Light is the lifeblood of a photograph like blood is to our bodies, without either, we have nothing. As photographers, we rely on light to give us the ability to reproduce life in our subjects and images through the addition or subtraction of light.
We can manipulate this effect in many ways, […]
It’s no secret that I’m not impressed with Alien Bees or White-Lighting marketing hype or the quality of their products–simply put, the owner and CEO of the company, Paul C. Buff, knows my biggest beef is about their use of the word “effective” when describing watt-seconds of their products. I’ve more than once have […]
Over the past six years I’ve taught almost 200 glamour, beauty and nude photography workshops, seminars and lectures from Maui to the Virgin Islands, in Europe, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United states and one of the most recurring questions is, “How do you pose a model?” Normally I’ll answer that question with […]
As a professional photographer we should always treat our models like subjects, not members of the opposite sex. However, there are times in a model or a photographer’s career where we feel human and find ourselves attracted to each other—this is called life. Many photographers have dated/and or married models in the […]
I find myself on a jet headed back home from Los Angeles, for about 48-hours before I head out again, and decided it’s time to play catch-up on my blog—my apologies for the lack of content. Here lately my life is like a roller-coaster, ups, downs, peaks, valleys, shrills and thrills. […]
Unfortunately in the United States and other countries there is no formal licensing requirements for photographers to prove their professionalism, thus anyone can purchase a disposable camera and print a few inkjet business cards and call themselves a professional photographer, or for that matter a corporate CEO.
This is a sad fact about photography in […]
