commercial photography

    Retouching interiors in Lightroom & Photoshop

    Mar 11, 2017 Samuel Zeller

    Here’s a typical quick interior shoot for a Swiss brand called VIU Eyewear. They contacted me to create three images for their website/social networks. The…

    Are we entering photography’s “Golden Age”?

    Mar 6, 2017 Don Giannatti

    [This article is for commercial photographers and not intended for consumer shooters] Shoot, I don’t know. Seemed like a good headline made to interest someone…

    They melted an espresso machine with 60,000 Watts of light for this photo & video shoot

    Mar 6, 2017 John Aldred

    Shooting liquids for commercial clients is no easy task. There’s a lot of experimentation and learning involved to build the skills to get it right….

    Creating conceptual photography for a transport company

    Aug 31, 2016 Jonas Kambli

    An Advertising Agency approach me for making the Key-visuals for a transportation Industry Company. They had the idea of forming different Mode of Transportation like Car,…

    The candid honest moments of a commercial videographer captured 2 seconds at a time

    Aug 24, 2016 John Aldred

    Whenever you work with an action camera, there’s a process. The general sequence of events goes something like this. You pick up your camera, power it…

    Photographers create amazing scenes out of nothing but paper

    May 9, 2016 John Aldred

    With some regularity, I see people posting on Facebook or photography forums asking for ideas on what they can shoot in their home for when they’re…

    This Former Biologist Charges the Tech and Entertainment Elite $150,000 for Portraits

    Jan 21, 2016 Liron Samuels

    Ask 10 photographers about the market and 9 of them will probably tell you that it’s not what it used to be and talk about…

    Three Actionable Things You Can Do Today to Find Commercial Photography Clients

    Nov 5, 2015 Donald Giannatti

    I teach and write about commercial photography. Not babies and weddings and senior photography – that is consumer focus and I happily admit I am…

    See How Photographer Created This Underwater Picture Without Photoshop

    Jul 31, 2015 Allen Mowery

    Photoshop has become such a standard part of advertising photography that we don’t even blink anymore when we see it.  So it takes us a…

    8 Steps to Estimating – Questions to Ask Before Handing Over a Price

    Jun 8, 2015 Allen Mowery

    Estimating, along with cold-calling, is probably one of my most difficult tasks as a photographic businessperson. There are so many variables that can potentially come…