Stan

A good customer and friend of mine is expanding his photography business to do more senior photography. He does a lot right now but all of them come to his studio. He recently won a contract with a school about 3 hours away so he is exploring ways to do the high quality level he wants yet to do it quickly and efficiently while
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We recently received a question on the blog about cleaning the dirt off of old photographs before scanning them.  The reader wanted to clean off some of the surface dirt before scanning to make the retouching easier later on.  Good idea or not? I’m torn. While our reader did go ahead with the suggestions I gave her below, I’m not so sure it was
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We photographers can sometimes get so caught up in the technical aspects of exposure, focusing, lenses, and technique that you lose the fun of taking the picture. Don’t. Because at its root, photography is fun.  It allows you to instantly, cheaply and easily capture a treasured memory that is easy to share with the world. Now that’s cool. So while I was getting ready
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I was playing a game with my youngest daughter Becky who has beautiful blonde hair.  I looked at it and said “gee your hair looks a little green”.  “What?” she said, somewhat shocked and a little freaked out as only a 10 year old can get. “Yeah, Becky.  Because we are under fluorescent lights, which are green in color, your hair looks a little
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Most of you know I do a lot of trade shows for the photo lab where I work. And while the swag that you get at trade shows has dropped recently (in both quality and quantity), this cute squeeze toy from Western Digital reminds me to back up! in a cute way. We’ve talked about the importance of digital scrapbookers backing up before, but
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