The Blog of Awesomeness

Tips on Lighting from Pure. Behind the Scenes.

How to create a really professional image with seamless paper.

Henry gives you professional posing advice.  No, really.

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!

Posing and styling details is critical to create a professional, polished image, but it can be done without a lot of fuss.  It gives more meaning to the images when you are able to add in elements of the surroundings.

An example of a bridal groomal session pre-wedding photography session.  Edited with Pure Photoshop Actions and Pure Lightroom Presets.

A video tutorial outlining some best practices for getting perfect focus in macro photography.

Easily create a watermark in Photoshop to protect your images online.

The importance of backing up all of your digital data, especially your photography.  If you don't back them up in at least two places, it does not exist.