One of the reasons Scott Bourne and I are such good friends is the way we both think about the industry, especially the challenges photographers deal with outside the obvious of the economy and changing technology. Through GoingPro we’ve talked with thousands of photographers and the common denominator isn’t always the fact that they’re new and just [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2012 in Upcoming Events, Workshop Update
Yesterday I was making some changes in my presentation for next weekend’s PhotoPro Expo show and I started to feel just plain rushed. For a minute or two I had sort of an out of body experience, feeling like I was trapped in an old Jimmy Stewart movie and to pass the time they just [...]
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, one of America’s leading portrait photographers put together a pretty terrific little book called Don Blair’s Guide to Lighting and Posing Body Parts. I wrote the book, but it was exclusively Don Blair’s words and images.
Tony Corbell, now at Nik Software and Terry Deglau, now retired, [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2011 in Upcoming Events
If you’re headed to PMA or CES in a couple of weeks pay attention to two interesting programs.
How about a Las Vegas Photo Adventurewith professional photographer, Mark Comon as your tour guide? It all starts on Friday evening with a “how to” presentation and dinner is included. Then you’ll head into a night time shooting session [...]
Posted on August 09th, 2011 in Motivational, Upcoming Events
After every convention, workshop or trade show you attend everyone is always left with a level of optimism and energy to make changes in their technique, marketing, management style and grow their business. But, there’s always the challenge of getting sucked back into your daily routine and within a few days your energy and spirit [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2011 in How2 Series, Lighting
Two weeks from today on August 2, eight photographers are going to be teaching two hour workshops at Summer School, most of them on lighting. Reflected light is so often either misunderstood or just plain missed.
I’ve seen Bambi Cantrell pop in a little extra light with the back of a poster board sign. Joe Buissink [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2011 in 2011 Summer School Profile, Lighting
Bambi Cantrell and I have written three books together and just this past winter she taught a workshop here in Ohio as part of the Akron Photo Series. Besides being a good buddy for a whole lot of years, there are few photographers as diverse as Bambi. As recently as five years ago her business was [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2011 in How2 Series, wedding photography
It’s 5:00 a.m. on a Friday morning and I’ve got nothing in the pipeline for the blog today. There are no guest posts that I really want to run, but I do seem to have a lot of attitude. After all it’s Friday! Now remember, I’m not a wedding photographer, so as the weekend approaches [...]
Posted on January 07th, 2011 in Lighting
Michaeil ONeill had a great comment to this week’s post about Don Blair’s use of bare bulb. In fact, it’s so relevant it deserves it’s own moment on the blog rather than disappearing in the comments on Facebook…
“I remember the days when using bare bulbs on our Lumedynes & Norman 200B’s was the only way to lower [...]
Last week I posted a piece about hand-posing from my old buddy, Don Blair. I was reminded by Martha Dameron of another of Don’s signature techniques, outdoor use of bare bulb. So, running through Don Blair’s Guide to Posing and Lighting Body Parts, I found one of my favorite images. This one was created while [...]
