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Portrait Photography is Always a Collaboration
In a sense, all photographers-of-people are necessary collaborators. I’m stretching the meaning of that word a little bit. What I mean is that the artwork they create always hinges on some uncertainty from the people they photograph. They have to bend and adapt their...
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Delightful Family Portraits at Benjamin Banneker Historical Park in Catonsville MD
Benjamin Banneker Historical Park in Catonsville, MD is an a beautiful place for a family portrait session--or almost any portrait session for that matter. Although we met for this shoot in the late afternoon, there's lots of shade making it a great spot at almost any...
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Portrait Photography is Always a Collaboration
In a sense, all photographers-of-people are necessary collaborators. I’m stretching the meaning of that word a little bit. What I mean is that the artwork they create always hinges on some uncertainty from the people they photograph. They have to bend and adapt their...
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An Engagement Session at Quiet Waters Park With A Mix of Tradition
These two are about to have their wedding back home in Togo with their friends and family, but before they left they wanted to do an engagement session stateside. Being big fans of nature, and water, but also wanting some modern elegance, we chose Quiet Waters Park in...
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How to feel comfortable in front of the camera (if you’re usually not)
You know, a lot of us were raised in what were still the relatively early days of consumer photography. A time when fancy cameras were accessible enough to have a large base of hobbyists. Point and click cameras were easy enough to use that everyone wanted to, but a...
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The Only Three Things That Really Matter to Your Wedding Guests
When you throw a wedding and a hundred or more people show up, the fact of the matter is, some of those people are going to grumble about something, and in all likelihood, you’re going to hear about some of it. That sucks, because you’d think those people could be...
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A Portrait Session Should Be An Experience, Not a Chore
If you ask just about any portrait photographer what kind of person they like to work with, the vast majority of their answers will include something along the lines of “a person who wants to be there”. There are a lot of good reasons for this response. Perhaps most...
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The Value of the Honest Truth
You know, in all of the years we’ve been in business, I can honestly say I have personally liked probably 99% of our clients, and maybe more. Of course, I haven’t done any actual math here. But given how difficult it is to list people I haven’t liked, I’m confident in...
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How many images can you expect from your session?
This is a question we get very regularly. Strange that I have not written about this until now. The question is not easily answered. While it’s true that we generally create between 20 and 60 finished images per hour, per photographer, you’ll see that we don’t make...
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Hindsight is The Worst Time to Learn About Your Expectations
There are an awful lot of people walking around feeling unhappy, frustrated, angry and upset because their expectations weren’t met in one way or another. It’s a tricky thing to manage our expectations. On the one hand, you don’t want to expect the worst all the time...
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