digitalmontanablog

I have had the good fortune to be able to shoot some of my recent sessions in a historic building located in our community.  This building was built before the turn of the century and was originally a mercantile building / general store.  Nowadays it’s been developed into attractive rental spaces for downtown merchants.  On [...]

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E-sessions are important.  The reason they are important is because it allows the photographer to get acquainted with the couple and they, in turn get to know the photographer.  Relationships are always important and getting accustomed to having a lens pointed at your face is a good thing, but you should also be able to trust [...]

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A style which has been around since the very beginning of Photoshop is called compositing.  Arguably, the most enjoyable — and difficult — tasks in Photoshop is blending several photographs into a single image.  The resulting image can either look like a fantasy, because it distorts reality or authentic to convincingly mimic reality (ie…head swaps or body removal).  This style is becoming [...]

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As a member of the Montana PPA (professional photographers of america) I attend periodic seminars with other photographers from the state.  At the most recent seminar (called M&M’s: Montana and Monday’s)  a presentation on print competition was given and another on Adobe Lightroom…an essential tool for the professional photographer.  Something was said during one of [...]

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