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March Madness: 02; Natural Window Light Still Life
Still Life by Window Light Tutorial by Heather Gill, Las Vegas A very simple use of window light to make a softly lit still life This is using a single light source and in this case, natural light on black. I had planned to use a strobe but when I started to set up...
March Madness: One Tutorial Per Day – 01
Choosing a Point of View for a Still Life Tutorial by Lily Dale, Illinois For Don's Still Life Workshop, our class was assigned to photograph objects from three points of view: oblique (shooting from straight on), natural (shooting from a standing position) and...
The Always Challenging “Pour Shot”
The pour shot may be one of the most challenging of commercial photography's many challenges. Getting the pour to look right, making sure the liquid is lit so that it looks great, catching the action as it happens... so many things to monitor as the photographer...
How Would You Shoot a Fork?
(NOTE: This is a repost of an article that was corrupted and caused the outage of the site last week.) "How would you shoot a fork?" That was the question I asked my Project 52 Students for last week's assignment. Photograph a fork and make it interesting. Forks are...
The “Long Game” in Photography
The "LONG GAME" Approach to Photography One of the things I notice about the culture lately is that there is more focus on the easy route, the quick way, 'getting to done' without really knowing what got done. There is a quickness to many things we do, and we expect...
A Fragrance Ad by the P52 Members.
THE ASSIGNMENT: Provide the images for an advertorial designed for a consumer magazine. The layout was furnished to the students with only minor changes allowed. Everyone got the same assignment, and look at the amazingly different interpretations. It is hard enough...

