How to Take The Family Christmas Portrait
It's amazing how much easier studio setups become when your assistant is a magical fairy...even if your portrait subjects are a bunch of weirdos!In this fun holiday video, the PhotoTraining4U team gets...
View ArticleDEFINE FAMILY
As Thanksgiving draws near, this month’s topic is “family”. Alas for many, the concept of family is fraught with multiple meaning, some of them not entirely positive. According to Wikipedia:“There are...
View ArticleOn Being Thankful: Digital Homemade Cards
As the season of Thanksgiving approaches, I reflect on what is important. While the word ‘family’ might be awash with mixed feelings for some, the older I get, the more I prize the family that I had...
View ArticleThe Littlest Photographer, the Family Photos of Jacques Lartigue
See the kid in the photo? That’s Jacques-Henri Lartigue when he was eight years old. He’s holding the glass plate camera his father had just given him. Over the next few years, this little kid and that...
View ArticleContemporary Issues in Photography
We are living in a world overwhelmed by crises. Photography is like a mirror that is peering into our existence. Contemporary photography attempts to shed some light on the who and what we are as...
View ArticleAnimal Group Portraits
Rarely am I motivated to take pictures of groups of people; yet Irepeatedly take family portraits of animals interacting. This has made me ponder – which is easier?With animals, the downside is that...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving
One of my favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. As a kid I practiced taking pictures of my family during the holidays and those memories help to create new images today. When asked to photograph a...
View ArticleFamily Beach Portrait Season
Family Beach PortraitsI am leaving for a weekend of beach portraits sessions at a fabulous location. I am doing a workshop with another photographer and we have lined up many groups to photograph....
View ArticleSaving Photos After The Storm
Don't toss those damaged pictures without reading this!Some of our most valued material treasures are our family photographs. They represent our families, friends and our past. They are the record of...
View ArticleA Merry Christmas Panorama
PEACE, LOVE, COMPASSION and SANITYtoALL If I remember correctly, I made this a few years ago as an experimental image. I had just started to make HDR Panoramas and decided to create one of my street as...
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