Picture this: After tons of research, you finally pulled the trigger and bought yourself that brand new DSLR that you spent MONTHS dreaming about. And now you’re sitting there— freshly unboxed camera in hand—thinking, “YES!! The world is mine for the taking! Now I can FINALLY get that professional look with the blurry backgrounds in ALL of my photos!” So you go out and shoot your first round of photos that you’re convinced are going to be total game changers, you pop your memory card into your computer and—cue record scratch—they don’t look ANYTHING like you had imagined and, what?!, there’s not a single blurry background to be seen! What gives?!

Picture this: After tons of research, you finally pulled the trigger and bought yourself that brand new DSLR that you spent MONTHS dreaming about. And now you’re sitting there— freshly unboxed camera in hand—thinking, “YES!! The world is mine for the taking! Now I can FINALLY get that professional look with the blurry backgrounds in ALL of my photos!” So you go out and shoot your first round of photos that you’re convinced are going to be total game changers, you pop your memory card into your computer and—cue record scratch—they don’t look ANYTHING like you had imagined and, what?!, there’s not a single blurry background to be seen! What gives?!

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If you’ve been dreaming about turning 2023 into the year that you pivot toward a career in photography, then I’ve got some GOOD news for you! Today, one of my absolute favorite people joined me on the podcast… the one and only beauty photographer, Beth Sternbaum 🎉 Beth and I met back in 2010 as we were building our careers in the photography industry, but she wasn’t always the amazing beauty photographer she is today. She started out in the industry as a makeup artist, and that’s how our friendship started.

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Friends, we’ve MADE IT! We’re almost to the end of the year and to the holidays, which is SOO exciting but for a lot of us it’s been a tough year… Like a really, really hard one. ME included, I am currently recovering from surgery and it’s been a heck of a lot harder than […]

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Friends, we’ve MADE IT! We’re almost to the end of the year and to the holidays, which is SOO exciting but for a lot of us it’s been a tough year… Like a really, really hard one. ME included, I am currently recovering from surgery and it’s been a heck of a lot harder than […]

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Did you know that one of the most viral social media photos everrrrrr is this one? (AKA, the famous Oscars Selfie from 2014 that ended up getting over 3 million retweets). But, like, heads up, Brad, Lupita, Ellen, Jennifer, Julia, Meryl, etc… 4.9 million people watched ME acting out real life events in my office…

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If this post’s subject line gave you instant anxiety, I’m thinking you miiiiight be familiar with the term “overshooter”… And if you have NO idea what I’m talking about, overshooting is the idea that a photographer takes WAY TOO MANY photos at their shoot—they overdo it—hence the clever name.

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If this post’s subject line gave you instant anxiety, I’m thinking you miiiiight be familiar with the term “overshooter”… And if you have NO idea what I’m talking about, overshooting is the idea that a photographer takes WAY TOO MANY photos at their shoot—they overdo it—hence the clever name.

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