In my book Studio Lighting Anywhere I quote Richard Avedon who once said, “I think all art is about control—the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.” That’s what a dedicated studio, no matter what size it may be or where it may be located, can offer a photographer.

I originally wrote a previous version of this post about a year or so ago and, at the time, I though I had the subject of focusing IR images all figured out. It turned out that I didn’t.

In the first and second seasons of Netflix series Stranger Things, the “Upside Down” is an integral part of the plot but I don’t necessarily understand its place in portraiture.

One of the most fulfilling kinds of photographic pursuits you can engage in is macro photography. While there are many ways to approach macro photography including close-up lenses, extension tubes and even a teleconverter, probably the easiest is by using a macro lens…

Welcome to yet another edition in a series of blog posts where I share some of the dumb (photographic) things that I’ve done over the years and, for some reason, always seem to involve attractive women.