We know time is your most valuable commodity and there’s never enough of it.  So in putting together this year’s program we took the key points from everyone’s feedback following last year, and built a new Skip’s Summer School!The three top requests from our 2011 post-program survey were more hands-on training, more marketing/business and a more central location. 
There [...]

I woke up this morning with every intent of a post about the tricks many photographers use to get natural expressions, but my first stop every morning is email. There was a sad email from good buddy, Tony Corbell, about a mutual friend, Jonathan Exley, who recently passed away.
Tony was much closer to Jonathan than I was, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over the last few months I’ve run a number of great videos leading up to Summer School.  In fact, I’ve found great videos on just about everybody, with the exception of Jules Bianchi and her sister Joy Bianchi Brown and Roberto Valenzuela, but both of them did a couple of terrific guest posts. Jules 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 [...]

Okay, so I admit it – I miss doing weekend posts.  I was approaching burn-out and decided to move Skip’s Photo Network to five days a week and take the weekend off. That was at the beginning of the year, but I honestly miss the weekend posts.  The weekend gave me a chance to veer off course from imaging [...]

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, [...]