Category Archives: Opinion

Dealing with Creative Block

By Paul Kerins | Published: May 12, 2012

Understanding Creative Blocks and How to Overcome Them. You have heard of writer’s block, when a writer struggles with getting his or her ideas down on paper. Every type of creative person goes though different cycles of creativity including times of great frustration where their creative juices do not flow at all or just barely [...]

Beauty Photography – Make-up & Hair, plus Point of View and What to Look For.

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 15, 2012

Beauty Photography – Part Four of Four Beauty Make-up and Hair Beauty photography is used to sell many things, make-up and hair products are the most common and usually the first thing that comes to mind, but beauty is used to sell much more than just cosmetics. Beauty is also used to sell brands, ideas, [...]

Beauty Photography – Understanding Photogenic Beauty

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 22, 2011

Beauty Photography – Part Two of Four  A Eye for Photogenic Beauty I am not sure if having a eye for beauty can be learned, but I do think that by photographing enough people you can learn what traits are needed for someone to be considered photogenic. Some of the most physically beautiful women I’ve [...]

Beauty Photography – The Power of Beauty

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 15, 2011

Beauty Photography – Part One of Four  Introduction One of my subscribers asked if I could write about beauty photography, so this is my attempt to explain something I love, but something that really has no formula to speak of. I guess what I am trying to say is beauty photography is much more than [...]

Padding Your Portfolio.

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 3, 2011

Take risks in your photography, but not with your career. When I wrote Photographers who plagiarized other photographers,  I wrote about my personal experience of having my ideas stolen and my work being copied verbatim.  So now I want to talk about what could be worse? In this article the topic is padding your portfolio. [...]

Breaking the “You Must Use a Tripod” Rule.

By Paul Kerins | Published: October 20, 2011

Benefits of hand-held photography and reasons for not using a tripod. How to hand-hold a camera correctly. You don’t always need to use a tripod. Yeah I said it, and it is true. You most likely have read in photography blogs, magazines, books, and perhaps been told by other photographers that you must use a [...]

Photographers who Plagiarized other Photographers.

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 15, 2011

A true story about my Photography being plagiarized by a publisher/photographer when I lived in Italy. One day I went to show my book ( portfolio ) to a publisher of a nice little indie fashion magazine, he was the owner, art director and the main photographer for this magazine. He sometimes but rarely published [...]

Get it Right the First Time.

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 8, 2011

When and when not to use Photoshop. Have you ever heard this phrase? Why don’t you fix that later in Photoshop? I have heard that more times than I care to remember. From clients, to make-up artists, hair stylists, stylists, models, and even assistants. I have even known other photographers who think like this. Photographers [...]

Film is Dead, Long Live Film

By Paul Kerins | Published: September 4, 2011

Film is magic. Anyone can take a photograph, but only a photographer can make a photograph. That phrase may be a cliché, but it does not make it any less true. In the age of digital photography it has become laughably easy for a person to become a “Photographer”. It was quite strange for me [...]