Author Archives: michelestapleton

How to dress for a portrait session

When we (everyone, not just professional photographers) look at photographs, our eyes tend to go to the lightest part of the photo. When a photo is a portrait of a person (or a group of people), the photographer wants your eyes to go to the face(s). So, a photographer taking a portrait is going to...

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“LENS”: photojournalism blog @ New York Times online

This past week the New York Times unveiled a new photojournalism blog titled “Lens.”  In the initial launch, the Times editors promised to showcase outstanding work of not just their own photographers, but also other news photographers and possibly even reader-photographers. Sounds like a blog worth bookmarking.

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