3 Lighting Design Insights

3 Lighting Design Insights

Some insights for Photography in a TED talk This wonderful TED presentation about lighting design and the importance of darkness reveals some important insights for photography. Perhaps we should strive to orchestrate darkness rather than light in our images. The...
Make the Magic Hour!

Make the Magic Hour!

Creating the Ideal Twilight Moment in Architecture Photography   I recently had an assignment to do some architectural photography for Santa Monica College. Part of the assignment was to get a good shot of the swank Eli and Edythe Broad Stage which is a little...
Think Fast – How to Capture Action in Still Photos

Think Fast – How to Capture Action in Still Photos

Secrets of freezing peak action in photography I did a photo shoot recently where the primary challenge was to capture dancers in action for the package design of a video game. In many cases the dancers were holding various game controllers but the object was not to...
New Skin Smoothing Technique

New Skin Smoothing Technique

This step-by-step video tutorial was part of a presentation I just gave at Orange Coast College. I examine a brand new technique for ironing out bumps and blotches while preserving the fine skin texture using only one additional layer. This technique is very easy to...
Beauty Retouching Tutorial

Beauty Retouching Tutorial

Sometimes you have to completely reconstruct the skin texture for that beauty look Here is the complete Skin book tutorial, step-by-step – including skin smoothing, skin textures and my signature “Pixie Dust” skin highlight technique. This was recorded as...