Appreciate the irony: Up until the Industrial Revolution – mid-XIX century, your status played the most important part of whether or not you would ever see a portrait of yourself. Hear me? Having portraits of family members on the walls was a clear message of the status. Reasons? Well, cost… even a canvas had to […]
My dear ladies, I have enjoyed writing this post tremendously, navigating the ocean that is called the Internet, dreaming away, placing few orders… and having a glass of Sauvignon Blanc while doing it. So… grab your poison of choice whether it is wine or coffee or whatever-it-is, and let us dream away… You have booked […]
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This post is for photographers. If you said “Yes” to the name of the post, there is nothing new for you here. If your answer is “NO”, stay with me, I’ll rock your world. If you photograph people, you know how much encouraging it is to show stunning image on the back of your camera, […]
This was a very special session to me. 2 reasons – location and a girl. She is a fellow photographer and a fellow mentor from Utah. We shot in a heart of NYC, in her tiny hotel room. I am a studio photographer. I love my studio, even though it is dark, and I have […]
I am about to share with you the biggest secret of my photography. Nope it is not the painterly look know-how, not the styling of the shoot, and neither is dry ice work. It is love. Huh, right? But it is the truth. When I’m photographing a client, or snapping shadow of a tree or […]
Morning. Coffee and a magazine. A magazine! I did not touch one for ages. Life is fast paced no time for magazines. Work work work. Yet… Quietness of the morning. Relaxation. Zen. This is the morning of my session with Sue Bryce. As a client/model. On the other side of the camera. I’m about to experience […]
…My fingers are not bloody this time. It’s great, for I’m about to throw that needle at my sewing machine that stopped working. Talking about bad timing. I’m almost finished altering magnificent dark dress – all mine. I was browsing online stores for a month, at first lazily, and later frantically – for that one […]
Honestly I tried to make a video tutorial – there went my Saturday. Camtasia failed me. While I’m in search of a perfect, or at least working, screen capture studio, here is a snapshot tutorial on how to work with textures. This is one of the recent portraits I shot. Thank you for […]
What a great news! Board where you can pick a wardrobe piece from the Studio collection is up and running! It means that in addition to your own clothes that you bring to the photoshoot you can add few extra pieces. After we’ll nail your business portrait for LinkedIn… after we’ll do casual look – […]
