Category Archives: Personal Experience

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 [...]

Anticipating The Decisive Moment

By Paul Kerins | Published: April 3, 2012

The Decisive Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson will always be remembered for his iconic black and white street photographs, but he will also be remembered for a famous phrase that is known by almost every serious photographer, ” The Decisive Moment ” . The term comes from his 1952 book Images à la sauvette, the English edition was titled, [...]

How to Convince Your Client to Choose the Best Photographs

By Paul Kerins | Published: February 9, 2012

Convincing the Client, How to Convince Your Client Which Photographs are the Best Choices. I personally have no idea how many images I have created to date, let alone how many photographs I have edited to find the best ones; several hundreds of thousands at least. In the past scouring over contact sheets fresh from [...]

Ivan Dalla Tana

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 24, 2012

Ivan Dalla Tana, master printer & inventor of the “Gold Process” a alternative photographic printing process. The world is full of creative people, making beautiful objects and things for themselves and other people’s pleasure, but the reality is almost all of it, is a rehash of something someone else had already done before. It is [...]

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 – Ten Tips for Better Beauty Photography

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 10, 2012

Beauty Photography – Part Three of Four There are loads of tips and tricks of the trade for shooting beauty photography. Below are ten solid tips to help build a strong foundation for your beauty shoot. 1. Pay attention to the models face when you are moving the lights or when you are moving the model [...]

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 [...]

Casting Models – The Interview, What to Look for in the Model’s Portfolio, Booking and Options.

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 21, 2011

Casting Models – Part Three Talking to the model during the interview The personality of the model is important of course, after all you could spending several hours or even several days working with them. It helps to be a good judge of character since the typical interview with a model on a casting can [...]

Casting Models – Where to Hold Castings, plus Casting for Multi-Person Layouts

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 17, 2011

Casting Models – Part Two Where to hold your model castings I have held model castings in hotels, my flat, the stylist’s flat, the client’s office, in a cafe, in my studios, and in rentals studios, but the best place to hold model castings in my opinion is in the modelling agencies . The reasons [...]