Light It – New Photography Magazine for iPad

Most of you know I am a huge iPad fan and I also love off camera lighting. Needless to say I was pretty pleased to see that Scott Kelby released a new magazine focused on lighting and it’s exclusively for the iPad! The intro issue for this app packs 54 pages into it and some [...]

Using Off Camera Lighting For Portraits

Last week I asked everyone on Twitter and Facebook what some things are that you would like to learn to improve your photography. The most common answer was lighting which was awesome for me to hear since I love off camera lighting and was just thinking of creating more posts about creative lighting. I have [...]

Using Flash Exposure Compensation (FEC)

We did a post a little while back about using exposure compensation with flash. Exposure compensation can be a great way to use flash during the day and make the background a few stops lighter than the subject. I love to use this with weddings to make my subject really stand out. But what if [...]

Photography Tip – Learning to see with new eyes

Tweet Photography Tip – Learning to see with new eyes I have been working on an article on how the camera ‘see’ differently than our eyes. There are so many differences between the human eye and the camera that having a good understanding of these differences really do help us in our photography. While photographing [...]

Photography Workshop Poll

I am getting ready to finalize our summer photography workshop schedule and wanted to get some feedback from everyone. I currently offer 2 different workshops, one for wedding photography and one 1/2 day marketing workshop. The wedding workshop covers many things from getting started, gear used, shooting techniques with a shoot, post production and a [...]

Sometimes its all about the ambient

You all know I am a big fan of lighting. There are so many things you can do with lighting, i’ll use it during the day to fill in shadows or to create more dynamic images by overpowering the sun. Sometimes i’ll use lighting in a dark reception hall to create artistic images of the [...]

Photographing in outdoor shade

Not all shade is created equal. Learning to see all of the very intricate differences in light and the quality of light can be one of the best things to learn. I am continually learning to see light in a new way and constantly have to train my brain to see things as the camera [...]

Photo of the week – using off camera lighting

Sometimes I think as artists we want to create a totally original idea that is something so unique nobody has ever shot it. While I agree that we shouldn’t be strictly coping someone else’s work sometime it can be a great exercise to start with a shot you have seen that you really admire and [...]

Backlighting for indoor portraits

One type of light I am always looking for when photographing brides is a nice source of backlight. Normally if they are getting ready in a hotel there is always a nice big window in the room that I can use for some really beautiful bridal images. Why do I love backlit images? Mainly because [...]

Lighting – Keep it simple

Sometimes I think people can get way too caught up with the gear of photography. When you start getting into lighting you can really start getting gear crazy, you want multiple lights, radio slaves, light modifiers, etc…. Sometimes though keeping your lighting ultra simple can be your best bet and still allow you to get [...]

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