Imagination, 5 Tips for The Master Tool in an Artist’s Kit
John Lennon Memorial, Central Park, NYC What’s your most essential tool as an artist? While the right equipment can be an enormous aide to your success, we’ve all seen artists who can create with...
View ArticleUsing Angles–Two Versions of Black and White Photographs
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...
View Article“Silver & Light”– Ian Ruhter on Wet Plate Photography
Ian Ruhter is a photographer who decided to take his life savings and create his own wet plate camera which he calls the “Time Machine” It’s happens to be one of the world’s largest cameras because he...
View ArticleMichael Burnett: How to Shoot Skaters
This video from Tony Hawk’s RIDE youtube channel featuring Michael Burnett is all about composition when shooting skateboarders. One of the most important things to make sure of is that you get both...
View ArticleErik Johansson on creating Impossible Photographs
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...
View ArticleChina’s Best Zero – Gravity Photographer
Li Wei is a Zero Gravity photographer from Beijing, China. He has tons of amazing photographs which take hours and hours to shoot and hours to edit. He uses tools such as cranes and wires to create...
View ArticleCanon T2i Slow motion
David Lindberg created a slow motion short film titled The Beauty of Mud and he filmed it all with his Canon T2i and 50mm F/1.8 lens. He converted his 720p 60fps footage shot at a shutter speed of...
View ArticleGet Creative! Take Fauxtographor
Not feeling too creative lately? Need some inspiration for your instagram photos? Well take Fauxtographor once a day and you’ll be set with tons of creativity to use filters and boost your photos to...
View ArticleValentine’s Day with Anna Kuperberg (and Bruce Willis?)
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. With love in the air we’re bringing you an interview with San Francisco based wedding photographer Anna Kuperberg. Anna’s work has been featured on the cover of Photo...
View ArticleFelix Kunze: Gold Medals and Holy Grails.
Just a beautifully composed shot by Felix Kunze using Nikon's "Holy Grail" We recently had a chance to catch up with our friend, celebrity portraiture photographer Felix Kunze. This was no small feat...
View ArticleNatural Lighting Techniques from Camille Seaman
This interview with Camille Seaman is packed with so much goodness. She talks about using natural lighting in shooting subjects as varied as giant icebergs to TIbetans who don’t use lights indoors at...
View ArticleBambi Cantrell: How to capture !EMOTION! in your photographs
Bambi Cantrell is one of the world’s most decorated and sought after professional photographers of our time. She’s been recognized by everyone from Microsoft to American Photo Magazine and was the...
View ArticleGetting Your Photography Groove on
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan Watching the 50th anniversary of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, I couldn’t help but remember all those images that coincide with the soundtrack of my life that was generated by...
View ArticlePerseverance: Advice for the Aspiring Photographer
This week, Advancing Your Photography featured the SF based photographer, Jim Goldstein. As a professional photographer he specializes in outdoor and nature photography. He is in particular,...
View ArticlePowerful Women in Photography
This week in Advancing Your Photography, we focused on two powerful women in photography: Bambi Cantrell and Anna Kuperberg. Research performed by Kodak a few years ago revealed that 90% of the...
View ArticlePursuit of Passion: Deanne Fitzmaurice’s Path to Pro
This week in Advancing Your Photography, we sat down with Deanne Fitzmaurice, a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who is based in San Francisco, California. She specializes in journalism stills and...
View ArticleHow to Sell Your Fine Art
Don’t you wish you could sell your fine art as easy as you sold that VIP Beyonce ticket to Claire down the street? Well it behooves me to inform you that it’s completely possible. And we found real...
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