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It’s Spring and It’s Almost Infrared Season

It’s Spring and It’s Almost Infrared Season

Although Spring may have already sprung where you live, real Spring in Colorado seems just around the corner. And for me that means it’s time for more infrared photography, although I have been playing around with it this winter.

Photographing Megan in Low Key Lighting

Photographing Megan in Low Key Lighting

Low-key photography is a genre of photography consisting of shooting dark-colored scenes by lowering or dimming the “key” or front light illuminating the scene and is usually used to create a mysterious atmosphere…

Success is Hard, Failure is Easy

Success is Hard, Failure is Easy

I’ve often said that success is hard but failure is easy but you can stack the odds in your favor by providing outstanding customer service to your clients. While this may sound obvious, these days it’s not so common and why customer service for most consumer and b-to-b goods and services has all but evaporated. That may sound bad but it’s really the good news for you. The best way to improve your own customer service is to turn your last personal customer experience around 180 degrees.

Film Friday: National Photo Month

Film Friday: National Photo Month

National Photography Month began in 1984 as part of something called the American Photography Celebration but later included the entire month of May. For a short time it was also the home of Take Your Camera to Work day that included a website funded out of my own pocket but faded after a few years

How to Choose Lenses for Portraiture

How to Choose Lenses for Portraiture

Whenever I’m with a group of photographers, like at one of my Coffee & Camera events some photographers tell me that they would like to try shooting portrait or glamour images but think they don’t have the right equipment and that makes it an unattainable goal for them. Nothing could farther from the truth…