Photography

My book is finally done, and back from the publisher. And might I add that it looks great. I chose to go with a dark charcoal cover to match the theme of the inside. The pictures came out looking crisp, and the full bleed is well proportioned. I finally came up with a consistent pattern inside. Every other spread has text on it. It allows for some spreads to just showcase pictures, and for the others to have a brief explanation as to...

I am going to enter one of my self portraits into a print competition. The print competition theme is always changing, but this time it is on creative self-portraits. I have fashioned my picture of off another artists’ work. I wonder if the judges will be able to determine where my inspiration came from. If you can figure out who inspired me, leave me a comment below. Here I am… I obviously edited this picture. I liked the...

Here is a quick and easy way to turn your watermark into a brush. It makes for faster application of your watermark. It is always handy in your brush pallet, and you can change the color easily. This idea was first shown to me by Megan Kelly when I asked her how, and when she would watermark her pictures. She told me that she had her watermark as a brush so throwing it onto a picture right before saving it for a blog was easy. This is...

If you can use ambient light, that is great, with that ambient light if you can use a reflector it is also a very good thing. But if you need to use a speedlight (flash) to get enough light, then here are a few tips to make the pictures look great. Thanks to Caryn Esplin, and Rachel Anderson for compiling these great tips. DON’T use the flash on your camera. This gives you direct light from the front and makes the subject look...

It’s officially going to happen. I am going to write a book. Mostly it will focus on my photography, but I am proud  of it none the less. I have made some changes since the last update, so take a look at what the book will look like now. Front cover (now includes a picture that I shoot in Jackson Hole, WY)…   (No back cover design on window books.)   Inside the cover…...