Strobist Workshop: a HUGE success
Saturday was the culmination of a long process: the first Northeastern DPC Strobists workshop. This was an event that I’d had in mind for several years, finally brought to fruition, and man was it ever a blast! Ten photographers descended on the Pocono Inn’s conference room for a full day of studio shooting. We had [...]
Some thoughts on the Interwebs
One of the best things about blogging is the ability to see where your readers are coming from. Place the Google Analytics code in your site somewhere and the next thing you know, you’ve got more data and statistics than you know what to do with. Much of it is technical or specific, and frankly [...]
The Moment it Clicks – Review
The best way to learn about photography – after actually doing it – is reading about it. And while the internet and library systems are filled with lackluster, half-assed books and articles, there are some real gems out there. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that one of those gems is written by Joe McNally – [...]
Lessons Learned from My Mentor
I learned photography from a wide range of sources, but none was more pivotal – more essential – to my development than my mentor, Jonathan Cohen. Jonathan is the university photographer at my alma mater; before that, he was a working photojournalist who has had work published in some major publications. Jonathan had just taken [...]
A Very Cool Wedding
Earlier in the week I shared my thoughts on the wedding blog Style Me Pretty. Since I’m checking them out on a regular basis, you can expect some of their posts to filter over here with my thoughts. I’m not going to shift gears and become a wedding critic, but I feel that certain weddings [...]
HDR – A Process
HDR – high dynamic range – images may be the future of photography, depending on who you listen to. But future or not, they are here to stay, and they are progressing along the path from “trendy new thing” to “artistic impression” to “subtle and effective tool. I never jumped on the “HDR is Evil” [...]
Review – "Rick Sammon's Exploring the Light"
It’s been a long time since I’ve been as disappointed with a photography book as I am with this one. Moose Peterson featured it on his blog, and from his comments I imagined it to be a Canon-oriented version of a Joe McNally book. Teaches me to order a book without first previewing it on [...]
Learning Photography – The Web
This is the age of the Internet – if you can’t find an article on photography, you’re not looking at all. And if you are looking, chances are you’re overwhelmed. Google “photography” and you get 317 million results. ”Learn photography” is somewhat better, at 1.5 million results. We’ve uncovered the not-so-secret flaw of the Internet [...]
