Sometimes photography is all about perspective.  A slight change in your camera angle can change an ordinary image into something memorable.  It is these fine-tuning adjustments that help us to grow artistically. Last month, my wife and I spent a week in Hawaii and I planned to create a ton of new images.  Now landscape photography is not really my thing....

Is your website helping your business or hurting you?  Could it be bringing in even more clients than it is now? One of the things I like most about speaking at photography conventions is getting to meet photographers all across the U.S.   The crowd usually has everything from seasoned veterans to brand-new beginners.  By the end of the convention, I’ve...

If you have followed my blog for any time at all, you know that I am a big fan of pushing your limits and going outside your comfort zone.  To paraphrase Andre Gide, “You can’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore.”  As I stumbled through the internet today, I came across a very interesting blogging contest – kind of a...

One of my images that I get asked about frequently is “Ice Princess” from a few years ago.  I had recently had my camera converted for IR photography and started experimenting with using it on people.  The look it produced was very unpredictable and sometimes pretty creepy (as evidenced by my Week 10 portrait from the 40@Forty Project). The model was...

One of my favorite subjects to photograph is high school seniors.  In many ways, they are the perfect age.  They are still young enough to have a little of that childhood spirit left- but old enough that they can offer creative input.  By working with teens to plan the session, you can push the standards of senior portraits to the next level. Now every senior...

As artists, we are always looking to grow.  It is a constant struggle to find new sources of inspiration and flashed of creative genius.  I’m a big believer that you have to feed your creativity by soaking up as much art as you can – everything from photographs and paintings to a a great movie or interesting book.  By training your brain to...

With the huge popularity of Twitter and Facebook, poor LinkedIn has kind of fallen to the wayside.  The question is… are you making a big mistake my not including LinkedIn in your social medial strategy? Last week, I wrote a post comparing Google Plus and Facebook.  Facebook is the king of the mountain, but Google is gaining ground.  Last time I checked,...