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Week 9 Module: Portrait with Light from One Window

March 2, 2012 0 Comments

Here’s a simple way to set up and shoot some natural light portraits. All you need is some light streaming through a window and you’ll be channeling Rembrandt.

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All You Need is a Window

March 7, 2011 5 Comments

Window light can help you make stunning portraits…without having to go too far from home.

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Beginner’s Guide: Top 10 Tools for Retouching Portraits in Photoshop

March 1, 2011 0 Comments

Try out these Photoshop tools with my free 3inOne Workshop ebook! Limited release available for 48 hours.

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The Girl with the Polka Dots

February 27, 2011 1 Comment

Natural light is always available, and with a reflector or two, you could make a portrait that pops.

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Shooting the Most Beautiful Woman in the Universe

February 16, 2011 5 Comments

Flash and beauty make a good mix.

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To get the shot: I zoomed the lens as wide as it could get and angled the shot so that the wood would distort. I saw the planks at the bottom of the shot, leading to his hand. I abstracted the window by cropping it above and on the right, so his face would float in the dark background. To get the colors to pop, I used Aperture priority and compensated for exposure by underexposing three quarters of a stop.

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I travel so I can collect you

July 6, 2010 2 Comments

I travel so that I can collect you. Like a book of old stamps, the photos I have taken and the journal entries I’ve scribbled in the pages bearing coffee rings and beer stains flip through my days of being a vulture–a traveler who collects days not mine. I gawk at you and take your [...]

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