The Essential Guide to: LIGHTING INTERIORS Techniques for lighting with small flash by Scott Hargis Architectural photography has always interested me. I have done a substantial amount of it over my career and I still enjoy doing it when I get an opportunity. I wish I...

I am flying to Portland for a shoot as I write this end of the year blog. Outside the window it is blue sky above a gray mass of clouds that stretch the entire way from Phoenix to Seattle. Snow in the desert tomorrow. I will be downtown Portland having warm Brandy...

Perhaps I should have said learned and re-learned. I am hard headed, and some of the things I know still need a refresher course every once in a while... ya know. This will be my second to last post of 2010. The last post will be on New Year's Eve. I am taking next...

Anna Maria is the last workshop of the season for me. For the past three years we have done that workshop on Anna Maria Island, Florida. We will do next years last workshop of the year on Anna Maria. I love that place and it has so many places to make images. Next...

We are a week from Christmas and I have not updated this site since the Raleigh workshop. Since then, I have been to the Anna Maria Workshop (more coming soon on that one... wow) and finishing up a large project. At the same time, I am working on new content, new...

Photograph by Eric Muetterties It's about time for the last workshop of the year for me: Anna Maria Island, Florida (Northern tip of South Tampa Bay) and I am so excited about going. I will be working on the final parts of the book, teaching a three day workshop and...

photograph by Karissa Hosek I had a blast in Houston and thought I would share some images from the workshop. These are some of the great photographers we spent time with there. We used Charles Howard's great little studio in a suburb south of the city. His studio has...

Photographs by Rasheid Scarlett, our first big contest winner. Norfolk was the little workshop that grew slowly into a wonderful weekend. I put it up and got one sign up... a guy from Poland was going to fly over and take the workshop. No signups followed for quite a...

(Photograph by Tom Seibert taken as on assignment at the Cincinnati Workshop) It's been a while since I have done a post from the pool. Sorry about that. Hopefully this little treasure trove of images will be fun to peruse as you go about the first of November. We'll...

  I love to shoot in the last light of the day. I try to have my camera and be out as the sun gets to about 30 minutes before the sun goes down and 15 minutes afterward. So many changes happening so fast makes it a very exciting and adrenaline driven few minutes. BTW,...

Welcome Back. We are back up and locked down. I have had to remove Registrations for the time being, but will be adding a Newsletter signup for those of you who want to be 'in the know'. At this time the magazine is still down, but it was very old content anyway. We...

I spent some time in the southern Ohio area on October 8 - 11, 2010. Friday evening I did a "Making the Jump - Going Pro" talk with a large group of photographers in the Cincinnati area. Monday evening I spoke to 45+ photographers at Midwest Photo Exchange...

RANT. EDIT: Well, first of all, I quoted and gave a link to the PDN site, which is "fair use". I also quoted only enough to qualify as "fair use." So, if I am a hypocrite for working as a blogger and using fair use without buying into a slippery slope of the "right to...

The Hard Life: Embracing and Experimenting with Small Light Sources by Steve Korn, Seattle Editorial Photographer “Avoid mid-day sun, it’s too hard and contrasty.” “Learning to light, start with an umbrella.” “If your subject is a woman, you should use...

Guest Post by Eduardo Frances, El Salvador. Eduardo is a fashion and beauty shooter in San Salvador. Eduardo has been featured on LE before. Another look at today´s market: Positive and I hope inspiring too. (Or how adding a violin soundtrack is not needed when we...

Photograph from a book on northern Arizona to be printed by Blurb. Part two of the Jan Klier post on preparing your files for printing a book. We have a link at the bottom of the page where you can download the entire two part post as a PDF. Part One of this article...

Working the thought out from conception to realization. Pre-visualization and tenacity blend to help a photographer go from reacting to an image situation to creating an image situation. It is a very powerful technique. I saw this photograph by photographer Michael J....