Category: Technique & Workflow

Back from Beijing, Gabriel Dance of nyt.com puts the viewer there during Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention. I was struck by this pano in that I can’t find a single stitching error anywhere, which is impressive given the situation and subject matter. I asked Gabriel about the shoot and his gear. Here’s…

In a never-ending quest for the illusive (SIC) “different” photo Reuters set up remote-controlled cameras at Sen. Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech in Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver.At any major event we need to provide our clients with what we call “the bread and butter” photos – the pictures that tell the story…

One of the most common questions that have been posed by people on this blog is:  Do you delete your images in camera and do you delete images on your server or in your Aperture Library? I think it’s a very important question, and my answer for the most part is: No – I don’t.…

In Beijing, with a total of 6 cameras, I shot: 28,444 files for a total of a whopping 480 Gigabytes of Images!  That’s INSANE!  Even I am shocked. Check it out here.

This gentleman likes to watch videos while he drives at night. He places his iPhone on his car’s dashboard and watches the reflection on the windshield. Check it out here.

I am probably not the only one who has noticed Bradford Fuller’s beautifully lit bird photos in the Strobist pool. His artful mix of flash and ambient against a 2-D background gives the photos a lyrical feel. And the red stamps added in post at the bottom make them seem as if they came from…

To bring you the stunning choreography of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, Reuters photographers and photo editors do a complex dance of their own — and then a brutal Darwinian whittling down to select just the best and most iconic images to send to subscribers.The team shot a staggering 18,000 frames during the four hours of…

Over the years, novelist Neal Stephenson (wiki), has had at least a couple different pages where he’s explained why he’s chosen to limit the access he provides via email, interviews, and phone calls. It appears to be something he’s given a lot of thought to. Check it out here.

Need to resize images for your Blog every day?   Need to send 10,000 images out to a client at a certain size – and then a second batch in a different size and format?   If you’re like me – you hate doing repetitive tasks on a computer – after all that’s why you…

Late last year a video started to circulate the internet showing the Mercedes-McLaren SLR in an internet film. Not surprising, but the amazing aspect of this 10-minute movie was that a large part of it was shot using still cameras – EOS-1D Mark II N and EOS-1D Mark III bodies. David Newton met up with…

The choice to use a darkroom instead of printing digitally probably made things harder on myself. Instead of printing in the comfort of my own home I had to live out of my car for a week while spending my daylight hours immersed in pitch black. Also, I hadn’t much experience in a color darkroom.…

The better way? Most D-SLRs in the menu setting let you take the autofocus away from the shutter release and move it to the little button on the top-back of the camera to the right of the viewfinder window. This is my preferred technique, and its value is revealed if you tend to shoot things…

Probably the question that I get asked more than any other is about my photography workflow. I actually feel like my photography workflow is pretty simple so I thought I’d write up a brief post documenting my process all the way from photo capture to photo publishing. Check it out here.

Archiving photos is a tedious, time-consuming experience and the transition from storing negatives to digital files on CD, DVD, or hard drives hasn’t really improved matters all that much. On the other hand, losing images because they weren’t archived properly is even worse and the potential for losing large numbers of images is arguably even…

In the video I told Fred that I shoot between 100 and 500 photographs on an average day. I’m a big believer in shooting every day. One of my goals is to shoot every single day for the rest of my life. On days where I don’t feel like shooting I will still force myself…

By Greg Cooper Early on in my career I was working as an assistant for Horace Bristol (one of the original Life magazine staff photographers). Bristol and I hit it off right away and built a relationship that transcended more than just employer/employee. He became my friend and my mentor, a relationship that lasted until…