Becoming a Professional Baby & Child Photographer

Sometimes I marvel at the number (and cost!) of different products I use in the course of running my business, from marketing the business, to completing a portrait job from start to finish. Here's a list of my workflow, along with all the different products. [continue reading article]

Seamless paper can give you a lot of versatility for not a whole lot of cash. I talk about where to buy seamless background paper, how to hang it, options for the floor, using gels on the background, and a few other things. This video is broken into two parts because Youtube doesn't allow videos longer than 10 minutes, and this one is just over 14 minutes. [continue article and see video]

By default, our digital SLR's capture a jpeg or JPG file. This file captures the exposure and color as you set them. If you overexpose the image, your file will be overexposed. If you underexpose the image, your file will be overexposed. Set the wrong white balance? Again, your color is going to be off. Sure, you can fix some of these problems in Photoshop by fiddling with the levels, curves and color balance. If your image if overexposed, though, you're pretty much out of luck since the highlights go to pure white and there's no getting that back in Photoshop. Lots of photographers compensate for the bad color and exposure by converting the image to black and white, and making that file available unavailable in color. Not the best solution. [continue article]