One of the things I find sad with today’s younger photographers is the lack of appreciation for the history of the craft. Everyone is obviously digital, many of you have grown up on Photoshop and you’re up to date on all the latest plug-ins to create some amazing images, but here’s what you’re missing.
If you have an appreciation [...]

This post from good buddy Matthew Jordan Smith just ran last week on his blog, but I know there are too many of you who didn’t see it. While it’s photography 101, so many of you take short cuts and it often shows in your work, either in the end results or the time it [...]

We all get caught in type-casting those photographers we admire most. They seem to establish boundaries on what they’re best at and so often, just like Hollywood, we don’t think of them in other roles. I love this post from Doug Gordon, which is a solid reminder he can shoot anything! He loves working with couples and [...]

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 [...]

The fun for me about Summer School is getting time to hang out with a whole bunch of old friends while making new ones at the same time. Sure it’s great to have an incredible network, but it’s the friendships that come out of the mutual love for the craft that really make it all worth [...]

In a couple of weeks Clay Blackmore, along with fourteen other instructors are going to hit Las Vegas as one of the most intense faculty teams we’ve ever had at Summer School. Whether you’re able to join us or not, take the time to watch this video of Clay in action. In a little over [...]

With Summer School coming up in a few weeks, whether you’re joining us or not, I thought it would be great to share some portrait components of various techniques and images, this time from Matthew Jordan Smith.  Most of you don’t shoot the way Matthew does, but I know you want a certain look to [...]

In 1987 I joined Hasselblad USA as president, following Roland Polhem, who had passed away months earlier. They were big shoes to fill. One of the projects Roland had agreed to fund was Dean Collins, who was going on the road with a thirty city tour.  There were three partners in the tour, Sinar Bron, [...]

Some of you met Bobbi Lane last year at Summer School, when she and Tony Corbell ran our first ever Lighting Lab. She’s a phenomenal photographer, doing work mostly on the editorial/commercial side of life, but here’s what I love about her work – first it’s timeless and second it often can’t be defined. In the [...]

While it might seem off track, considering I’ve been profiling Summer School instructors for the last week, I found this wonderful old clip from Dean Collins.  Dean’s influence on so many great photographers in this country was extensive. He was the master of lighting, not just in understanding it but in teaching the concepts.
This year at [...]