Late one night cruising through Netflix I came across Rock Prophecies with rock photog Robert Knight, I loved the movie and reached out to Robert. Turns out we had both gone to the San Francisco Art Institute and had been around he same crowd and the 60s music scene. So we ended up going to his gallery to record this episode and several more
http://youtu.be/17FEqMWzL38 Von Wong recently shot a group of ballerina dancers from the Nation Sloviak Theater and he shot them in the city using ambient light. Watch how he posed the models and setup his shoots to get a dreamy look.
http://youtu.be/zb6a4qv_Af0 Jay P. Morgan is an excellent commercial photographer in Los Angeles who has a series of behind the scenes videos/lighting tutorials and in this one he explains how using colored gels on strobes and shifting your white balance on your camera can turn sunlight into moonlight in your photos. It's a pretty simple and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AsXauq-X9E Chase Jarvis is a very talented commercial photographer who had a few tips to share. One of which was browsing your photo spot without your camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjPWwr47yo What would you suggest if we just want to get better sports shots of the friends and family? You know, two of the things that I would suggest for better sports photography are: One: clean. That is my biggest thing that I am looking for in an Image is make your background clean.
Erik Johansson is an amazing Photographer and Retoucher. He has some of the most creative photos you'll ever see. In this TED talk he talks about how he comes up with his concepts and the process of taking an idea and turning it into an amazing image. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0vhSseGk4
http://youtu.be/I9JKqwOTaqo Even the best of us forget about some of the camera settings. Here's a quick video from Bob Holmes remind you what you need to check.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uenv7PXwvhk This video from Tony Hawk's RIDE youtube channel featuring Michael Burnett is all about composition when you shoot skaters. One of the most important things to make sure of is that you get both the takeoff and the landing so that the viewers can see a story of how the skater got in the
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9prcUCHlqM There are 4 main types of light, and Karl Taylor does a great job of explaining them in this video about the various types of lighting. Knowing the type of light that you're dealing with can change the way you shoot the scene. He also has great tips on how to shoot with natural
Chairs at Peninsula School I was going through some old negatives, rescanning them and came across this one. What a difference an angle can make. Have a look at how this shot started out, when I took it way back, of my 7th grade classroom at the Peninsula School in Menlo Park. Angles can make quite a point in telling your story.
