Mylio’s “Your Life” Photo Contest Winners! Major congratulations to all who entered the The “Your Life” Photo Contest, hosted by Mylio. It was truly an honor for me to judge the final photo contest winners. All in all, there were over 7,000 photographs entered and, given that the winner received an Advanced Plan to Mylio, normally valued at $250 – as well as […]
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Free giveaways: Full WPPI 2015 Passes I have been a professional photographer for the past twelve years now. In that time, my career has covered a lot of ground. I’ve met some incredible people who have changed my life, I’ve done work that is beyond what I would have ever guessed I’d do, and my […]
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Photography Workshops We had a truly fantastic final 3-day workshop of the year recently here in our Durham, North Carolina studio. A big thanks to all who attended, from all over the United States. One of the coolest aspects of everyone coming together for these photography workshops is how quickly everyone connects with each other in such a short […]
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Photography Contest Winners! A huge congratulations to all who entered the End of 2014 Summer Blues Photography Contest, hosted by Nations Photo Lab and myself. We have named our photography contest winners!! We had some snags with uploading of entries after only a few days into the contest but, luckily, several hundred more images were uploaded with the designated contest […]
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Free Online Education As summer winds down (yes, I’m slightly obsessed by this), and we gear up for Back to School season, I am teaming up with Adorama for 3 days of FREE online photography education. From Wednesday, August 27th to Friday, August 29th, I’ll be sharing tips & techniques on everything from travel photography to […]
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Photography Workshops 2014 We finished up an excellent, sold-out 3-day Portrait Photographer’s workshop in London last month, and it was truly a remarkable experience. I’ve come to realize that it’s not just the teaching and photography I enjoy, but the opportunity to connect on a more meaningful level with those who attend my workshop. It […]
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Photography Contests A huge congratulations to all who entered the Best Emerging Photographer Photography Contest, hosted by Nations Photo Lab and myself. We have named our winners!! There was a great deal of talent and inspiration in this gallery, with over a thousand entries – we truly enjoyed viewing all your creative work. A big […]
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Nikon Behind The Scenes I feel very fortunate to have been included in the new Nikon Behind The Scenes web series with colleagues, and friends, Joe McNally, who is also my AdoramaTV co-host, (in addition to being a legendary commercial photographer), and the uber-talented Adventure Photographer Corey Rich. The Nikon Behind the Scenes video series […]
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PDN’s Photo Plus Expo This week I will be speaking at PDN’s Photo Plus Expo at Javits Convention Center in New York City. I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at this particular convention a few times now, and it’s a rather massive one. Anywhere from 24,000 – 40,000 photographers will attend over the course of […]
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Free Children’s Posing Guide Workshop Join me in San Francisco this July 10th, 11th and 12th for a FREE Children’s Posing Guide Workshop, to be broadcast worldwide on creativeLIVE! This class is NOT for you if you only photograph professional child models who respond to you exactly as you ask all the time – if, […]
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Free Song License with Posing Guide We have JUST released the 2nd Edition of The Posing Playbook … For Kids Who Don’t Do Posing with an additional 20 pages of content, for no additional cost. This new, expanded children posing guide now includes over 80 pages of content-rich direction, more metadata and even more detailed […]
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Mother’s Day Mother’s Day is this week, in case you hadn’t noticed the deluge of marketing, print ads, radio spots, emails, post cards, commercials and sales! No doubt it’s a marketing heyday, but Mother’s Day is about a lot more than the commercialism of it (although, um, we are offering gift certificates in any amount […]
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Using The Posing Playbook I have to give credit to that genius quote to Don Herold, who also wrote one of my other favorites statements: Unhappiness is not knowing what we want – and killing ourselves to get it. Truth all the way around. Luckily, this sweet baby boy happens to have a very happy […]
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Baby Photography One of the best parts of portrait photography? Without a doubt, the faces looking back at you. Love. This. Work. Where Photographed: Chapel Hill, North Carolina By: Tamara Lackey Camera: Nikon D4 Lens: Nikkor 35mm 1.4
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WPPI 2013 Each year, tens of thousands of photographers and creatives head out to Las Vegas for Nielsen Media’s WPPI Convention – and it’s that time again, as the festivities kick off in a matter of days. It’s a whirlwind week and, like many there, I’ll have a pretty packed schedule. So packed, in fact, […]
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