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4 Steps to Marketing Your Photography Business {Free Printable Worksheet}

4 Steps to Marketing Your Photography Business | Free Printable Worksheets | I Heart Faces and Photographer Cafe

Four Steps to Marketing Magic for Photographers Are you new to photography and trying to figure out how to get your first legitimate clients in the door? Or, have you been in business for many years and are now contemplating marketing for the first time ever? In today’s competitive photography industry, it is not enough [...]

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How to Save an Underexposed Photo in Lightroom

How to Save an Underexposed Photo in Lightroom | Photo Editing Tutorial via iHeartFaces.com

We are thrilled to welcome Lisa Holloway of LJ Holloway Photography as our featured tutorial writer today.  In her photography tutorial, Lisa is teaching how to save an underexposed photo in Adobe Lightroom.  We appreciate her sharing her time and talents with our community! Fixing an Exposure Mishap in RAW Oh how I love RAW! [...]

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Photo Editing Mistake: Over-Smoothing Skin

Skin Smoothing Tips for Photoshop and Photo Editing | via iHeartFaces.com

While editing photographs, over-smoothing the skin is a common mistake for photographers.  Today, Amandalynn Jones is going to teach us how to avoid this mistake and how to get the perfect balance between smooth skin and noise. Okay, it’s embarrassing personal confession time: My name is Amandalynn Jones, and I used to be a Chronic [...]

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How to Get the Most Out of Your In-Home Photography Studio

How to Get the Most Out of Your In-Home Photography Studio via I Heart Faces

This is the last installment of Helen John Photography‘s series on Building an In-Home Photography Studio.  We have really enjoyed Helen’s series about this exciting stage of her photography business. If you missed the first two weeks, be sure to go back and catch them here: Tips for Building an In-Home Photography Studio Tips for [...]

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Editing a Backlit Photo in Lightroom

Editing a Backlit Photo in Lightroom | Photo Editing Tutorial via iHeartFaces.com

Backlighting, how I love thee. Let me count the ways … In 9 out of 10 back lit images, I’m more than willing to blow out the sky and expose for the people. In fact, I even wrote about this propensity a few years ago in another I Heart Faces tutorial  called Give Overexposure a [...]

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10 Lessons Learned from the Street Photography of Vivian Maier

10 Lessons We Can Learn From the Street Photography of Vivian Maier | via iHeartFaces.com

We are so pleased to welcome Becky Leatherman (one of our very first I Heart Faces fans and participants!) to share an article she has written about an amazing photographer who has inspired her.  We hope you enjoy learning more about Vivian Maier and her incredible street photography images that were discovered in 2007.   [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Low-Key Lighting

Beginner's Guide to Low-Key Lighting in Photography | via iHeartFaces.com

I have a very talented photographer-friend that had an idea for a fun photo shoot with our local photography group:  low-key lighting.   Honestly, I had no idea what that was, so I Googled it. According to my Google search, low-key lighting is the use of shadows to create a mood.  (In contrast, the term high-key [...]

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Tips for Decorating an In-Home Photography Studio

Decorating a Photography Studio via Helen John Photography and iHeartFaces.com

This is the second in a series on setting up an in-home photography studio by Helen John Photography.   You can read about the exciting first stage of building her studio here: Tips for Building an In-Home Photography Studio Once the basic blueprints for the new space were finished, it was time to start the [...]

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