Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
This is probably my favorite video yet, a dramatic tabletop shot created using just one light and a handful of mirrors and silver cards. I remember the first time I used mirrors, that was years ago and they are still my favorite tabletop light modifier.
The original series of images may ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Been bitten by the film bug? Calumet has bundled together the Holga 120N Camera with Five Rolls of Ilford HP5 Film for a quick start
There's plenty of inspirational photography on the internet. Though I'm a commercial photographer, artistic images (rather than commercial images) usually catch my eye. But every once ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Today "the look" in advertising and editorial work is often a clean white background. At Daylight Photo we've set up a semi-permanent large white sweep for just these jobs. White seamless paper was too temporary a solution and a permanent cyc wall (cyclorama) would be too costly for what we ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
"Can you talk about pricing vs. what the market will bear? For example in the “Pricing Photography” book you link to , they insist that you charge at least your daily overhead, well that’s fine, but will the client be willing to pay for that? This is especially relevant to ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
This guest post is written by Andrew Gibson, still in the early stages of his career, yet an accomplished photographer and writer and the author of the Magical Places Fine Art Online Photography Magazine. A number of prophotolife readers have requested more information about photographers' career paths, and Andrew discusses ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
This video shows the process of thinking like a studio photographer working with environmental product photography. We've covered many techniques in previous videos (all are in the video library) but haven't really had a "review" video where the techniques get tied together. That's what we'll be doing here, throwing in ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Grind by Kevin Barnett
It wasn't an easy decision but the votes are in and we have the winners in DIYPhotography.net's At My Home photo contest! Three runners-up and one grand prize winner will be receiving their copy of the beautiful coffee table book "America at Home". Even better, their contest ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
I look at many of the videos here on prophotolife as building blocks. What do you do with building blocks? Well, once you've collected enough of them it's time to build something. That's what this video is all about, connecting the dots on some prior lessons and combining them to ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
There's been lots of news going on this past week, let's take a look.
First, I'd like to say thanks for joining the new prophotolife discussion forum. Not even a week old, there's been a good deal of activity and I've learned about many new (to me) photo sites through this ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
This video is another response to a reader question: how do I make a portfolio? This was planned as a quick video but that just didn't do the topic justice. It was better to roll the camera just a bit longer, I thought, and here's the result.
While the internet is ...
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