TOP TEN IMAGES FROM THE FREE TABLETOP WORKSHOP: REVIEW ONE

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,...