The problem is that the scanning process, especially prints, while it can be relatively simple, becomes mind-numbing when you have to scan lots of pictures. And if you have slides it becomes even more painful. Her’s my suggestion…

I strongly believe that you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on camera equipment to make really good boudoir or glamour photographs. Although it’s true that most professional photographers shoot with top-of-the-line DSLR’s or mirrorless cameras you don’t have to do the same thing. (Especially if you can’t afford to.)

On Monday I talked about my approach to obtaining proper photographic exposure but I also recognize that exposing for invisible light can be more of a challenge. So today I wanted to share some thoughts on how I approach exposure for infrared photography….

For many years, I didn’t have a standalone studio. In the somewhat distant past, I had one but for twenty years between than and moving into Daisy Hill. I made all my portraits on location. For the past ten years I’ve been shooting in my 11×15-foot home studio but, if you read last month’s post, that is probably going to change and I’ll be back to on-location shoot, if I can find any models that is. Living in Colorado, it gets cold in the winter and sometimes it snows, lots of snow. If I lived in Florida or Arizona where Mary wants us to move to, I might have a different way of choosing shooting locations.

One of the advantages digital imaging has over shooting film is the different ways that you can sharpen images. Most image editing programs contain a Sharpen command that works by raising the contrast of adjacent or edge pixels but sometimes this technique increases sharpness at the expense of increasing contrast too