Photo Trick: Blurring Your Background

I’ve been talking a lot this week about food photography and getting better food shots. So today, I’d like to share with you a little tip I picked up at one of our last photo workshops. But first, let’s go over two things that are important to understand before you...

Photo Tip: Working the Image

Here’s this week’s photo tip, from professional photographer Shelly Perry, on playing with the angles and focus of your shot to get your most saleable image… — Lori Lori Allen Director, Great Escape Publishing ******************* WORKING THE IMAGE When you plan...

January’s Photo Challenge Theme: What’s Your Resolution?

Scroll down for this month’s Photo Challenge Theme… Remember, as a reader of this newsletter, you’re invited to take part in our monthly Photo Challenges for a chance to win the yearly Grand Prize of $2,000! There is no purchase necessary to enter… no fee for...

Photo Tip: How to Take Brilliant Snow Photos

Here in the Pacific Northwest, this holiday season brought us a winter wonderland. And, looking through the entries for this month’s Photo Challenge, I see it’s snowing all around the U.S., too. Venturing out with my camera to capture the snow, I was reminded of how...

Olympic Fuel Tip #3 – Hit ‘Em with Your Best Shots

Shelly Perry here. I shoot a lot of portraits.  It works well for me because I like photographing people, and my people shots are usually good sellers for stock — so sometimes I make twice the money. Occasionally, a client will ask me for a CD of all the images...

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