Tag Archives: photography

How to Photograph People using Direct Sunlight

By Paul Kerins | Published: March 2, 2012

How to use direct sunlight to make your portrait photographs beautiful. Ambient light, studio light, available light and the most important light of all, star light. That gigantic mass of hydrogen and helium we call the sun that produces 386 billion billion ( not a typo ) mega-Watts of energy, that is created by so [...]

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 [...]

Beautiful Minimal Design Photography Websites

By Paul Kerins | Published: February 3, 2012

Paul Kerins Photographer featured on Creative Design Magazine. Creative Design Magazine,  a design resource magazine, just posted a article on their website 55 Beautiful Minimal Design Photography Websites . I was pleased to see my main website Paul Kerins Photographer was featured in the article. I would like to say welcome to all the people [...]

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 [...]

Vignetting

By Paul Kerins | Published: January 19, 2012

Vignetting Photographs for Artistic Effect. Vignetting to put it simply is the darkening of the outside edges of a photograph. In photography there are many types of vignetting, mechanical vignetting, optical vignetting, natural vignetting, pixel vignetting and finally vignetting for artistic effect. All the different types of vignetting ( excluding vignetting for artistic effect ) [...]

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 – 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 [...]

Understanding Histograms

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 5, 2011

How to Use Histograms Introduction Probably the most useful as well as the least used and understood tool in your digital camera is the histogram. Histograms are the reason why I don’t have to bring my light-meter with me anymore when I am out photographing landscapes ( I will always use a light-meter when photographing [...]

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 [...]