When Serino Coyne contacted Monte Isom to do a photoshoot for the Disney musical, Newsies, Isom jumped at the opportunity to cover his first musical. To document his experience, Isom whipped up a behind the scenes look at the photoshoot which you can watch below. As you would expect from a Disney production, the art direction and choreography of the photoshoot are simply outstanding.
Whether you’re photographing a bottle of Windex or a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, commercial photography is all about selling a product. In order to do that, a commercial photographer must be able to photograph a product in its best light–no pun intended. That’s an art Alex Koloskov has mastered. In the following video tutorial, the master himself shows viewers just how he worked his magic during a shoot for a popular glass cleansing product.
The worth and intensity of your passion can be imagined from the amount of effort that you are willing to put in its realization. There are not many people who would give up the comforts of everyday life and virtually live on road in order to pursue their passion. John Jackson of NotStock Photography is one such person who has travelled some 170,000 miles during the last four years, following his love for hot rods, bikes and automotive photography.
Starting a successful business from the ground up can be challenging. However, with these tips you’ll be on your way to starting a successful portrait photography business! Get a Good Camera First things first. You’ll need a camera. I recommend starting out with a digital SLR (DSLR) camera. But there are so many DSLR’s on […]
Photoshop has been and is, the first choice editing program for most professional photographers. In this video by Tim Grey you can learn a number of techniques for cleaning and correcting images. A brief word of warning, the video is approximately two hours long. The tutorial covers a number of different areas on the subject including: strategies for cleaning images, using the spot healing brush, controlled cleaning with the healing brush, patching image areas, two stage image cleaning using the clone tool, correcting color contamination and casts, and reducing image noise.
Sports photography and advertising photography are arguable two of the most exciting areas of the business. Commercial photographer Monte Isom managed to combine both when he was commissioned to shoot ice hockey players, in action for an advertising campaign by Molson beer. The lighting set up, despite the complexity of the shoot was kept fairly simple and consisted of one beauty dish and two or three narrow beam reflectors, dialed down low to prevent the ice from blowing out.
When most people here the term “model” their mind instantly thinks of a sunbathed, slender bombshell, probably scantily clad in a bikini or a dress. Not Mark French, owner of the UGLY Modeling Agency. UGLY specializes in, you guessed it, ugly models. French describes his business as a character agency, explaining that there is a niche market for the less-than-beautiful. Watch the video within to see what a typical casting call is like.
Over a month prior to the 2012 Olympics, photographers arrived to begin building and installing robotic units in twelve Olympic venues, including two new robotic underwater units. In this video, we get an insiders look at the new technology being implemented to bring the world the very best possible images of the 2012 Olympics.
There is often a lot of debate as to whether photography is or is not art. So what happens when you have a photographer, who is also an artist with a background in painting and illustration? We find out in this video where Jeremy Cowart explains how he created a beautiful and ethereal image of musician Imogen Heap. The end result leans more towards painting than photography yet is derived from several photographic images.
Let’s inject our day with a little humor by way of a rap song aimed at the photography crowd. Ira Lee and Thavius Beck wrote and performed the following song, The Photographer, which pokes fun at photographers all the while giving us something we can all relate to. The lyrics, anecdotal and quip-like, are humorous looks into the mind of a many photographers, delivered in a perfectly rhythmic manner.
