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Performance Photography Pt. II

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Mar 3, 2012 in Quick Focus | 2 comments

This second part of the Mission Impossible: Performance Photography article will deal with the challenges we face and how to best use our equipment to conquer them. Equipment What’s are the three most important pieces of equipment for available light, performance photography? Fast glass. Fast glass....

Mission Impossible: Performance Photography

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Mar 1, 2011 in Featured Articles | 0 comments

Fade In POV (Camera Left) Theme from Mission Impossible playing in the background. Cut to a pair of hands taking a cassette tape out of an envelope and placing it in a tape deck. (For those of you too young to remember what a cassette tape is, it was the predecessor of the CD and DVD). Bring down the music...

Camera Profiles and the ColorChecker Passport — The What, Why and How

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Nov 27, 2009 in Featured Articles | 6 comments

For a while it was a mystery. I just didn’t get it. No matter how I set the white balance in my Nikon cameras — be it preset or custom — when I opened my images in either Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) or Lightroom (which are, in essence, the same thing) the White Balance number would be way off....

Busman’s Holiday: Shooting with Hanson Fong and My New Profoto D1 Airs

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Oct 19, 2009 in Featured Articles | 5 comments

Webster’s: Busman’s Holiday — a holiday spent following or observing the practice of one’s usual occupation. A couple of weeks ago, my good friend Hanson Fong, fresh off an appearance at the Houston stop on the Beauty and Beast tour, took a day off and hung out with me. So, how did we...

Q: I’m confused. What are the differences between “hot lights” and “strobes”?

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Sep 1, 2009 in Featured Articles | 5 comments

Some form of this question has come up in almost every lighting seminar we’ve taught. With the convergence of still and motion photography — with the morphing of DSLR’s into de facto video cameras, this question is quite timely. As I’ve mentioned before, I learned my lighting on film...