We start out this critique by answering some questions from emails and comments here on the blog concerning “general photography” and “niched photography.” One thing I forgot to say during this recording concerning narrowing your vision with photography… Remember there is a massive influx of photographers coming into the industry right now and many of [...]

After taking a break for a week or so I’m glad to bring you episode 7 of Photography Critique. Today we look at the work of Melissa, David, and Josh. These are three photographers who all have a very solid skill set and are needing to find their vision before they really start taking ground [...]

The image above states the exact feeling one has when shooting at this old prison in East Atlanta. Here are some more images I shot this week of Julia. She needed one or two new pieces for her portfolio and I needed to run the CaNikon 5z Marc Too (as I call it) through the [...]

  Testing the CaNikon 5z Marc Too in the studio today. It stands up really well against the D3 in the studio. For the first card of the day I find the images to need less color correction than the D3. Hmmmm. Off to lunch then more shooting. Cheers, Zack

I’ve decided I’m going to start an entire personal series on fabric. I was influenced to do so from the photo above. I love moving fabric. It’s 1:30am and I have another full day of shooting again tomorrow. The image of Julia above was shot with my D3.  Once I finished the studio work today [...]

Was led to an old prison by J. at Aaron’s record label. We are spending the day working on his new CD artwork and promo material. This shot was from this morning. We are going back this week to explore this place some more. Dave Jackson would feel at home here. I have been shooting every day this week but [...]

Here is the second half of last night’s critique. Or should I say this morning’s critique. Yes, we do get a little too chit chatty at 1:30am as Casper noted in the comments of episode 5. We will tighten that up a bit for sure. For this second half episode we look at two very [...]

This is the first half of a 46 minute critique we did last night. We looked at four photographer’s work and have loosely based this critique on the word “Passion.” A little more than 10% of the emails that are coming in have the word “passion” in them. Passion is awesome! I love me some [...]

In episode four we take a look at four photographers. I apologize for the music in this one. I hit the wrong station when I started recording and didn’t realize it until after I finished recording this. I was going to do it again but it really isn’t that bad. Maybe I’ll just ditch background [...]

I just want to say that Scott Kelby is my homeboy! Brad emailed me today to let me know that Scott was wearing a OneLight shirt on this week’s episode of Nikon’s new video podcast called D-Town.  I’m waiting for the next critique episode to export so I can start the upload.  I bust some chops and get all introspective [...]