Let’s say we’re making a short video for a family bakery in Astoria. The owner sits down in front of the camera and tells the story of how her grandmother opened the shop and why they still do everything by hand after all these years. It’s a great story, but if all the viewer sees […]
Disagreements between photographers and clients usually aren’t about anyone trying to pull a fast one. More often, both people leave the same conversation remembering it a little differently. The client might have been counting on 50 edited photos while the photographer was planning on 25, or someone thought the deposit was refundable and it wasn’t. […]
The backdrop is one of those things people don’t think about until it goes wrong. A wrinkled sheet behind a portrait, a background color that clashes with someone’s outfit, or a backdrop that’s too narrow for a group photo can drag down an otherwise great image. The right one, on the other hand, barely gets […]