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, [...]

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

What turned out to be something fun to do on a foggy afternoon became the second most commented on blog entry here. That’s an amazing surprise to all of us!  I asked you to vote on our Foggy GOYA shootout and here are the results! 1st place – Photographer B w/294 votes  :: That’s me! [...]

It was a foggy day today here in Atlanta.  We don’t have many days like today to take advantage of shooting in the fog.  After lunch we had two choices, work on some copy shots for the show that is still installed in the studio or get off our arses and go shoot in the [...]

I’ve been talking with some folks and the topic of street portraits came up. Some are scared to death to approach strangers on the street. I understand the feeling completely but there are times you have to get over your anxiety about talking to strangers and pursue what it is you want to do. While [...]

Are people running off and getting married around here at such an alarming rate that signs must be made?  Stayed up all night at the hospital with dad.  Went a bit stir crazy around 5:00am and started roaming the halls. Cheers, Zack 

I was recently asked to do a guest blog post on Scott Kelby’s site. I had free reign to talk about anything I wanted to talk about. I took it as an opportunity to get off my arse and make something that was new and fresh for me. I decided I would do a video. I decided [...]

My wife, Meghan, really does shine. I would not have made it this far without her. The fantastic thing about our relationship is Valentine’s day is just another day for us.  We have nothing special planned.  When we were talking about it in the last few days we realized that we have a great life [...]

I have been tumbling slowly toward total burn out.  Dad is still in the hospital. I can’t make that any better. Meg ended up in the hospital for a few hours this week as well. When it pours it floods. In a final attempt to save my sanity, we lined up A LOT of shooting [...]