Working with textures: B&W and COLOR

   Honestly I tried to make a video tutorial – there went my Saturday.  Camtasia failed me. While I’m in search of a perfect, or at least working, screen capture studio, here is a snapshot tutorial on how to work with textures.    This is one of the recent portraits I shot.  Thank you for […]

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How to retouch skin under layer of fabric, and leave the fabric untouched? Here is how: video tutorial.

Times and times again I see proof that Frequency Separation is the best tool around. (I wrote about Frequency Separation before) What is Frequency Separation? It is an editing technique that decomposes image into tone and texture, so you can work with each separately. You can also decide which information belongs to “tone” and which […]

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Printing in house

While participating in CreativeLive Portrait Startup I mentioned that we print in-house. We are invested in providing best quality to our clients, and take pride in producing heirloom worthy wall portraits and canvases using archival quality pigments and media. The canvases can live up to two hundred years! This make my heart sing. We’ve researched […]

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Facebook Page Security

Few days ago I decided to post a #ThrowbackThursday post on my Facebook page. I found an image dated roughly a year ago and started to work on the new post and then something attracted my attention: The image was off, more specifically it has way too many tags on. Turns out some enterprising Facebook […]

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Midnight Cinderella

“…she looked at a clock and saw that it was on the stroke of twelve. She fled from the room, dropping, in her haste, one of the glass slippers. The Prince hurried after her, but when he reached the entrance hall, the beautiful Princess had vanished, and there was no one to be seen but […]

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chasing Von Wong ;)

Have you seen Von Wong’s shoot for Smugmug.com? No? NO? Go check it out. Warning though – you might start dreaming of it. Like I did. I got obsessed with it. I wanted to try similar light set-up. No, we don’t have $20K equipment, and did not built rain rig… yet. (on a side note […]

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Shooting with Fog

Goal of this article is simple – to share my journey. All opinions shared here are just that – my opinions. In the images used as examples no added fog textures were used (unless noted). Basically if you see fog, that is how it was. (minus color work, duh ;). For one-on-one mentoring on how […]

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