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Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Fashion shoots are fun, but we need to go into the shoot with a system. Shooting fashion isn’t easier than other styles, it doesn’t mean just shooting thousands of haphazard images hoping something Read More …
Article Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Posing in general is hard, let alone fashion posing. But everyone wants to break the rules and be different, and that usually means wanting to shoot fashion-style images. However, fashion photography doesn’t mean that you don’t Read More …
At the beginning of any photo shoot and occasionally during the shoot, you need to have a system of checking the various settings on your camera. Just as you would do before taking off in a plane, you should have a specific list Read More …
It’s here! Photographers who’ve attended my workshops have asked for something they could take home that covers my lighting program, which is the biggest and most important part of photography. This is it, over 3 hours of training, broken up into bite-size Read More …
There are tricks to mixing flash with sunlight or any other ambient light. Here’s a video explaining the 3Fs, a trick to getting the perfect exposure with both the foreground and background perfect — manually!
How did I turn this normal background into this deep blue background in the second image? But more importantly, how did I do it in-camera, without post production work while keeping the skin tones of the model perfect? Photographers usually Read More …
I posted an article previously on a shoot where I tested the Rogue line of flash gels. There I talk about how I used the gels to create different background colors in camera, while keeping the models face and skin-tones Read More …
In a previous post, I showed some images along with an article on how I created these images. But the question has been, “How much Photoshop did you do?” The answer is not much at all. Because of my system Read More …
I was asked to test the Rogue FlashBenders for Pictureline in Salt Lake City. There are a lot of ways to diffuse and use light on location, and here are some of my creative ways of doing it for this Read More …
Posing is incredibly important, but as artists, we want to break out, do something different, break traditional rules and create works that are fresh and new. So how do we break the rules of posing to create images that are Read More …
I’m still finding photographers who do not understand the only three settings we have on a camera to control exposure, and the relationships between them. This is the first in a series of videos on this subject to help explain f/stops, Read More …
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