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How to Convince Your Spouse to Invest in Professional Photos

Debra Wallace

How to Convince Your Spouse to Invest in Professional Photos when they Don’t Want To Recently I received an inquiry from someone who was eager to have professional photos taken but was having trouble getting her husband on board, which is something I hear all the time. Generally but not always, it’s the woman who’s

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How to Choose Clothes for Your Family Photo Session

Debra Wallace

How to Choose Clothes for Your Family Photo Session The goal of clothing in a session is not just to make you look and feel beautiful, but to direct our attention to your eyes. All of the instructions below come back to that concept. In a great portrait your eye knows the path to the

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Newborn Safety Rochester NY

Debra Wallace

I was one of those naive people that saw babies hanging from things and thought that’s how they were actually photographed. It wasn’t until later that I realized that an overwhelming number of newborn images rely heavily on photoshop, digital manipulation, and for lack of a better term, optical illusions. It’s something that you really

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What you may not know about print sizes

Debra Wallace

Most of the time when you order prints, they’ll be in the standard 4×6 size, which is perfect because that’s the same shape as the rectangle of the original image. But somewhere along the line in the history of prints and frames, different sizes became popularized that have different “squarenesses”, or different aspect ratios. For

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Take Better Pictures: the Direction of Light

Debra Wallace

For most people a great picture is 95% subject matter – such as a cute baby or a kitten. But here is a little known fact – the single most important thing you can do to take better pictures is to understand the direction of your light source. This is more important than a better

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