Anytime you get a a group of creatives (or in this case creative photographers) in one location, rushed for time and shooting in a close environment, you’re bound to run into personality conflicts. However, I have to say, this months photo shoot with a group of very talented iStockphoto.com photographers went smoothly, and without any [...]

In part one of Lighting Wine Bottles with a Single Flash, I demonstrated how to light two wine bottles with a single Nikon SB800 flash and two home made bounce cards. The result was stunning for using a single flash. In part two, Lighting A Wine Bottle and Wine Glass, I will demonstrate how to [...]

While setting up a stock photography shoot with models is not a complicated task, it does require planning and a good sense of organization on your part. I recently organized a small stock photography shoot with a few other exclusive iStockphoto.com photographers: we where able to plan and organize the photo shoot in a week [...]

Raw versus JPEG, it’s a constantly debated topic amongst digital photographers. Today, I discuss the thought of whether one should shoot in RAW or JPEG. Read the post at alynstafford.com

In this lighting tutorial I’m going to show you how I lit this Sacagawea U.S. Dollar coin for a potential coin collectors book cover. The concept was to create an image with depth and one which was inviting, unlike a lot of coin books where the cover photos are flat in lighting and lack inspiration. [...]

If someone would have told me in my high school photo class that I would be photographing people, I would have laughed…and hard. I can remember when I first began learning how to develop film and take photos in photo class back in high school. My only photographic interest was to capture scenic images.  Mainly [...]

Back in the day when I was using film to capture my images, I tended to favor black and white film over it’s color counterpart. My favorite choice for black and white was Illford FP4 or HP5 followed by Agfa APX25. Those where some great films that will be missed. As digital came along and [...]

Digital photography has boomed over the last 10 years. With affordable, point & shoot and DSLR cameras, film has found a backseat to this new medium. Unfortunately, there’s a price to pay with digital technology; the potential for loss of data or your photos; I know first hand since I have had a 1TB drive [...]