May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002), better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter and member of the popular R&B; group TLC. She was considered by some fans as the creative talent behind TLC and contributed her own self-written raps to many of TLC's popular singles, including "Waterfalls" and "No Scrubs". Lopes was also a self-taught keyboardist and displayed those talents during her solo spot on TLC's headlining concert performances. She was known for wearing a pair of glasses with a condom in place of the left eye lens, which was one of the ways the group ...
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You don’t have to be a major player to accept credit cards for your photography business. In fact, if you are not accepting credit cards you are missing out on revenue. If you are thinking of starting a photography business or you are already in business you should be implementing ways to maximize your profits so that your business thrives. Accepting credit cards is one of those ways. My sales went up by 21 percent for services that clients normally use credit cards on. Accepting credit cards hasn’t helped with revenue generated from larger commercial or editorial clients. However, accepting credit cards has added ...
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Brittany is a great make-up artist and likes to model on the side. I wanted to shoot some images for a class that I teach to demonstrate to my photo students how color can greatly enhance an image. The photo I envisioned was a standard beauty shot with Brittany wearing a white, off the shoulder top and the lighting being the clamshell style beauty lighting. The added color would come from the background only. The class saw two versions of the image, the image shown here and one with a pure white background. For this article we will only discuss the image to the ...
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Are you using postcards to market yourself? I’m not a marketing expert but I will share with you, the system that works for me. I get up every day at 5:00 A.M. I spend that time getting the family off to school and work. That includes making breakfast for myself, my wife and two teenage sons as well as preparing our lunches. Once they are all out the door I am wide awake and ready to work. It is still a bit too early for most shoots so I spend 30 to 60 minutes on my postcard marketing. I do this EVERY DAY! I ...
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Paul in Grand Prairie, TX writes: Dave I stopped by your website and it looks like you shoot a lot of different types of subject matter. Isn’t it better to specialize in one or two types of photography? Paul I don’t believe so. When I started out, I did a lot of work for newspapers. I was very green, very young, extremely motivated, and was young enough to have the energy to take on almost every assignment offered to me. I needed to shoot a wide variety of subject matter. Rather than helping me find the one or two subjects that I would spend ...
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