Author: ByMarcusPhoto
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What Do You See
A small closed off room, a dozen or so students with cameras and tripods, scattered hot lights on dubious stands with a jumble of cables snaking underfoot and two young models. This was the scene for Model Day; a learning exercise in portrait photography in a class I was taking at a local college. More…
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Choices, choices, choices
As frustrating as it can be to come back from a session and have a hard time finding anything to my liking, the opposite can be truly frustrating as well! I don’t believe there is such a thing as “too many keepers”, but when a number of pictures turn out so well, and the subject…
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Don’t Look Away
From the viewfinder. That’s my learning to share and to reinforce in my own mind. All too often when I am taking portraits with someone who is not used to being in front of a camera (in a non-selfie situation), a good deal of time is spent trying to relax them, and have them look…
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Photographer’s Block and Consistency
The excitement that comes with starting anything new: new job, new relationship, new website, really kicks up my adrenaline level and helps me gain some quick momentum. I was brimming with ideas as I put together this website/blog and my new social media sites, and I felt that I would have enough to say and…
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Starting Where I Was
Taking a step back from my last post, I feel compelled to go back a bit farther and share where my love for photography began. When I was 5 or 6 my Opa (my German maternal Grandfather) gifted a Kodak 126 camera to me. Now, my Opa knew a few things about cameras; he was…
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Starting Where I Am
Many professional photographers offer the advice to ”start where you are” as it applies to our personal photographic journey; with the myriad cameras, lenses, lights, editing programs/computers/apps and other black holes for camera-heads to pour their money into, I appreciate hearing this from a number of sources. The seduction of believing that a new piece…
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