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3 Reasons Clients Won’t Like Your Portrait Photos (And How to Fix Them)

There is nothing more devastating for a portrait photographer than when a client doesn’t like your photos. You train for years, buy the best equipment possible, and come to your session with 100% dedication to providing the best possible experience… and then you get that feedback. As pro headshot photographers, this doesn’t happen often (maybe one out of 100 shoots), on the rare…
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The Best Time of Day to Take Outdoor Portrait Photos

When is the best time of day to shoot portrait photos outdoors? Should we shoot only during the golden hours and avoid midday altogether, or is it better to use the brightest daylight hours to take our portraits with a few simple light modifiers? In this guide, we explore…
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Weekly poll results: The Samsung Galaxy Note line will be missed

The Galaxy Note is dead, long live the Galaxy S22 Ultra! We knew it was coming, but was it actually a good move to drop the Note line and absorb its trademark feature into the S-series? No, it wasn’t, judging by the results from last week’s poll. The majority would have preferred if Samsung kept the S and Note models separate. If nothing else, having a second launch near the end of the year…
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Weekly poll: Samsung Galaxy S22 series - hot or not?

While Samsung believes the future is in foldables, the rigid Galaxy S phones are still best-sellers. Three new models are coming to stores soon – you can already pre-order them and the first units will ship out on February 25 (a couple of weeks from now). In case you…
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Samsung Expert RAW app set to come to more Galaxy devices from February 25

In the latter portion of 2021, Samsung released the Expert RAW app, which gave selected Galaxy device owners access to yet more granular controls for their S21 Ultra series handsets. It seems that the app is set to come to more Galaxy devices very soon. The Expert RAW app supports HDR with the ability to save and store images in Lossless JPEG and 16-bit Linear DNG RAW formats. Adobe Lightroom…
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Galaxy A23 renders showcase familiar A-series design traits

Renders of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy A23 hint that we’ll see a further fusion of the lineup with traits pulled straight from the Galaxy A52 and A53. The renders come courtesy of Steve Hemmerstoffer, or @OnLeaks as he’s more commonly known in collaboration with the…
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Google Messages, with RCS in tow, is now Samsung’s default messaging app in the US

Messaging on Android has been a mess for years, but the tide is finally changing. With Google Messages bringing enhanced RCS messaging to virtually any Android user that wants it, there’s finally a “default.” Now, RCS is getting a big boost as Samsung has finally adopted Google Messages as its default app in the United States. Google Messages has always been available to Samsung owners…
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