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Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #7 - Location - Part 2
As those of you who have been following our series on “Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait”, know that we’ve been in length discussing what it takes to get senior portraits that will amaze your customers. Last week, we discu...
Check out our Archives Section!
I realize that many of our readers have probably checked out our “Archives” section located at the top of our blog in the header, but for those that haven’t, check out our Archives. I have let it go but recently updated it. What I&#...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #7 - Location - Part 1
In an earlier post, in this same series, I mentioned the scenario where you have a portrait of a senior leaning against a tree. Boring. Right? Yeah, it’s boring and it’s been done too many times. In this post, I will mainly discuss locati...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #3 - Good Pose
Imagine for a minute with me. An older teen boy or girl leaning on a tree or perhaps hugging the tree and peeking around from behind and smiling at the camera with a big happy grin on their face. We have all seen this, haven’t we? Tell me if ...
Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait
By request, (by Georgia) we have a fairly lengthy fifteen part article article series on senior portraiture. It will explain how to keep the portrait simple yet powerful. The series will be spread out over fifteen different weekly posts. We will p...
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 ...
Ask The Peterson’s - Question about photographing overweight subjects
Recently we received a question about photographing overeweight people. It was a fantastic question that deserves an answer and makes a great post. Thanks Tim for the great question. I thought it would make a good question for “Tuesday’s...
Use your hand
On last weeks “Tuesday’s Technical Tips”, we discussed how using a 18 % gray card can and should be used to measure available light outside and how you can use it to meter TTL (through the lens). Today’s technical tip will be similar....
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...
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...
