Self-employement can be great, but one of the worst parts about being in business for yourself is…well, being in business for yourself. So much more responsibility rests directly on you, and you almost literally hold the key to your success or failure. You are salesman, accountant, receptionist, customer service representative, coffee fetcher…and, somewhere way down [...]
There is absolutely nothing that says you have to stop playing with paper and scissors when you become an adult. I mean, heck, you can now legally buy your own scissors, so why not! Adriana Napolitano is pretty much the Edward Scissorhands of set design. “I started to create sets for stop motion videos,” she [...]
Earlier I shared some images by photographers who braved the elements to take some bad weather images.
Where there is adversity, often there is opportunity. When the weather takes a turn for the worse, don’t run for cover so fast. Look for photography subjects everywhere. Wet pavement, puddles, reflections, wind blowing the trees, evil looking storm clouds over the horizon – all can make for... more
If you’re looking for a fun photography project this weekend, great times can always be had with lights, camera, and a little water splashing around your studio. Photographer Mark Richardson gives us a fairly simple tutorial for creating water splash images, particularly those involving a wine glass. Using AlienBees monolights with fast flash duration (not [...]
The Canon 35mm f/1.4L expected to be replaced in the near future, and after previous reports claimed the Mark II was being tested in the field by a select group of photographers, were now hearing that the lens is done. A release date is unknown at the moment and is said to be dependent on [...]
When the weather turns wet and nasty, many photographers head for cover. But, if you are willing to tough it out, inclement weather is a great opportunity to capture some unique and fantastic images.
Here are some images by photographers who dared to brave the elementsand got some bad weather images.
A side project from his typical workas a high end editorialphotographer, French artist Julien Vallonhas created a series of nude art photographs that deviate from the more traditionalposed portraits that dominate the genre. In Vallon’sPre-Conscience/Conscience (or, for the sake of brevity,PCS/CS), the photographer has formed a way tocapture the free movement beyond logic, will, thought [...]
Almost everyone who has had the misfortune of sifting through stock photos of office life has the same exact same question mind: “Why is there a doctor in the office flipping through charts?” Well, ponder no longer my friends. The creatives behind YouTube channel Nacho Punch have released a video that explainsthis ages oldconundrum, along [...]
Whenever I’ve shot weddings, I’ve had nightmares about things going wrong, from malfunctioning equipment to missing important shots to losing the images I captured. However, for one couple and their wedding videographer, those nightmares became a reality. Los Angeles couple Alejandra and Brian received a call from their videographer a day after their wedding stating [...]
I watched the future football Hall of Fame quarterbacks practicing on the sidelines just before the Super Bowl. Although they had thrown the football perhaps millions of times before, they were practicing their throwing before the big game. They believe in the old (but true) saying, Practice makes perfect.
Its important for us as photographers to continually practice our skills as well. Although we may have pressed the... more
