We had so much fun with the last GOYA shootout that we are back with another one!  Here’s the rundown… We rented the Candler Mansion last week for three days of personal shooting. This personal project required a lot more resources than my old OneLight minimalist self could handle so we called on a number of people [...]

Do you ever need something larger than an umbrella or softbox? Not quite sure if you are wanting to deal with a massive Octabank? Try a 12×12′ silk! Tie it up to some stands like these Matthews Tall Boys and presto! Gorgeous light. Did you click on the links? Expensive aren’t they? Not to rent! PITA [...]

As we get deeper into video production I know that one skill I really need to work on is audio capture and editing. I headed out this evening with a Sennheiser ME-67 and an Edirol audio recorder. Big thanks to Marc for letting me borrow the recorder. The recording comes after the story. Meg was [...]

Did some testing with Mych (pronounced Mike) this week.  He has an amazing range of emotions. Shot with a silver 86″ para on the cyc wall.  I’ll be teaching this technique at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai at the beginning of March and again at Photoshop World in Orlando at the end of March. Cheers, [...]

There is a nagging question that haunts photographers… “Do I have the right set of lights?” This question is bugging me right now.  I do not have an answer for you just yet.  All this question has done for me in the past year is create more questions. I’m going to get a bit nerdy [...]

Gracie is totally over this shoot.  You can find one of the end results of this shoot on my other blog. Cheers, Zack

Here are the winning contest entries for the Visionmongers box of encouragement contest we were running in December. I would like to again thank everyone for writing in and everyone who contributed to the stack of goods for this contest. Thanks to those of you who really added a great personal touch to the package. [...]