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Portrait Photography: Setting the Mood

Portrait Photography: Setting the Mood

Portrait Photography: Setting the Mood A portrait photo shoot may seem like it should be simple, but there’s more to it than pointing your camera at your subject and taking the picture. A good portrait photograph should capture the essence of your subject in an...
Before and After

Before and After

An interesting technique is hand-tinting a photograph. I am an avid Photoshop user. It’s safe to say all my work goes through lots of post-production effort. I’ve always wanted to be a painter. “This,” is as close as I expect to get; Photoshop...
That’s What Friends are For

That’s What Friends are For

Music is truly a universal language. Musicians are those types of people that find it to be very important to spend their valuable time delivering music to others. I wonder how many musicians were once “the milkman” or “the paperboy or...
Portrait Moments

Portrait Moments

In a few days, I’ll be explaining that moment in time while working with models, a moment when the magic capture becomes evident. Often a portrait photographer will take a great number of images. After, a study of each image yields the “selects”...
… and we’re back!

… and we’re back!

Welcome to the “return” of Marc Blake’s Blog with topics of interest for all. We all have a story. Taking time to tell that story is both consuming and rewarding. But… what for? There are benefits to writing and posting your ideas and stories,...