Storytelling 101: Let them eat cake

Ever wonder how to tell a story with your images? Here is an excerpt from the Celebrate Your Life in Beautiful Images (Part 2) course material to whet your appetite. Let’s look at a slice of lemon meringue pie that I ate outside in a small cafe. It was...

Food For Digital Thought: Light at the Edge of Darkness

Light is one of my favorite subjects to talk about…why? Because light is everything to me, and that’s why over the past five years of writing these posts I have written several on the subject; my mantra is you find the light, you’ll find the shot. In one of my online...

Why is Photo Editing Essential?

Are you spending a lot of time learning your digital camera? Maybe you’re getting up early to shoot at just the right location, in just the right light? Are you getting the results you hoped you would? You’re not? Learning effective photo processing with a...

Two Heads are Better Than One

How to deal with the unfortunate facial expression in group portraits To help you along during your portrait taking sessions, I’d thought I’d share a technique for a common problem with group portraits. Most of the time, but especially with shots including babies, if...

Food For Digital Thought: The Rule of Odds

I know what most of you are probably thinking right about now…has Joe sold out and embraced the rules of composition? Oh no Joe, say it ain’t so!!! Well relax my fellow photographers because I have definitely not sold out, or ever will; you’ll have to pry my dead cold...
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