From the Profoto Master Series comes this interview featuring Greg Heisler, a veteran Time Magazine photographer with over 70 covers under his belt. In the video, Heisler details his experience creating a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, contrasting it with his session, in the same trip, photographing Israeli prime minister (at the time) […]
In this video, “Lights, Toy Camera, Action”, photographer Ian Ruhter defies traditional ideas of antique photography and brings wet plate photography to life with another brand new approach. Processes like wet plate, daguerrotype, and tintype photography, when viewed throughout history, have all relied on early technology and therefore extremely low sensitivity of the light-absorbing materials. […]
In an innovative blending of street and studio photography, Tiberiu from MUMUS Photo Hub, a Romanian photography company, decided to experiment with separating the photographer from his subjects physically, while simultaneously bringing them closer to the process of shooting itself. In this video he and his team bring a portable studio setup, complete with a […]
Here is a very interesting beauty shoot featuring some bizarre props used in unconventional ways, to say the least. In this video, photographer Aaron Nace uses dead beetles, carefully placed near a model’s mouth, which is painted in stark complimentary colors. The combination of the alluring lips and repulsive bugs creates an enticing juxtaposition that […]
In this short little snippet, a BBC photographer has set himself up in an animal-proof chamber in the middle of an arctic tundra, when a polar bear catches sight (or smell) of him and tries to investigate. Before long, the bear becomes more aggressive than the photographer is comfortable with: The video doesn’t give much […]
This entertaining tutorial brought to us by Digital Rev demonstrates some creative ideas along with the basics of long exposure photography. This shoot becomes really fun as the narrator begins experimenting with flash, motion blur, and other techniques, combining them with the stillness of a long exposure to create interesting juxtapositions between his subjects and […]
In this video we go on board the USS Constitution, a magnificent frigate built in 1797 and docked as a museum in Boston Harbor. This is an ideal setting to showcase the video’s tutorial on lighting large, open spaces. This is usually a daunting task for photographers of all levels, as not only the subject needs […]
Zach Hetrick describes his project, The Brooklyn Drawing Board in this short film. This is what he calls a “personal project”, which he admits is just code for “practice”; this sounds almost disparaging, but of course these projects are the heart and soul of our continuing education in our craft. Work we do for clients […]
Filmmaker Jay P. Morgan, a Los Angeles based commercial photographer, inundates us with dozens of useful tips on outdoor corporate-style portraits in this short tutorial. It will walk you through a high-end Wall Street portrait session, focusing on the use of honeycomb grid spots and colored gels, and how they can impact and define the […]
Zach Arias, an editorial photographer based out of Atlanta, Georgia, speaks in this video from Luminance 2012 about social media and its role in the life of a professional photographer. Through services like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, artists can connect with each other and with their audience in a way that was never possible before; […]
