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Think Lighting
Think Lighting There is no doubt the growth of cell phone camera technology has sent the entire world out trying to play photographer. So often the images posted to social media are almost indistinguishable. One of the main culprits is … Continue reading
Posted in Existing Light, Exposure, How-Tos, Portrait
Tagged cell phone camera, family, Head Shot, kids, photography, portrait
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Valentine Portrait Package – 2018
Valentine Portrait Package – 2018 Most couples will celebrate Valentine Day with flowers, candy, dinner or maybe all of these. All of these are great ways to enjoy your time together. However, at the end of the day all you … Continue reading
Posted in Portrait, Specials, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, family, Head Shot, photography, portrait
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Mixed Light Selfie On The Beach
Mixed light photography My wife Diane and I love the beach at Siesta Key, Florida. Anyone who has been to this beach raves about the white powder sand. As a photographer, I’m often left out of pictures. Which is OK. … Continue reading
Posted in Existing Light, Portrait, Vacation
Tagged family, photography, portrait, travel, White Balance
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Professional HeadShot
In Lake County, Ohio we have a lot of marketing/communications professionals. Many of them belong to a local organization know as Lake Communicators. Every year, the organization publishes a directory of members (yes, some folks still like hardcopy) and list … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial, Photography, Portrait, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Commercial, Executive, Head Shot, photography, portrait
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Infant First Portrait Session
Infant Portrait Session. So there’s this girl, NO, NO, NO, not like that! Shannon belongs to the same networking group as I. Gosh we’ve known each other for years and years. I feel like her brother. I can’t say Father … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Photography, Portrait
Tagged children, family, Infant, photography, portrait
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Sun – For One Light Portraits
Sun: A very interesting portrait video came across my feed today. I wanted to share it with you. First of all most Facebook photography I see has one thing in common – Bad Lighting! Please stop and think for a … Continue reading
Posted in Portrait, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, cell phone camera, family, kids, photography, portrait
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Light, It’s All About The Light!
Light, It’s all about the light. Light! My wife Diane and I like to vacation at Siesta Key Florida. The beach has the softest and whitest sand you’ll see anywhere. During our walks on the soft powder white sand, Diane … Continue reading
Posted in Lighting, Portrait, Travel
Tagged cell phone camera, children, family, kids, Landscape, photography, portrait, travel
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Film Photography – Dead?
Film Photography – Really? Film, remember that stuff? With the explosion of digital cameras today, most of you would likely wonder why shoot on film? Let me back you up a bit. Before digital, you had to put more thought … Continue reading
Posted in Portrait
Tagged Art, cell phone camera, family, Landscape, photography, portrait
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School Pictures And Special Deals
School Picture Business School pictures are a real tradition for families. People often ask if I provide that service. My answer: well I’d like to. I learned a long time ago this is a very difficult market to break into. … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Kids, Portrait
Tagged business, children, high school, photography, portrait, senior
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Baby Portrait
Baby Portrait Baby portraits can be fun or a disaster – trust me! If you have a 6 month old child, wake them from their nap, bundle them up, put them in a strange location, in front of a stranger … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Kids, Portrait
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Fashion Mags – Photo Lighting Tips
Fashion Magazines – Photography Tips Fashion magazines – OK, I admit to looking at them. No, No, really, I’m not that way. The fashion industry spends A LOT of money on photographers to advertise their products. So it stands to reason … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial, Lighting, Portrait
Tagged cell phone camera, Commercial, family, Head Shot, high school, photography, portrait, scuba diving
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Light Planning
Light Equals Photography Light plays a powerful role in photography. In addition, it is relative. A scene/subject will often have varying degrees of illumination. These are commonly know as highlights and shadows. Both highlights and shadows can be a creative … Continue reading
Posted in Landscape, Portrait, Travel
Tagged cell phone camera, Landscape, nature, photography, portrait
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Golden Hour Photography?
Golden Hour vs. Mid Day The Golden Hour as referred to by photographers as the hour around sun up or sundown. The sun and atmosphere combine to give the photographer unique and colorful lighting. Photographers often avoid shooting mid day. … Continue reading
Posted in Existing Light, Landscape, Portrait
Tagged cell phone camera, children, family, Landscape, nature, photography, portrait, travel
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This Portrait Video Will Make You Think About Lighting
Portrait Photography And Lighting. Portrait photography requires that you always think about lighting. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a boat-load of studio equipment or a cell phone. I found this short video demonstrating 3 different set ups. These set … Continue reading
Posted in How-Tos, Portrait
Tagged cell phone camera, children, family, Head Shot, high school, kids, photography, portrait, senior
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Think About The Colors To Enhance Your Portraiture
Do you really love your family? Silly question right? Because you love them, why would you share them through lousy pictures? Today with the proliferation of smart phone camera technology, it’s too easy to shoot without thinking. I suggest taking … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, On-location, Portrait
Tagged cell phone camera, children, family, high school, kids, photography, portrait, senior
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Make Shutter Speed A Photography Tool
If you have read some of my posts, you may have read this before: “You’ve got to be smarter than the camera!” That means understanding how the camera works and camera limitations. Cell phone manufacturers want you to believe that … Continue reading
Posted in Existing Light, Exposure, How-Tos, Landscape, Portrait
Tagged Art, cell phone camera, Landscape, nature, photography, portrait, travel
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Portrait Of A Proud Young Man!
Recently one of my high school seniors wanted to go on-location in addition to his studio session. No problem, where would you like to go? Being a member of the swim team, he replied: Let’s go where there is water! … Continue reading
Posted in On-location, Portrait
Tagged Art, high school, photography, portrait, senior
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What’s All The Fuss?
