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Abandoned

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Arriving upon an abandoned homestead, I took a collection of photographs to convey the feeling I felt there. An old cellar and its contents was particularly interesting to capture.

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Portrait Retouching Tutorial

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This tutorial showcases some tips and tricks often used when editing a portrait in Photoshop—covering skin softening, eye brightening, redness removal, and adding shadows/highlights to hair, lips and skin. Utilizing a color overlay will show you how you can make a portrait ready for a magazine or movie poster. There are many ways to edit a photograph, this video covers my personal process from beginning to end.

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Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

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Traveling gives me the opportunity to try out classic photography techniques in diverse and challenging environments. These photos were taken at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia and provided me with a great outlet to experiment with low-light interior photography.

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Still Moving

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The best photos are often the most fleeting, so I like to keep my subjects in motion as I shoot them—not too much, but just enough to keep their pose fresh and energized. I love filtering through all the photos from a shoot and seeing that one, perfect shot that happened in one split-second. This particular shoot was full of those one-click-wonders.

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One-shot Magic Moments

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There’s always a nervous energy in the air when I’m shooting a wedding—sometimes I wonder if I even feel more pressure than the couple getting married! Feeding off that energy is crucial to getting those perfect, one-time-only shots.

Shooting in Draper, Utah in the middle of a windy autumn day had its challenges, but the end results were fantastic.

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SFMOMA

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Challenge: Design a poster campaign advertising a temporary art exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibit: Bradbury Thompson. An exploration of commercial art.