First things first. If you want a copy of Meghan’s song, “Window”, from the Transform video. Just click this link. She wants to remind everyone that this was just a quick recording during a practice session but it currently is the ONLY recording of this song. So, it isn’t a perfect recording but you know [...]

OMGosh… Kevin has changed the game.  He may very well be going down in the history books for this. The image above was shot with the new RadioPopper.  The amazing feat is this image was shot at 1/8000 of a second with an Alien Bee.  NOT TTL high speed sync. Unbelievable.  I wish I was going [...]

   I found these images yesterday as I was helping Marc get set up for a bridal show he is doing today. I’m the kind of photographer who would LIKE to be the kind of photographer that always has a camera around his neck. My darling wife hooked me up with a Canon G10 for Christmas last [...]

If you are just joining us, this is part four in a multi part tutorial about the many uses of white seamless as a background material. You can catch up by reading part 1, part 2, part 2b, and part 3. For part four we are going to look at making simple changes to our [...]

   If you are just joining us, this is part three in a four or five part tutorial about the many uses of white seamless as a background material.  You can catch up by reading part 1, part 2, and part 2b.  We’ve taken our white seamless BG and made it pure white.  The task set before us now is [...]

I felt challenged today to see if I could shoot a full length portrait on a plain old white seamless background with a single battery powered light source. There is this thing I do with barebulb flashes that blows the background to white and I use an adjoining wall near the subject to catch light [...]

We are now going to look at setting up a simple headshot on a pure white seamless background, or, “BG” for short during this tutorial. Click here for Part 1 of this tutorial. The philosophy I have when shooting on pure white is that I want to light the BG and the subject independently from [...]

Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, and countless other great photographers have rocked the white background for decades. I recently went to a huge bookstore here in Atlanta and counted the number of magazine covers shot with a simple white background like we are going to investigate here. 87 COVERS SHOT ON WHITE OR A VARIATION OF [...]

Here is how I shot the images from the previous two posts.  It is a technique called “Through The Viewfinder” or TTV for short.   My friend and fellow shooter, Kevin Abeyta (pictured above), came over the other day and picked up an old camera I had laying around as decoration and asked if I had [...]

We have been having a great time down here in Orlando for spring break… Since I’m a photographer, I have to talk about gear.  I could not be happier with my little Olympus 790SW point-n-miss camera. It’s waterproof up to 10 feet so it has been the perfect camera to take to amusement parks. We head back to [...]