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Family is Everything – Lifestyle Family Photography Workshop

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So as you may know I took 2017 off from teaching my online documentary/lifestyle family photography workshops. My first education announcement for 2018 is an in-person workshop here in Colorado. I have a wonderful teaching partner so clear your calendar for June 7-10th, 2018 and pop on over to the workshop website to get all […]

Why do you love ProPhoto 6 Colie?

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Top 7 reasons I love ProPhoto 6 I’ve had ProPhoto a little over 3 years now.  I have used versions 4, 5, and now for the last 6+ months version 6.  When I first made the upgrade I wrote about it here the day I made my new site live.  Every single issue I initially […]

The Business of Telling Stories

business of telling stories june2014

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Interested in taking The Business of Telling Stories?  Early registration for the September 2014 workshop begins soon! I am a little sad that the March run of Telling Stories ended yesterday.  It was a great group of photographers and you will see their work in a new project soon as well as on The Stories […]

life with chloe | stories from her childhood

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  I have shot many day in the life of Chloe in the last year.  It is one of my favorite shooting exercises, but that is not why I included it as a bonus assignment in the first run of  my workshop Telling Stories with Lifestyle Photography.  As an exercise in storytelling, it is one […]

90 second shoot – creativity challenge

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Okay so MAYBE I didn’t get these in 90 seconds 🙂  These particular images actually span 4 minutes, but I shot this activity 3 different times across a ten minute period.  For a toddler that’s the same thing, right? I also don’t claim to have been genius enough to create this activity.  I was looking […]

Reshoot is not a Dirty Word

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This article was previously seen on the defunct Light Inspired blog and is reposted here for archiving purposes. Every photographer I know has a reshoot clause in their contract.  Why?  To protect themselves in the event a client is not happy with their shoot and demands another chance in front of the lens. Poor choice […]

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