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And the winner of our NYC shoot-out last week is… Jason Groupp. NOT only did he whoop me on single image votes but he also won most votes overall for his five images against mine. He won 1,451 votes against my 1,242 votes. His single best image won with 867 votes. I came in second [...]

Today my good friend and collegue, Jason Groupp, and I had a shoot-out in the streets of NYC. We have been talking smack for two weeks about this on Twitter and we now have the results of our bravado. ******* Voting is now closed. Results here. ******* Click “more” to see the rest of the [...]

We had another one of our GOYA shootouts today! This time we have visitors to the studio. David Jackson and Trevor Nackers joined us today on the shootout. Here’s the set up. We decide to do these things at a moment’s notice. Today’s challenge was that each of us would head out with a 12″ [...]

Want a sneak peak into the life of a successfull commercial photographer? I made this for a few reasons. I’ll go into that later. Want some more? HQ QT version of the video here. Cheers, Zack Arias. Sucksessfull Commercial Photographer PS – In addition to thanking the academy I would also like to recognize Jeremy [...]

Our business manager, Sherri, just beat the ever living snot out of all of us in our third GOYA shootout. I’m 1 for 3. I should have used this other image. There I go, wanting to do something different and it didn’t pan out for me. Probably wouldn’t have helped. Sherri did a great job. [...]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . We are back with another GOYA shootout for the crew. Here was the challenge set before us today. We had to go to a thrift store and spend no more than five dollars on whatever we wanted. We then had to [...]

The Setup :: Last week we assembled a crew to help us on a three day shoot in an old abandoned mansion. I set one day aside for everyone on set to have time to grab some gear, grab a model, and shoot for themselves as payment for helping me on the other two days [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]