Photography Education

Seven Photography Myths That Are Quietly Holding You Back (And What's Actually True)
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Seven Photography Myths That Are Quietly Holding You Back (And What's Actually True)

Every few months, someone on a client call says something that makes me set my coffee down slowly. “Can’t you just fix it in post?” is a classic. “Photography seems pretty straightforward” is another. I’ve been shooting commercial and editorial work in Los Angeles long enough to know these ideas don’t come from nowhere — they’re floating around the culture, repeated until they feel true. So when I came across this Jessica Kobeissi tutorial, Watch the full tutorial on YouTube, I sat with it longer than I expected to.

What Bloopers From a Freezing Studio Taught Me About Shooting With Intention
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What Bloopers From a Freezing Studio Taught Me About Shooting With Intention

There is a particular kind of education you only get when things go wrong. I have been shooting commercial and editorial work for long enough to know that the polished final tutorial is rarely where the real lessons live. The real lessons live in the moment the camera nearly hits the floor, in the take where someone’s fly was undone the entire time, in the freezing cold studio where nobody thought to book heating.

The Social Media Formula Behind 730K Followers (And What Studio Photographers Can Actually Steal From It)
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The Social Media Formula Behind 730K Followers (And What Studio Photographers Can Actually Steal From It)

Social media has never been the part of this job I enjoy. I am much more comfortable taping modifier names onto barn doors and sketching light plots in my journal than I am writing captions or thinking about posting schedules. But the business reality of running a studio in Los Angeles is that the photographers who get consistent work are the ones who show up consistently online. That tension has been sitting on my desk for years.