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The Camera is a Pen

All photographs from It Was All a Dream. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ebbs and flows of inspiration, particularly with the ups and downs of the last few years. Since I work with a variety of photographers, I get to observe their patterns of motivation, and it’s been fascinating to think about. At the

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New York Street Photography

What is Street Photography? – Learning the Sensibility and Techniques, from Beginner to Advanced

What is Street Photography? This article is going to explore the broad genre of Street Photography, show you the different sides of it, and then talk about how to do it. I’m also going to show you a variety of images to show this broadness. Examples of traditional black and white street photography.   It’s

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How to Do Portrait Photography – Tips for Business Portraits, Families, and Creatives

Portrait photography is both a difficult and complex genre, whether you are working with businesses, creative portraits, or families. You need to consider a range of technical issues, including location, lighting, time with subject, composition, and even color temperature.    Often you’ll be moving around and changing the lighting on the fly. There is lot of

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Event Photogaphy

How to Do Event Photography – Tips for Business, Conference, and Family Events

How to Do Event Photography – Tips for Business, Conference, and Family Events Event Photography is a lesson in extremes – you might be capturing one day a gala with gorgeous lighting, beautiful clothing, and lots of energy. Then the next day you could photograph a 10-hour industry event in a dimly lit conference room,

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Let’s Talk About Traditional Street Photography

Let’s Talk About Traditional Street Photography While there is a full range of topics surrounding street photography, especially how to do this in quiet places, suburban places, in your home, etc, I don’t want to leave the more traditional street photography out – the candid people photography, the decisive moment, the serendipitous, whatever you may

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