Everyone wants to be a photographer these days. Let me warn you now that this blog post is currently in it’s third state of revisions. It’s a real rambler. If you’re up for it, I’m up for it. More after the jump.

Friend and colleague, David E Jackson, has recently published this video on his blog about his thought process behind a recent conceptual shoot. As you are starting on your photographic journey many of your questions will be dealing with cameras and lenses and their settings. What lights were used and with what modifiers. What photoshop [...]

Anytime I’m traveling to a new place I am always on the look out to shoot some portraits. I put a call out on Twitter last week for musicians in London who might be looking for some new shots and fellow photographer, Romain Kedochim, came through with a great connection to artist Kevin Mark Trail. [...]

Oi! Man, are we ever having a jolly good time in London right now! I love this city. Why have I never been here before? This is Carl Spring. He was attending today’s OneLight. He’s an amazingly good dude. Cheers, Zack

Just wanted to update you on a few videos and blogs posts we are working on. I promised a studio tour of our place here in Atlanta and that will be coming up. Currently we have a large job in house and we’re under a pretty tight NDA. In order to do the studio tour [...]

Thanks to everyone who came to the white seamless session yesterday at Photoshop World. I thought I would give you all a quick link to the tutorial here on the blog so you don’t have to dig through the archives. >> It starts here. << If you have any questions about the technique just drop them [...]

Oh boy. Here we go. The above image is a contact sheet from my days at photography school. It is has to be circa 1996-97. I recently opened up three 32 gallon totes filled to the brim with negs, prints, and contact sheets and this gem of a contact sheet was nestled in there. You [...]

I want to thank all of you for the feedback on the Dubai photos from the last post I made. I wanted to share with you the entire first edit of images for this portfolio. All feedback and criticism is always welcome around here. Some of y’all had some great feedback on the first post. [...]

As Lightroom churns through some images I’m working in PhotoMechanic on a few new portfolios for web and print. The one capturing my attention right now is the selection of images from my two trips to Dubai. I’m still trying to figure out why I love Dubai so much. There’s something about that place and [...]

The great thing about shooting more editorial work is getting to shoot more editorial work. The problem with shooting more editorial work is there are times I have to sit on the images for 30, 60, 90, or more days before I can share them. This is an assignment I shot for The Atlantan. The [...]