We’re happy to post our interview with Detroit, Michigan photographer Prem Mukherjee of Arising Images to our blog this week. Their studio had the honor of being the most profitable in-house studio by the PPA Benchmark survey. We chat about topics from understanding pricing to figuring costs of everything to discussing what products to sell….
In this quick tutorial, we show you how to use the new content aware move tool in Photoshop CS6. It’s a pretty useful little tool that, literally, lets you move people around in the photo. The Before Photo The After Photo The How To Video We definitely recommend using the trial of CS6 to check…
We have very strong opinions about website platforms. Our opinion is that WordPress blog sites are the best platform out there bar none! SEO Monster One of the main reasons we personally love WordPress is that it is an SEO monster. Google and other search engines love WordPress. It loves the blog post titles in…
In last week’s anatomy of an image, we featured one of Marko’s images and how it was created. This week we’re featuring a recent magazine editorial he did in Austria for blütezeit MODE magazine. We saw a couple of images on Facebook and fell in love with them. Here is the full magazine story. We hope…
I love me some Photoshop. Who doesn’t really? It’s fun, you can do pretty much anything. I love the content-aware fill–trash be gone! I love the clone tool. I love it all. But there are those times when Photoshop doesn’t love me back. And that’s when I head on over to Retouchup.com where for $2.50-$10…
This image by Marko Dusak of Spinaker Graphics is nothing short of breathtaking–not only the photography, but also the editing. This is the first of this series–anatomy of an image. We take an image and show, not only how it was created in camera, but the entire editing process behind it. Image © Spinaker Graphics…
I know, I hear you. I was one of the first to laugh at Adobe for putting in video editing in Photoshop CS6. But, I’m here to say that I’m also one of the first to say, “wow, video editing in Photoshop CS6 is amazing.” Photoshop CS6 Video Interface I spend hours on Lynda.com learning…
Very important caveat – I am no lighting guru. This tip is about how hot lights help me see what I’m going to get and the pros and cons of hot lights. Hot Lights – Main Key Points 1. What you see is what you get One of the great things about hot lights is…
As the photography market gets more and more competitive and the consumer has more and more choices, like professional products at big box stores. Photographers need to be pickier when choosing products. Two Important Considerations 1. Perceived Value Perceived value, I feel, comes down to two things. First of all, and most importantly, it comes…
Key West wedding photographer Julie Ambos of Studio Julie Photography not only shoots some beautiful imagery and possesses good business sense, but she’s lucky enough to live in the sun of Key West! Whether they are shooting seniors, weddings, portraits or boudoir, the gang at Studio Julie is full of energy, hard work and determination…