Real People Portraits

Real People Portraits

The Rocco’s Barber Shop Shoot I recently had the great pleasure of shooting some photos for my local barber shop, for use on their web site. This is an old-school type barber shop that I frequent, in my town of Scituate MA. I approached this opportunity as an...
Using Lightroom as a Comping Tool

Using Lightroom as a Comping Tool

These days it is very popular for photographers to do all of their image enhancements in Lightroom, never once entering Photoshop. There are quite a few photographers entering the field who have never even opened Photoshop, and if it doesn’t work with simple...
21st Century Lighting Techniques +

21st Century Lighting Techniques +

Portrait Retouching for the Artistically Challenged While I’m putting the finishing touches on my DVD tutorials I thought I’d share some presentations from this past PMA show. I did an hour long  presentation about lighting techniques that take advantage...
Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

Classic Hollywood B&W Glamour

In advance of our workshop on Hollywood Lighting in Los Angeles, on May 13th & 14th, 2017,  I am posting this detailed tutorial on B&W portrait technique in Photoshop. This is the post processing part of our workshop exploring George Hurrell style lighting...