The Blog of Awesomeness

How to create a really professional image with seamless paper.

Henry gives you professional posing advice.  No, really.

Studio Photography.  Lighting.  Backdrops.  Umbrellas.  Soft boxes.  It all gets so confusing and overwhelming and a lot of times photographers just eschew it all and choose to be natural-light-only photographers to avoid the headache.  But really, having at least a simple studio set up that you can use in your home or take to other's homes, even if you don't get a full studio, will give you much greater versatility.  This is especially true for when you are shooting in the winter in a colder climate or shooting small children.

With the passage of about ten years, look for an update to this blog post!  Rachel shoots the R6 ii and has changed things around a little with the flash triggers, but overall we still have very similar lenses and set ups.  Often if we are not traveling, we will use Alien Bees for the fastest recovery time for our wedding lighting set up!

A video showing how to quickly and painlessly do simple headswaps in Adobe Photoshop.

A few tips to help photographers feel more confident photographing families with autism and helping individuals with autism feel more comfortable during their sessions.

We've probably all been there. Everyone is smiling perfectly. The light is gorgeous. The family is dressed to the nines. But Junior just WILL NOT LOOK AT YOU! We have a trick for that. PEZ dispensers.