Book Reviews: Stoppee, Odell and Deunkel
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Quick Focus on 10 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment
To survive in this business climate, to improve our art, to differentiate our work — whatever our goal, we must continue to learn and grow as photographers.
Fortunately, there has never been a greater variety of learning tools available.
Busman’s Holiday: Shooting with Hanson Fong and My New Profoto D1 Airs
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Featured Articles on 10 19th, 2009 | 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...
Cool Tools: onOne’s DSLR Remote Pro
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Quick Focus on 09 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments
A “marriage made in heaven”? Absolutely? Brangelina? No, I can’t get into that stuff. To me, the new SuperCouple of the Day was formed when my iPhone 3GS bonded with my Nikon D3.
Q: I’m confused. What are the differences between “hot lights” and “strobes”?
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Featured Articles on 09 1st, 2009 | 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...
Review:The Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Quick Focus on 08 18th, 2009 | 4 Comments
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...
Review: 3 Dimensional Contrast: Principles of Lighting for the Digital Age
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Quick Focus on 08 7th, 2009 | No Comments
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...
Q: Does it matter which color space I select in my camera?
Posted by Steve Herzberg in Featured Articles on 07 29th, 2009 | 13 Comments
Answer: Yes. No. Maybe.
Confused? Read on.
With all of the attention properly being paid to color management, I’ve been asked whether it matters which color space one uses in the camera — and if so, which one to use. Without going into an in depth discussion of the concept of “color...
Update: Hands-On Seminars
Where We Are Today:
As they say in Hollywood, we are “on hiatus”.
Said another way, we are “pausing”, or putting a “gap in the sequence” of seminars. Right now, we’ve postponed our scheduled classes. They are on hold.
Why? The economy is affecting...