Have you noticed how photographers are overly protective of their images? I often get requests from people to send them digital photos. To the point they feel they are entitled to them. Here’s an example of why photographers are so … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright Resources, Portrait, The Business Of Photography
Tagged Art, business, photography, portrait
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Why Does This Photo Look So Bad?
Cell phone, point-n-shoot or DSLR camera, it doesn’t matter. A bad photo is still a bad photo. As I said before, A bad photo with an Instagram filter is still a bad photo, it just has an Instagram filter! Do … Continue reading
Posted in How-Tos, Portrait, Video
Tagged cell phone camera, family, kids, photography, portrait
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7 Tips To Look More Professional!
Using LinkedIn as an example, look at the profile pictures that people use? In addition, have you noticed how many people don’t have a profile photo? Let me offer some suggestions as to how your professional head shot should or … Continue reading
Posted in Business/Marketing, Commercial, How-Tos, Portrait
Tagged business, cell phone camera, Commercial, Executive, Head Shot, Organizations, photography, portrait
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How A Photographer Turned Pro!
Almost everyone today believes that technology makes you a photographer. You’ve heard me talk about understanding light, learning the craft, knowing your camera/phone and studying light. Here’s an article about Michael Afonso and his journey to turning pro. http://www.thephoblographer.com/2015/06/15/michael-afonso-how-a-portrait-photographer-went-pro/#.VYHmCWDse0g
Posted in Business/Marketing, How-Tos, Portrait, The Business Of Photography
Tagged business, photography, portrait
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Make Your Photography Subject Standout!
Anytime I look at an image, I expect a clear answer to the question: What’s the subject? When you ask this question, is the answer clear to you? Let’s not be concerned with camera exposure at this point. Let’s think … Continue reading
Posted in How-Tos, Portrait, Vacation
Tagged cell phone camera, children, family, Landscape, nature, photography, portrait
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Portrait Photography Help Video
So how do begin to understand a photographer’s thought process? The best way is to spend time talking with a photographer. Most of us do not get the opportunity to speak with world renowned photographers. So here’s the next best … Continue reading
Posted in Portrait
Tagged family, Head Shot, high school, kids, photography, portrait
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Photography Tips
The tips in this article should help you to open your mind when you look at the cell phone camera screen. Although I follow the author’s comments under the section “Avoid Using Flash”, I’d suggest using flash. The reasons cited … Continue reading
People Photography – Your Eye Is Key
If you’re not looking at your subject and visualizing the resulting photograph, chances are you’re DOOMED! That’s right take a quick look at the surrounding elements and the subject then ask yourself: How will this look when finished? For People … Continue reading
Poses For Portrait Photography
Posing a subject for a portrait is sooo very important. When people come into the studio, they are nervous and uncertain. Try to take a picture of your family or friends at an outing or on vacation. Even then you … Continue reading
Posted in How-Tos, Kids, Maternity, Portrait
Tagged children, family, Infant, photography, portrait
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Poses For Portrait Photography
Allmost everyone who is being photographed asks the photographer: “How do you want me to pose?” Unless the photographer has some experience creating portraits, the answer is often “Oh, just stand there”. Take a look at this article about Mark … Continue reading
Tips On Wildlife Photography
Let me suggest that you first look at the images in this article. Then look at some of the pictures on your cell phone camera. Do you see a difference, aside from the subject. Read the article looking for tips … Continue reading
Posted in How-Tos, Pets, Portrait, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged cell phone camera, family, Landscape, photography, portrait
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Social Media Profile Picture
After adding a contact on a professional social media platform, I was presented with a list of suggested contacts. I was amazed at how many connection suggestions had no or a poor profile photo. How can I confirm our connection … Continue reading
Posted in Business/Marketing, Commercial, Portrait
Tagged business, Commercial, Head Shot, photography, portrait
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Valentine Photography Reminder!
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, don’t forget to contact the studio for the special Valentine! http://www.blog.athomasimage.com.com/valentine-photography/
Valentine Photography
Yes, by all means – flowers, candy and/or dinner for Valentine Day. Why not capture a great memoir though. Here’s a great offer on a 1-1/2 hour sitting and an 8X10 color print, Half Off. The offer expires January 31, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Portrait, Specials
Tagged photography, portrait, Valentine Day
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Class Of 2015 Photography
Say Hello to Taylor. She was recently in the the A Thomas Image studio for her graduation portrait. I love photographing high school students. They’re happy, eager to try different poses and in general are very easy to work with. … Continue reading
Posted in Portrait, Uncategorized
Tagged Head Shot, high school, photography, portrait, senior
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A Portrait – Just Because
It amazes me that people will schedule a visit to the dentist every 6 months or yearly but hesitate to have a portrait created. I’ll guarantee sitting for a portrait is a lot more fun than going to the dentist! … Continue reading
Infant Photography – Thanks For Being Cute!
What do you bet every photographer, could tell you horror stories about photographing infants and children in the studio. There have been many a time I’ve scratched my head after a sitting with a child or children. I’ve even gone … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, Portrait, Uncategorized
Tagged children, family, photography, portrait
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School Photography Day
Yeah, Yeah, I know it’s too early to start thinking of school picture day. But tuck this little gem in your favorites for future reading. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/school-photo-day-expert-tips-for-getting-a-picture-perfect-school-portrait/2013/07/09/391d9348-e8bf-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_story.html Enjoy your camera or come see me.
Is Cheap Photography Really Good For The Customer?
There is no doubt this economy has taken it’s toll on small business. I get offers to shoot for organizations for free in hopes their event will generate leads for my studio – Yeah right! Brides call to get pricing for … Continue reading
Posted in Business/Marketing, Portrait, The Business Of Photography
Tagged business, family, high school, photography, portrait, wedding
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