My friends at Craft & Vision have just released an incredible new video series by Dave Delnea - SHOOT THE LOOK! If you want to really learn your craft, it's more than buttons and dials. You need to be able to take all the technical stuff you've got under your belt...
This week we're going to take a look at the very simple but incredibly functional Manfrotto Expan Drive Background Support system, that enables you to set up to three rolls of seamless background paper simultaneously, then raise and lower them as necessary using a...
I love it when a package arrives from B&H, and today was no exception. When ordering some 24" rolls of Hahnemuhle Photo Rag a few days ago, I checked my Wish list, and found that the Westcott 7' Octabank was down in price by a couple of hundred dollars, and I have...
On December 17th 2010, I did a portrait shoot at a Xmas party, where I set up my studio in a large room in a restaurant here in Tokyo, and ended up shooting nine groups of people. Last week we looked at the Studio setup and I talked about some of the other...
On December 17th 2010, I did a portrait shoot at a Xmas party, where I set up my studio in a large room in a restaurant here in Tokyo, and ended up shooting nine groups of people. Today I'm going to take you through the idea behind all of this, and some of the...
My new office, come modest studio, is now just about complete, so today I'm going to give you a bit of a guided tour. Of course, it's not perfect, and if I had even more space, I'd certainly do things differently, but I'm happy with my current space. So I thought I'd...
With the preparation for my move next week taking up so much of my time, I haven’t been able to get any photography in at all in the last month. I generally like to talk about things photography related that I'm involved with right now, and as I'm currently planning...
In this episode we look at some images from another recent client shoot, where I photographed a Maki-e artist at work. This episode was originally recorded ad-lib, so there is no manuscript I'm afraid. Show Notes The music in this episode is from...
