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Portrait tips: If you know your tools, you can relax

Levi Sim

At weddings, you shoot portraits as quickly as possible so that your couples can spend as much time with their families as possible. I was an assistant shooter at this

Portrait Tips: How to pose couples

Levi Sim

I hate to break it to you, but making pictures of one person is easy. It’s level one, beginner, easy-cheese. When you add another person, it becomes a lot harder

Portrait Tips: Build a scene with Lume Cubes & holiday lights

Levi Sim

Holiday lights are so cool. If the tree didn’t dry out and start dropping needles, I think I’d petition my wife to leave them set up all year. They just

Portrait Tips: Reminders about taking photos in snow

Levi Sim

Ya know, if my back wasn’t seized in pain from shoveling snow, it would have been a great day to make portraits in the snow ;) A fresh blanket of

Portrait Tips: Holiday portraits

Levi Sim

Holy cow, it’s the holidays. Yeah, crept right up on me. With family and friends getting together, you could have a golden opportunity to make terrific portraits. If you don’t

Portrait Tips: Crop the top

Levi Sim

When you make a portrait, your aim should be for maximum impact. Emotion, lighting, and movement all lend impact to a picture, but the way you frame the photo also

Portrait Tips: Sparkler portraits

Levi Sim

Photographing fireworks is one of the most fun things you can do on the Fourth of July — but it’s also a great way to ruin your family’s fun. While

Portrait Tips: What was I wearing???

Levi Sim

How do you know someone is a photographer? They only wear black clothing, of course. The stereotypical garb of photographers is a stereotype for a reason, and we’ll get to

Portrait Tips: Make a Thanksgiving time-lapse

Levi Sim

A time-lapse is a fun way to record those Thanksgiving memories beyond the usual images. Murphy’s Law has a special addendum just for photographers: “Anything interesting that can happen will

Portrait Tips: How to photograph people in snow

Levi Sim

When people play in the snow they always have fun. It often ends in tears, but there’s always a lot of fun along the way, which means it’s a great

Portrait Tips: Pretty leaves don’t make a good portrait

Levi Sim

This is a wonderful time of year. It’s like the trees are throwing a big party for having survived another year, and they’re all wearing their best. Everyone joins in

Portrait tips: Practice the three Be’s

Levi Sim

I’ve heard Joe McNally say, “If you want more interesting pictures, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” I’ve also heard it said, “If you want to make better pictures,

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