When I worked at The Sun, a lot of emphasis was put on always having multiple projects in the hopper. Self-generated projec ...

Like McNally says, if you want to make something more interesting, don't light all of it. And to that end, I use grid s ...

Several people asked about the C-stand (short for century stand) that I used on the Rosco OA posted on Monday. Long story ...

All photos ©Ryan Brenizer. Click on any pic for bigger. New York City-based wedding photographer Ryan Brenizer has so-per ...

I try to be pretty open with this blog. Sometimes I get it right, and sometimes I screw up royally. A recent shoot I did f ...

In 2008, the Walt Disney Company established an R&D unit called Disney Research. This effort was aimed at unlocking inn ...

There are no AC plugs near Delicate Arch in Grand County, Utah, where Royce Bair made this night landscape shot. So all of ...

The news has been filled lately with calls of urgency regarding Cyber Security (or the lack of) within both private industr ...

The promise of converging hardware and software.  This completely changes where manufacturing is headed.  It will ...

Having eaten at this restaurant often enough to put these guys' kids through college, I recently photographed brothers ...

In case you don’t get the reference Something to Watch Over Me is a play on the title of a 1987 Ridley Scott film cal ...

A client sent me this the other day and fortunately he suspected it was not a legitimate email.  If you ever get email ...

Stop doing whatever you are doing for a moment and read this. It's worth your time and who knows, you may even stop doing t ...

As a site that explores photography through the lens of lighting, Strobist is necessarily overweighted in technique. But te ...

Photos ©Shimada Yohei By Irwin Wong -- Nara, Japan -based commercial photographer Shimada Yohei’s Workman series involv ...

Almost 50% of mobile phone users in the US already have smartphones (more than 100 million users), so this article may be a ...

Just a quickie today on the whys and whens of using a single, small shoot-thru shade to completely control contrast-killin ...

One of my goals over the last year has been to push against the boundaries a little more, both creatively and technically. ...

Here's the lighting layout from Part 1 of this shoot of mezzo soprano Alexandra Rodrick. The lighting diagram is ove ...

Who's the creepy bald dude with the soulless eyes staring out at you right now? He's a computer rendering that I lit on the ...

Curious to see how an iPad is made? See this video from Marketplace. If you're wondering if it's possible to make these iP ...

The next hocoblogs party is on Wednesday, April 11th, 6-8 pm at the Second Chance Saloon. Julia McCready of Village Gr ...

If you happen to be free at 3pm on Saturday (April 14), Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Job's biography will be speaki ...

I wanted to let everyone know that this long break will be just a little longer. Finishing this semester and getting super ...

Here's an idea that is so simple I am surprised it did not strike me sooner. It's one of several neat little design ...

First, a clarification. That's not Diana above. That's Robin Massie-Jean, a violist I photographed for the Howard C ...

For the second time in a week, a Paul Buff mod that is so simple I wonder why I hadn't thought of it earlier. This one is v ...

©David DanielsAs I post this, we are entering into April Fools' 2012 territory. Believe nothing you read on the web to ...

You've already seen the post mortem and final pics from this year's Gulf Photo Plus shootout. But now the official ...

Michael Grecco's Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait has been one of my favorite lighting books since it was released ba ...