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How to Shoot Priceless Professional Portrait Photography for a (Relative) Pittance

A MILC, an odd choice for a lens, a low-cost light or two, and you're ready to go!

ArticlePortraits and People Techniques and How-Tos - by Sandy Ramirez, 1 day ago

Portrait photography is the bread and butter job professional photographers do day in and day out. Everyone does them, be they Joe Blow in a small studio in Montana to Annie Liebowitz shooting for Vanity Fair. Can it be done on the cheap and look amazing? You bet!

Pro Optic 85mm f/1.4 ASPH Portrait Lens Product Review

Does this budget-priced portrait lens make the grade?

ArticleLenses and Filters Gear Guides & Reviews - by Sandy Ramirez, 11 days ago

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Pro Optic has updated its 85mm f/1.4 budget prime. What does the new version, with it’s new aspherical lens formulation, provide in performance enhancements? So what else to do with an 85mm lens but take a portrait or two!

Pentax 645D Review

The medium-format "look" for a lot less

ArticleDigital SLRs Gear Guides & Reviews - by Sandy Ramirez, March 12, 2012

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Why spend $10,000 for the Pentax 645D medium-format camera when you can get a higher-resolution 35mm-format DSLR for thousands less? Hint: It's not about resolution!

Sigma DP2 Merrill: Observations and confessions of a DP diehard

Blog TechTock - by Sandy Ramirez, February 10, 2012

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Stunning fashion photos on a shoestring budget

How to do anything photographic on a shoestring budget, Episode 1

ArticlePortraits and People Techniques and How-Tos - by Sandy Ramirez, January 26, 2012

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Ahh the economy. It has driven many of us insane trying to figure out how to do more with less. Clients constantly approach us asking for miracles with shoestring budgets. A fine example is shooting anything fashion related. Editorial work these days pays almost nothing if you are lucky or nothing at all for the most part.

The Pentax Q Fashion Week Stress Test

Can the world's smallest interchangeable-lens camera handle a demanding pro assignment?

ArticleCompact Digital Cameras Gear Guides & Reviews - by Sandy Ramirez, September 21, 2011

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Fashion photographer and Adorama contributor Sandy Ramirez field-tests the Pentax Q under very demanding circumstances. If it can handle New York Fashion Week, it could probably tackle many other photographic assignments.