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1. Tell us about yourself. How did you discover your love for photography? I started out as a cook attending a pastry school in Seattle and upon graduation, completed the culin …

1. Tell us about yourself.  I am a photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. 2. How did you discover your love for photography? Growing up, my dad always was intere …

1. Tell us about yourself. I'm a photographer with a documentary background but have primarily been in a studio for the past 20 years. I document still life and create stories aroun …

1. Tell us about yourself. I’m Kevin Goolsby and I am a photographer in Atlanta, GA and I have been shooting for 19 years as a professional. I went to Savannah College of Art …

1. Tell us about yourself. I have been a commercial photographer for 30 years graduating from Brooks Institute of photography in 1991. My studio is located in Rancho …

1. Tell us about yourself. I am Canadian born living in Dallas, Texas 2. How did you discover your love for photography? My Dad was an amateur photographer but that wa …

1. Tell us about yourself. It’s always been about the light for me. Even as a teenager in my parents’ basement, I remember being obsessed with the lighting of my model train s …

The goal was to create a mystical look that inspires the viewer to look twice. At the same time, I wanted to keep the set up simple and straightforward. An additional challenge was to separate the bla …

"Oh, no, please not!", is a widely heard statement of photographers, when the subject is WATCH PHOTOGRAPHY.Personally I love this kind of challenge. Shooting watches is like meditation. There is just …

Whenever I prepare for a photoshoot, I normally set my lights to illuminate something specific without influencing other elements of the setup. In this example however, I purposefully made this "mista …

In this tutorial, we will cover the lighting for flash photography using an example of an eye shadow box.Your learning nuggets: How to photograph make-upLighting setupLighting matte, textured and g …

Getting a lighting setup that fits many different products is key for many online businesses. In Ecommerce photography, the color, size, and glossiness can vary a lot from an object to another. Let's …

The central task was to photographically reproduce the forms and the idiosyncratic construction of this design chair. I decided to use shadow as the dominant photographic design element.Since the …

Photography of glossy objects can quickly become very complex. Setting up more and more light is rarely the right solution, especially for highly glossy objects. It is more promising to think ab …

When shooting opaque objects like for example red wine bottles, the photographer works primarily with reflections. Light traveling through the object should only be used very carefully, as it mi …

As a professional photographer, one of the most common questions I get asked is “If you could have just one lighting modifier, what would you choose?” And my answer is always the same — “The Para …

What should one take care of when photographing food?In food photography the colours and textures of a dish should be celebrated, not muted or hidden. Think about the composition and the light, wh …

As a main light, a boxlite 40 is positioned not more than 50 cm on the right of the object. The acrylic diffuser of this light shaper guarantees very even and sharp edged reflections on the broken …

The fruit (called granadilla) is hanging on a very thin, almost invisible fishing filament. The grey backdrop has a hole that is just a little smaller than the granadilla. This hole is hidden behi …