Experience has been an amazing teacher. However, at the risk of being labeled sexist, photographing men and women are two completely different experiences. I find it’s exponentially more important to be empathetic to women. In general, women tend to be considerably more self critical than men. I recognize this isn’t
I recently had a young lady who’s new to the modeling scene tell me about a photoshoot where a male photographer was completely inappropriate. Now, before I continue and the haters start to comment let me say this … I firmly believe both male and female photographers can be creepers.
How to succeed as a female in a male-dominated industry? Forget preconceived ideas. If it’s a man’s world, it’s also a woman’s land. I’ve had several requests to write for International Women’s Week. Each time, I’ve been asked to share my experience from my professional sports photographer point of view.
In this post, I’m going to dive into how men and women are wired differently when it comes to judging color. If you’ve ever found yourself in the paint store with the opposite sex debating on whether a certain color is “laguna blue” or a lighter “turquoise,” there is actually
Category: Street Photographer: Brian Duffy “Hello!” This photograph is a timeless image from the streets of Manhattan. It captures great conversation and everyday life, but does so with quite a big scene behind the subjects. By including a lot of negative space in the photo, Brian is able to highlight
Are you looking for some great tips form an expert photographer? We’ve got a great video here from Matthew Jordan Smith How to Shoot and Develop Better Portraits Learn from celebrity photographer Matthew Jordan Smith as he quickly shows you How to Take Better Portraits of Women and finish them
When it comes to portraits, the slightest change in posing can dramatically change the feel and look of the overall image. It is normal for people to sit with their heads further back, which does not make for an engaging portrait. One of the most simple shifts in your subject’s
I’m a woman, and I like purses and bags. I am also a photographer, and so with that I tend to collect lots of cool bags. Yay, bags! I have more than I will use, some come and go with my photography style or locations I travel to, and some
A few weeks back we profiled Dickey Chapelle in our A Photographer You Should Know Series. We were contacted by filmmaker Michle Midori Fillion about her film entitled “No Job For A Woman: The Women Who Fought To Report WWII.” The film makes its PBS debut on March 13, 2014
Guest Post by Lara Matthews A glance through any art history book will show the introduction of female photographers to the mainstream art world first happened mostly during the Photo-Secession movement of the twentieth century. Of course women were photographing before this but, most of our awareness of the female
Guest Post & Photo by Bambi Cantrell I remember telling a man friend once about a difficulty I was having with another person, and he immediately set upon finding a solution to my obvious problem, when in fact, all I really wanted was someone to just let me vent my
Guest Post by Tasra Dawson. Learn more about her at mystere.life. At my first photography convention, I hid my camera in my bag and absolutely refused to take it out in front of any professional photographers, which I assumed everyone was. I also assumed everyone I met was better, smarter,
