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Learn about my 4 favorite Lightroom and Photoshop editing tools and how to use them to improve your own photography and editing!

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I’m sharing two of my favorite photoshoot locations in the East San Francisco Bay Area (in Oakland and Berkeley)! Get the inside scoop on the best photography backdrops and ideal times to visit! Grab my East Bay Location Guide for 25 more great locations for photography in the San Francisco Bay Area!

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Photography location scouting tips, tricks and resources! I’ll walk you through how to scout for photoshoot locations, how to share location information with your clients through a location guide, and some ways to use Google Image search and Google Maps to plan your location scouting effectively. I’ll also share some tips on how to use photography location scouting apps like Sun Seeker and Lumos to plan out lighting for the day of your shoot. Free location guide included!

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Colorful Livermore Mural by Fernanda Martinez

Learn the fundamentals of location scouting for outdoor photography. Whether you’re a brand, lifestyle, family, or wedding photographer, I’m sharing location scouting tips to help you get the best shots, angles and lighting in your photoshoots! I’ll discuss backdrops, settings, architecture and what to look for (and when to look for it) in each location.

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Ready to add more color to your brand photos? Whether you’re a brand photographer, blogger or entrepreneur looking to expand your content with fresh and vibrant photography, I’m here to share four easy ways to add color to your brand photography. I’ll discuss color blocking, backdrops, color balance and will even include a free color guide!

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Pink wall with colorful balloons

Has your photography or business plateaued? If you’re reading this, you might be thinking, “well, I’m not really sure, actually.” And that’s completely fine! So, let’s do a quick check in with ourselves, shall we? 👇 You might be experiencing a plateau if you found your groove and rhythm after that first year or so […]

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Not later, not next year, not even tomorrow. Because you deserve to have that sigh of relief, as soon as possible. This is easily the best time of year – but as with all things, even the good stuff can get overwhelming. Call it the gift searching and giving, prepping to see extended family, the […]

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I miss the simple days of social media, don’t you? You know what I mean – the days where we’d snap a quick picture (using Instagram’s awful filters), and just upload it, because we wanted to. The days before worrying about grid curation, hashtags and algorithm changes, or whether or not we could take a […]

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Have you ever taken one look at someone, and just absolutely fallen in love with everything about them? (And no, don’t think about your partner – that’s cheating!) As a photographer, I get to work with many people, in many stages of their lives. And many times I’m falling in love with every bit of […]

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Creative Colorful Lifestyle Brand Photography