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Running On Empty: Decompression and Evaluation
We are a week from Christmas and I have not updated this site since the Raleigh workshop. Since then, I have been to the Anna Maria Workshop (more coming soon on that one... wow) and finishing up a large project. At the same time, I am working on new content, new...
Dispatch from Raleigh, NC: Notes on the Lighting Essentials Workshop, 2010
Photograph by Eric Muetterties It's about time for the last workshop of the year for me: Anna Maria Island, Florida (Northern tip of South Tampa Bay) and I am so excited about going. I will be working on the final parts of the book, teaching a three day workshop and...
Houston Lighting Essentials Workshop – a Wrap Up
photograph by Karissa Hosek I had a blast in Houston and thought I would share some images from the workshop. These are some of the great photographers we spent time with there. We used Charles Howard's great little studio in a suburb south of the city. His studio has...
Creating Images That Brand – Pushing Toward the Icon
What do I mean by Photographing for your brand? Photographing for your brand is photographing with “intent.” That means making images that have some reason, continuity and stylistic connection to the images that are already a part of your lexicon – that body of work...
Why Do You Make Photographs?
Why do you make photographs? Simple question, really. But have you ever thought about what it is that makes you do it and love it so? (I am making an assumption that you love to make photographs because you are reading this blog and this blog is all about loving to...
Notes from the Lighting Essentials Norfolk Workshop
Photographs by Rasheid Scarlett, our first big contest winner. Norfolk was the little workshop that grew slowly into a wonderful weekend. I put it up and got one sign up... a guy from Poland was going to fly over and take the workshop. No signups followed for quite a...
Is NOW the Time? And 22 Images from the LE Flickr Pool
(Photograph by Tom Seibert taken as on assignment at the Cincinnati Workshop) It's been a while since I have done a post from the pool. Sorry about that. Hopefully this little treasure trove of images will be fun to peruse as you go about the first of November. We'll...
The Last Light of the Day
I love to shoot in the last light of the day. I try to have my camera and be out as the sun gets to about 30 minutes before the sun goes down and 15 minutes afterward. So many changes happening so fast makes it a very exciting and adrenaline driven few minutes. BTW,...
Just a Rant that Started Elsewhere and Ended Up Here
Welcome Back. We are back up and locked down. I have had to remove Registrations for the time being, but will be adding a Newsletter signup for those of you who want to be 'in the know'. At this time the magazine is still down, but it was very old content anyway. We...
Road Trip and Some Workshop Images from Cincinnati
I spent some time in the southern Ohio area on October 8 - 11, 2010. Friday evening I did a "Making the Jump - Going Pro" talk with a large group of photographers in the Cincinnati area. Monday evening I spoke to 45+ photographers at Midwest Photo Exchange...
I Love Photography, and I Am Not On Board with Creative Commons.
RANT. EDIT: Well, first of all, I quoted and gave a link to the PDN site, which is "fair use". I also quoted only enough to qualify as "fair use." So, if I am a hypocrite for working as a blogger and using fair use without buying into a slippery slope of the "right to...
The Hard Life: Embracing and Experimenting with Small Light Sources: by Steve Korn
The Hard Life: Embracing and Experimenting with Small Light Sources by Steve Korn, Seattle Editorial Photographer “Avoid mid-day sun, it’s too hard and contrasty.†“Learning to light, start with an umbrella.†“If your subject is a woman, you should use...