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Review of Editing for Artists – A Color Theory Intensive by Roxanne Bryant

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I know it’s weird to begin a review of a color theory workshop with a black & white image, but give me just a minute.  I want to make sure anyone reading knows how much I LOVE monochromatic images.  In past years I have been tempted to give clients an entire gallery of black and […]

Daily shooting – A start to 2017

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Something on my mind lately has been: Are we photographing our kids too much? I am pretty laid back when it comes to shooting daily.  For the last 4 years I have done a Project 365 in a very lazy and slacker manner.  I shoot daily (mostly) and then when I have time I run […]

How do you organize your images Colie?

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Since it is the start of a new year I thought I would talk a little about my file organization.  Just to note I use Lightroom for the majority of my edits and for its cataloging capabilities.  I was a hard core Bridge/PS user until I started teaching my workshops.  While I still prefer Bridge […]

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 […]

A Year in Review – The Good, Bad, and Ugly of 2016

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There have been a few Year in Review posts in my Facebook feed the last few weeks.  I haven’t felt the urge to click on any because I can see from the excerpt text they are about how wonderful 2016 was.  Thinking about writing this post I really thought the best thing I could say […]

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