The Gift of Good Light

The Gift of Good Light

by | Jun 16, 2011 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Flash, Light, People

When you’re lucky, everything goes right during a shoot. Subject, location, exposure and equipment all work together for you. But without good light, none of the rest matters. I recently had an assignment to photograph Aldon Smith. A native of Kansas City, Aldon went...
Tornadoes

Tornadoes

by | May 28, 2011 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Computers, Exposure, Intermediate

All of us live with things we’d rather not think about. Whether earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or snowstorms, it’s easier to just hope they don’t happen. Where I live it’s tornadoes, and we saw this past week we really do have to think about...
House of Flying Dogs

House of Flying Dogs

by | Mar 1, 2011 | Action, Advanced, Flash, Intermediate

Every now and then I set up our living room as a studio for doing some portraits. And each time I do that, my dogs think they should be the subjects. It’s true. Whenever I get out the light stands and hang the backdrop, the dogs make a beeline for it and plop down....
Sharing Videos

Sharing Videos

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Advanced, Intermediate, Video

Recently I’ve needed to share not just still images, but videos. And YouTube just wasn’t going to do what I wanted. Then I discovered Vimeo. Since I’ve started shooting and producing videos with my digital SLRs, I needed a way for people to view them...