Lighting

Flashing Is Not A Crime!

Syl Arena is known around the world as much for his colorful persona as he is for his colorful hair. He freely admits that he has long been obsessed with light. For the past year, Syl has been writing and shooting the Speedliter’s Handbook which will be published later this fall. His first book, LIDLIPS: [...]

Lighting It Up In Boston, A JVS Speedliting Workshop

I think it was Zack Arias who lit a fire in me to think about off-camera lighting for my wedding and portrait photography. Since taking his workshop in Boston a few years back, I have been to a number of other workshops. I’ll be happy to post a short list of those in a future [...]

Learn To Light With Zack Arias At CreativeLive.com

Learning to light is one of those big steps that you will take as a photographer. True, there is a lot you can do with ambient light, or if night time photography is your thing, then investing in a tripod makes sense. As a wedding photographer or portrait photographer, I am called to a variety [...]

Forays In Photographing Underwater

This is a guest blog by photographer Elena Hernandez from Dallas, Texas. As a professional photographer for the past 30 years, Elena has been through various evolutions in fine tuning her craft. In the beginning, her passion was in the purity of photojournalism and worked as a freelance photographer for several local newspapers for a [...]