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Steemit Portrait Photography Contest Week 26 STARTS TODAY!!! 1st 2nd and 3rd place STEEM PRIZES!!!! + WHALESHARES!!!!

Week 26 Starts TODAY!!!! The theme is MALE Portraits and @daniphotography is the judge!!!!!!!! Interpret this how you will!!!! https://i.imgur.com/1ISPUTR.jpg -...

Steemit Portrait Photography Contest WEEK 25 REMINDER!!! NEW THEME ANNOUNCEMENT!!! 1st 2nd and 3rd place STEEM PRIZES!!!! + WHALESHARES!!!!

Contest ends TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT!!!! Get those portraitcontest entries in steemit!!!!! The theme is Black & White Portraits and @bescouted is the judge!!!!!!!! ...

Portrait Contest 25 Entry 4, Black And White

Here's a photo from 2013 of Erik, a high-school friend of mine. Erik is currently in Mexico - he's biking from the northernmost point of Alaska all the way to t...

Pioneer Peak Alaska, Elevation 6,398 Feet.

Click here for larger image. A two shot panorama of Pioneer Peak Alaska. This summer I finally climbed this beast! It took me 14 hours, I don't think I've ever ...

Photography Rules Are Meant To Be Broken #1 - Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds Vs Leading Lines About a month ago I wrote a reasonably incoherent piece (https://steemit.com/photography/@colmedwardsphoto/the-only-ingredient-f...

Portrait Contest week 25 - Entry 3, Black and White

This is as basic as it gets, I simply placed a softbox behind her in order to get a perfectly white background and exposed so that she was in complete silhouett...

Moody Masquerade - Getting Creative with Light Placement

Here's a photo from 2013 of my good friend Chantel, a local hair/makeup artist. This was back when I was just a novice at strobe lighting and every shoot was a ...

Portrait contest week 25 entry 2, Black and white

Here's a photo from 2017 of Rachael, a local dance instructor. We've shot several times together and I'm always amazed at how natural she is with pose and postu...

One light is often all you need.

This photo from 2017 is of my friend and local musician John Budnik. It was lit with a single BRX 500 w/ 53" Elinchrom rotalux octabox flown directly overhead, ...

Steemit Portrait Photography Contest Week 25 STARTS TODAY!!! 1st 2nd and 3rd place STEEM PRIZES!!!! + WHALESHARES!!!!

Week 25 Starts TODAY!!!! The theme isBlack and White Portraits and @bescouted is the judge!!!!!!!! Interpret this how you will!!!! https://i.imgur.com/iZCGdg0.j...

Better Content & Passive Income 👍 Why I'm In Favor Of Advertising On Steemit

A year ago I wrote here on Steemit about how people were bemoaning the (then 4 week) reward cutoff point on Steemit, and how content producers might embrace oth...

Strobe lighting outdoors - Outdoor / Environmental Portrait contest entry

It can be tough to shoot outdoor portraits in Alaska, simply because the winter season dominates the year and shooting in studio is hard to beat for convenience...

Steemit Portrait Photography Contest WEEK 24 REMINDER!!! 1st 2nd and 3rd place STEEM PRIZES!!!! + WHALESHARES!!!!

Contest ends NEXT FRIDAY at 12 am CST!! Get those portraitcontest entries in steemit!!!!! The theme is Outdoor / Environmental Portraits and @axeman is the judg...

Hello world! I'm Michael Porterfield, a Photographer and Outdoor Enthusiast from Small-Town Alaska

Hey there steemit community! I'm a portrait photographer specializing in artificial and studio lighting. I've lived most of my life in Palmer, Alaska and I trul...