Photographic Training & Tools for Success
Article Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Continuing where we left off in part 3, we need to remember that quality (not quantity) is the goal, regardless of the time or length of a shoot. Now let’s look at the rest of the shoot. Login Read More …
Article Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 In the last two parts of this series, I shared my one rule of fashion posing along with my systems for being creative in your shoot. So let’s see those points in action using a shoot I did Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I teach how to mix the creative and the technical while at a shoot. That means nailing the lighting and the posing while keeping the image fresh and “un-posed.” When you do what I was taught hands-on in Texas, you’ll Read More …