Exploring Light, Discovering Style: A Lighting Tutorial

My mandate for this editorial shoot was to create a look that harkened back to an earlier era; a time when fashion poses were caricatures of reality and the lighting quite direct.  While a more casual “lifestyle” look was considered, it was ultimately rejected in favor of this much more stylized approach.

Exploring Light, Discovering Style: A Lighting Tutorial

The intent of this instructional series is to equip you with the cognitive and structural tools necessary to begin your own personal exploration of light.  If you are willing to invest the long-term effort, your personal observations, experimentation, and eventual instinctive responses may well evolve into a unique and recognizable style, creating a look that is yours and yours alone.

Exploring Light, Discovering Style: A Lighting Tutorial

Photography is about composition.  Photography is about where you stand, both physically and philosophically. It’s about the magic that occurs when preparation meets opportunity.  It’s about being in the right place at the right time.  It’s about anticipating the right place and the right time.

New Gadgets for Speedlite Junkies!

With airline baggage restrictions growing tighter by the day, I’ve found myself with some tough choices when packing for “On Location” jobs.  Oh sure, I’d love to drag along my beautiful Bron studio packs and heads but the cost of excessive baggage has become, well, excessive…
 
I needed a more compact solution and have turned to speedlites for most of my smaller jobs.  I’m sure I’m not the only one doing so because interest in good, solid speedlite work is the topic of much conversation everywhere I go.  Whenever I do a demonstration shoot for Canon at one of the big photo trade shows I’m overwhelmed by the interest in speedlites; especially when they’re applied with some sort of capable light modifiers…

Tigers Everywhere!

Here in the States we have an Emmy-winning reality show called “Extreme Make-Over, Home Edition.”  It airs on Sunday nights on the ABC network.  The show’s premise revolves around a team of volunteer home builders, craftsmen, and designers coming to the aid of a worthy but down-on-their-luck family.  In each episode, the selected family receives a surprise door-knock at 7:00am on a Saturday morning.  After reacting with justifiable glee, the family is herded into a limo and promptly packed off for a week-long vacation.  While the family is away, a vast army of local volunteers joins the substantial EMHE production team to remodel or rebuild the family’s home before they return the following Saturday

Big Brucie Bloviates at Macworld…

I wanted to take a moment to wish all of our readers a Happy New Year and mention a personal appearance that is just around the corner…

I’ll be winging my way to Macworld in San Francisco to participate in the Corel sponsored discussion panel entitled “Digital Art Pioneers and Trendsetters”.  The details were included in a press releases posted by Scott Gentry.  I just thought that I would elaborate a bit….

5D Mark II Video, Part Two

Cinematography, photography, and videography are undeniably machine-based crafts.  Just as a painter needs to understand the character and limitations of her brushes, so too do we need to understand the nuance of our camera systems. A mastery of technical craft doesn’t assure the ascension to Art but it certain helps to smooth the path.  While the mastery of our craft can become a fascinating obsession in itself, my preference is to take the long view and treat technique as an enjoyable means to a gratifying end.

Introduction to the 5D Mark II’s Video Feature

Now that people are starting to get their new 5D Mark IIs, all sorts of questions are emerging. After the camera has been excitedly unboxed, carefully charged, poked, prodded, and weighed for merit, test shots are in order.  I have no doubt that each and every one of you has a whole laundry list of things to investigate. Once that’s done, I encourage you to take a peek at the new HD capture function. 

I just finished a big project that features a fusion of 5D Mark II HD footage and still captures.  Here are a couple of sample images. 

Welcome to Studio B!

As a cursory glance at my long-winded resume will quickly reveal, I’ve been shooting for a very long time.  I’ve never done anything else, actually; every meal I’ve enjoyed – and I do enjoy my meals - has been paid for with monies earned from behind a viewfinder.  Over the course of my thirty-five year professional career as a photographer and filmmaker I’ve seen tons of changes in the industry and well, here we go again… 

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