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The ARRI Lighting Handbook Is A Great Resource For Video And Still Shooters
Arri group, maybe best known for their line Arri Alexa camera are also making some of the best lights out there. To assist their customers…
Inspiration from Successful Creatives
Making money as a creative can be is a tough grind. As an established photographer once told me when I was just starting out: “My…
How To Build A Giga Pixel Scanner
Large high resolution scans are kind of an art form, and definitely not easy from the technical aspect. Photographer/maker Charlie Romer took on creating a…
Clever Way To Store Multiple Seamless Paper Backdrops
One of the more annoying things to store is seamless paper backdrops. They are big, bulky and you can’t lay them on the flow because…
Leaving the Camera at Home (You Can Do It…Really)
I just read an article about a blogger who actually called 911 from a Toronto film festival, complaining about excessive cell phone use during a…
10 Good Reasons BuzzFeed Is Going To Pay My F#$king Invoice For Copyright Theft*
Last week (although by the time I post this it’ll be two weeks) BuzzFeed posted a highly successful “listical” 18 Everyday Products You’ve Been Using…
Using Huge Reflectors When Softboxes Are Not Available
When shooting big shiny curved surfaces, you often want to use big light sources to get even illumination and to avoid hotspots. Sometime, though, your…
The Effects Of Changing Focal Length
When I was your age, we did not have zoom lenses, we used to zoom with our legs. Barefoot. In the snow. So what is…
How To Properly Put Dates In Photo Files Names
do your photo files have dates in them? They probably should so you can easily track them and know when they were taken even if…
Learning to Critique
Pop quiz– How many times in an average day do you come across a photo on-line, put there by a photographer seeking critique, comments, suggestions,…






































