Inspiration

    All hail the video portrait
    May 31, 2016 Allen Murabayashi

    In an April 2016 interview, Mark Zuckerberg told Buzzfeed News, “I wouldn’t be surprised if you fast-forward five years and most of the content that…

    Confessions of a newbie – Business advice I wish I’d known
    May 31, 2016 Jenna Martin

    I have to admit, when I first started my photography business I didn’t think it was going to be that difficult. I thought I’d get…

    How I brought Fate Zero Saber to life with a spray bottle
    May 30, 2016 Mezame Shashin-ka

    Sometimes bringing a toy to life is just a matter of setting it in the right environment. For me this was the case when shooting…

    How to shoot wildlife at night using flash
    May 30, 2016 John Aldred

    I only recently came across the YouTube channel of Australian wildlife photographer, Derek Hilton, but it’s one I quickly became fascinated with.  It’s probably the…

    A disturbing trend in photography
    May 30, 2016 Neal Rantoul

    I’m old. Believe me, I know it. I’ll be 70 in a few months. That fact may make it hard for you to take me…

    Use a prism, gels, and camera movement for more dramatic portraits with flash
    May 30, 2016 John Aldred

    Getting your flash away from the camera is the obvious way to start moving from snapshots towards portraits, and there are many techniques to add drama…

    A surreal look at lightning captured at 7,000 frames per second
    May 27, 2016 John Aldred

    Lightning is one of those that subjects many of us have tried to photograph at some point or another if we live in an area…

    What life is like on a movie set through the eyes of a production assistant
    May 27, 2016 John Aldred

    On set, Production Assistants have a vital, yet often thankless role to play.  In this video from RocketJump Film School, we see a day in the life…

    This is the world’s smallest and most portable photo office
    May 27, 2016 John Aldred

    I sometimes worry that I’m moving from being a photographer into simply being a collector of photography equipment.  You just accumulate so much stuff over…

    Do clients buy our photography or our retouching?
    May 27, 2016 Jake Hicks

    Hi my name is Jake Hicks, as someone who does both the photography and the retouching for my shoots, (learn my flow here), I got…