A few months ago, I was sitting in an afternoon training session at work. The message was all about becoming “famous”. I instantly thought of Nick Cannon’s song, “Famous” – don’t ask. Granted, the lesson was much more targeted around generating sales leads, but I found myself ferociously taking notes…more specifically, I found myself strategically thinking about myself as a photographer and a blogger. I suppose I could have simply taken the notes and stored them away in my memory, but I’m Ashley Sisk…I like to share…and what...

Happy New Year and welcome to the 51st and FINAL week of Shoot and Edit: Part 2. Click HERE for all the details and past prompts/themes (including previous editing tutorials). This week’s theme or prompt was to show us one “Happy New Year” SOOC shot (this was just a suggestion, you can show us any SOOC shot). Hopefully you linked up with Jill’s blog earlier this week. It’s hard to believe that we’ve COMPLETED a year of shooting and editing. For the past 51 weeks, I have taken my SOOC shots and provided a simple/basic or advanced Photoshop/Photoshop...

Just before Christmas, I was introduced to one of my newest clients…Sebastian (you may remember one of his photos from the Scavenger Hunt a couple of weeks ago – click HERE). Sebastian is one very cute six-month old full of smiles and joy. We had a great time getting to know one another and I’m really looking forward to seeing him again for his nine-month portraits. Here are a few of my favorite photos from our session. Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday! Don’t forget to pull together your photos for Memories, Dreams and Reflections. The linky will be open on...

Welcome to the 51st week of Shoot and Edit: Part 1! Click HERE for all the details and upcoming prompts/themes and past tutorials. This week our theme or prompt is “Happy New Year” (this is just a suggestion, you can show us any SOOC shot…much like I did this week). You have until Wednesday each week to link your SOOC shot up on Jill’s blog. On Thursday, you can link up your edits with ME after following some of my tips on how to edit your shots (or just post your edit on Thursday and you can pick up my tips for next week).   As you can tell, I took a long...