Category: Technique & Workflow

The ability to roll with the punches (quickly) and diplomatically allows these veteran photographers to get the best out of their subjects and succeed when a high-pressure shoot turns difficult. Here they discuss their experiences creating great portraits in tough situations. Link: Inside The Celebrity Portrait: Getting The Shot

Over the years I have played around using speedlights for portraits, but mostly in situations where I didn’t think I needed 5 lights and f/11. Maybe it’s old age  but lately I’ve started to use speedlights for the celebrity portraits that I ordinarily would be hauling — or an assistant on occasion — my “large…

Professional photographers are quickly turning the iPhone into standard camera equipment, using it not only as a visual notebook and a method to free their minds from creative stumbling blocks, but also for their commercial work. Below are three pros who have integrated their cameraphones into their daily routine. Link: State of the Art: How…

To get a better idea of these patterns, CPOY took the in-camera data for all 636 of the images entered in sports action and crunched it according to aperture, shutter speed and focal length (we added camera make and model just for fun). Link: 64th College Photographer of the Year | Blog

NPPA has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring its members and exclusive series of five free Webinars for visual journalists, and the second Webinar is coming up on November 18. Link: Next Free NPPA-PhotoShelter Webinar Set For November 18

video shoots require continuous lighting, which requires larger lights and a lot more power than strobe lights Link: Video Lighting: Behind the Scenes of a Major Production

Of all the behind the scenes stuff we’ve showed in recent vids, the one techie thing that far-and-away led to the most questions from readers was the part in this video where I’m photographing X Games uber-skiers Simon Dumont, Colby James West, TJ Shiller, Peter Olenick, and Nick Heine in New Zealand using strobes at…

Most photographers would now agree that proficiency with photo-editing software is also a critical skill. So we asked six photographers to tell us about their favorite image processing applications and add-ons as well as share their best tips for making and digitally refining images. Link: 6 Pro Photographers Share Their Most Guarded Digital Secrets |…

The McNally Workflow.. So this is one of those topics Joe and I are asked about on a very regular basis.  We usually just answer these questions one-by-one, but got an interesting email from one of our readers, via Joe McNally’s Blog: http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2009/10/20/the-mcnally-workflow/ As a disclaimer, and to cover my ass, I’ll be the first…

Link: in defense of a point and shoot | uncommons: I’m editing my portfolio with the help of Sid Hastings, and in some sort of bizarre karmaic twist my jaw drops. Our portfolio edit stuns me, because for the first time in my career my portfolio is led with a photograph made on a point…

Link: NPPA & PhotoShelter Launch Free Virtual Short Course: The National Press Photographers Association has partnered with PhotoShelter to bring NPPA members an exclusive series of five free Webinars that focus on bringing visual journalists the knowledge and tools needed to succeed in the online photography business.

Link: An Effective Workflow for Photographers – A Picture’s Worth: What did I shoot and where? Where are my images stored and are they safe? Having a solid workflow keeps you organized, and allows you to focus more on the creative process than worry about the disposition of your images.