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It never fails, you’re out on a photo shoot, maybe photographing a wedding or a portrait session, and all of a sudden your camera stops working. Or worse yet, you drop your only camera. What do you do? I want to illustrate the need to always carry a back-up camera in your camera bag when [...]

Ah ha! The camera has always been the culprit in capturing the spontaneous. Take a look at what I captured while driving around my city!

I’m adding, yet, more interactivity to the website. I have added a monthly survey to my photography lighting tutorial website. You can find the surveys on the right side of the website. When you get a moment, check out Septembers survey.

I have been taking photos for over 20 year and the main reason why is to communicate, visually. I’m certain that you have heard of the old adage that a picture is worth a thousands words. And this holds true for many, many photographs out there. However, there are those images that not only tell, [...]

This past week has been a grueling week for me since I was under the gun to get this book on location portrait photography completed and off to the publishers.  Despite the lack of sleep and dozens of pots of coffee, I finally wrapped my first book up and shipped it off this morning. The [...]

Ever since Canon began adding video capabilities to it’s digital SLR (dSLR) camera’s interest in video has increased by consumers who have just been casual photographers, just look at the amount of videos on Youtube. I mean, you can now shoot both high resolution still photos and shoot high definition video on the same camera. [...]

I’m pretty much a die hard when it comes to adapting to change. I don’t typically run out and by the latest and greatest photographic equipment when it’s new. Once I get use to something, I tend to stick with it (as long as it works) and that’s what I did with my Nikon SB800′s. [...]

By now you’ve heard about the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. As a photographer, this has hit home since the maker of Nikon Cameras in Japan has been hit hard. Families in the Norht Eastern region of Japan are without many amenities and face adverse weather conditions as well as many other life threatening [...]