Category: Portraits
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Great Family Photography Techniques for the Best Holiday Portrait Ever!
The Rhein family photographed at Audubon Park in New Orleans. 2018 Zack Smith Photography Want to know how you can take relaxed natural light family holiday portraits this season? So I know the situation you are in. It’s the holidays, it’s stressful, you are busy, but you have this rare moment when your entire family…
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When agency, photographer, and client communicate, they are able to Creatively Collaborate!
When you really take the time to look at a body of advertising or creative branded content, you truly see that there are more than just one cook in the kitchen. Notice the placement of the type, the size and it’s font. Notice the negative space allowed by a photograph to boost what would be…
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New E-commerce store photography for New Orleans Tourism site!
Did you know the City of New Orleans has merch? No, not merchandise like mardi gras beads, hurricane cups from Pat O’s or hangovers. The city’s creative side offers stuff like T-shirts, tricentennial pins, and tote bags and I was honored to photograph the collection for their new e-commerce site. In doing so, I was able…
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That time I got to photograph inside the hippest office in downtown New Orleans?
You know when you visit an office or a home a few times and you really really want to photograph inside it but all the photographing is usually done outside the house? Well, I got to photograph inside the house. Well, the office that is. A few months back I had the pleasure of photographing…
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How To Tuesday #35 – Portrait Photography Lighting 101: When to choose…what to use?
How do we know when to use lighting for a portrait, and then what light do we use? I think when we are learning how to first shoot portraits, lighting is probably the last thing on our minds. I remember when I first started shooting portraits, the most important thing buzzing around my head was…
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Art of the Photographic Portrait – The Portrait IS the story your subject reads with their eyes
Photographing a portrait of someone must tell the story, learning the story must come before you put camera to eye… Over the years I have loved photographing my friend Arlyn Jiminez, who is also a superbly talented metal artist. He makes sculptures for his own art but for commissions as well. Here and there some…
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How to Tuesday #34 – Learning Portrait photography sometimes starts with learning where and how to focus.
As beginning photographers there’s alot on our minds. Aside from going through our mental checklist of various Must Do’s like: How to Turn Camera On / How to Hold Camera Correct / Set Correct ISO / Where is my Shutter Speed Wheel? / and the list goes on… Sometimes it’s the easiest factors of photography…
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Behind the Scenes for St. Charles Vision Portrait Shoot #2 – NOLA “Distinctive”
Heading into Overdrive and BTS (Behind the Scenes) at the St. Charles Vision “Distinctive” New Orleans portrait photo shoot In this second installment of St. Charles Vision’s “Distinctive” New Orleans portrait campaign, we photographed chefs Kristen Essig co-owner of Coquette, Aaron Burgau of Patois and Central City BBQ, Thomas Mann, artist, and trombone player extraordinaire and all…
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5 Easy Portrait Photography Tips to help you Connect With Your Subjects! How To Tuesday #19!
You could be photographing a CEO’s headshot or your own family Christmas photo, by connecting with your subject on a deeper level it will always result in a more powerful portrait. Whether I am photographing a business person, a musician, or a family of six, I am always faced with the duty of making the best…
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Alter Ego Portraits
yeah, we had a crew that rolled deep. Mandy, Melani, Marisa, JR and family all helped out make this weird idea in my head a reality. a Few years ago i realized that there were too many ideas i had to do alone – and there was no way to keep em up there. I…