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Whether shooting portraits with speedlights, power pack and head systems or monolights, one of the best ways to improve the quality of their light is by using a light modifier like an umbrella.

Back when Shutterbug was a print magazine, I received an e-mail from a reader asking, “Why do you do infrared photography, when regular photography is already so hard? Here’s why…

Shooting glamour portraits in Cancun may be too expensive for most of us but shooting outdoors in local parks is free and for state parks admission is usually less than a few bucks a day. When you take the time to look around, attractive and dramatic locations are everywhere.

Maybe I’m wrong by Anthony Horowitz’s Marble Hall Murders feels like the end of a three-book book-within-a book series that began with Magpie Murders—I call it the “bird book” because most of the characters have bird’s names—and Mayflower Murders.

To keep my lenses clean, I prefer to use a LensPen Black Series for cleaning smudges of any of my lenses or filters and keep one in each of my camera bags.

When working with available light, one of the advantages of shooting and working with RAW files is that it lets you change a photograph’s white balance in Adobe Camera RAW, or other programs as well, to be fair.