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Happy Valentine’s Day - Show your customers some love!
Want to make an impact on your customers? Try doing something special for them on Valentine’s Day. I always think it’s a fantastic idea to do small things for your customers after the fact. Not huge things, but simple gestures that will m...
What The Duck!?!
What the duck!?! Watch yo mouth! If you’re reading this blog, you love photography. If you’ve been living in a cave (I do apologize to all our cave dwellers out there who read our blog) and have never heard of the online comic strip calle...
Spotlight interview with Gavin Seim from The Pro Photo Show
Sometimes I feel that to find the right person to interview can be quite the task. Sometimes I feel that there are so many people out there that I want to talk to. Today, we are so unbelievably fortunate to be speaking with not only a really great ph...
Photographer’s block - How to get inspired
I know that many people wonder how to inspire yourself. And just as with many other things, there is not always one answer to a question such as this one. This question could be answered in a variety of ways. I will give you one way that I find helpf...
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...
Spotlight interview with Teddy Madison from Exodus Photography
Recently while on flickr, I noticed a shot of young child called “$ on my chest“. I instantly fav’d it. It was so creative and cool. Something fresh that you don’t see everyday. What I mean is that it was something that I don&...
Ten ways to get your subjects to relax for you
Ever have problems getting your subjects to relax? Here’s a quick list of ten different groups and ways you can get all of them to loosen up a bit. After years of photographing each of these, I have learned what it takes to get each to relax for me...
The importance of quality
Quality is so important when it comes to portrait photography. The end product is what everyone sees and judges your work by. If you want people to buy your work over and over again, don’t cut corners. Do quality work, from your professionalism...
Talk, Talk, Talk
Do you ever feel like photographing a subject is awkward? Like there is uncomfortable silence between you and the subject? That’s why it’s important to talk to your subject! While you are photographing your subject, constant encouragement and pra...
Ask the Peterson’s - Should I add my logo to my portraits?
Recently, we received an email from Irene asking about putting her logo on portraits that she creates for friends and family. I thought it was a fantastic question and probably something that many people wonder about. So, I thought this would make a ...
A thought about how you pose families
Many of my readers are parents. For those that are, we all know how much we love our children. We know when our customers come in our doors that if they are parents themselves, they too love their children. This post will briefly examine the idea of ...
Don’t forget the snacks!
Have you ever driven across Texas on I-10? If you haven’t, allow me to paint a picture for you. My wife and I were leaving my home town of Galliano, LA and we were on our way to Tucson, AZ, Holly’s home town. Galliano just south of New Or...
It was a dark and stormy… um… Morning
I was thinking back to a engagement session I did with a couple earlier this year. It was probably in April. You know what they say about April. It brings spring showers. It indeed was dark and stormy and rainy and cold and very windy. We live in Kan...
Give it away
In my days as a preteen, I remember swimming around in the pond at our city park. The town was Golden Meadow, LA and I had a friend Issac who I distinctly remember playing a song over and over from his portable radio fully equipped with a cassette pl...
