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Three Hot Shooters to Watch: Kate Orne, Nick Onken and Jake Chessum
Sometimes the fun of looking at images takes over and you just want to feast your eyes on pictures that amaze, involve, stimulate and motivate. The three photographers here are some of my favorites and I return again and again to their wonderful imagery. In particular...
25 New Images from the Lighting Essentials Pool
Well, the pool keeps gettin'g deeper, ya know. I was perusing it last night and realized how many incredible pics had been added recently. This pool is really rich with excellent photography. I want to build the forum up a bit, and if anyone has questions and such,...
Tech Sheet: Two Speedlights and the Sun for a Dramatic Portrait
Our first Tech Sheet of 2009 is kinda fun. I have been working on getting a client to approve a project I want to do and they did over the holidays. It will be a series of images of athletes and artists in environments that may not be their regular habitat. This image...
Welcome to the Best Year Ever! 2009 Will Rock!
Well, the last year of a strange and rocky decade draws to a close tonight. I know this past year has been an emotional roller-coaster for me as well as a very successful one with the workshops and the business. I hope you will join me in saying 'hasta la vista, baby"...
Real Simple Headshots on Location
Occasionally you may have a situation where you have to do a lot of images in a very short amount of time. These kinds of gigs can be a little disconcerting if you over think them and get caught in a web of setting up and production as time slips ever so quickly by. I...
The First Assignment: Pitfalls and Opportunities
Every photographer has a first assignment. There simply has to be one. The culmination of lots of hard work, a great portfolio and perhaps a little luck and there it is... a job. The first assignments can be very stressful or they can be a thrilling moment in the...
Tech Sheet – 12/19/08: Two Bare Speedlights for Drama
Today's tech sheet looks at using two speedlights for a dramatic headshot. We aren't doing anything really special, although I did modify a Gary Fong diffuser to give me a round light instead of the oblong/square light that a normal speedlight gives off. I wanted to...
One Setup, Two Different Shots (from the Archives)
Well this one is kind of fun. I found this in the archive box and remembered that it was a kinda fun little slide show. This "soundslide" offers a look into how I took a single lighting setup and shot it two ways. I use a big softbox often when I am working with...
25 Excellent Images From the LE Pool
Well, as the year grows to a close, I am happy to see so many wonderful images in the Lighting Essentials Flickr Pool. I went through the last 10 pages or so last night and found these excellent examples of using light to make a shot more interesting. They are all...
ON LOCATION: with Jerry OConnor, Jim Vigileos and Christina
Photographers in Phoenix like dramatic skies. We get so many days in a row of bright, blue that when it gets dark and moody up there some of us grab cameras. My friends Jim Vigileos and Jerry OConnor did that recently and along the way they grabbed Christina to add to...
Modeling the Light: A Model’s Role in Lighting
' Britney Spears "Kill the Lights! Don't be scared, make a move, see me now" A model has a role in lighting? What? Unheard of? Crazy? Not so much. A model has to do more than smile prettily and pose, she has to be aware of her environment, from the objects in place to...
One Light for a Highly Reflective Item
A simple product shot can sometimes present a lot of challenges for the photographer not used to thinking about reflected specular lighting. In this shot, the product is practically lit with specular reflection. There is very little direct light on the Hard Drive...