Photographic Training & Tools for Success
Texas School is my biggest week-long workshop of the year where a limited number of photographers spend the entire week with me learning my system, everything from lighting, to digital workflow, to business. I want to thank WHCC – White House 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 …
Turning a beautifully lit and un-retouched studio portrait into a gorgeous snow scene can be done quickly with some specific Photoshop tricks. Learn some fast Photoshop extraction techniques, see how I use the lens filter gallery to create a great 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!
I just got back from speaking in Tacoma Washington, and judging at the state’s convention for professional photographers. It was a great event and very inspirational. I was sponsored by White House Custom Colour and brought some samples to show Read More …
Adobe announced today some new updates coming to the suite of video apps. [quote]Today we announced plans to significantly update all the video apps in Creative Cloud including Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe After Effects CC, Adobe Prelude CC, Adobe Read More …
Adobe has just released some new features for Photoshop CC. These are major updates, so make sure you run your updater. One new big feature is Perspective Warp. It allows you to create a 3D mesh around objects in a Read More …
Photoshop CC offers you the ability to remove the blur created specifically by camera shake. See how I’ve used it on both a scenic image and a portrait.
Photoshop CC has just been updated through your Creative Cloud updater to include the following: Perspective Warp makes it easy to manipulate multiple perspectives in your image while keeping the rest of the image intact. Linked Smart Objects allow you Read More …
For you all on the upper west coast, I’m coming to speak in Tacoma, Washington on March 30th, 2014. It’s a multi-day convention and I’ll be speaking all day! I will be jam-packing in that entire day with my entire system. Read More …
Sometimes you have a rainy day, but you need to accentuate the rain in the image because it won’t photograph they way you think it will. See how I create rain from scratch and blend it into an image so Read More …
Sometimes when I speak, I show my company Christmas card that I send out to my clients. For the last few years they’ve all been group portraits of me, but in the studio. My idea is that it’s a funny Read More …