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1. Make Them Feel Special

   How to shift your portrait from you to your client How effective are your business images with clients with different expectations of you based on their products and services? When starting the portrait process, my client’s first questions are often related to clothing choices or background selection. Indeed, these are…

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2. Mind Set

   Ruben realized early in his career that he loved throwing parties. Welcoming his guests to have fun and enjoy themselves has been the driving purpose in his life as a restauranteur. When Ruben began pursuing a career, it was not in the restaurant business, even though his father was a…

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3. The Slow Way

   Making portraits with a vintage process is a deliberate and slow choice.  Image creation that is measured in minutes per image, not images per second. Working with this slow method allows me to take time with my subject: time to visualize, connect and see more.   Photographing with a large format…

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4. It’s good to get out once in a while.

   It’s Good to Get Out Once in a While.   Sometimes it’s vital to get way out of your surroundings, not only to see new things but to experience how others see the world. Charlie, a mechanical engineer, has many interests that speak to his passion for how things work, which…

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5. 36 years and counting

   The image below was from my first photography class, the first roll of film I shot, and was the first print I brought out of the darkroom. George Strimbu, my dearly loved professor, looked at the image still wet in the tray and asked, “Have you ever thought of a…

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