In the article To Gel Or Not To Gel I give five reasons why you might want to use gels on your studio strobes or flashes. Now you’re hooked on the idea, right? Sure. Totally. Right? Right? Anyone? Now you just need to get your mitts on ‘em. I offer for your pleasure a review […]

Okay, kids. If you were going nuts like me trying to find sample videos of the DSLR Nikon D-90’s D-Movie mode, you can sit back. Here’s an official page from Nikon.
http://chsvimg.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/d90/en/d-movie/
It looks sweet to me. Sure, there are limitations, and sure, I shoot Canon, and sure if the Canon 5D follow up doesn’t have a […]

That’s right. The question isn’t whether to gel or not. If you use studio strobes or battery powered flashes at some point you are going to want to use a gel. The question is why.

Here’s a time lapse video of a circus training photo shoot that I wrote about in my article “Photo Shoot Go Boom?”

Music By Anomie Enemy.
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A few months ago I was contacted by a rep from a circus training facility here in Los Angeles. They wanted some simple, but dynamically lit training photographs. Fun, right? Totally. But…

Yeah, with phrases like space-time fusion, view interpolation, occlusion, and temporal dynamics this video may be best appreciated by those not afraid to geek out. But if you’d like a peak at the future of high end video enhancement sit back and prepare to have your mind blown. Mine is all over the carpet. If […]

Actor extraordinaire and voice over legend James Arnold Taylor whom I mentioned in the article “How to Take a Portrait Without a Face” stars in this summer’s Star Wars feature, “Clone Wars” as the voice of Obi Wan. Yes, THE Obi Wan. Sweet, right? Well…

So you dropped the cash, did the time waiting in line, and now you love those little Radio Poppers like they were your own kids (except every time you have to unscrew them to pop in a new battery - ahem). The only problem (besides having to unscrew them to change the battery - did […]

The Idea:
“Flood” takes advantage of the technique that I mentioned in last week’s article about Creative Cropping only I cropped on the spot by how I framed the image in the first place. I noticed one day on a stroll that if you looked at this really cool looking tree/vine and cropped out the sidewalk […]

You keep a pen in your camera bag, right? Now with this fancy little trick, you’ll always have your gaffers tape with you, too.