Category: How To
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Stellar Rooftop Photography! How to use slow sync and drag the shutter for a moving effect!
What is Slow Sync and how can I do it? With so many photography terms used to describe certain techniques and tricks, it’s hard to know how to navigate and learn new skills. I hope today’s How To Tuesday can dispel some of the myths behind one of the coolest, and easiest photography techniques out…
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How to Organize Your Photography for a Portfolio Presentation
Click here to have Zack help you with your portfolio now! I was honored to speak to about 20 New Orleans photographers this week on the steps needed to create your best photography portfolio for exhibition and presentation. I spoke on a few topics I feel are important and then photographer Jennifer Shaw presented her…
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Photographing the Solar Eclipse in New Orleans
Just imagine all of the wonderful photographs that will be taken during this solar eclipse, the first in 99 years that can be seen in some capacity from coast to coast. I think we as a New Orleans photography community need to step up and represent how our images are made and show em how…
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“Build Your Brand” Content Creation, SEO Marketing, and Finding Your Philosophy as an Entrepreneur
I was recently honored with the opportunity to talk to a wonderful group of St. Bernard Parish business owners and entrepreneurs as part of the Grow St. Bernard initiative. Grow St. Bernard, a new seminar series, is from the St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation and the St. Bernard Chamber, and it offers professional insight on…
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Mastering Focal length: Learning how to “see” like the camera sometimes means to close your eyes
Rob your eyes from their sense of sight and gift your ears the color of sound. Close your eyes anywhere in New Orleans to hear the sounds of history, joy, sorrow and struggle. It’s like a song that continues to be written as you walk the streets listening for the next verse in the city’s…
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Stop the Madness! So will your new Digital Camera instantly make you a professional? Nope.
How To Tuesday asks the tough questions photographers face every day in an easy to read way! I have been teaching beginner photography to beginners and mentoring professional photographers for many years in the New Orleans area. From time to time I am contacted by photographers from around the country who are on vacation in…
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New Gear New Techniques: How to Shoot Fill Flash Portraits into the Sun and Pocketwizard TTL Product Test
How did I make this photograph you ask? Get inspired by Louisiana, befriend a tree, and wait for the fog…. What gets you off your couch? What motivates you to pick up your camera and find the next great photograph in New Orleans, Lafayette, Baton Rouge or Bunkie? For me, nothing gets me out of…
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Mardi Gras: A Feast for the Senses for it is the Playground of Creatives…
Mardi Gras 2017 Photo Gallery: #Colourgasm Photographs really do tell a story don’t they? One photograph can say so many different things to many people, and a series of images may tell one singular story so well, that we all agree. I hope you take a second to look at these images and agree with…
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How to Photograph Aliens and Yoda’s in Low Light While Marching: A Practical New Orleans Tutorial
In my 15 years teaching photography I have been asked alot of questions, and most beginning photographers want to learn the basics: how to shoot manual exposure, how to get that blurry background, and “how do I see like my camera sees?”. But once a year around Mardi Gras in New Orleans photographers want to know…
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High Resolutions: Photographing with Intention and Purpose in 2017
Need A Photo Resolution for 2017? Why Not Shoot With Intention And Purpose? Can we all agree on a few things? Can we all agree that every great photograph has a subject? Ok? Good. If you don’t believe me then pull out the nearest photo book on the shelf and open it up to one of…