Metadata and Keywording Resources
If you are a photographer and you are working with digital images you need to know about metadata. Below I list a few software applications and resources for adding and working with metadata. First...
View ArticleSenior Portrait Time
It’s back to school time, and if you are or have a senior, it is also senior portrait time. I just created my first senior portrait of the season last evening. Brittany wanted to have her senior...
View ArticleTips for Senior Portraits
If you want a senior portrait that goes beyond the run of the run of the mill head shot, than you have come to the right place. Richard Durnan Photography offers senior portraits that are striking,...
View ArticleLighting Diagram Creator
In my last post, Brittany’s Portrait How To, I included a lighting diagram that visually allows you to see the lighting set up I used. You might have asked, “Rich, how did you create that”? Well, I...
View ArticleGeo Tagging Your Photographs
Geo tagging is a form of metadata that allows you to store with in your photograph GPS coordinates for the exact location it was made. A while back I made a post on Metadata and Keywording Resources...
View ArticleFlickroom – Beta
This week I got introduced to Flickroom – Beta, an Adobe Air based application that provides a richer browsing experience to Flickr users. I am a user of Flickr, popular on line photo sharing site. I...
View ArticleUnderstanding Histograms
Understanding Histograms, both during digital photo capture and during your post production work flow in programs like Photoshop, will dramatically improve your images. When I am teaching my Digital...
View ArticleDo You Have a Sales Strategy?
I came across a blog post on the PhotoPreneur blog. It’s a quick read and for me the main message is one that we as photographers often forget whan it comes to our business; we need to have a sales...
View ArticlePhotography Student Discounts
If you are a student of photography, taking one of my photography classes or workshops or anywhere else, you should know that you may qualify for discounts on photographic equipment, software, and...
View ArticleTips for Bad Weather Travel Photography
I’ve been in Germany for a week and although we have not had a lot of rain, it has been predominantly overcast. There was a time when I would have called it “bad weather” for photography and been...
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