The Blog
I Just Photographed My Last Wedding
May 7th, 2023 Well, it's the end of an era. After forty years in the wedding photography business, I'm done. I just photographed my last wedding yesterday, and it was a fitting ending to a long career photographing one of the most important events in people's lives. I...
The Mamiya C330
Most photographers who have been around for a few years have a favorite camera or cameras. The equipment they had taken many memorable photographs with. I can imagine it's much like a guitarist with that one guitar that has become part of them; BB King's Lucille comes...
The Sports Memory Mate
Not your same old boring cardboard Memory Mates. Memory Mates, used mainly for sports photo packages, have been around for decades. We have used them since I began doing league sports in the 1980s. At that time (in the film era), Memory Mates were simple cardboard...
The Composite Photo
What is a composite photo? A composite photo is an image of several people that uses individual images, putting them together side by side in little frames and putting their names under each photo. Composites take the place of the traditional group photo, where people...
Spring School Photos: Backgrounds for 2023
We have offered a spring school photo program here at Roy Dressel Photography for many years. More and more schools are offering this because parents love the more relaxed style. They are especially popular with younger kids, pre-school and kindergarten. This is an...
Background Replacement for Headshots
What, no background? No need to carry a background with me, I’ll just put that into the photo on the back end.