For many, “available light” photography is synonymous with “natural light” photography — the use of the sun as the main light source. But, for us MacGyvers, the meaning is a bit different. To us,  it means using whatever light is “available” — be it the...

Ostensibly, The Hot Shoe Diaries, is a “how to” book that teaches us to get “big light from small flashes” — a primer on the use of all things “speedlight”. And, it is. But, it is a lot more. This book is a travel guide that takes us down the path of the creation...

To many of us, “contrast” is an afterthought — a slider in Photoshop or a setting in our cameras that has something to do with the relationship between the dark and light areas in our images. We use the slider without vision or purpose. To Dean Collins, controlling and manipulating...

More and more, many of us are finding ourselves shooting “on location” away from the comfort and equipment in our studios. What makes studio shooting so much easier for most of us is that we have (1) control over the environment, and, (2) all of our tools are in one place, ready for use.