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I’m going to let you in on one of our biggest secrets. It’s a resource treasure trove that has helped shape our business and our art, and provides literally endless amounts of high quality inspiration. Have I piqued your interest?

The best $10 you can spend on your ...

One of the best things we’ve learned this year is how to say no.

It sounds simple enough, but based on some of the feedback we’ve received on this blog so far I think it might be a problem that a lot of photographers are facing. I thought ...

Being a professional portrait or wedding photographer means that you’re going to be dealing with a lot of photos. The faster you can deal with those photos the more productive and profitable you will be.

Obviously one side of this equation is processing and editing your images. 

The highly ...

Here comes another Lightroom before/after. Yay!

Today I want to focus on the importance of recovering clipped highlights. Clipped highlights are areas of an image where no data exists - the information is registered as pure white.

A short time ago if you had asked me about highlight clipping I ...

For a professional photographer what is as important as creative or artistic inspiration? Business inspiration!

I first started reading Fast Company in university. We had to read case studies and articles for an organizational management class. The really interesting part of these case studies was getting to see how companies ...

So you want to create your own 30 foot softbox? I don’t blame you. They are pretty sweet.

First, here’s an image I lit with mine. 

Pretty sweet light hey? 

So, by this point I’m sure you’ve figured out that I don’t actually have a ...

One of the most overlooked tools at a photographer’s disposal is the humble camera phone.

The cameras in phones have come a long way in the past few years; today many are packing 5mp sensors and can shoot video! Having such a device that easily slips into your pocket ...

If you’re looking for photography inspiration, one site that definitely deserves a look is the Guardian Eyewitness. A new awe-inspiring photo is posted almost every day, giving you lots to feast your eyes on. 

A Few Great Things About It:

• Amazing photojournalism
• A quick peek at the news in ...

Let’s do it. Let’s talk about e-mail management!

Many photographers are faced with the task of replying to inordinate amounts of e-mail (Lauren recently likened it to “The NeverEnding Story!).

In recent years there has been a significant shift away from phone conversations towards e-mail - which is great ...

In a previous post (Tilt Shift Photography: An Introduction) I showed you what tilt shift photography looks like. In this post I’m going to focus more on the lens and how to use it for portrait photography.

First a little video actually showing you what the lens looks like ...

The internet is full of magical things, and today’s inspiration dose is practically sparkling with fairy dust. 

Quite simply, LIFE magazine and Google teamed up to put millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive online. For free. To access whenever you please. These images stretch all the way ...