Wootness | the blog of christine walsh-newton
master photographer | photographic craftsman | certified professional photographer
It drives me absolutely crazy when I see a photo like this: Seriously, how HARD is it to change the color of the blocks so that they look nice? Don’t give me the blah blah about not knowing how to do it. The Photoshop technique for this is REALLY simple. Much more simple than the …
Continue reading “Maternity Photographers: STOP it with the crazy baby block colors!”
In the beginning, the camera gods created the kit lens. And it was good. Kind of. But soon, heretics began worshipping at the feet of the kit lens and its goodness and proclaimed its glory throughout the Kingdom of Photographic. The prophets confronted the existence of the kit lens and smote them. The heretics saw …
Have you ever heard this? If not, it’s CB-speak for “What’s your location?” I’d like you to go to your website and pretend that you are not you. Pretend you are a potential client. Pretend you want to know what city your photography business is located in. Look. Keep Looking. Look some more. Did you …
So… remember my little rant about shooting on white bedsheets? If you don’t remember it, CLICK HERE and read, I’ll wait. Recently, a Wootness reader commented on that article: If the skill level is only at the bed sheet stage, then getting white seamless paper is going to be useless. They will have no clue …
Continue reading “The best high key tutorial in the universe”
MWAC…we say it and we sneer. We jeer when Missy pronounces it the way she does and we roll our eyes when someone says they’re proud to be one. MWAC, DWAC, GWAC…they all mean the same…someone with a camera. We scoff and pronounce ourselves professional photographers and move on. But maybe, just maybe these chicks …
Yeah yeah yeah. I’m supposed to be all optimistic and think positively about the new year. Screw that. All I can say is “so long, good riddance.” 2011 frankly, sucked. For a lot of reasons. Business-wise, it was a toss-up. Business was down, but I’m in tune with the reasons why. On a personal level, …
Continue reading “So long, 2011. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass…”
