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Bad Light? Not for Portraits…
Overcast skies may be bad for landscape photography, but they are great for shooting portraits. When shooting under cloudy skies you’ve got a giant overhead softbox to work with. This creates soft light that wraps around your subject and makes it easy to capture a proper exposure without blown highlights or harsh shadows. This soft […]
Continue reading...Hope You Can Grab a Free Redeem Code for Light It!
September 1, 2010
Hey Gang To celebrate my fifth app, Light It!, I am giving away five free redeem codes. Hope you can grab one. They go fast! 4E4Y3A346JE7 73NLPHNNTAH7 4HA7YYXFYJEN XNL4HRW7AWYA EX66YWHF7XFY Note: To redeem a code, go to the home screen of the App Store and click “Redeem” in the upper right hand corner. Enter your […]
Continue reading...Shooting on a Workshop? Speak up, please!
August 31, 2010
Photographs © Rick Sammon Juan Pons and I were recently acting as assistants on the sunset hula shoot at the Maui Photo Festival. Great fun! Great dancers! Great light. As usual, something interesting happened. After Juan and I set up the reflectors and diffusers to control the harsh light, I ask the crowd of maybe […]
Continue reading...Aloha From Maui
August 29, 2010
Hi All – Juan Pons, Eddie Tapp, Judy Host, Randy Jay Braun, Lou Freeman and yours truly (all DPE gang members) were honored to be presenters at this week’s 2010 Maui Photo Festival & Workshop. Here are two of my favorite shots, taken at the golden hour “Hula Dancer” shoot on the beach, which was […]
Continue reading...DPE Atlanta Workshop Photos/Tips: Part I
August 16, 2010
Photographs © Rick Sammon Our first DPE Altanta workshop was a blast. Rob Knight and I enjoyed working with the 20 talented students. We covered Lightroom, lighting, HDR and travel photography. What fun! Each day this week I will try to post a picture/tip from the workshop. So stay tuned! The exercise in the above […]
Continue reading...It Never Hurts to Ask
July 22, 2010
This just in: a guest post from one of our PhotoFest Japan attendees, Eric Armstrong. Thanks Eric for sending us the nice article – and the great photos! Take it away! Recently I had the distinct pleasure of attending PhotoFest Japan 2010 in the Akihabara “Electric Town” District of Tokyo, Japan. Rick Sammon was one […]
Continue reading...Jump Into Creative Outdoor Lighting
July 18, 2010
Here’s the first installment in a series I plan to post on quick lighting tips. Let us know if you want to see more stuff on lighting – indoors and out. These pictures were taken by Vered Koshlano, the co-author of my book, Studio and On-Location Lighting Secrets. In the top photograph, a remote flash, […]
Continue reading...One Photo, One Dozen Photography Tips
May 27, 2010
Here are some quick tips for portrait shooters. Enjoy! Make a photograph — don’t simply take one. Work with the subject, props, posing and lighting to create a unique image. The name of the game is to fill the frame. In other words, crop out the boring stuff in a scene so that the viewer’s […]
Continue reading...Studio Lighting Made Easy
April 14, 2010
To a beginner, Studio Lighting is often looked at as difficult and unapproachable; when in fact it is quite easy. To make it easier to understand, I am going to break it down to its basic components. Luckily for us we have a great starting point in which to begin learning; lighting patterns. There are […]
Continue reading...Chit-Chat to Your Subject
February 26, 2010
It is important to strike up an on-going chit-chat with any person you are photographing. Talk about anything. Laugh; give directions; ask questions. I even talk to myself out loud, just so that the pressure is taken off of my subject. I’ll say things like, “Dang! Try to focus the stinkin’ camera next time Randy!” […]
Continue reading...Go on a photo workshop with Juan
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