Taking portraits of any person can make you nervous, but taking photos of a celebrity? Now that’s nerve-wracking. Celebrities often have little time to spare. So when you’re asked to photograph them, you have to make it quick and easy, yet at the same time be able to reach a comfort level with them that […]
On location shooting can be tough. The weather can be harsh and unpredictable, the lighting changes, there are environmental dangers, and you have to lug all your equipment from your studio to your location and back again. So why not skip the field trip and create your own environment inside a studio? That’s what commercial […]
This new video training course is designed to help photographers master studio strobe lighting. It’s a complex topic that many struggle with; one of the most difficult elements to achieving consistent professional results for clients. If you are interested, remember to use the discount code picturecorrect at checkout. It can be found here: Mastering Studio Strobe Lighting […]
RJ Muna is a creative photographer with more than 150 national awards under his belt. In this interview with Marc Silber, Muna talks about lighting and composition in his dance and studio photographs and his thought process when preparing for a shoot: Before he even picks up a camera, he thinks of what he’s trying […]
In an innovative blending of street and studio photography, Tiberiu from MUMUS Photo Hub, a Romanian photography company, decided to experiment with separating the photographer from his subjects physically, while simultaneously bringing them closer to the process of shooting itself. In this video he and his team bring a portable studio setup, complete with a […]
In this video, Sandy Nicholson has some interesting models in his studio. An African Hornbill, a Flamingo, a Lynx, some hedgehogs, and two tortoises pose in front of his camera: Taking pictures of exotic animals is the distant and slightly weirder cousin of pet photography. But don’t worry, most of the common pet photography guidelines still apply. […]
Lights, lights, lights. There are so many kinds of lights. Fill lights, soft lights, hard lights, natural lights, kickers, etc. Well here’s a video about another kind of light, one that you might be very interested to try out if you haven’t already: the ringflash. This light is often referred to as the shadowless light. […]
This perfectly concise video clip gives us a high-energy montage of a manufactured soccer shoot, brought to us by Norwegian photographer Jens Haugen. This guy is an expert on scene construction, among other things, and this recently released short gives us a quick teaser into what his process is like: We’re not given much information, […]
Here’s a short and sweet photo session, brought to us by photographer Ben Garrett. In this video, he takes us swiftly through a recent shoot he did for Steadfast Creative, a web and mobile design firm sporting a nautical theme. With a few handy techniques and a bit of a mess, he shows how his […]
If you’ve ever attempted to get your speedlights working with studio strobes, chances are you you encountered some problems along the way. One of the biggest problemsis getting both lights to sync without the speedlights preflash triggering the strobe too early. In the following video, Mark Wallace explains what causes this and offers up a couple simple […]
