by Donald Giannatti | Mar 17, 2014 | Featured, Going Pro, LE News and Info
Free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 6PM PST. Registration at this link. Please do not register if you cannot make the show. We have limited availability. From Matt: “Hi, I’m Matt Dutile. I’m a professional travel and portrait...
by Donald Giannatti | Mar 16, 2014 | Featured
Just a short note of change here. The magazine style site is now switched to a blog page. More and shorter posts. Occasional long format posts. Back to the Essentials of Lighting Essentials.
by Donald Giannatti | Feb 26, 2014 | Featured
Yeah, it seems strange to write an article on why in particular I really love my Nikon Df. Why would anyone give a shit what someone else likes as far as a camera? And yet, they do. And I kinda get that on some level. I have heard this camera derided as being too...
by Donald Giannatti | Feb 25, 2014 | Featured, LE News and Info, Lighting, PROJECT "52"
The assignment was to illustrate the phrase: “I Could’a Been a Contender”. Taken from the Marlon Brando movie, “On the Waterfront”, the phrase has been used to mean a lot of similar feelings… not making the cut, not being good...
by Donald Giannatti | Feb 22, 2014 | Featured, Lighting
Lighting Basics: Class Four Light does the same thing every time. Read the above again, please. Because it does. Can you imagine what would happen if every time we pushed a key on a piano we got a different note? How would we make music? If 2+2 is occasionally...
by Donald Giannatti | Feb 15, 2014 | Featured, LE News and Info, Lighting
Lighting Basics, Class Three I am often asked what do I decide first when making a photograph. The answer is easy… aperture. Aperture changes the way my photographs work more than any other thing. It is important to note that I am not an ‘action’...