(Finding your Wordpress Theme should not be taken lightly. I think you should spend some time getting to know what it will do for you before you pull the trigger.) Continued from Wordpress Basics for Photographers: Part One We have looked around and found a few themes...

Well it was planned for a long time. We put it on the calendar back in December I believe. I couldn't speak to it until it went "live" so to speak, and the marketing push started. So I simply alluded to a certain three days that my friends and LE followers should...

NOTE: THE CONTEST IS CLOSED. WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED MAY 28. Winner: Catherine Johnson AND Eric Bartel. We had a tough time with the tie, so we have to go with both. I will need to hear from you two very very quickly so we can find a date and a time. NOTE: For all...

I am a big fan of Wordpress. I love the ease of use, and the total attention to quality that the Wordpress folks apply to the changes and updates to the core product. I also love traditional websites and feel that they do have their place for photographers. But many...

It was a bright Friday morning as I left to go up north. I had planned on leaving a bit earlier than 8:30, but those plans were offset by the need to get my youngest to school and finish some things at the office. Sometimes the plans we make don't work out. They just...

Hi, gentle readers of this blog/zine... err, whatever it is. If you have been following along for any time you know that I don't have a lot of stuff to sell, nor do I spend much time hawking how fabulously cool I am. Really. But occasionally I need to do a little...

Back in the fall I was discussing an idea about maintaining a portfolio over multiple platforms with Scott Forman, a photographer in Omaha. Scott is also a terrific coder, as you will see. My idea has always been to make it very easy for photographers who do not have...

Do you shoot with an "abundance" mental approach? Or is your choice to shoot from a mental state of "scarcity"? It makes a difference, you know. It makes a difference in how you approach your subject matter. It makes a difference in the way you see the world. It can...

I have promised myself that I will get out and shoot more for myself this year. These "improvs" are part of the process. I limit myself to one subject and one hour. And the subjects can range over whatever happens to be near me or catch my eye. This time it was pods I...

Occasionally we get a little off topic on a Sunday post. While this one is no exception, there are some very interesting posts from photographers I think you should check out. You may have missed them along the way, or not even known about the blogs, but they are...

And that's a fact, Jack! Over at Project 52 (www.project52.org) we did an assignment on Desserts. The job was to make a dessert shot so inviting that it fairly SCREAMED chocolate (or at least DESSERT). We had a lot of submissions. Here are twenty that caught my eye......

I think it leads it. Simply and right out there. This story on F-Stoppers has a lot of comments on it, most of them missing the point by a swing and a miss (sorry...). [Shocking] Getty licenses Nick Laham Photographs Of NY Yankees Taken With iPhone The story is about...

... or something like that. I don't remember the particulars on the slant of the article. Late on a Monday, the art director called in a panic with a rush job. Could I do an illustration for a publication that was going to press on Wednesday. We had to shoot it,...

These were quick and fun little videos I did while Regina was shooting at the one-on-one workshop she won at the Lighting Essentials Contest last winter. She has a great little studio for shooting and making great images, and with 7 lights and all kinds of modifiers...

We were having so much fun with Regina (our contest winner) in her Utah studio that I decided to do a bunch of videos of a few of the setups. (Here is Regina's blog post on the past weekend.) This one was made possible when Regina said she had four matching small...

Hi everyone. We are here at the entrance to Zion National Park in the small town of Springdale. This is where the "Winner Gets Me" contest winner lives and where we are doing her one-on-one workshop for the weekend. She invited Megan from Phoenix to come up and do the...

Rick walks us through his lighting thoughts while actually doing a shot. You can hear him discussing the thought process he uses, and you will learn a lot of great little lighting tips and tricks to make your next photograph even better. Rick's Website. Rick's Blog I...

Music. I am a huge Bill Evans fan. Have loved his music from the moment I first heard it. Magical changes, incredible technique, voicings that inspired... and a hot rhythm section that always kept pushing him along. The first time I heard Bill Evans was late one night...

I often say that photography is "Jazz with a camera." And I say that because I believe it to be absolutely true. A Jazz performer has to know their instrument so well, that it is second nature for them to simply play it. Jazz requires improvisation (and if it doesn't,...

I have known Rick for a long, long time. I did not know that he had a blog until this morning. Funny how stuff like that goes around. Rick's blog is full of images and stories and shows a level of creativity that is rare indeed these days. I will contact Rick for a...

I am happy to be working with Mayra and the Fotomiles Group in order to come out to Miami/Key Biscayne for a workshop. This will be a very special, limited participation workshop. Only 10 photographers and me. A full on, learn to light and master the concepts...

  I first encountered Jen Bekman's project the first year it was on. I was knocked out by the level of work and would go and visit the site many times to view the work. Some of it was quite challenging, and I would look at images that were quite out of my 'zone'...

Didja ever wonder? You got the gear. You got the lights. You got that shiny new megapixelbeast of a machine. You even have one of those latest doohickeys that everyone is drooling over. You know the one. Yeah... it's sweet. But where are you going with all that stuff?...

Thanks to Charles Tibbs for taking the photo. Yeah... that's me lookin' all serious and cold leaning against the back wall of my studio. Fact is, it was a bit chilly that day. Unlike today where it is pushing a bit over 70. But the weather is not the subject here - it...