Good buddy, David Ziser, has been kind enough to share a few of his best posts with us and this one, like all of his posts, is another top-shelf presentation.  It might be from last year, but that doesn’t make the topic any less relevant.
As a combination of the tough economy and advances in [...]

We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of great guest posts from good buddy, Matthew Jordan Smith. What I love most about his posts and video downloads is the amount of educational information he’s always willing to share. It leaves you with a wonderful challenge: Is Matthew a great photographer, great teacher, great writer or [...]

One of the chapters Tony and I share in our careers is working together at Hasselblad. I hired Tony out of Brooks Institute to come to New Jersey as the first Dean of Education for Hasselblad University.  I still consider talking Tony into giving up his view of the Ocean and mountain side in Santa Barbara for [...]

With the post yesterday about Dean Collins, you can’t really talk about teaching lighting today without Tony Corbell’s name coming up. Tony and Dean worked together for years. Thanks to Profoto, there’s a lot of great material out there, starting with two videos I decided to stack as part of today’s post. They feature Tony [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Great photography is about passion, not just for the craft itself, but for life, friends and the human spirit. It’s also about positive energy and good old enthusiasm!
Since meeting Catherine Hall at WPPI a few years back, I’ve never seen her when she wasn’t passionate about our industry. She was the second annual WPPI [...]

It’s hard for me to remember a time when Tony Corbell wasn’t one of my very best friends! I know we met in 1987 and have worked together, traveled together and most important of all I can’t begin to count the number of times we’ve laughed together! He was working with the legendary Dean Collins [...]

There’s been a lot of excitement at RETV this week with the two scholarships they’re giving away for Summer School, (Hit their fan page and put in “I want to go to Skip’s Summer School” for a chance to win one of two scholarships.)  So,  it seems like a great time to share with you some of the [...]