Moving? Yuck…sorry, it’s an expression used by six year olds who hate eating vegetables, but it sure applies. We’re only moving 1.4 miles away, but that doesn’t change the work involved. Years ago I read, “moving is the second highest stress producing situation, second only to death of a loved one!” Moving challenges every aspect of a [...]
I know I’m going to sound old with my blog this morning, but I can live with it if you can!
How many times have you been stumbling around technology and found yourself amazed at what kids are learning in school today? I remember years ago, my 15 year old niece teaching me a few short cuts in Power [...]
For the past 10-15 years I’ve been fascinated by many of the images submitted for the various print competitions. I’ve judged 8×10 print competition and viewed literally thousands of prints each year, including portfolio reviews. It’s that time of year when many of you are scurrying around at the last minute trying to get your [...]
Here’s a win-win workshop virtually guaranteed to give you ideas you can implement immediately.
Internationally recognized wedding photographer, Bambi Cantrell, is conducting a three day intensive workshop in her Benicia Studio from January 31-February 2nd! She’ll cover many of the aspects it takes to create fabulous wedding images, demonstrated through the use of models and covering lighting and posing concepts [...]
Sooner or later I was bound to share at least one “it’s a small world” story. A few years ago Barbara Smith was having dinner at a friend’s house and was talking about a book she’d just read, “The Art of Wedding Photography” by Bambi Cantrell and Skip Cohen. Her neighbor started laughing and walked her [...]
In the approximately 175 year history of photography, there have never been more creative tools at your disposal than there are today. Karen Sperling’s new book Painting for Photographers, takes you step by step into the art lessons you need to turn photographs into paintings with Corel Painter and Photoshop.
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about [...]
It’s scary just how far back in my career my friendship with Bambi actually goes – we met in the early 90’s when Bambi won one of the album awards at a reception where I was the MC. Then our salesman in the San Francisco area wanted me to meet one of his favorite Hasselblad shooters, Bambi [...]
Before you read any further, get out your 2010 calendar and circle the dates!
The response from this past summer’s attendees at Skip’s Summer School was pretty amazing. So, it makes sense to do it again. Only this time we’re adding in a lot of the great feedback and speaker requests from the post program survey. Thanks to some [...]
Helen Yancy and I have been friends for so many years. She’s one of the most recognized photographers in the industry, having been recognized not only for her work as an artist, but her support of professional photography. She’s a past PPA president and one of the original founders of PPA Charities, just to name two of [...]
I’ve learned a great deal about sculpting the body with existing light sources from my friend Tony Corbell.
In this image, I’ve placed the subject close to the light source to insure a soft light, (the closer the subject to the light source the softer the light on the subject). By placing myself and my camera [...]
