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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...

Self Assignment: No More Pretty Pictures

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Dec 16, 2009 in Quick Focus | 1 comment

This shoot came from my “Dark Side”. The basic concept was simple — to show that contrary to what glossy magazines and movies may tell us, beauty does not necessarily bring happiness. And, that for some, external beauty can be a trap because it blinds many an eye to the internal picture...

Cool Tools: Sofortbild Tethering Software

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Dec 16, 2009 in Quick Focus | 1 comment

I know. Yet another article about tethering? Yes. But, this one will be short. I’ve already written extensively about the topic both in a newsletter article and in a review of onOne Software’s DSLR Remote Pro. In the onOne review I wrote: The upside of shooting tethered is: (1) the ability to...

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...