I met Tom in 2012. He’s is a bit of a renaissance man. Author, entrepreneur, restaurant owner, used car salesman… The later is his current occupation. In the city of Scranton, where I’m from, there’s a car lot on almost every street. In a city flooded with vehicles for sale, […]
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VERY INTERESTING PERSON No. 1 /// DAN GARRISON “I had planned on retiring after 30 years. Then 9/11 happened and I decided to stay in a few more years. Two weeks after my 50th birthday I jumped out of a C-5 from 10,000 feet with 375 of my men and […]
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A Family Lifestyle Photo Session in Charlotte, NC. Luke & Brittney are dear friends of ours that we visited back in March. They have 5 children. We have 2. With 11 people in the house, it was a busy atmosphere for sure. But really that’s just par for the course […]
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A Short Lesson on Corporate Headshots Behind the Scenes at a Headshot Portrait Photo Shoot. In my planning for the shoot, (at 11pm the night before) I decided that there were two portraits of the company owner that I knew I wanted to make. I wanted one strong black & […]
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Interview with Nicole Mason Part 3 in the How to Start a Photography Business series. In the last two posts in this series, I started out with more of the visionary and legal aspects of starting your own photography business. If you’re new here, I would highly encourage you to […]
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How to Start a Photography Business | Part 2 | Avoiding Legal Mistakes Business Liability Insurance, Client Contracts, and other necessary legal stuff. In my previous article in this series, I used the analogy of board game squares to address the starting point (square 1) in How to Start a […]
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How to Start a Photography Business | Part 1 Where to start and things to consider for launching a new photography business. I was a blank slate when I first started my business. I didn’t know the first thing about how to start a business. All I knew was that […]
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It’s what photojournalism is all about. The moment I took this photo it was immediately one of my favorites from 2014… One month after their wedding day, the bride’s grandfather passed away. Last October I turned 30. It was a weird feeling. No longer considered part of the “college age […]
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Learn How To Shoot In Manual Mode. I asked several people what subject they most wanted me to write about and, by far, the most popular answer was how to shoot in manual mode. It’s that all powerful yet all confusing “M” setting on your camera dial, which many beginners […]
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