Photography Stuff

The PPBF Weekly Challenge: Executive Session

Lighting with multiple strobes and flashes is one of my favorite aspects of photography. When I saw this weeks pro photography business forum (PPBF) challenge, I knew I had to enter. While executive portraits may look like straight forward photographs, they are anything but. I used 3 lights for this shot but 4, 5, 6 or more lights would not be out of the ordinary. I knew the basic positions where I wanted the light to strike my subject, but...

PPBF Weekly Challenge: Isolation With Shallow Depth Of Field

From the PPBF: This Week’s Assignment: Subject Isolation With A Shallow Depth Of Field As photographers we are storytellers.  Our job is to provide elegant tools for our customers to tell their stories.  One way we can create a more elegant and polished story, and further define ourselves as professionals, is through the use of a shallow depth of field.  A shallow depth of field is a tool a photographer can use to draw the viewer’s gaze to a certain area in a...