MCP Actions™ Blog: Photography, Photo Editing & Photography Business Advice
The MCP Actions™ Blog is full of advice from experienced photographers written to help you improve your camera skills, post-processing and photography skill-sets. Enjoy editing tutorials, photography tips, business advice, and professional spotlights.
Blueprint – Jumping for Joy {plus send in your own blueprint}
This week’s blueprint makes me excited for Spring, where you can get outdoors and enjoy life. As always I love feedback and opinions on the editing, as every edit will not appeal to all. MCP wants your blueprints too. If you are an MCP Actions user and want to submit your blueprint, please email it…
8 Ways to Find “The Light” and Enhance Your Photography
Here are 8 ways to help you find better light. This is not a scientific post – these are just ways I have tried to find better light and in turn improve my photography. I hope they help many of you too. I may do some tutorials for you to expand on these in the future. Please make notes in the…
SEO – How to Design Your Landing Page for Maximum Results
This is part of out Search Engine Optimization Series by Shannon Steffens. This is continued from Sunday’s post here. The previous article talked about your title and your meta keywords. Remember “keyword stuffing” this is the term Google uses when you use too many keywords or descriptors for your web site, well this is going…
Ellie and Jenna want to know… Do you prefer them in Color or B&W (and why?)
Yesterday I used a flat iron on Ellie and Jenna’s hair for the 1st time – they fell in love – and even let me take photos! So today when I edited, they were trying to decide if they prefer black and white or color. Ellie said to me, “can you post some of these…
SEO – Don’t Be a Keyword Stuffer
This is part of out Search Engine Optimization Series by Shannon Steffens. I am back talking about SEO. Today I am going to talk about your landing page. This is the page of your website you see when you type in www.yoursite.com. This is THE important page of your website. So not only do you…
Alisha answers some of your questions on Newborns
If you want better newborn images, take our Online Newborn Photography Workshop. Alisha read through all of your questions from her part 2 “styles of newborns” from her series on newborn photography here on the MCP Blog. Today she is back with answers to help all of you. Look for her next part of this series sometime in…
MCP Blueprint – Giving Dimension and Life to This Photo
This week’s MCP Blueprint photo is one where a little “action” made a lot of difference, but where it does not have an overly processed look, as it did the past few weeks. This shot I took of this high school senior was properly exposed but lacked dimesion and vibrancy. With a few clicks and a…
All You Ever Wanted to Know about DOF (Depth of Field)
When I posted last week showing photos of how to get eyes in focus, I got a fantastic comment from one of my readers. He agreed to write a post for all of you on Depth of Field that was a tad more technical that my visual way of explaining. Thank you Brendan Byrne for…
Free MCP Photoshop Actions * Hurry and Get Them
APRIL FOOLS! Well the April Fools’ joke is that there are no new free actions. But I have compiled many of my past free “try me” actions here in this post. So if you are new to MCP or just have not already downloaded them, here they are. ENJOY! These actions have simple built in…
Who are you?
“Who are you?” This is not meant as some deep philosophical question. I actually want to know who my readers are. In my last set of polls you told me what you come to MCP Blog for and what you might want less of. So now I am gathing info on who my audience is…
Fun Cool New Photo Toy *Free * Shape Collages Program
I just discovered this fun program. I had to share it with you immediately. It is an independent program that makes quick and fun collages from your photos – in a number of set shapes or in a custom shape. The best part, it is free. Plus you can save as a psd and edit…
Go Cuse * The Cuse is in the House! * Cheer on Syracuse Tonight
And what does the fact that I went to Syracuse University have to do with a blog for photographers… Well not much… But in case you want to cheer my team on, watch tonight. My husband is going to think I jinxed us by posting this photo and post – but I believe you either…
MCP Blueprint – Oh Baby Baby – Make Me Pop
This before photo was sent in from a customer. What a cute, fun photo. I just had to play and see what I could do with it – to make it more dramatic. Overall I loved the straight out of camera. It just needed some more pop and depth. Plus the colors were a little cool.…
How to Save Time in Photoshop…
One problem with using photoshop is it can be time consuming. There are many ways to speed up your Photoshop Workflow. I just launched a new MCP Workshop called “Speed Editing – Edit Smarter – Get Your Life Back.” Check it out! But if you do not have”time” to take the workshop – below are…
A Look at Curves in Photoshop CS4
While this is NOT a curves tutorial exactly, if you have CS4 or are considering getting it, this is a look at the Curves Adjustment Layer in the new “Adjustment Panel.” I hope you will learn a lot from this diagram I have made for you. If you are wanting to actually learn CURVES, check…
How to Get Both Eyes in Focus when Shooting Wide Open
This week I have been asked this same question 4 times, so I thought I would do a post to answer it for all my readers: “How do you get your eyes tack sharp and in focus when shooting WIDE OPEN? Is it in camera or your eye doctor action?” In the past few years…
MCP Blueprint – Similar Shot – Different Conversion
Here is a similar but not matching shot to last Friday’s “Blueprint.” I wanted to show you how you can take similar lighting and transform the photo with a different mode and look. Which you prefer will depend largely on your style and taste. I am more a “color gal” so I prefer the one…
MCP Blueprint – ruined photo into something printable (why to shoot Raw)
One of my customers sent in her plays on a photo. She actually had sent this to me to use in the All About Curves Workshop she attended. During the workshop I explained that it was wa too blown out and overexposed – and that her only possible chance for saving it was if she…
Color Inc Pro Lab and MCP Blog are Partnering Up to Offer Great Things for MCP Readers
Every photographer, whether professional, amateur or aspiring needs to have a great place to print their work. I know many of my readers have printers they love which is amazing. But if you are one of the many who read my blog and are searching for a place to print, whether it is because you…
Newborn Photography Poses ~ Styles of Newborns
If you want better newborn images, take our Online Newborn Photography Workshop. Styles of Newborn Photography I am so humbled by all the nice comments from all of Jodi’s readers and I want to apologize for being a tad bit late on this installment.I have been traveling to workshops and conferences as well as…
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