During workshops and PhotoWalks the number one question I’m typically asked by attendees is about how to obtain proper exposure. You would think that with all the automation that’s built into today’s cameras that would be the last question they would ask but it is the first.

Black and white is a wonderful media for making portraits because the lack of color simplifies the image, causing you to focus on the subject’s face of the photograph instead of emphasizing their clothing or surroundings.

Out here in the real world, few of us are perfect, which is why retouching can sometimes be a challenge for aspiring portrait photographers. In fact Cindy Crawford once said, “even I don’t look like Cindy Crawford when I get up in the morning!”

Although I’ve never owned an Oldsmobile automobile, I’ve always been a fan of the marque especially of their 442 models and any of the Hurst Old models.