Why is quality portraiture an investment?
I had a potential client inquire about my prices, and the justification for my prices. In other words, “How come you charge so much for pictures?” It’s important for me to state that I do NOT find this type of question offensive or insulting. Some might, but I actually welcome this question. It is important [...]
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School Days!
I’m in lovely Port Townsend this week, at the Evergreen School of Professional Photography (ESPP). ESPP is an affiliate school of the Professional Photographers of America, and is hosted by Professional Photographers of Washington. Our instructor is Darton Drake, an AMAZING portraiture photographer and artist. Darton has a formal/classical art background, and began his career [...]
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Pet Crazy!
I love photographing pets/animals. Always a challenge, all bets are off. :O) This is my girl Sophie, kicked out of school once… I swear it was that shepherd’s fault… ;o) Along side my driveway, we have a strip of grass (weeds, per husband). I won’t let him cut them, as I’d planned to use them [...]
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Time is tick tick tickin’ away!
Less than two days until the Evergreen School of Professional Photography, and I cannot wait! I’ll be spending the week with Sam Gardner & Darton Drake, as they share their tremendous knowledge & talent, along with my awesome friends Mark, Linda, Rob, Rich and Ernst from Professional Photographers of WA. There will be four or [...]
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Monkeying around..
You know, the best way to stay creative, is to exercise the creative side of your brain. Well DUH. Sometimes, we get so caught up in processing images of PEOPLE, we neglect our artsy side. Not that photographers don’t get creative with people images, it’s just a different type of creativity… A wedding a week [...]
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Falling in Love Again…
I have rekindled a romance… See, I have this 85mm f/1.2 lens that, well, I haven’t been using much. Why? Well, honestly, she focuses a little on the slow side in low light. AND with the gi-normous f/1.2 aperture, this girl was built to shoot in low light situations. Slow focus sort of cancels it [...]
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Oops.
Well, guess who boogered up their website database backup… WAIT! Let me make this easy for ya… Uh, you’re on her website right now! Ack! Well, my database was somehow corrupted, and I hadn’t backed up the SQL database. No excuses, only pain and band aids. Now I’m trying a new look to the website, [...]