The never ending journey
I don’t think there is a profession today where upgrading, studying and learning are not part of “the never ending journey.” A couple weeks ago I purchased an online tutorial…
Photographing the head – part 2
What happens when it's the head of a person? In taking the photographs the same decisions have to be made. From which angle does it look the best? This can…
What do you know?
I have said it before, to create a great portrait you not only need to know the subject, but you also need to know the audience. As a photographer I…
Does your business portrait brand you?
Do you remember when branding was something we did to cows? Today it seems every business has to have a brand. Entrepreneurs, salespeople, and entertainers all have to have a…
Mammoth favourite
The Big Dump Impressive! Created for Komdresco Manufacturing in Cambridge in the late 1980's, this image of a welder working on a dump box for a mining truck needed to…
The Welder
Favourites
Favourites; every photographer has them. Favourite images, some took hours or even days to plan out and execute. Others happened so quick there was no time to plan anything. But…
Clarity
Does it have clarity? Right away when I wrote this I thought "is it in focus" and I guess photographically that is the obvious way to thinking of clarity. Is…
Photography at the 120 Club
Live show photography - meeting the challenge head on I have a very talented friend who performed a one man (plus accompanist) show at the 120 Club in Toronto on…
It’s for a select group of people. It may not be for you.
One of the people I follow on various social media platforms is Author Seth Godin. Among his bestselling books are: Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers…
Engaging portraits – Sample 5
In a previous blog "Engaging Portraits" I talked about unique lighting for each portrait. In the beginning, near everyone starts out with the same body parts, but that's where the…