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Cincinnati (Worldwide) Photo Walk: August 23, 2008

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

If you're in the Cincinnati area here's a great chance to get together with other photographers, so let your friends know. David Ziser has just announced the details of a Cincinnati Photo Walk on August 23, with a fun, 2 hour route that starts at Fountain Square and crosses over ...

coming up in Monday’s video: product photography, putting the pieces together

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 ...

where prophotolife.com is headed

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Where a blog is going So, just three months into this blogging journey, where are things? Well, my photo studio business is doing really well. The prophotolife videos are continuing to draw in viewers and people are asking my business partner, Bob, and me about doing workshops or seminars on everything ...

coming up in Monday’s video: the law of reflection

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

In Monday's video we tackle lighting shiny metal objects and the principles involved. Here was my challenge for this video: introducing a principle of physics (the law of reflection) while keeping everything simple and understandable. Now how was I going to tackle that? By photographing a cheese grater, of course. ...

coming up in Monday’s video: building a three light portrait

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

In last week's video we saw three different styles of one light portraits. I love one light portraits and there are photographers that have based their entire career on this style of lighting. Personally, I think it's important to understand what just one light can do before moving on. But ...

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