8-Week Beverage Photography Workshop
This is one of the most popular classes I offer. You will learn so much about how to see a shot before you make it, then find details that will help push your photography to a higher level. Beverage photography is a combination of art and technology with a bit of magic inspiration. If you are a tabletop, product, or food photographer, you will benefit from taking this class.
SPECIAL OFFER: A free workshop to help you find clients for your work will be held two weeks after this class ends. It is specifically for the members of this 8 Week class.
The Collective is a large format book of photography designed to show photographs from members of Project 52. This is our 2024 Edition. If you want to download it, this is a link for the PDF. Download the two previous versions below.
THESE PDF COPIES ARE FREE COURTESY LIGHTING ESSENTIALS AND THE TALENTED PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED INSIDE.
Lists Can Save Your Bacon When Making a Photograph
I was asked if there was some sort of list of things I look at or think about before I click the shutter? There is. I used to have a checklist that included “was the film loaded correctly” and “are the dark slides clean” and such. We don’t do that anymore, but there...
Dallas J Logan and I Discuss Light and Photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7zeXLLWJs8
My Perspective on Marketing in 2018
For more information on my coaching and mentoring programs for emerging commercial photographers, hit my site at: http://www.dongiannatti.com These are my takes on social media marketing for photographers. You may notice a few missing social media...
SHOOT CHOCOLATE LIKE A PRO
A few links to Chocolate photography tutorials: Bret Doss: https://www.lighting-essentials.com/ma... Sam Breach: https://www.lighting-essentials.com/ma... David Price: https://www.lighting-essentials.com/ch... For more information on Project 52 Pro System, go...
This Is The BEST Time Ever to be a Photographer! Why All the Long Faces?
This Is The Best Time EVER to Be a Photographer... Why All the Long Faces? Professional level cameras are selling for less than what we paid for one in 1980. Lower priced lenses are so much better than they used to be it is astounding. You can do all your...
My New Personal Website is Launched
I have been mentoring and coaching photographers for the last 10 years. Hundreds have been through my Project 52 System, and a great many of them are now full-time professional photographers, or at least making good money on the side doing the work. I teach...
Let’s Deconstruct A Few Pour Shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mnmFMJGOLo
The Portfolio Workshop is Coming Up
We spend a good amount of time working with the photographers to develop the theme or story for the portfolio. Work is shot deliberately, and it is then edited and put together for flow. We have five group meetings and then a one-on-one with me to finalize the...
So You Want to Be a Photographer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlhPK0cJ978
Seven Product Shots Deconstructed For You
Enjoy the video. Lots to talk about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbAWDQJUFBM
Is Posting to Social Media the Same as Working For Free?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtOmKlxRwDc
Bring Back the Drama That May Have Been Lost in Exposure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GaT66Rut1c
Still Life Images Deconstructed: Lighting You Can Do
Here are some still life shots with the lighting deconstructed for you. Take these ideas and make some still life art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVtv_uFkvDw&t=2s IMAGES: [gallery link="file" columns="4"...
Creative Portraits: Images Inspired by Skrebneski
These are a few portraits made by my students in the 8 Week Portrait Workshop. We look at many different photographers and study their style, their approach, and the ways they use portraiture to convey their art. Ours is not to steal or copy, but to be inspired by....
In Search Of…
IN SEARCH OF Tuesday morning I got up later than expected for my drive to San Diego. My short journey/road trip was to see Dan Winters, a favorite photographer of mine, do a talk on his photography. The venue was the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, so...
The ARC of Beauty: A Lighting Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ3cU6w3w6s&t=1s
Using Cheap Lights for Food and Still Life Photography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtYC4YsS5Y
Thinking in Black and White for Better Monochrome Images
BLACK AND WHITE SHOULD BE MORE THAN AN AFTERTHOUGHT TO COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9x0o5zZr_w A mediocre picture becomes more alive when it is reduced to tones and design. [gallery columns="2" link="file"...
Dennis Dunbar: Professional Photo Retoucher, Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3XyyuAraU Dennis is a highly sought after digital retoucher in Los Angeles. He sat down with me for a chat about the business of retouching and what it is like to work with photographers and movie studios. Contact Dennis at his...
FIVE SIMPLE THINGS TO DO TO FIND MORE CLIENTS
Try these for a real boost to your client list SEO. Yes, SEO. It is so very important these days. I know we keep hearing that SEO is dead, but that is really just BS. It is alive and kicking. If you are unable to do it well, hire someone who can. I found a few very...
7 Assumptions We Make About Professional Photographers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUZtk9ntF0
Three Books That Will Boost Your Success Quotient
These are three books that I think every photographer should read. I believe it is best to read them in order left to right, but do it any way you want to do it. They are full of practical examples, actionable processes and scripts to get you thinking...
A Premium Filter System from K&F Concepts
Filters come in all shapes and sizes... and qualities. This is a premium product, clear, well made, and a bit thinner than most of the cheap filters out there. I use them when I am on the motorcycle, and when trekking. Usually I take them off when I shoot,...
Lighting Class: Classic Side Light (Part One)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qmiime7KI
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