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Sharing a Few Not-So-Secrets of Available Light Portraiture
I’ve always held that the best way to improve your portraiture is practice. Make sure you photograph something—anything!—each week so you get to the point where you don’t have to think about how to operate your gear.
Joe’s Book Club: Chapter Thirteen, Keep on Readin’
According to The Authors Guild, print book sales were up 9.1 percent last year. Booksellers sold 825.7 million books in 2021, up from 757.9 million in 2020.
Tomorrow is Save Your Photos Day
Save Your Photos Day is always on a Saturday in September. This year it’s September 24 and it’s a great day to back up those digital photos and organize all those boxes of Polaroids.
Joe’s Movie Club: Star Trek Memories
I’ve always been a fan of sci-fi movies, Even mediocre sci-fi (some may say bad) movies like Battle Beyond the Stars or genuinely bad sci-fi like the Canadian-made Starship Invasions, which amazingly also stars Robert Vaughn. I love’em all.
Exploring The Portrait Warm Up Concept
When I was a younger, a friend invited me to attend a private workshop at his studio that was being taught by a local photographic who had a reputation for the quality of his portrait work. The subject of the workshop was to ostensibly to teach us attendees about portrait posing and it went something like this…
Joe’s Book Club: Chapter Twelve, Ghost Story
A ghostwriter is a person who is hired to write literary or journalistic works or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and especially politicians often hire ghostwriters to write, draft or edit autobiographies, memoirs, magazine articles….





