Category Archives: For Photographers

WORKSHOP – Studio Lighting for Beginners

I am really excited to once again have the opportunity to teach at ClickinMoms.  Formerly known as “Studio Lighting 101″ (or SL101), “Lighting 101: Studio Lighting For Beginners” begins April 16th and registration is open right now. This is a beginners course.  We will start from square one, showing how to attach an umbrella or softbox to...

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Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Photographer

Tomorrow is December 1st….yikes, can you believe December is upon us already!?!  In honor of December, here are some holiday gift ideas for your favorite photographer.  I suppose they will have to be gifts for your 2nd favorite photographer since I already have these things (ha ha!) which is how I was able to photograph...

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Beginners Studio Lighting Workshop

I am really excited to once again have the opportunity to teach at ClickinMoms.  Formerly known as “Studio Lighting 101″ (or SL101), “Lighting 101: Studio Lighting For Beginners” begins August 8th and registration is open right now. This is a beginners course.  We will start from square one, showing how to attach an umbrella or...

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The Green Giants and my (inexpensive) lens review

My daughter is playing on the Morton Grove All-Stars 8-year-old girls softball team this year.  This is our family’s first experience with this kind of thing and we just completed a four day tournament in Richmond, Illinois.  Richmond is about 50 miles from Morton Grove and over the course of the tournament we experienced one-way...

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I shot myself 365 times (and lived to tell about it!)

I am proud to be a mentor and workshop instructor over at ClickinMoms, and today an article I wrote about self-portraiture was featured on the ClickinMoms blog.  The article is about what I learned during my 365 Project (a self-portrait a day for an entire year) and about the how-to’s of self portraiture.  Check it...

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