Here’s a bit of randomness. I was having dinner with my high school friends, Joanna and Vanessa last Sunday at Ciudad, a tapas restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. And who should walk in but Matt Armendariz, a food photographer and stylist I interviewed a while back. We had never met when [...]

“The average person looks at more images in one day than people looked at in their entire lives 50 years ago.”
-Dennis Keeley
Chair, Photography and Imaging
Art Center College of Design
What an amazing thought! I heard this in a meeting last week with the chair of the photography department at the art college where I work, [...]

Photographers talk a lot about depth of field, but few non-photographers really understand what it’s all about. In essence, depth of field refers to what’s in focus in front of and behind the subject you are shooting. With a little understanding, you can control what is in focus behind your subject. Why would you want [...]

A couple days ago, I mentioned that that I am going to do a few posts on some inexpensive studio setups. Well, it’s your lucky day because here’s the first of the two.
As I said, I’ve been doing some product shots for a company. It’s Saint Charles Shave, a small firm that specializes in shaving [...]

In her interview here at I Speak Film, Serena Dawn Boggs said:
“Know yourself and do not shift from the style you love to please others…this is your work, your view, your passion!”
Chris Frazier of Shooting the Kids really responded to this quote and commented:
“This is an excellent bit of business advice for an artist. The [...]

I’ve recently been engaged in some part-time studio work for a small company.  When I started, I needed to put together a better home studio so that I could obtain consistent shots.  Over the past 6 months, I’ve experimented with two different setups.  One is cheap, and the other is cheaper.  The added bonus of [...]

For the DPBlogs September Photo Challenge, Favorite Things…
Once upon a time, my idea of cooking was Top Ramen and Hamburger Helper. My specialty, though, was the Tortilla Dog ™. What could be better than a hot dog wrapped in a cheese slice wrapped in a tortilla? But when Amy and I [...]

On the last page of Practical Photography (a British photo magazine) for the month of September is a summary of what it took to create the September issue.
Titled “the Practical Photography Cookbook” it lists things like: “2,387 miles travelled, 5 hours spent in traffic jams, 51 photos taken in traffic jams, 1 destroyed camera, 2 [...]