Sometimes a big sweeping global edit is not the right touch your photo needs. The adjustment brush in Lightroom allows you to make fine tuned and calculated edits to any portion of your image with ease! I remember the days when Photoshop was all you had to make minor but very important edits to your …
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As New Orleans, Louisiana begins the reopening phases of business in this COVID19 virus landscape, Zack Smith Photography Studio at 4514 Magazine Street is dedicated to providing a safe, creative, and socially conscious shooting environment for all clients. Headshot Studio Reopening These last few weeks have been hard for everyone economically and emotionally all over …
During these strange COVID19 times, we have the most unique opportunity as photographers to examine our business, creative process, and dreams from a perspective we have never known. With our normal lives as artists, teachers, and shooters paused, we can now revisit our goals, restructure our archives, tweak our workflow, and most of all view …
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How is it going for you? How does it feel right now? How does having this new global perspective effect the way you view your world, much less THE world in a way you never have? My thoughts could turn to how bad it is in one country vs my own. I can be thinking …
I had worked with New Orleans musician John “Papa” Gros a few years ago to create some new portraits for his press needs. We rented out Luke Winslow King’s house (another notable NOLA talent) for some rustic and royal portraits in his century old creole mansion in Arabi, Louisiana. For this recent album artwork job, …
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Try this easy exposure trick for opening up or stopping down your light without losing the connecting to your subject and camera! It’s so important to remain connected to your subject at all times – directing, observing, and then photographing with your adjustments. The best photographers can observe and direct at the same time, with …
How to use preset filters in Lightroom – a video tutorial One of my favorite ways to spark creativity in the photography editing process is to use preset filters in Adobe Lightroom. Lightroom is an essential tool in my photography editing workflow and the more I can streamline my creative process more efficiently I am …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here are my favorite shots from the November session with Askia Bennett – the talented, humble, laid back creative cat I met at Jazz Fest last year. He was marching w/ the Ole & Nu Style Fellas and it was there i got some of my favorite 2nd line photos. After photographing him and …
Ancestral portraits and how we can see the past with a present through our lens Read More »
Finding the winning photograph to start your editing workflow can be a chore, especially sifting through hundreds, sometimes thousands of losers! I love photographing people, culture, and telling the visual stories of the moments around me. I don’t like sitting in front of a computer trying to find the best ones. Granted, there are those …
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