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If there is any real “secret” to any successful professional photography enterprise, it’s establishing practices that protect your cash flow and help your operation grow. Here are a few suggestions that may help insure your studio’s profitability no matter what kind of photography you do.

A long time ago an old school photographer told me that “light is light.” What he was trying to tell me was that it doesn’t matter what kind of lighting equipment you use, be it speedlights, power pack and head systems or monolights, the most important thing is the quality of the light that’s being produced.

Spring has been slow coming to Colorado and recent snowstorms have stunted and damaged some of the deciduous trees here on Daisy Hill, all of which has been slowing down my annual foray into digital infrared photography.

There is no perfect rule of thumb about how much blur or soft focus that you can or should apply to an image file but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a few tricks up your sleeve.

What I tried to do was learn what I could from the criticisms, ignore what I didn’t agree with–they’re ultimately my photographs–and turn most of the criticisms into a learning experience, including the good, the bad, and sometimes the ugly.

These day’s no matter what or who I might be photographing, I’m more than likely to reach for a roll of black and white film. It doesn’t have to be all of the images that get made during a particular photo session; maybe just a few to, you know, see what happens.