

First Impression That Wins Clients: 12 Psychology-Backed Strategies Every Creative Professional Needs
Everyone hopes to make a positive first impression with clients, models, colleagues, and others. You’re meeting a potential client for the first time. Perhaps it’s a nervous bride clutching her mood board, or a corporate marketing director who needs headshots for fifty executives by Friday, or it’s your first day in the office with new colleagues. Within seconds (literally just one second, according to a Princeton research), they’ve formed an impression that...
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5 Tips To Photograph Strangers - Street Portraits in Istanbul
If you follow my Stories on Instagram, you know that I just returned from my trip to Istanbul… And I immediately felt the need to publish these tips for photographing strangers! This trip was a game-changer for my Street Photography, and here I’m sharing all I did to capture street portraits. In these past days in Istanbul, my Street Photography was pulled to a completely different place. This beautiful city has had...
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How To Clean The X-T4 Sensor, Official Fujifilm Method
How to clean the X-T4 sensor, or indeed any camera sensor, is a question we photographers eventually have to ask ourselves. Even if you swap lenses in what looks like the most dust-free environment, one day, it will happen: you’ll see a dust spot in your images. Myself, I believe I am the fastest lens-swapper in the universe (totally!) but I still see these spots every now and then. Of course, it...
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Smartphone Photography Tips, IG/FB Live with Dot Lung
My friend Dot Lung asked me to go live with her and talk about smartphone photography tips and how to take better photos with your phone. We both use iPhones, but all we talked about applies to Android as well. We did not talk about specific apps only available for one platform but actually discussed real examples of taking photos with a phone. Dot Lung is a fantastic Digital Media Strategist who...
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Master Sharpening Fujifilm RAW in Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide
Sharpening Fujifilm Raw files in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It's a topic that has filled articles for a very long time... Here's my optimal solution.
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Top 20 Highlights of Seoul for the first time visitor
Travel Diaries: South Korea. Part 2: Seoul Highlights. Welcome to my Seoul highlights! Here, I’m going to list my personal recommendations based on the short time I spent wandering around the city. And I’ll add a few tips as well. See the bottom of this page for links to Part 1 and Part 3. The first thing to mention is the DiscoverSeoul pass. It’s a very convenient way to visit most of...
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Packing for a Month-Long Multi-City Trip: my Photography Kit
And so I’m packing for my month-long travel (longer, actually), and as always, the question is, “What do I bring with me?”. It wasn’t always the case, but now I’m used to travelling light—sometimes super light. But that’s for a week maximum, while this time, I’ll be away for at least a month. I think I’ve been smart in choosing to travel between countries that will have consistent weather all along; only...
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