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How off-camera light can improve your photography

This weekend I assisted at a very special wedding party. It was the wedding of one of my good friends, teammate and former editor of this blog, DeeDee Baumgarner. It was so special because she married a local Kurdish friend, and for this region of Iraq that is not the norm (to say the least). [...]

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Photographing a celebrity within one hour

In my short one-and-a-half year career as photographer, nothing really prepared me for a shoot like this. I mean, I’d read a couple times about what it takes to shoot a celebrity, but it is something totally different when you finally have to pull the trigger. At least it felt that way. Today I want [...]

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Pursuing and Creating Light! (resources)

If you have been following my Tweets, then you may remember me talking about on-location lighting setups. For a long time, I’ve been thinking about making a lighting setup for environmental portraits and editorial types of shots. Photographers such as Mitchell Kanashkevich, have helped in this quest. He has a great e-book on using flash, [...]

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10.Q Interviews: Jerod Foster – Travel & Environmental Portrait Photographer

Welcome to 10.Q Interviews.This section usually features interviews to Humanitarian, Cultural & Travel Photographers, their work and photography. This week in 10.Q Interviews, Jerod Foster: “Jerod Foster is a Texas-based freelance photographer who specializes in on-location portraiture and natural history. Growing up in a largely rural and agricultural community in North Central Texas, Jerod is [...]