alecia Silva from The Portrait Place
I have been spending some time on Flickr lately. In my time there, I have found some amazing photographers. One of these photographers I found recently was Alecia Silva who has a portrait photo business called “The Portrait Place”. Her ph...
Spotlight Interview with Robert Mullins of Robert Mullins Photography
We have yet to interview a wedding photographer. It is our pleasure to present our interview with Robert Mullins as our first interview with a wedding photographer. His work is beautiful. His attitude is humble yet his work is masterful. I have known...
Spotlight Interview with Kelley Ryden from Kelley Ryden Photography
All babies are beautiful. - Jeanne Calment Thinking back to the first time I saw Kelley’s work on flickr, I distinctly remember sitting there in awe. Her work was simple. It was beautiful. It was amazing. I could go on for ever, but what really...
Carry On
Were it not for hope, the heart would break - Scottish Proverb Most photographers photograph with the intention of creating work that is powerful and moving to it’s viewers. Most through their photographic lifetime will make a photograph that w...
