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The final portrait of Tia is truly a No-Frills glamour image with, I think anyway, contains echoes of Hollywood glamour photography. The lighting equipment is simple to use and packs into a transportable case.

There’s an old Latin expression that, “Life isn’t given to anyone but just given on loan to everyone.” When this thinking is applied to my own photography I think it means I should be spending more time making the kind of images I like. And believe me, at this point in my life, that’s exactly what I try to do.

One of the problems with traditional, continuous “hot lights” is that they are, well, hot and are not all that comfortable to work under for subject and photographer alike. Looking for something cooler?

After I purchased a used Lumix GX1 from Roberts Camera and had it converted for infrared capture using Life Pixel’s Hyper Color filter, I took the camera to the giant “jacks and balls” at Parker CO’s library and immediately began to doubt my choice of cameras.

Richard Avedon once said,“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.” I think he meant that when he makes a portrait he likes to control as much of the environment, and maybe even the subject themselves to create a photograph of his subject that reflect his image of them, not how the subject sees themselves.

And so, dear readers what does “crop sensor” mean? If film shooters refer to roll film as 6×6, 6×7, and 6×9 and sheet film as 4×5, 5×7, and 8×10, why can’t we refer to the sensor size by its actual measurements because as you can see, their ain’t nothing standard about ”crop.”