On the next to the last day of Gulf Photo Plus I was informed by GPP organizer, Mohamed Somji, that I had the “privilege” of shooting the group shot of all the GPP staff and photographers. I would be given 15 minutes to set up and execute the shot with 25 to 40 people.I have [...]

My good friends at Elekta called me this week to come in and shoot some images for a new service campaign they are working on. They wanted images shot on white seamless. Having been to their office a number of times I knew that there was no need to take a roll of white seamless [...]

I ran a flickr contest based on my white seamless tutorial here on the blog. If you are a new reader, you can find the multi-part photography tutorial in the technique category. I had a very difficult time placing the top 3. Actually, I had a difficult time placing third place because the first and [...]

I have now compiled the questions that have come in about the White Seamless tutorial that we have been going through here on the blog. Find parts 1 through 5 under the “technique” category to the left. There were some questions that came through via the comments, email, and flickr about post production in PhotoShop [...]

Having just wrapped up the white seamless tutorial (scroll down) I just want to see if you all are starting to notice images out in the world that were shot on white.  I’ve mentioned some of the masters who rocked the white like no others but it is everywhere.  Just walk into a Target… There’s [...]

This is the final part in the white seamless tutorial. If you are just joining this blog, you can find parts one through four listed here. I wanted to end this tutorial with just a few more thoughts on lighting your subject so that you have a few more tricks in the bag. We have [...]

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 [...]