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Remembering My Most Popular Models

Remembering My Most Popular Models

Over all of the years I’ve posted many different photographs of different models demonstrating various photography, portrait lighting and even software techniques but whenever certain models are featured I seem get a higher than normal number of likes, questions and responses to these particular images.

Joe’s Book Club: Special Bonus Edition

Joe’s Book Club: Special Bonus Edition

Despite how this book’s title sounds, The Million Dollar Car Detective by Slayton Bonner is a non-fiction book. While it’s ostensibly about the world of collector cars, it’s really the tale of two men: One is the protagonist; the other is his friend and later nemesis, one of which or maybe both of them appear to be IMHO, lying their a**es off.

Exposure Basics: Using the Substitution Method

Exposure Basics: Using the Substitution Method

When using the substitution method of exposure, you replace an object within the scene you’re photographing with an object of known reflectance, such as a Kodak Gray Card, and then take a reflected-light meter reading off this object.

Sharing a Few In-Studio Posing Basics

Sharing a Few In-Studio Posing Basics

Today is #anythingcanhappenday on this Blog. Lately, I've increased the number of glamour and portrait-related posts on this blog and based on the number of page views, people seem to be enjoying them. This is a genre I’m passionate about and was the subject of my...

Wheels Wednesday: Cars & Coffee Photo Tips

Wheels Wednesday: Cars & Coffee Photo Tips

To make interesting photographs at a car show, you gotta love cars. A passion for the subject you’re photographing is always a plus and enables you to look beyond the surface of a car to see its essence, its soul.