by LeeVaris | Feb 8, 2014 | Personal Journey
My Cross Country Trip to New England As many of you already know, I have re-located from sunny Southern California to snowy New England to be with the love of my life, Bobbi Lane! This past November we embarked on a grand adventure driving across country in my...
by LeeVaris | Nov 16, 2013 | Tutorials
Here is my last tutorial post for the year! I will be traveling across the country in the Technopod as part of my re-location to Boston adventure, and I’ll be posting updates from the road. For now though, just to usher in the holiday season, I’m giving...
by LeeVaris | Oct 17, 2013 | Photography
Click 4 I am just recovering from my week at Click 4, the 4th annual California Photo Festival, in the central coast area. I now find myself rapidly preparing for the big east coast photography convention, Photo Plus Expo and I thought I’d squeeze out a blog...
by LeeVaris | Sep 15, 2013 | Tutorials
Digital capture technology is really awesome and has truly changed photography, improving it in a multitude of ways. But sometimes, digitally captured images have a certain exaggerated colorfulness, that just looks a little off, for those of us raised on the old...
by LeeVaris | Aug 19, 2013 | Tutorials
I recently posted a tutorial for my “False Color Technique” here and I’ve had to revise the technique drastically. The basic approach involves placing different shots of the same subject, with different lighting directions, into the individual...
by LeeVaris | Aug 9, 2013 | Tutorials
Sometimes I want to “dress-up” an otherwise decent photo to create something special. Of course its always better to have a strategy for this at the time of the shoot, but often one doesn’t have time, or resources, or one re-visits an image and just...
by LeeVaris | Jun 22, 2013 | Tutorials
Hi all, I’d like to share some images from one of my workshops on Classic Glamour Photography at Paul’s Photo in Torrance. We had an especially good workshop with a wonderful model, Heather Lynn Mayer – we had a blast! I want to share with you the...
by LeeVaris | May 22, 2013 | Tutorials
I was asked to make a presentation for the Big Photo Show here in Los Angeles recently. The idea was to provide something very basic for an amateur photo-enthusiast audience. I usually do presentations, seminars, and workshops for more advanced or professional...
by LeeVaris | May 11, 2013 | Tutorials
New Digital Photography Lighting Technique Hi all, Its been a very busy time for me & I haven’t had as much time to spend on the blog as I’d like. However, as we are entering the middle of Spring and really, in Los Angeles anyway, we are about to enter...
by LeeVaris | Apr 16, 2013 | Tutorials
Here is a new video tutorial that examines various methods of B&W conversion in Photoshop using two images – first this very colorful shot of a sunflower: I examine a few different methods of converting this image and finally arrive at the following version using...
by LeeVaris | Mar 30, 2013 | Tutorials
Managing the Image Lifecycle The introductory Keynote lecture from my workshop series – “Basic Photo 2, Professional Photo Workflow” – I provide an overview of digital capture workflow, image lifecycle, and archive strategies! I conduct an...
by LeeVaris | Mar 25, 2013 | Tutorials
Great Glamour Starts with Light but Finishes with Luminosity One of the concepts I stress most with my students is that photography is all about the play of lights and darks; tonal value is more important than color! I find that, most of the time, the path to a great...
by LeeVaris | Mar 10, 2013 | Personal Journey
The Mobile Adventure Continues Yes, since I’ve been windowshopping for motorhomes and found some great prices on motorhomes, I finally bought and moved into an RV — a very modest 30 year old C-class! My intention is to not have it look like much from the...
by LeeVaris | Feb 12, 2013 | Tutorials
The Fundamentals of Photo-Illustration in Photoshop My new online Photoshop course is now available at Udemy! To purchase the course visit udemy.com The Fundamentals of Photo-Illustration...
by LeeVaris | Feb 7, 2013 | Video
Chameleons of the White Shadow Album, by Joseph Tawadros February last year, I had the privilege to capture stills and video for Joseph Tawadros’ latest jazz album. I wrote a short blog post about my experiences here:...
by LeeVaris | Feb 4, 2013 | Tutorials
Portrait Retouching for the Artistically Challenged While I’m putting the finishing touches on my DVD tutorials I thought I’d share some presentations from this past PMA show. I did an hour long presentation about lighting techniques that take advantage...