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Every year the Montana Professional Photographers Association (MT PPA) has an annual convention.  This is a great time for photographers to learn and socialize with their peers and to see great art from talented photographers around the state and some from Wyoming too.  Last year was my first convention and it was overwhelming…like trying to [...]

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With gas prices nearing $4 per gallon, Victoria (Creative Visions Photography) and I carpooled to Seeley Lake on Saturday morning, leaving Kalispell at 9:30.  As it was before (we carpooled to the state convention also), we talked nearly every single minute we were traveling and the time spent on the road seemed much less that it was.  [...]

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Every year Photographers in the state of Montana convene enmasse at a location for their annual convention.  This year was no different.  From Sunday April 13th until Tuesday April 15th the Billings Convention Center hosted our annual meeting.  On Sunday we learned about HDR photography from Steve Helmbrecht.  HDR is an acronym for High Dynamic [...]

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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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On most of my emails I have a quote by Henry Cartier Bresson (sometimes called the Father of the Decisive Moment): “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished, no contrivance on earth can make them come back again.” 
Life is vanishing.  I was reminded of this recently with the [...]

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 Not as exciting as a wedding.  This week the Montana Contractors Association had its convention in town and I was hired to shoot pictures of the award winners and board members.  My first session was on Wednesday morning at 9:00.  This was pictures of board members past and present. In the afternoon the Associate Board [...]

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 The last few months have been spent in preparation for this annual event in Kalispell.  This year was a huge success, in my opinion.  At times it seemed there was a sea of bodies moving through the booths and I know I talked to a lot of people…brides, mothers of brides, fathers of brides, grooms [...]

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