Lee & Bobbi’s Wicked Pissah Adventure

Lee & Bobbi’s Wicked Pissah Adventure

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...
Low Key Glamour Retouch in Photoshop

Low Key Glamour Retouch in Photoshop

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...
California Photo Festival 2013

California Photo Festival 2013

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...
The New CC False Color Technique

The New CC False Color Technique

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...
Simulate Drag Shutter Effect in Photoshop

Simulate Drag Shutter Effect in Photoshop

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...
3 Tips for More Exciting Portraits

3 Tips for More Exciting Portraits

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...
False Color Technique

False Color Technique

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...
Color to B&W and Beyond

Color to B&W and Beyond

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...
Professional Photo Workflow

Professional Photo Workflow

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...
Evolution of a Glamour Photo

Evolution of a Glamour Photo

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...
The Technopod Grows Up

The Technopod Grows Up

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...
New Online Photoshop Course is Live

New Online Photoshop Course is Live

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...
Music Video shot with the Canon 5D mk II

Music Video shot with the Canon 5D mk II

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:...
21st Century Lighting Techniques +

21st Century Lighting Techniques +

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...